Schedule

Week One

Orientation Homework

Due: Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015
11:00 PM

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 4:30-6:30 PM, LRC 104

Upload photo and write short statement of goals/interests.

Mandatory Orientation

Email setup;
Discussion Forum

Demo & Upload photo/bio to the Get Acquainted Forum

Components of art:

Subject, Form, Content.

Navigating D2L/Instructor Website

Practice uploading an image to the Discussions Forum and submitting a post.

Week Two

PROJECTS 1

Due: Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015
11:00 PM

30 Points

Due: Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 11:00 PM

PROJECTS 1

Research Examples of Gestalts.

Upload Images to Discussion Forum with Explanations.

Critique  another student’s post.

Gestalts:

Figure/Ground
Continuance, Proximity, Closure, Repetition

Read in Design Basics:
Chapters 1, 2 Design Process, Unity

Gestalt Lecture Notes &
PowerPoint Presentation (see Content - Table of Contents -Module TWO - Projects 1 - Gestalt)

Tutorial on Screen Shots
(see Assignment for Projects 1 - Gestalt in Module TWO - Projects - 1 in D2L)

Begin Illustrator CC
Essential Training
Chapters – Lynda.com
#1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You need to know getting started, working with documents, selecting objects and transformations, working with color and fills and strokes.

Week Three - Four

PROJECTS 2
Part ONE

DUE:
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015,
11:00 PM

PROJECTS 2
Part ONE

Creative Project - Symmetrical Balance

Working with shape objects, a primary triad + black and white

Begin Balance:

Symmetry, Asymmetry,
Approximate Symmetry,
Radial,

Shape tools in Adobe Illustrator CC

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 5 Balance

Balance Lecture Notes &
PowerPoint Presentation -
Balance
(Content - Table of Contents - Module THREE - Projects 2 - Balance - all content, through Tutorial)

Illustrator CC Essential Training
Chapters-Lynda.com# 6, 7 or CC on topics: working with paths and creating shapes.

Quickstart Guide – optional Workspace/Geometric Objects/
Select/Move, Copy, & Align/Fill/Stroke/
Transform/Reshape/
Rulers, Guides and Grid

Week Four

PROJECTS 2
Part TWO
 
DUE:
Wednesday,
Feb. 11, 2015,
11:00 PM

50 Points

PROJECTS 2
Part TWO

Creative
Project using Asymmetrical Balance.

Balance:
Asymmetry

Another type of Balance: Allover Pattern,
(Crystallographic)

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 6 Rhythm

Illustrator CC One-on-One: Fundamentals, Lynda.com # Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8. Line Art, drawing geometric shapes, scaling and rotating and painting freeform shapes.

Power Point Presentation –
Allover Pattern
(see Content - Table of Contents - Module THREE - Projects 2 - Balance)

Week Five

Complete
Pen Tool Quiz

DUE: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015
11:00 PM

PROJECTS 3

Begin: Creative Project–
Emphasis

Part One-
Trace a photo and create design of Emphasis in grayscale

Pen Tool Quiz due

Begin Emphasis

Template, Place, Layers, Groups in Adobe Illustrator CC

Scanning Images/
Placing Image in Illustrator/Converting
placed image to Template

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 3, Emphasis and Focal Point

Emphasis Lecture Notes &
PowerPoint Presentation-
Emphasis
(see Content - Table of Contents - Module FOUR - Projects 3 - Emphasis)

(Optional)Scanning Tutorial - Content - Table of Contents - Module FOUR - Projects 3 - Emphasis

Essential Training Chapters-Lynda.com
6, 7, 8, 10, 12

One-on-One: Fundamentals, Chapters 6,7,8,10, Lynda.com

Begin Part Two-
Using Color with Emphasis

Color Theory

Color for Emphasis

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 13, Color

Color Lecture -Visit www.wheelofcolor.com

Essential Training
Review Chapter 4-Lynda.com, working with Color

Week Six

PROJECT 3 - EMPHASIS
Parts One & Two
DUE:
Wednesday,
Feb. 25, 2015,
11:00 PM

PROJECTS 3

Creative Project–
Continue with
Emphasis

Critique of another student’s Project
(Each critique will be due one week following the project due date -Look in Discussion Forum to submit this critique.

March 4, 2015, 11:00 PM).

