Assignments for Thursday (8/31)

Your scanned self-portrait is due at the start of Thursday's class.

In addition, I want you to have images ready for our next project - the Image and Text project.

You will be making two different pictures, working from the same initial image. Produce an image that can relate to text in an interesting way. Create that image either by shooting it yourself (it can be a staged image, or an image "caught on the fly"), or it can be an image that is collaged from at least three sources (if you want to make a drawing as one of your sources, that's perfectly acceptable -- otherwise you can cull images from Google images and so on).

Using that image as a base, make two seperate treatments of the image, with legible text in each.

In treatment #1, use text that has a sense of "interior monologue." It doesn't literally have to be an interior monologue, but it should have that interior quality -- as if we're listening in on the thoughts of someone -- perhaps the thoughts of someone in the picture, perhaps the thoughts of someone looking at the scene (as if we're looking at the scene through someone's eyes, and hearing their thoughts).

In treatment #2, take the same image and place text in it that has a quality of "exterior commentary" -- the type of commentary one might find in a news caption or textbook, explaining what's happening, or somehow passing judgement on the scene. It should be as if the words are coming from a source that's not participating in the scene -- but commenting upon it from some sort of remove.

Each treatment of type should be distinct, utilizing different fonts and different layout strategies. Think about how the text relates to the image both conceptually (in the manner of an idea) and formally (how it sits on the page, how the shapes of the letters relate to the imagery, etc). Try to be as radically different in your font treatments as possible. For instance, if you have one treatment where the text is all one font, horizontal, small, and in one color, the other treatment might mix different fonts, run the text vertically, large, and in various colors.

You will have class time to work on this project on Thursday. But come prepared with an idea, and with your text and images already selected.

Assignment - for Thursday's class (8/24)

For this Thursday's class : 

Assemble personal materials for scanning to create a digital self-portrait -- be sure NOT to include photos or other images of your physical self. Give some thought to objects and textures that somehow say something about you, your identity, your sense of self. Make sure to bring at least four sepeaate things (all of them have to be able to be placed on a scanning bed, of course -and at least two of the objects must be three dimensional). 

Please remember to acquire a jump drive, if you don't already have one -- it would be good to have it for Wednesday. 

Welcome: Fall 2017

Hi there -- and welcome to the blog for the Digital Darkroom Class.

For next class :

Assemble personal materials for scanning to create a digital self-portrait -- be sure NOT to include photos or other images of your physical self. Give some thought to objects and textures that somehow say something about you, your identity, your sense of self. Make sure to bring at least three seperate things (all of them have to be able to be placed on a scanning bed, of course).

Please remember to acquire a jump drive, if you don't already have one -- it would be good to have it for Thursday.

And here are some links to some of the artists whose work I showed in class:

Jill Greenberg
Flickr "Brushes" gallery
Chris Jordan
Alberto Seveso
Andrea Innocent
Emily Eibel (Tomby Illustration)
eBoy Pixel Art
12:31 and the Visible Human project

And the online art communities I talked about:

http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.conceptart.org

Visible Human Project source:



Finding Paths through the world's photos:



The Most Photographed Barn in America


Link to syllabus:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyck799ylq506d4/17FallDART230-1Lanier.doc?dl=0

For your viewing pleasure

GIFS!

List of files, GIF artist list, final time

LIST OF FILES

For Thursday, bring all your files from the semester for me to collect. Collect them all in one folder with your name on it.

Please follow this naming convention:

You should give them filenames like this:

"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"

So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:

01-smith-selfportrait.jpg

If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):

01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg

01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg

All the files should be flattened files.

And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.

1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:

01-lastname-selfportrait

2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)

02-lastname-textimage-A

02-lastname-textimage-B

3. The response to the collage artist

03-lastname-collageresponse

4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)

04-lastname-composite

5. The "fake news" project

05-lastname-fakenews

6. The "multiple me" project

06-lastname-multiple

7. The Fair Use Project

07-lastname-fairuse

8. The Illustrator Landscape or Portrait Project

08-lastname-illustrator

9. The Brushes Project

09-lastname-brushes

10. Lulu Book Project (six interior pages)

10-lastname-lulu-A

10-lastname-lulu-B

10-lastname-lulu-C

10-lastname-lulu-D

10-lastname-lulu-E

10-lastname-lulu-F

11. Animated GIF

11-lastname-GIF

GIF ARTIST LIST

https://creativemarket.com/blog/the-30-best-animated-gif-artists-on-the-web

FINAL IS AT:

Wednesday Dec 14, 9am-11am.

Final Time, and book page specs

Our final will be:

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 9am-11am
In our usual classroom

The specs for the final pages for the book are:

Each page should be: 8.75in x 8.75in
Each page has to be a flattened pdf
Name them like so:

LASTNAME-01.pdf
LASTNAME-02.pdf
LASTNAME-03.pdf
LASTNAME-04.pdf
LASTNAME-05.pdf
LASTNAME-06.pdf

The Book Project

Next Thursday will be a work period for your six-page sequence, so come prepared with whatever raw materials you need (images, ideas) to use the work period profitably. A portion of your grade will be your initial proposal for the sequence, which is due at the beginning of Thursday's class – you need to have at least a basic sketch (drawn out on paper, or cobbled together in Photoshop) of your general idea for the sequence, or a one-paragraph write-up of your idea (printed out).

Here are the specs for the images in your "sequence" project -- the one we're printing up as a book through lulu.com. You should have the images you need at the start of the class, so you can just jump into it when class starts.

Dimensions for Lulu book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through Lulu.com. One page is like an intro page for yourself and your work, which should include your name. It can be a sort of "artist's statement," or it can otherwise set the stage for the images to follow. The following five pages should be a series of images that somehow work together as a sequence.

The dimensions at which you should create the work are:

Final page size will be 8.5" x 8.5" at 300 dpi.
The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so you'll create your photoshop files at 8.75" x 8.75" (at 300 dpi, this comes out to 2625 pixels by 2625 pixels).

Keep in mind, as you're designing the sequence, that you will have three "two page spreads," where the image on the lefthand page will be facing the image on the righthand page. Think about how the images on those facing pages will affect each other, in terms of content, color, composition, and so on.

If you're still chewing through what a "sequence" is, remember that a potential starting place could be:

1. Time changes through a fixed location. What is a single place, that goes through changes as time passes, and how are those changes made visible? Think of R. Crumb's "History of America."

2. Spatial changes with a fixed subject. Is there a character, or object, that travels through different spaces?

3. Transformations of a character or object. Think of Klinger's "glove" etching. Is there a common image that goes through a variety of changes of scale, of stature, of meaning? Is there an object that can pull the images together along the thread of a visual theme?

4. Different aspects of a single thing. Think Hokusai's Mount Fuji series. Is there a thing, a person or a place that can be looked at through a variety of lenses -- the lens of history, of myth, of geology, etc?

5. Formal variation and rhythm. Remember that abstracts images can function in sequence, riffing on common formal elements throughout the multiple images.

6. Storytelling. Any sequence tells a story of some sort. Is there some sort of narrative that could occur through the five images? Think of Hogarth's "Harlot's Progess," or the comics examples I showed.

And you should "own" your artwork in this project -- you can shoot your own images, or draw your own images. You can use stock images (free or purchased).