Sunday, March 30, 2014

Day 4



Drawing

1.       Follow the perspective drawing demonstration in class and complete the worksheet on both one and two point perspective drawing.

 

Using perspective drawing, create an image that best communicates the theme for your zine. It can be either an object or a scene that shows perspective.

 

Take a photo of this page and it will make up one of the pages of your zine.

 

2.       Your Zine

·         Your zine needs to have at least 8 separate pages.

·         Needs to communicate your zine theme.

·         Needs to contain the pages developed in class OR your own pages using each one of the following drawing \colour techniques learnt in class.

Zine typography - Select a theme for your Zine, it could be a single word or a phrase.
On a blank page write your theme down as many possible ways as you can think of until you are satisfied or the page is full. You can use collage or different mediums in this exercise.

Mark making - Devise a drawing exercise (similar to the music drawing exercise in class) to create a page for your zine. You can use any material but the marks need to be inspired by your theme. Conduct your drawing exercise and use the cropping process from class to find a pleasant composition.

Tonal drawing - Draw a shape that best depicts your zine theme. Shade and tone the shape with a medium good for achieving tonal range and with a one point light source.

Collage/ merging layers - Conduct the merging layers exercise from class again but following your own theme and using a selection of images related to that theme.

Warm Collage/ merging layers - Repeat but using a warm colour palette.

Cool Collage/ merging layers - Repeat but using a cool colour palette.

Colour theme - If you could choose one colour to represent your theme what would it be? Why? Using the medium of your choice create a page of that colour. See what textures you can achieve in your chosen colour with your chosen medium.

Perspective - If you could choose one colour to represent your theme what would it be? Why? Using the medium of your choice create a page of that colour. See what textures you can achieve in your chosen colour with your chosen medium.

 

·         You can add as many pages to this 8 as you see fit to communicate your theme.

·         The pages can be any size but will be photographed and resized and edited in Photoshop to A4 Width:21cm   Height:29.7  Res:300 ppi

·         Save out all your pages in high quality pdf format.

·         Create an ISSUU account and upload the PDF to ISSUU

 

Here is a Link to a Tutorial that shows you how to create a multiple page PDF from Photoshop.


Here is a Link to the ISSUU website

 
Here is a Link to a page showing you how to upload your PDF to ISSUU

You will need to hand in

1.       Your Process diary/ sketch book - containing class drawing exercises.

2.       A digital folder containing - Digital exercises from class.
                                                       - Photographed or saved zine pages
                                                       - PDF of your Zine
                                                        - A link to Your Zine uploaded to ISSUU

By The Due Date
 

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Day 3


Drawing

1. Follow the demonstration on shading and tone.

Draw a shape that best depicts your zine theme. Shade and tone the shape with a medium good for achieving tonal range and with a one point light source.

We will take a photo and it will make up one of the pages of your zine.


Colour

Here are some links to color theory and psychology

color psychology
http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm

color theory
http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory


2. Follow a demonstration on the merging layers exercise.


1.       Download the lesson images from the teachers blog

                URL:

                Right click on the images/save as/navigate to your student folder/save

 

2.       Open Photoshop

 

3.       Go to     file/new               to create your blank page.

 

4.       Create a page with Width 29.7 Height: 21cm Resolution: 300pixels per inch.

 

5.       Go to     file/open/navigate to your student folder/select all of the lesson images/open.

 

6.       Select /copy/paste the first image across to your blank page.

 

7.       Go to     edit/transform/scale      to scale up the size of the images.

 

8.       Use the MOVE TOOL to position the image.

 

9.       Repeat steps 6, 7, & 8 for the second image.

 

10.   Highlight one of the layers from the layers palette and change its opacity by adjusting the opacity value at the top right hand side of the layers palette.

 

11.   Use the ERASOR TOOL to take out parts of the image that are not necessary for the composition.

 

12.   Create a pleasing image.




Use the following images to repeat the example shown in class.

Save as a jpg and upload to your blog.








3. Conduct the exercise again following your own theme and a selection of images related to that theme.
Repeat but using a warm color palette.

It will make up one of the pages of your zine.

Repeat again but using a cool color palette

It will make up one of the pages of your zine.

4. If you could choose one color to represent your theme what would it be? Why? using the medium of your choice create a page of that color. See what textures you can achieve in your chosen color with your chosen medium.

We will take a photo and it will make up one of the pages of your zine.

Here are some links to color theory and psychology

color psychology
http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm

color theory
http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

Monday, March 17, 2014

Day 2

1. Select a theme for your Zine, it could be a single word or a phrase.
On a blank page write your theme down as many possible ways as you can think of until you are satisfied or the page is full. You can use collage or different mediums in this exercise.

We will take a photo and it will make up one of the pages of our zine.

2. Here is a clip on creating your own colour pallet from an image using Photoshop


http://vimeo.com/7109253

Select an image you like and use the above procedure to create a 24 colour 'colour palette'.

Save your colour palette as a jpg to your class folder along with your selected image.
It should look something like the following;
 













3. Complete the drawing exercise in class 'Drawing to music' with charcoals.
Take a photo of your drawing open it in Photoshop and find a pleasant cropped composition
e.g.













3.(b) Devise a drawing exercise to create a page for your zine. You can use any material but the marks need to be inspired by your theme. Conduct your drawing exercise and use the above process to find a pleasant composition.

We will take a photo and it will make up one of the pages of our zine.