FINAL EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: MS. LADUCA’S YEARBOOK
(5 EXTRA CREDIT POINTS)
Over the summer I have given myself the project to create a Digital Art yearbook of all of your projects from the year! This year has been a particularly challenging year for us, yet all of you found your artistic voice to create beautiful artwork. I am beyond proud of the work that you all put into this class, and so should you! If you would like, I would be so grateful if you would write a quick message that I can include in my personal Digital art yearbook!
In a Google Doc, please type out a short message for me. If can be about your favorite project, what you learned, or what ever you would like! Additionally, please include a favorite piece that you’ve created (does NOT need to be from one of our projects this year) and a self portrait. You do not need to create a new self portrait if you have one that you already like!
HOW TO TURN IN YOUR MESSAGE
Please submit a Google Doc or PDF of your typed up message
Submit your images/pieces as SEPARATE .jpg files
THANK YOU ALL FOR A WONDERFUL YEAR OF digital art!
FINAL EXAM PROJECT: PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
DUE TUESDAY, MAY 25 (80 POINTS)
20 POSSIBLE EXTRA CREDIT POINTS
Your final for this year will be to create a digital portfolio of all of the projects we completed this year. I can provide support with these two FREE professional platforms:
You may choose a different website if you would like. Additionally you may add your Digital Art portfolio to an existing portfolio if you wish
Once your website is completed YOU WILL NEED TO PUBLISH! Since we are still mostly remote you will need to submit your portfolio website as a hyper link on a Google Doc. Once you have finished creating your portfolio, Wix and Adobe will give you a free domain to use, and that will be the link you provide for me. This account will be linked to your school email and just like Google, it saves your progress automatically. During your allotted Digital Art final time if you are in person, I will come around and walk through your completed website during class. For your final you will need to have the following items:
The title of you web page must be your first and last name ‘s portfolio with the sub title of Digital Art 2020-2021
EX: Kristi LaDuca’s Portfolio: Digital Art 2020-2021
WHILE CREATING YOUR PORTFOLIO, THE ARRANGEMENT, PAGES, AND NAVIGATION ARE ALL UP TO YOU. BUT YOU MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS
A picture of yourself next to your artist statement (10 points)
If you need a little extra help writing an artist statement, Check out THIS helpful article.
EXTRA CREDIT: IN ADDITION TO YOUR ARTIST STATEMENT INCLUDE 10 BULLET POINTS OF UNIQUE FACTS ABOUT YOU. (10 EXTRA CREDIT POINTS)
here is a good example: https://www.kristiladucaphotography.com/aboutkl
An image of your favorite project from the year (5 points)
Three key concepts you learned during this year in Digital Art (5 points), each key concept must have a minimum of two sentences describing the topic.
Goals for yourself as an artist going forward: minimum of two goals (5 points)
A gallery for each project completed this year, You must title each gallery and include a short summary of the project. Minimum of three sentences.
Video Production Logo (5 points)
Vector Avatar (5 points)
Color Formula Monsters (5 points)
Crasher Squirrels (5 points)
Photo Illustration (5 points)
Everyday Object Animation (5 points)
Album Covers (5 points)
Hybrid Animals (5 points)
Type Object (5 points)
3D Type Poster (5 points)
EXTRA CREDIT (10 POINTS): ANY art pieces digital or other mediums that you created FROM AUGUST 2020-MAY 2021 THAT YOU made OUTSIDE OF CLASS
AN EXCUSED Project OR AN ALTERNATIVE ASSIGNMENT WILL NOT COUNT AGAINST YOUR GRADE ON YOUR FINAL!
IF YOU ARE MISSING ANY OF THESE projects, YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-create AND DISPLAY your piece IN YOUR PORTFOLIO. CLASS TIME MAY BE USED TO create your art.
Illustrator 3D type
in class demo screenshot: due Monday 5/3
(10 points)
your version of 3d type: due Thursday 5/6
(15 points)
Now that we have talked about some of the basics of Typography, we will be learning a fun way to create 3D type objects as an art piece! We will be going back to Illustrator to discover some tools that will help us take our type to the next level. Below are step by step instructions on how to achieve this style of type. In addition to the step by step, you can watch the attached tutorial for a visual guide on this process!
Steps:
Open up a new art board, I used a 5x6 inch board
Use the shape tool to create a colored background
you can choose to create a boarder or fill the whole art board
lock you layer by clicking on the left side of the layer in the layers panel
Select text tool > click once on your board > change the color > choose a BOLD font
Switch to the selection tool
Click the Effect menu > 3D > Extrude and Bevel
Play with the position
Play with Extrude Depth
** all of these can be changed at a later time if you don’t like what you did
Click the Window menu > Appearance
this will give you the window where you can go back and change the effects you put onto you text layers
Duplicate your text layers
make sure you are on the selection tool
press and hold option (Mac) or alt (PC) and drag your new layer out
Go back to the text tool, change the letter then REPEAT step 7 until you have all of your letters
Play with size, rotation, depth, etc to finish your composition
Fix the arrangement of your layers
press command { to send layers backwards or command } to bring them forward
Select all objects with the selection tool
Click the Effect menu > texture > grain
Select the Sketch folder and choose Halftone pattern and play around with the selections
click ok
Click the Effect menu > texture > grain
change intensity to 0
change color mode to contrasty
play with the contrast slider
Edit menu > edit colors > adjust color balance
change color mode to grayscale
play with sliders
done!!!
what you will turn in:
Class demo screenshot: due monday 5/3
Screenshot of the work you created in class ( same word and symbols, but you may use different colors)
rename: classdemo_yourinitials.PNG
Your remake
PDF file of a word of your choosing. You must use the Extrude and Bevel technique. all of the details you can change to your style
rename: 3Dtype_yourinitials.PDF