Emphasis/Hierarchy in Composition

Using Pen/Pencil tools

Week Seven

LINE THUMBNAILS

DUE:
Thumbnails Wednesday,
March 4, 2015,
11:00 PM

10 points

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PROJECTS 4

Creative Project – Synergistic Line

Begin Line

Line Characteristics

Proportion/Scale

Golden Section, other compositional models

Read Design Basics:
Chapters 4, 7, 8, Line, Scale and Proportion, Shape

Line Lecture Notes
Flash movie
PowerPoint Presentation - Line - Ink Drawings
(see Content - Table of Contents in D2L- Module FIVE - Projects 4 - Line)

Week Eight-Nine

PROJECTS 4 –
LINE

DUE:
Wednesday
March 11, 2014,
11:00PM

Creative Project – Synergistic Line

Advanced drawing techniques in Illustrator CC -
path editing

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 9, Pattern and Texture

Essential Training Review Chapters, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12,
working with the pen tool, layers, and images.

One-on-One: Fundamentals -Review Chapters 4, 6, 7, 8 10, making line art, tracing an image, painting freeform shapes, using the pen tool.

Week Ten

BALANCE,
GESTALTS QUIZ

DUE:
Wednesday
March 18, 2015,
11:00 PM

PROJECTS 5

Creative Project – Shape, Self Portrait

Begin Shape

Shape Characteristics

Type tool/Character Palette

Read Design Basics:
Chapter 8 Shape/Volume

See Quizzes in D2L - Balance, Gestalts Quiz

Shape Lecture Notes,
Flash movie
(see Content -Table of Contents - Module SIX- Projects 5 - Shape - all content through Tutorial)

Essential Training Chapter 9, 10, 11, 12, 15-Lynda.com
using type, appearance, working with layers, working with images, printing, saving, and exporting.

One-on-One: Fundamentals
Chapter 9, working with type

Week Eleven

PROJECTS 5 –
SHAPE (SELF PORTRAIT)

DUE:
Wednesday
March 25, 2015,
11:00 PM

100 points

Develop B&W Self Portrait using Text and the Character Panel in Illustrator

Week Twelve

PROJECTS 6 – VALUE

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PROJECTS 6

Creative Project – Value

Using 3 photos (minimum), develop composition using value and Surrealist
concepts.

Begin Texture, Space and Value

Value - definitions, keys, conceptual uses for,

Surrealism

Working in Photoshop CC interface – navigating/file handling/

Read Design Basics:
Chapters 12, Value,
Chapter 10, Illusion of Space

Value Lecture Notes &
PowerPoint Presentation – Value, Surrealism
(see Content - Table of Contents -Module SEVEN - Projects 6 - Value - all content through Tutorial)

Week Thirteen

PROJECTS 6 – VALUE, continued

PROJECTS 6

Surrealist Value Project

Blend Modes/
Layers/Adjustments/
Selections/resolution/
Masks

CC Photoshop Essential Training
Lynda.com
Photoshop CC - Chapters, 1,7,8,9, 10,11,12, 13(as you wish - repeats of One -on-One)
Chapters 16, 17, 18, 20 are important

Selection and Layer Masks, Layer Adjustments, Combining Multiple Images, Essential Filters, Essential Blend Modes, Essential Effects and Styles,

WEEK Fourteen

PROJECTS 6 - VALUE

DUE:
Wednesday,
April 22, 2015,
11:00 PM

PROJECTS 6

Creative Project - Value

Week Fifteen

PROJECTS 7 - COLOR

PROJECTS 7

Creative Project – Color

Luminous Color Wheel/

Begin Color Project

More study of Color Theory Luminosity, Relativity, Subtractive/Additive,
Color Harmonies/Contrasts

Review:

Wheelofcolor.com

PowerPoint Presentation – Color, Mandalas
(see Content -Table of Contents -Module EIGHT - Projects 7 - Color - all content through Tutorial)

Week Sixteen

PROJECTS 7 – COLOR WHEEL

DUE:
Wednesday,
May 13, 2015,
11:00 PM

100 points

Week Sixteen

Final exam:
COLOR, LINE, VALUE QUIZ

DUE:
Tuesday,
May 19, 2015,
5:00 PM

Take note of this final quiz deadline time and date!!!

PROJECTS 7

Creative Project – Color

QUIZ – COLOR, LINE, VALUE

Begin quiz no later than 4:15 PM

Color Final Project

HSB or CMYK Palettes in Illustrator CC

Swatches Palette

Star and Polar Grid Tools/drawing tool

Pathfinder Palettes

Live Paint

Illustrator CC Essential Training - Lynda.com

Review Chapter on color,
Utilizing pathfinder functions, color, working with fills, shapes, live paint (if desired)

(see Quizzes link in D2L - Line, Value, Color Quiz)