Planning the page content

Objective
To enable the effective page planning of the song lyric book.

Task
Using the example above–ten panels on each page–draw the template into your sketchbook.
Complete the pages by in putting the imagery on the left side and the lyrics on the right.
N.B. Ensure that your imagery and page lyrics match up! E.G. Left side - Cowboy on old TV / Right side - The lyrics ‘watching cowboy films on gloomy afternoons’


Presentation
Photograph (preferred) or scan into a new blog post. Post title: Planning the page content.


Checklist for Assessment
Neatness, clarity of information, clear images.


Deadline
tba

Briefs for Unit 1

Links to the stories below - very short!.
What The Ladybird Heard   /   Winston Was Worried    /    Tiny's Big Adventure   /   Mr Big

Creating your book - Type, Exporting and Printing.

Creating your book - InDesgin Template

**USE Google Chrome**

Download the template HERE

Objective

To complete the lyrics book using InDesign. Printing, cutting and stapling.

Task

Download the InDesign template. 

Place your existing artwork into order starting on page 1. Frame the artwork thoughtfully.

Use your favouring artwork for the front / back spread.

Choose a single, readable typeface for the whole book. Arrange your lyrics on the page in a sympathetic manner.

Presentation

3 Screenshots of work in progress, full screen.

Photos of final printed book.

Checklist for assessment

Pages flow in chronological order / bleed and crop taken into account / typeface has been sympathetically chosen and is easy to read /   

Deadline

tbc

Painting in the style of Gipi

Objective

To improve your understanding of the process involved in watercolour.

To introduce the work of relevant practitioners.

Info

Gipi often paints a set of panels that feature variations on two colours. He may use one colour as the more dominant hue, and use the other for creating tone and texture. This is called using a 'limited palette'.
Look at the image below, he also employs an scheme with low saturation.
A good reason for utilising a 2 colour palette is that the colour scheme will more likely achieve unity. (see the basic Principles on the class wall.) This is also the reason why I have limited the colours available in the watercolours by removing all but the dark earths and the primaries. 

Task
Mix a muted dominant colour that you can use for your iconography. Don't
worry too much about achieving local colour. Lay the paint on the drawing and allow it to gather in pools. !! Ensure that you leave the white of the paper for the lightest areas !!

Repeat for each of your drawings.

When this is completely dry—use the hairdryer—mix up a good amount of mid tone blue/brown mix. Tone can be adjusted by the amount of water added.

Use this mix to add shadow. Enjoy laying it partly over the previous colour—you   now have 4 colors at play in your image.

Mix up a dark tone using the blue / brown—us this for the really dark tones in
your image.

Presentation

Take a photo of your pages and post to the blog.

Checklist for assessment

Loose painting style / layering of paint / white paper left for highest value.

Time needed

40 mins.

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Drawing in the Style of Gipi

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Objective

To improve your understanding of the process involved in line and watercolour.

To introduce the work of relevant practitioners.

To partly address assessment objective 2 & 3 'experiment' and 'record'. 

Task

Gather 4 examples of relevant iconography (subject matter).

Draw them in the style of the graphic artist Gipi—his work is shown below.

  Gipi's drawing style is loose. He has a wandering, broken line that is partly a 

  result of holding the pen further up the shaft. (I have included a video of 

  drawing of shoes executed in the same manner.)

Fill a spread (or A3 page) with examples of iconography from your book.

Presentation

Take a photo of your pages and post to the blog.

Checklist for assessment

Loose but accurate drawing style with a wandering, broken line.

Time needed

40 mins.

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“The ceramics teacher announced that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. At grading time, a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”

- Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Repeating a pattern tile in Adobe Illustrator

Creating a pattern tile using Adobe Illustrator

Objective

To introduce Adobe Illustrator as a potential design tool.

To complete another page in your lyrics book.

To create a repeating pattern.

Task

To get to this stage you first need to draw various items to do with your subject matter.

Focussing on another page in your book, choose 5 items related to your subject matter. 

e.g. if subject matter is Fruit = images of fruit stickers would be an interesting choice.

Use any medium (pencil, fineliner, ink) and work small. Fill your page line drawings - try not to become disheartened if you think they look bad - just keep going and fill your page.

Done?

Scan in your page and open Adobe Illustrator and follow the tutorial above.

Presentation

Photo of your sketchbook book page.

3 work in progress shots - whole screen

Jpeg of final design.

Checklist for assessment

Full page of confident drawings / full tile completed in illustrator / consideration given to layout of tile.

Deadline

tbc

Extension task 1: attempt this same process using colour.

Extension task 2: attempt this same process using photos.

Squaring Up

Objective
To strengthen your ability to recognise tonal gradation.
To dissect and reconstruct your subject matter into tonal values.
To broaden your palette of image making techniques.
To complete another page for your book.

Task
Look at your book plan and choose another page. It will work best for portraits.
Find a photograph from the web that has a range of tones in it—from white to black.

Make a new Photoshop doc—size WxH 8x11cm.

Place the photograph in the new doc and resize it (cmd T / hold Shift) to fit the frame of the doc.

Print it off in black and white—keep the size 8x11cm.
Mark every 5mm around the edge—lightly, and in pencil, join them together to form a grid.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side.

Go to a new spread in your sketchbook and draw a 16x22cm box, central on the right hand page.

Mark centimetres around the edge—lightly, and in pencil, join them together to form a grid.
Outside the box, write numbers 1-16 across the top edge and A-V down the side. See below.

This is the important bit:
Look closely at your photograph—study each square carefully.  
Your job is to find the dominant tone in each square and translate that tone into the corresponding tone on the larger empty grid—shade the whole square in that tone only, use no detail.
Begin with the darkest tones.

Presentation

Take progress shots as you go along—aprox 5, photograph the finished drawing.

Checklist for assessment

Neat and parallel grids, attention to detail when looking at tones.

Deadline

tbc

Six Basic Photo Edits in Photoshop

Objective

To improve your skills when editing photos in Photoshop.

Task

Look on your book plan and choose another image. Using one sourced from the web one of your own images, complete the six 'basic photo edit' tutorials below.

Presentation

In one post, put jpegs of your six finished Photoshop examples. State underneath each, which process was used.

Checklist for assessment

Examples should be visually interesting and not just done for the sake of getting them on your blog.

Deadline

tbc