Major Assignments

Monday & Tuesday (Jan 25th & 26th)

MAGAZINE COVER

• Rough draft (on paper) due Monday Jan 25th
• Final Cover Due Tuesday Jan 26th by 8pm

• Create in Photopea.com or Pixlr.com
• Proper English and spelling only – no slang
• All items on this assignment must be school appropriate.
• FINAL PSD Files (layered) must be uploaded to Google Drive for Credit
• DO NOT USE APPS online to try and complete this - I will be carefully reviewing your files.

Specifics:

1. Magazine cover will only be one page
2. YOU are the main person on the magazine cover - take a selfie or have someone in your household help you take the photo.
3. Select a theme for the magazine (about yourself can be sports, music, food, hobbies, celebrity gossip, etc.)
• Can be created or a picture scanned or from the internet
4. Must have a title (something related to the theme)
5. Must have a barcode, cost of issue, issue number, and volume number. The barcode can be downloaded off the internet - use google images
6. Must include two graphics of yourself (yes it has to be you)
   1. A large graphic to be used as part of the background
   2. A smaller graphic to be included on the side as part of a heading
7. Must include an additional graphic as part of a heading to use as an article teaser
8. Must have at least four headings for articles
   1. Easy to read, and appropriate sizes
   2. Use initial caps, NO all caps (exception is the title)
   3. These will be different sizes, fonts, colors (does not have to be)
   4. Can apply text effects too
   5. Consider putting a by-line under one of the headings (who wrote the story)
9. Must use filters (consider a spotlight or lens flare on the main picture)
10. Think about using a shadow of yourself (if appropriate) or a slight outer glow

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Create a new document. Cover size 8 x 10.5 inches with a resolution of 200 and a white background. Save the magazine cover as Magazine_Cover_Yourname.
2. Find magazine examples on the internet and look at how they are set up.
3. Choose a one-word title that depicts your life or personality.
1. for example: Fun, Elite, Best, Great, Yah, Hunting, Sports, Basketball
4. Be positive
5. Begin to think of articles that you would include in your magazine about issues that concern you, personal goals and ambitions, or just ordinary things in life that are important to you right now.
6. Find your background that fits with your theme (scanned or internet). Select all and bring into your new document and adjust to fit.
7. Once your background has been inserted with your large graphic of yourself, make sure to use some filter effects – try the spotlight or lens flare. Consider putting a shadow of yourself if appropriate (drop shadow with a large space difference would work).
8. Add your title. It should be fairly large and in an appropriate, easy to read font and color. Make sure it all fits in your theme.
9. Finish designing your background (any side bars, shapes, etc.) before proceeding.
10. Insert the issue date and volume number.
11. Insert the barcode and issue price.
12. Find your article teaser (image) (scanned or internet) and adjust or select as necessary. It must be the item only with no background. You may have to use one of the selection tools (magic wand, magnetic lasso, etc.) to delete it from the background. Make sure to save it as a PSD file.
13. Start creating your headings. Remember that not all headings will be the same size or font. Be careful that they are not too big or hard to read. Don’t go too overboard with colors. Don’t forget you can rotate text and add text effects.
14. Main headline should be about you. Add the small picture of yourself to this heading.
15. Add the article teaser to one of the headings.
16. Add the by-line to one of the headings.
17. Use your imagination and creativity. It MUST look like a magazine cover.
18. MAJOR GRADE (last Major Grade of the semester)

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NEW Multi Part Project: Animation/Cartoon

PART 2 & 3: Cartoon Yourself

Remember the intro video we watched with cartoon man with the plaid shirt and fishing pole?  This project - you are going to cartoon yourself!  

Instructions:

1. PART 2: Create a rough draft of what you would like your cartoon to look like. DUE Weds. 1/13 (MINOR)
• Must include:
• Full body
• a hobby or profession
• include eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, and body
• clothes must have pattern and/or shadows
• POST Rough Draft to Google Assignment
2. PART 3: draw your cartoon in Vectr.com DUE FRIDAY 1/15 (MAJOR)
1. take a photo of your rough draft
2. Open your photo in VECTR.com, object > LOCK > lock selection
3. Following the tutorials below to draw your face and body in a cartoon style.
4. Once your cartoon is complete, Export SVG file and save in your Google Drive
5. Post Final to the Google Assignment.

