Class:MFA Illustration 2020/Week 4

Last Week

• Follow-up on gear conversation
• Introduction to scanning & tips for using your phones.
• Brief project review
• Introduction to proper scan preparation for Photoshop illustration work.

This Week

• Review Shadow Scan Photoshop Projects
• Walk through the channel separation line work process and focus on techniques for coloring in Photoshop.
• Quick Animation in Photoshop introduction.

Notes

Scan Prep & Color in Photoshop

• Last week I shared some Ps keyboard shortcuts: link

As mentioned in class, here is the original blog post for the channel separation trick

Photoshop: Scan prep and color your drawings

Animation in Photoshop Videos

• Watch this one: Photoshop Animation Techniques (Redux, Creative Cloud)
  • https://vimeo.com/80851591

• Creating animations in photoshop
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omdfcGYEqPY
  • http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-timeline-animations.html

• Create Awesome Animations in Photoshop
  • http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/create-awesome-animations-in-photoshop/

• Photoshop animation overview
  • http://www.alexgrigg.com/Photoshop-Animation-Techniques

Video Notes

• Review Pt1, Photoshop channel separation refresher, and coloring tips
• Review Pt2, Photoshop Path clarification, and color layer tricks
• Ps Animation Overview

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 upload TWO photoshop files for class next week.
• You 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 'fall' in 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, 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 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 to keep things organized.

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 have created a new Google Drive directory for this project: svaMFAI_20201019-homework-Fall-Scan-Color-and-Composite