Drawing from the tablet, Spring 2012: 2012

Friday, April 20, 2012

Homework for May1st.

This week you should be starting on your final. You will have two weeks for this. The final can be done using any of the techniques we've covered in class, including mixing hand done with digital, all from reference, or life, nothing from your imagination. It must include more than two figures, and a complex space, with more than one light source. For example, a room with a lamp and a window, or a room with one or more light source, and an open doorway with another room visible, and another light source in the other room. Everyone must bring these in progress to class, no excuses. Also remember to catch up on any old assignments, don't put them off until the end, because you will not have enough time to do all of your work the last week.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Homework for April 17

For this week you will still be integrating hand drawn with computer painted, all still from life or referenced, not from imagination. This week you will have to leave you brushes on 100% opacity. You may use textured brushes, you may use multiple layers at various opacities, but the brushed cannot be used at less than 100%.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Homework for April 11

This week you should be merging a tonal drawing, done in graphite, charcoal, ink wash, etc...

Just non-linear, with a digital painting. It can be a drawing of a figure, merged with a painted ground, you can create elements of the environment in drawing and paint the rest. The drawing is to be colored digitally using the techniques I showed you last week. Consider using blend layers set to color modes such as overlay, lighten, multiply, and consider using brushes set to those same blend modes.. Look at the work of Adi Granov, Sam Weber, or Owen Freeman.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Homework for April third.

This weeks homework is more or less the same as last week. We are dealing with two figures and a setting. One of the figures must be painted in the traditional method we have been painting in all semester, the other I want you to utilize the new illustration techniques I've covered in class the last two weeks. In other words you are starting with a drawing made outside of photoshop, scanning it in, and integrating it into the painting. Remember from last week, in some homework, people were trying to do an outline drawing, and paint under it as realistically as the other fully painted figure, and this usually did not work, as the two styles compete with each other. So remember to deal with the painting of the line drawing accordingly this week, possibly by simplifying the coloring of the line drawing, or using a more complicated drawing. Feel free to incorporate textures as I showed you, or use channel selections to colorize line work as a way to help you create space. See you next week.