Due 10/2

A. A/C review
B. Reference photos, thumbnails, Master Sketch for your portrait, Project Statement -- posted to your blog
Include in your statement:
Explanation of Theme. -- Themes describe the overarching goals or big picture questions that a project attempts to answer.

Explanation of Tone and Execution -- What's your approach. What will it look/feel like? Your aesthetic choices should compliment the project's theme. You may include Links out/include examples. 

Explanation of Objective -- What is the goal of this project? 

C. Visit the brooks. View portraits

D. Select a portrait from anywhere and write a short review. post to your blog

E. Bring in a .psd experiment file illustrating the techniques presented in the tutorials from the post below.

Rules for Portrait:

Human

Living

Accessible

Print Resolution

Doable

Final Project is Due 10/9

Painting in Photoshop

Digital painting 101 - 1hr10min
http://monstercutie.com/2009/03/27/digital-painting-101/

Digital coloring with Photoshop
http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/digital-colouring-with-photoshop

Digital Painting - Wonder Woman!
http://www.robertocampus.com/2007/06/photoshop-tutorial-wonder-woman-pin-up-digital-painting/

Coloring in Photoshop
http://gold-seven.deviantart.com/art/Colouring-in-Photoshop-33788920

Creating a Portrait in Photoshop

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/photoshop-portrait/

Patterns
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/photoshop/patterns/

Digital Painting Tutorials

Due 9/25

Final Final Final Intervention Project: Must include components. Documentation of components. A container for documentation. Your documentation container must be available online. Include a url link to your documentation container in your assignment write-up posted to your blog.

Font Research/Testing/Learning!

Fonts by Style -- Style Index
Fonts by Theme -- Theme Index
Fonts by Use -- Use Index

What font is that?
upload an image or submit url to find out

Interactive typographic primer

http://www.rsub.com/typographic/
Basics of typography
http://designinstruct.com/tools-basics/the-basics-of-typography/

fonts:

http://new.myfonts.com/

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/

http://www.fontscape.com/

more fonts:

http://www.abstractfonts.com/
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.miniml.com/

Typomania!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfE3Q4kiSE

Create your own

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Interesting russian site -- show pre-work to design of font

http://www.dailytype.ru/

Links below are excellent sources for inspiration/research

http://typographica.org/

http://typophile.com/

http://www.chronotext.org/
http://typebase.com/ 
http://www.typotheque.com/article
http://www.typeforyou.org 
http://ilovetypography.com/

Due 9/18

A. Revise your project statement and master sketch -- post to your blog
B. Rough Draft of Intervention project. Be prepared to present.
C. A/C Review
D. Re-Read the pdf's and link from 9/13 assignment below

Due 9/13

A. Readings are on server in the type_text folder. Copy the entire folder from the server to your desktop or documents. Read each .pdf and visit the provided link.
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/text/

Take notes -- There will be a quiz.

B. Revise and expand upon your artistic intervention project statement - create and post a master sketch.

C. Begin to gather/create/organize sources for your artistic intervention project.

Elevator Line

"Elevator" Line -- one-sentence summary of your proposed project. This sentence should get us excited. Why do we want to listen to the rest of your presentation? Sell it.