GRD 410 - Illustration I

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

Expand and refine your creative drawing skills using traditional materials and the leading digital painting software, Corel Painter. Digital painting allows you to experiment with the creative possibilities of a wide range of art tools-felt pens, ink, charcoal, chalk, airbrush, watercolors, acrylics and oils-quickly and affordably. The skills learned will apply to a wide range of graphic design applications as you use industry-relevant media, techniques and software.
Competencies

Appropriately assess, solve, and implement solutions for visual problems.
1. Use current Graphic Design and Fine Art “best practices” as a standard with which to evaluate studio work habits and finished artwork
2. Use imagination, creativity and experimentation to integrate sketches and renderings to produce professionally executed and presented graphic images for assigned projects
3. Analyze current and historical examples of artwork and identify the qualities that set them apart as professional pieces
Visually capture, communicate and manipulate atmosphere, drama, mood and emotion in drawings of relevant subject matter for graphic design applications
1. Use analytical and creative thinking skills to select appropriate subject matter for the message being conveyed
2. Use a digital camera to seek out and acquire original visual resources for artwork
3. Use aperture, shutter speed, ISO speed, and focus to control the look of images captured with a digital camera
4. Explore how different media (traditional and/or digital) and techniques enhance an illustration, both visually and emotionally
Create realistically shaded pencil renderings on paper.
1. Choose proper materials for finished illustration including pencils and paper
2. Operate “Art-O-Graph”, grid, lightbox, or digital projector to transfer photo reference to paper
3. Create “photo-realistic” pencil rendering of photo reference.
Participate in instructor and peer reviews of work
1. Understand the importance and value of personal, instructor, and peer analysis of work in a critique setting
2. Actively participate in reviews of personal and peer work.
3. Learn a standard visual art vocabulary and use it when discussing artwork
Learn Corel Painter software interface and file format basics.
1. Identify and explain the purpose of the tools, palettes, and menus that are used in creating illustrations in Painter
2. Know how to get online help for unfamiliar tools and procedures.
3. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the RIFF, Photoshop, TIFF, and JPEG file formats, and know how to save in each of these formats.
Learn Corel Painter software painting and brush basics.
1. Explain how Painter and a pressure-sensitive tablet allows you to mimic the behavior of traditional art tools and media
2. Select and experiment with the wide creative possibilities by using Painters tools and variants
3. Demonstrate how to select colors, papers, and paper textures.
4. Demonstrate how to use special effects from the Effects menu.
Draw a wide range of subject matter with confidence and skill using appropriately selected and applied media, software, techniques, style and format
1. Spend as much time as necessary on illustrations to develop required skills and produce professional results
2. Mount and/or present all finished illustrations according to specifications.
3. Complete work by established deadlines
4. Select “portfolio quality” illustrations for personal portfolio
5. Keep work area clean and organized