Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
EU's:
- Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
- Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
- The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
EQ's:
- How do media artists generate ideas?
- How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
- How do media artists improve/refine their work?
Assignment: To design and develop your own to using both Illustrator and Photoshop
Objectives:
- Pick two of your favorite things to create a composition and idea around
- Create an original design using both Illustrator and Photoshop to add color
- Color must show airbrushing techniques and value
- Line weights must vary to show interest
- Must show texture in one piece within the tattoo
- Live tracing may be used in no more than 30% of your piece
Steps:
- Read this short article - How to Design your own Tattoo
- Brainstorm ideas and layouts (how would your ideas piece together?)
- Draw a base to scan in and build over or begin to create piece in Illustrator using only black or deep blue line
- Vary line weights and add in pieces of texture
- Bring final design into Photoshop to apply color through airbrushing (Do not use gradients for all, blend through use of the paintbrush)
- Class Critique
- Refine design and color
- Print on temporary tattoo paper (design must be flipped backwards for printing)
- apply tattoo and photograph
- Post both design and photograph to blog with a short reflection
Click on the link below to access the tutorial to turn your photogragh into a digital painting
*If this one is not working for your image there are more on Youtube