Cartoon your face Tutorials:

The first video we watched about Illustrator will help you with shadows and textures

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Part 1: background rough draft Due 1/11

Traditional Cartoon Background

My example of the Cartoon Background

Examples of Details and Ideas I listed on my Rough Draft

My final background created in Vectr.com (NOT DUE TODAY)

FRIDAY 1/8/21

ASSIGNMENT: Create ROUGH DRAFT for the Background for your Cartoon Yourself Animation

Materials: Paper, Pencil, Ruler (optional) You DO NOT need to color this.

Instructions: On Paper (preferably blank white paper) you will create a fairly simple, but polished looking background for your upcoming cartoon animation (See my example above)

1. Look up some of your favorite cartoons for inspiration. The background should tell a story but not be the focal point of the animation.
2. This will eventually be the background to your animation we will create with a "Cartoon Yourself" character
3. Think about what your character will be doing. Are the outside in the park? Watching TV inside your house? Playing on a professional Basketball court? Really get creative!
4. You will not have to draw all these pieces in Vectr.com - so don't let the thought of having to drawing many things stop you from being creative.
5. Write details on the side, include what your idea is, make notes, explain the drawing to me. (see my example)

You will be graded on the following:

• Neatness
• Complete Sketch with Shading and Details
• Creativeness
• Tells a story

When complete,  post photo of your drawing to the Google Classroom Assignment 

Due by 3pm Monday Jan. 11th

My finished Cartoon (before animation) I cartoon'd myself, my husband, my kids and my dog :)

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Assignment: Book Cover RE-Design

ORIGINAL

RE-DESIGNED

DUE DATES:

• 4 preliminary sketches - MINOR GRADE  - DUE Tues 12/22 by 3pm

• 1 detailed sketch - MINOR GRADE  - DUE Weds 12/23 by 12pm

• Final Book Cover - MAJOR GRADE - DUE Tues 1/5/2021 by 3pm
• Post JPEG to Majors on Blog, Upload PSD file to Google Drive

BOOK CHOICES:

1. Harry Potter Series (any book)
2. The Catcher in the Rye
3. 1984
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Animal Farm
6. Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
8. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
9. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
10. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
13. Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet (William Shakespeare)Lord of the Flies
14. To Kill a Mocking Bird
15. Slaughterhouse Five
16. a book you have recently read but you must get approval from me first

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BOOK DESIGN. Read this first

Lesson Summary: Create original covers for fiction or nonfiction books. Access various technologies to combine text and graphics to demonstrate their understanding of a recently-studied work of literature. The newly-created book cover must include symbolic photographs, illustrations or graphic images that represent major plot ideas from the work.

Commentary (VERY IMPORTANT):Do we really judge a book by its cover? This lesson requires you to demonstrate a thorough understanding of a literary work through the thoughtful design of a book cover and written literary analysis. Research the book, choose and arrange graphics and text as they create, edit and publish their information using technology. 
The average reader spends no more than 7 seconds looking at book covers online. In those 7 seconds the reader will decide if they will look further into the book, and then decide if they will actually buy and read the book. It is important that you focus on the imagery for the cover. You want the reader to think! You want the reader to be interested enough in the cover to go further. You want your cover image to represent a theme or a moment in the story.

Book Cover Design:

• Create at least 4 rough drafts (1/4 page size) MINOR GRADE. 

• We will choose the best, then .... 

• Create 1 detailed large sketch. Please include as much detail as possible. Including color ideas, Imagery, and fonts. MINOR GRADE 

• Build your Book design in Adobe Photoshop (Photopea.com or Pixlr.com). You can use elements from Adobe Illustrator (Vectr.com).

• Find an appropriate font that represents the Era of the book. (NOT COMIC SANS!!!!) 

Specs:

• Finished size 6 inches x 9 inches, 300 dpi

• Using the ruler guides create Margins are .25” all around

• Cover must include: Title and Author. 

• Use examples of other books to determine placement of copy, but take creative chances and try something different. 

