Class:MFA Illustration 2019/Week 5

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Last Week

  • Review Fresco Drawings
  • Healthy Computers
  • Photoshop & Scanning
  • Scan and color assignment

This Week

  • Backup Plan!
    • Time Machine
    • Super Duper
    • Cloud Backup
  • Your Computer
    • OS X
    • Keeping things running
  • Review 1st Photoshop Digital Color Projects
  • New assignment

Open Questions

Notes

Backup Plans

  1. Manual Backup
    • Free
    • You have to do it
  2. Apple Time Machine
    • You already have it if you are using OS X 10.5 or later.
    • You need to have a dedicated external (or internal hard drive for this).
    • You can also consider a dedicated wireless Time Capsule as the storage device: http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
  3. Backup Software
  4. Cloud Backup

Online File Storage

Mouse & Tablets

OS X 101

  • Users
  • Files
  • Your Library
    • User folder (Shift - Command - G "~/Library")

Shortcuts

  • Finder:
    • New window: command - n
    • View as icon: command - 1
    • View as list: command - 2
    • View as column: command - 3

Things to remember about healthy computers

Do this every week!

  1. Run disk utility Verify
  2. Run cocktail http://www.maintain.se/cocktail
    • Pilot, turn on all the options
    • restart
  3. Clear ALL caches
    • joshua HD > Library > Caches >
    • joshua HD > System > Library > Caches >
    • joshua HD > [username] > Library > Caches >
  4. Restart
  5. Delete trash

Photoshop Stuff

Photoshop Key Commands

Adobe Global Key Commands

  • Spacebar = pan
  • Spacebar - Command = Zoom In
  • Spacebar - Command - Option = Zoom Out
  • F = toggles through view modes
  • Command + ; = hide guides
  • Bigger Brush - ]
  • Smaller Brush - ]

Video Notes

Assignment

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

  • You will bring in or upload two photoshop files for class next week.
  • You tasked to draw using traditional methods (paper, scan, prep and color in Photoshop or Fresco).

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 'fall' in 2 separate frames/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, compose an illustration.
  • Duplicate the file and modify the parts/pieces to create a 2nd frame or panel that works in conjunction with the first panel to tell a story.
  • 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, duplicate your parts/pieces, you can use any variation or Photoshop techniques you wish.
  • You should be using groups within Photoshop/Fresco.

Bring with you/upload for class next week

  1. Two LAYERED photoshop files.
  2. Compositions should be 5"x5"
  3. I would suggest scanning at 1200 ppi, then working at 600 ppi & coloring that.
  4. I will create a new Google Drive directory for this project.
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