Class:MFA Illustration 2020/Week 6
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Contents
Last Week
- Review amazing "fall" Photoshop Composite Projects
- Share more Photoshop basics and coloring techniques
- Introduction to iPad drawing/Adobe apps
This Week
- Guest presenter from Adobe: Jinjin Sun will share some Adobe Fresco tips
- Review and Q&A for any drawings created by the group
- Deeper into Photoshop with Smart Objects, Layer & Clipping Masks
Open Questions
Notes
Subsection
Video Notes
- Fresco Drawings Review & Discussion
- Photoshop Smart Objects & Masks
- Zoom recording from class on October 26, 2020
Assignment
- This week, the subject of your digital illustration composition is "the 2020 presidential election".
- Your assignment is to illustrate the story of the week, use it for inspiration to create one new drawn, colored, and composited editorial illustration.
- Treat it like an op-ed, this moment in time.
Use the techniques introduced & reinforced in class to create one composited colored illustration.
- You will upload one Photoshop file and any related scans/parts or pieces for class next week.
- You are allowed to draw using traditional methods (paper, scan, prepare in Photoshop) or draw digitally on your iPad Pro using Adobe Fresco and polish/color/composite in Photoshop.
Your assignment is to draw at least 4 or 5 foreground items and 1 background, then use multiple copies of the same items to create a story about "the 2020 presidential election".
Process
- Draw no less than 5 separate parts/pieces which will be assembled into one composition.
- At least one part/piece should be a "background"
- Scan and prep each part/piece as independent grouped items or Smart Objects.
- Bring all the parts/pieces that you wish to use into one file, compose an illustration.
- You can scale, rotate, recolor, duplicate your parts/pieces, you can use any variation or Photoshop techniques you wish.
- You should be using groups and or Smart Objects within Photoshop.
- You should be using at least ONE layer or clipping mask in your process.
Upload for class next week
- One LAYERED photoshop file.
- Any related parts, pieces, or scans.
- Compositions should be 5"x5"
- I would suggest scanning at 1200 ppi (if you scan), then working at 600 ppi & coloring that.
- Google drive folder: svaMFAI_20201102-election-Ps-composite-drawing