Visual Story Telling

It's semester 2!  We're halfway through the year and on to an exciting part of Digital Art.  Storytelling!  Eventually, we will be creating animations... but to practice our visual story telling, we are going to create a little art.

I would like for you to pick a nursery rhyme or short story.  Brainstorm images that you think of with this story, and then create a PhotoShop artwork with these images in it.  Make sure the PhotoShop artwork tells the story of this nursery rhyme in some way....

The PhotoShop document should be 8x10 inches, and 300 dpi.  You can use internet images (just remember to look for GOOD quality google images), and piece them together.

This will be due by the end of the day on Friday.

Friday due date:
Upload your visual storytelling artwork to your blog.

• Remember to flatten the layers and save AS a jpg.  
• Give your artwork a title
• Tell me about your nursery rhyme (you can write out the nursery rhyme if you'd like).
• Tell me what imagery immediately stood out in this nursery rhyme and how you incorporated it in your artwork.

Vexel Portraits

It's time to turn in a computer version of you!  Please make sure when saving your final Vexel Portrait that you hide the background layer, flatten your image and Save AS a jpg (you must change the format). 

The upload your portrait to your blog and answer the following questions:

Do you feel your vexel portrait is successful and why?
What was the hardest part of completing this project?
If you could Vexel-ize anything else, what would you do?

Happy End of Semester 1!

Hello, 2012!

Welcome back!  It's been a long and relaxing 2 weeks off... So, let's get back into Digital Art slowly.

For the first two days back, I have some PhotoShop tasks for you.  Here they are:

1. Find a landscape photo and transform it.  
• Use the quick selection/magnetic lasso tools to alter specific parts of the image. Change hue/saturation, layer different images on top, change blending modes, add text, etc.  Add and change whatever you need to in order to make a big transformation to it.
2. Transform one person into another person.
• Put someone's head on someone else's body.  Make it look realistic.  The more crazy and bizarre, the better!
3. Create an interesting composition using shapes.
• Use the shape tool (what we used when we made tessellations) to create an interesting image.  Overlap and place shapes near each other to create a balanced (symmetrical) composition.  Use different colors.  Use the Transform tools too (Edit>Transform).

All 3 of these are due by the end of class on Thursday! Uploaded to your blog with a title.