Class:MFA Illustration 2025/Week 5

Last Week

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

This Week

• Project Review
• Photoshop:
  • Intro to action
  • Short introduction to adding bleed areas to your illustrations
• Adobe Fresco introduction and overview
• New Assignment "tiny town"

Notes

Actions and the Actions panel in Photoshop

• https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html
• YouTube: Photoshop Actions Tutorial For Beginners
• Photoshop Actions Just Got a BRAIN... And It’s Scary Good!

Video Notes

• Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 01
• Resizing Documents Properly and Working with Bleed Tips in Photoshop
• Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 02
• Introduction to Adobe Fresco – From the Fresco Team

Assignment

Your prompt is 'Tiny Town'
This will be a multi-week project to reinforce compositing workflows and the advantages of working in non dstrictive & motion/animation forward ways.

• We will begin with a 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1200 x 1200 pixels per inch (PPI).
• Adding bleed to your digital illustration is up to you, I shared a few ways that you can accomplish this in class this week 😉.

Your assigment is illustrate a bustling city or town, it can be a real or fictional location. With lots of people or buildings or traffic or trains or bubbles or turtles or kittens or flying machines (hopefully you get the point here).

• The catch is that I dont want you to draw a lot of buildings or kittens, I only want you to make one or two of each!
• We will color, duplicate and compose these items leveraging some core concepts of digital workflows.

And since our class discussion time last week was shorter, I want you to focus on making the basic parts and general direction for class next Monday.

Deliverables for class next week

1. A rough sketch of your illustration/composition. Scanned or digitally drawn.
2. Draw at least 4 or 5 different types of items (buildings, kittens, etc) for your cityscape and 1 background/scene.
   • I expect at least half of your items to be drawn on paper and scanned, the rest can be digital if you wish to do so.
3. Create a Psd file containing all of your elements, prep the scans for coloring.
   • You can start coloring thisgs if you want but it's not required, yet.
   • 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1200 x 1200, with bleed if you want it.