Class:MFA Illustration 2025/Week 9

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Last Week

  • Review Ps/Fresco Tiny Town Animation Projects

This Week

  • Review animations round 2
  • Inkjet Printer tips and best practices.
  • Brief overview of next week's assignment.
  • Color Calibration Hardware Overview.

Open Questions

Notes

Printing 101 for Illustrators

On the front page of this wiki I have created a new reference page for you Printing (and Inkjet Paper) Best Practices

Printing Best Practices
Options for InkJet Printer Papers & ICC Profiles
Where to shop for InkJet Printer Papers in NYC

Video Notes


Assignment

Use the techniques reinforced in class over the past few weeks to create a new hand and/or digitally created illustration, composited, and colored composition, based on a song, that you will share 😁

  • Compositions must be 6" x 6" and printed on 8.5" x 11" paper.
  • Subject matter is should be a colorful illustration of a song. You will share the song that inspired you with the class, via Spotify.
  • You should use a range of colors in this illustration. Do not stay monochromatic; add a complementary color or use a more significant part of the spectrum.
  • Your illustration must contain 3 areas of 3 different primary or secondary colors!
  • Should be a composite image, multiple colored drawing parts from paper or iPad assembled into one psd illustration

And Then:

  • Your task is to also bring two printed copies of your composition.
  • Find our use a high-quality printing paper (Epson, Ilford, Red River, Moab, etc...).
  • Each print should be centered on 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper.
  • Each print should have written notation on the front or back:
    • Paper Manufacturer / Paper Type
    • Printer Manufacturer / Model
    • Print settings if possible
  • This is the ideal week to experiment with print settings, write em down!
    • Try different papers (matte, glossy, luster, bright, natural, warm, cool, and so on).
    • Try different printers
  • One print should be your best attempt at a perfect exhibition print.
  • The other can be more exploratory, and must be two different types of paper.
  • Both prints must have the printer's marks from the photoshop file linked below.

Note

  • No prints on cheap/standard printer paper. I will not accept them.
  • No prints on paper smaller than 8.5" x 11".
  • No prints without the printer marks and color bars below.

We created a Photoshop file containing square printer marks and color bars. In Photoshop, you can place your art in the center and print your files with the crop and color bars.

Bring to class next week

  • Two fabulous prints with color bars (see the info above)

Upload for class next week

  • One LAYERED Photoshop file that was used to print your illustration this week.
  • Any related parts, pieces (digital or analog), or scans used to create your illustration this week.
  • Copy the Spotify link to the song that inspired your illustration and paste it into the folder.
    • If this does not work, you can make a text file containing the link and place it in the folder.
  • Google Drive folder: svaMFAI_202511063-Illustrated-song-print-assignment
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