You can choose a book from the list above, or a book you have already read or choose 1 synopsis below and use that as your reference for your book Design 

Slaughterhouse Five follows the story of Billy Pilgrim, optometrist and time traveler. The novel jumps through time with Billy as he lives the events of his life over and over again. In this dynamic framework, the reader sees the terrors of war, the quiet desperation of suburban life and the breakdown of the psyche through Billy's time jumping eyes. Just before he is captured as a prisoner of war, Billy experiences his first time jump. Here he sees his whole life, past, present and future, unfold. After the war, Billy returns from Europe to resume his civilian life, but does not cease moving randomly through time, witnessing his birth, his death and events in between. He is eventually abducted by aliens who experience time in much the same way as Billy except that they prefer to look only at life's more pleasant moments. Despite his family's objections, Billy tells the world of his time traveling and of his abduction, highlighting the story with a detailed account of his death.
The Scarlet Letter begins with Hester Prynne being taken from prison to be berated by the townspeople for both her adultery and for keeping her lover's name a secret. As the novel progresses, the reader realizes that Dimmesdale is Hester's lover and that Chillingworth is her husband in disguise bent on avenging his defamed honor. Hawthorne reveals the honest emotion that exists between Hester and Dimmesdale, but tempers it with the danger of their secret being revealed at the hand of Chillingworth. Dimmesdale's health deteriorates as his guilt eats away at him and eventually he reveals to the village that he is Hester's lover and Pearl's father.

To Kill a Mocking Bird The story is narrated by a young girl who goes by the name of "Scout" Finch. Scout's real name is Jean Louise, a name that is not fitting for a tomboyish, rebellious girl like Scout.Scout lives in the small Alabama town of Maycomb in the 1930s with her brother, Jem, and her widowed father, Atticus. Another presence in the house is the stern but ultimately kind-hearted African-American housekeeper named Calpurnia.
The story takes place during the depression, but the Finch family is better off than many in this small town, as Atticus is a successful and respected lawyer.
Two main themes that permeate this book are judgment and justice. Scout and Jem learn lessons about judging other people through the character of Boo Radley, a mysterious and reclusive neighbor. Early in the story, the children poke fun at Boo, but they ultimately discover his goodness.
This theme is also present in the developments surrounding the character of Tom Robinson. Robinson is a poor African-American field hand who is accused and tried for rape. In the process of defending Robinson, Atticus is able to provide evidence that the young man is innocent. Nonetheless, because of the racist nature of white society in that time and place, the young man is convicted.

Lord of the Flies opens with a plane full of British schoolboys crashing on a deserted tropical island. With no adults surviving the crash, the boys are left to themselves to try to stay alive. Immediately a sort of informal society springs up with the election of a leader and the setting down of formal objectives and rules. Initially, rescue is foremost on the collective mind, but it is not long before a power struggle ensues with Jack attempting to sway the boys to his camp. Possessing different goals and vastly different sets of ethics, the boys divide into two tribes. Eventually, Ralph’s side of reason and rationality gives way to Jack’s tribe of hunters, and the boys sink deeper and deeper into a life of violent savagery.

Diary of a Young Girl Otto Frank moved his family to Amsterdam from Frankfurt, Germany, their place of origin, once the Nazis came to power and began to enforce cruel laws enacted against the Jewish population. In Amsterdam, Otto enjoys some success as a businessman, but he keeps a close watch on the spreading power of the Nazis. When the Germans invade the Netherlands, the Frank family goes into hiding in a small area above Otto's office. They are joined by the van Daan family. Many of Otto's employees aid the hideaways as they wait and pray for an end to their terrifying ordeal. The war takes a terrible toll on Holland, and food becomes quite scarce. Starvation and crime become rampant in the small country, which only worsens the plight of the Frank family and their friends who hide with them.On the pages of her diary, Anne explores love and questions the meaning of life in a way that is quite typical of a young teen, yet quite extraordinary under the circumstances under which she lives. Her portrayal provides a stark glimpse into her extraordinary ordeal. She captivates the reader with an innocence that contrasts the stark reality of her situation.
The diary ends abruptly on August 1, 1944. There is no sign-off and no explanation, although it is known from historical records that the family was betrayed and captured by the Nazis.

