Class:MFA Illustration 2022/Week 4

Last Week

• Medium is the Massage project review
• Introduction to scanning & tips for using your phones.
• Introduction to proper scan preparation for Photoshop illustration work.

This Week

• Review your 1st Ps coloring assignment.
• Photoshop overview/details/depth as needed

Notes

This week in class I gave a short overview on crafting Actions in Photoshop.

The outcome was an action to automate prepping scanned grayscale scans for coloring in Photoshop. I have included the action below

Download: Matthew's Photoshop Illustration Actions

Unzip it and add it to Photoshop via a double click or "Load Actions" from the Actions menu in Photoshop.

Video Notes

• Managing projects with folder aliases on Windows & Mac
• Scan & color assignment review Part A
• Scan & color assignment review Part B
• Intro to Photoshop actions & the prep scanned artwork action trick
• Scan & color assignment review Part C

Assignment

Your prompt is 'Shadow' Use the techniques introduced & reinforced in class to create a two-frame/drawing/composition story for next week.

• You will upload TWO photoshop files for class next week.
• You will upload the .tiff scans used to create these two drawings.
• You are tasked to draw using traditional methods (paper, scan, prep, and color in Photoshop).

Your assignment is to draw at least 4 or 5 foreground items and at least 1 background drawing, then use multiple copies of the same items to create a story about 'Shadow' across 2 separate files.

Process

• Draw no less than 5 separate parts/pieces which will be assembled into two compositions.
• At least one part/piece should be a "background"
• Scan and prep each part/piece for coloring digitally.
• Bring all the parts/pieces that you wish to use into one file, and compose an illustration.
• Duplicate the file and modify the parts/pieces to create a 2nd Photoshop file that works in conjunction with the first panel to tell a story. You can add additional elements to your frames as needed.
• You don't have to use EVERY object in both files, but I expect that both files will share 80% of the assets.
• You can scale, rotate, recolor, and duplicate your parts/pieces, you can use any variation or Photoshop techniques you wish.

Upload for class next week

1. Two LAYERED photoshop files.
2. Origonal scan files.
3. Compositions should be 5" x 5"
4. I would suggest scanning at (at least) 1200 ppi, then working at 1200 ppi & coloring that.
5. I have created a new Google Drive directory for this project: svaMFAI_20221010-assignment-scan-shadow-2-frame