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New Animal Creation in Photopea (Major Grade)

• POST final animal image to your BLOG in Major Assignments
• UPLOAD PSD file to your google Drive, Major Assignments
• DUE WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9th

You will create a NEW animal-creature-beast-being!!  You will use your mad Photoshop skills to combine 3 or more animal photos as seamlessly as possible using the following tools and techniques:

-Selection tools
-Filters

-Scale, rotate, distort

-Color Adjustments

Find your FOUR animal photos and open in Photoshop (you should have a separate window for each).

1. Create a File>New Photoshop document that is 8.5x11 inches.
2. Cut and Paste body parts!  Using your Selection Tools (Quick Selection, Lasso, Quick Mask), select the features you want from each photo and then using the Move Tool, drag that body part into your New Document.
3. Each body part will have a separate layer.  Match your body parts together...Edit>Transform and choose Scale, Rotate, Distort, Flip, etc.
4. Adjust the colors of your Newimal to create a seamless look.  Color>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation orColor>Adjustments>Color Balance.
5. Blend the body parts:  Use the Eraser Tool, Blur Tool, Smudge Tool, Clone Stamp Tool to “blend”
6. Once you are happy with how your creature fits together, select all the body part layers and Merge Layers (right click).  
7. Now, apply a Filter (or several) over the entire Newimal—don’t abstract it though.  (Filter>Filter Gallery)
8. Decide on your Newimal’s natural habitat and drag that photo into your document.  Scale it to fit into the background and drag this layer to the bottom, so that your newimal sits on top.  Apply a filter to the background as well.
9. Finishing touches:  add your newimals shadow (burn and dodge tools), change the colors of your background, etc.

You will be evaluated on: 

• Matching of body parts (Selection tools, Scale, Rotate, Flip, Distort)
• Matching of colors (Hue/Saturation, Color Balance)
• Blending Techniques (Eraser, Blur, Smudge, Clone Stamp…including various opacities and settings)
• Creativity/Originality

NEW PHOTOSHOP TOOLS/TECHNIQUES

Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal to get the mirror image of a photo or part of a photo.

Use the smudge tool to create “movement” in your art, make a photo look more “painterly” or blend areas of photos together.  Use blur tool to make images more hazy and less defined.

The clone stamp tool allows you to duplicate part of an image.  This can be used to cover up parts of the original image.    

                  

The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning).

• POST final animal image to your BLOG in Major Assignments
• UPLOAD PSD file to your google Drive, Major Assignments
• DUE WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9th

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Twinning Project:

Assignment: Twinning

What would it look like of you "twinned" with another person in your household? 

1. Take a photo of someone in your house and take one of you. 
2. Pose for the photos with the white background, match the pose, face straight forward, like you are taking a passport photo.
3. Use your layering skills to morph yourself and another person. 
4. Now the idea is complete believably (as opposed to coneheads).

STEPS:

1. Download portraits of you and your house mate 
2. Crop them to 3" wide x 4" high - 200ppi
3. Use similar skills that you did with the Mutant Me project - layers, erasing on layers, color correction
4. Give your new creepy twin a combo-celebrity name like Brangelina, Kimye, Bennifer
5. Save each photo as a JPEG
6. Open the 3 JPEGS and combine them into ONE photopea.com file (You + House mate = Creepy Twin) 
1. Use alignment/distribution tool to line up and space images
2. Saves as JPEG and Post to your blog (Majors)
3. MAJOR GRADE
7. You will be graded on smoothness, believably, creativity, neatness, use of tools in Photopea.com.
8. Upload your original photos of yourself and house mate and your final images to your Blog
9. Tell me about who you took a photo of and about your new creation (minimum 3-5 sentences)
10. Upload your layered files (PSD) to your Google Drive.

DUE: Thursday, 12/3 by 3:00pm

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Major Assignment #3: Design a Business Card and Logo

Design a Business Card for your Imaginary Business

SPECS:

For Print

Business Card Size: 3.5 x 2 inches

DO NOT PUT ANY TEXT OR IMAGES in the Pink and Blue area, leave a 1/8" margin around your business card

FOR VECTR.com SIZE in PIXELS

1050 pixels x 600 pixels

A high-quality looking business card should be printed in 300 PPI (at least), so the size of a business card in pixels–at 300 PPI– would result in 1050 pixels x 600 pixels.

Part 1:  Business Card Rough Sketch (1 version) due Tuesday at 3pm, take pic and post to your blog - MINOR assignments

Part 3:  Final artwork of Business cards created in Vectr.com (MAJOR Grade) - DUE BY WEDS, 3pm 10/7 - Post in Major Assignments

In Vectr.com - Change FILE SETTINGS > Click INCHES:

ROUGH DRAFT Example:

Business Card Requirements:

1. In Adobe Illustrator, FILE > NEW> Size: 3.5" x 2" (Horizontal) or 2" x 3.5" (Vertical)
2. Using the rectangle shape tool, create a rectangle the same size as your page. Fill = EMPTY, Stroke = 1pt, Black
• Send to back
• Place it to match up with your page (I’ll demonstrate)
• Select and LOCK
3. Leave a 1/4 margin on your page. I will demo you how to use guides
4. Your BC Must include:
• Your color "logo"
• Pertinent contact info (Name, Business Name, Phone, Address, Email, Website)
• Services you can provide
5. 3 color maximum - black counts as a color, white is not a color, tints of colors are fine
6. No photos, internet pictures, clip art, raster images, etc. Stick with just what you can do with Illustrator.
7. NO BLEED. This means that you'll need to leave an 1/8" white border on each edge of the card.
8. SAVE Adobe Illustrator File, Upload to Google Drive > Major Assignments
9. EXPORT as JPEG and POST to your BLOG Under your Rough Draft Photo

Major Assignment #2: Minimal Movie Poster

For this project, you will design a set of three minimal posters (movie, tv show or book) by creating a simplistic image that could serve as an icon for the movie (tv show or book). 

1. BRAINSTORM your favorite movies, tv shows, and books. Create a LIST. From your list, brainstorm main characters, colors, key scenes, your favorite scenes, objects, or outfits from that movie. You cannot create a poster that already exists. Perhaps they would be things you would have to see the movie to understand.
2. ROUGH DRAFT (Minor Grade) Research a scene or character from your chosen TV show, movie or Book, DRAW on regular paper a rough draft of what your final Minimal Movie Poster will look like, list colors you will use, list character names or scenes, explain why you chose this subject. POST in YOUR GOOGLE Classroom Assignment - DUE Monday 9/28 by 3pm
3. Create your Poster in VECTR.com
1. Using the skills you have acquired so far, create your Poster. Use basic shapes, pen tool, gradients, combine shapes, etc.
2. As you work, take a look at the examples for inspiration. Usually the background is a solid color. If a poster already exists and you still want to do that movie, select different images to use – do not copy! Create something that has not been created before. Think about having an interesting viewpoint and not showing the “whole” picture.
3. DO NOT download images from the internet - YOU MUST draw each component of your poster.
4. FINAL POSTER due on Weds., 9/30, MAJOR GRADE, post JPEG to your MAJOR Assignments.

EXAMPLES: (do not copy these - CREATE your own design)

Major Assignment #1: 

Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger...

Make a cheeseburger using shapes and colors. 

You have today and tomorrow  to complete this assignment.

• Open Vectr.com (use the app if you can)
• Click Create New
• Name:  YourFirstName_Burger
• Now using any tool you can figure out - play around with Illustrator and create a cheeseburger.

Make sure you include: a top and bottom bun, the burger, the cheese, the fixings and anything else you can add to make your Really good! You can include a plate or container. I will be grading your final project and your layered file in Vectr.com

DO NOT use any images you found on the internet, you must draw each component in Vectr.com

This is a MAJOR grade. 

• Export cheeseburger as .PNG
• Post to your BLOG on your MAJOR assignments 
• This project should take you 2-3 hours minimum
• Due: Thursday at the beginning of class
• By Thursday, Check out to your classmates blogs and comment on at least 2