Digital Art Class Postponed

From Arron:


Dear all,

Please kindly inform your classmates that for tomorrow's morning (wednesday) DA&D will be postponed from 9am-12pm to a later timing of 1-7pm, due to some urgent matters which i have to attend to.

This timing is flexible as long as your class turns up of consultation anytime during this timing, attendance with be taken. Once consultation is complete, you can stay and continue to work on your project or leave to work at home.

Note, this only applies to your class 1B.

Sorry for the inconvience caused.



Best Regards,
Arron Teo 張三豐
Artist//Photographer

Makeup Test

Note: For those who missed the Digital Art quiz last term, you'll have to retake it this coming Wed (22th April) 9am. It's your last chance, so don't miss it.

Cheerios!

Practical Tips from a Professional Artist

Regarding the web site, apart from the razzmatazz taught, here are two links that I really find useful.

How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web

A simpler, less humorous, more understandable version:

How to Display Your Artwork on the Web

Ciao

Rashmi

18th Feb 2009

Digital Art & Design

To-do-list:

• 5 digital montages (A4 size), as demonstrated by Aaron in class earlier. You're highly advised to use high-res images when doing them. They're to be handed in after tutorial week.

P.S.  There'll be a small test during next lesson (25th Feb). So please do read up and be prepared for it.

Things to be brought for next lesson:

• Your vector illustration (A4)

History of Visual Arts II

Here's the powerpoint slide of the day. And the artist that she has mentioned today is JMW Turner, the guy who painted with his fingers (saving money much?).

1. Impressionism
   

Right, you guys have heard that she'll be giving out the essay topics next week. So do remember to turn up for class y'all.

Regarding about the Baroque and Rococo slides, I'm afraid that I didn't manage to get them. But Dr Sian should bring them next week for me to grab (hopefully).

If there's anything that you wish to clarify/comment on, please head on with the normal procedure with the chatbox. Cheers. 

11th Feb 2009

Digital Art & Design

To-do-list:

1. Create a vector illustration of yourself either in a gradient or flat style (A4 size). This is to be handed up two weeks later.

For those of you guys who can't remember how vectors are done, here's a tutorial. Though it's done in Photoshop 6, the tools and techniques are all the same in later versions of PS.

Things to be brought next lesson:

• As many different images as you can find for next lesson, Montage. It's recommanded that you take shots of various still life and nature. Try not to use a handphone camera for the pictures will produced will have too much noise, and sides the quality will not be the best.

Righto, if there's any troubles, please do give a roar at the chatbox. Cheers!

4th Feb 2009

Digital Art & Design

To-do-list:

1. Using the filters in Photoshop, create 3 other artworks with them. Try to be innovative, and copy down all the steps that you've used to create the artworks. Please print them out (3A4 all together).

Things to be brought next lesson:

• Your homework
• The file for DAD (if you've yet to get one)

If there's anything, please do leave a yell on the chatbox. Cheers everyone.

Portfolio Layout example

For those who didn't turn up for Digital Art & Design's last lesson, we learnt how to do a portfolio layout. You're free to make it landscape, minus black lines or other coloured patterns etc.

Here's the photoshop file and the pattern layout . Both are in .psd format. I'm using CS3, so I'm not sure whether older versions can open the file or not. 

Righto, see you lot tomorrow. 

28th Jan 2009

Digital Art & Design

To-do-list:

1. Remember the photos you took for the previous lesson? Choose two and edit them using the Lens Correction Tool. *
2. Then, layout the orginal and the edited photos in A4 file format. (4 photos in a piece of A4) Please print it out.
3. Plan your layout portfolio in any ways that you like (landscape, portrait view, font type, pattern design etc). This is also to be printed out in A4 size.

* Lens Correction Tool can be found under Fliter > Distort > Lens Correction Tool.

Things to be brought next lesson (4th Feb):

• Your assignments (2 A4)

History of Visual Arts II

The two powerpoint slides for the day! Both are uploaded to Mediafire as usual.

1. 15th Century North European Art

2. Art in the Reformation

Yupp, anything wrong, yell at the chatbox. Toodles people.

jan 23

Homework for Digital Art:

Use Lens Correction on any five images of your artwork. Bring soft copies of original as well as the corrected images for the next class, which is at 9:00 am, Wednesday.

14th Jan 2009

Digital Art & Design

To-do-list:

1. Choose 4 different digital artworks (2 from Phase One or Phase Two, or one from each phase and 2 from Phase Three*). In less than 300 words, analyse and compare the 4 artworks in terms of style, colour, context and techiniques. Also compare it to your current/future art style and add in your own opinions regarding about these artworks.
   
   Essay is to be printed along with the 4 chosen photos and filed inside the file.
   
   
2. Prepare 5 photos of your artworks (2D, 3D) in soft copy format. Please store them inside a thumbdrive and bring them during the next lesson. Note that you're supposed to take photos, not scan in the works and store them in .jpeg

Things to be brought next week (21th Jan):

• The notes (Those who do not have a copy, please look for me)
• A file with clear pockets to store in your homework, research, notes etc.
• The photos mentioned above

*Phase One is known as the Pioneer era, Phase Two as the Paintbox Era and Phase Three as the Multimedia Era.

P.S. The artists from all 3 eras could be found at DAM.

P.P.S. The lesson next week has been rescheduled to Friday (23rd Jan), 9am-12pm. Note that it's only for this particular lesson. Lesson times will be reverted back to the usual.

History of Visual Art II

Here are the powerpoint slides for this lesson.

1. Early Italian Renaissance

2. 15th Century Italian Art

Both are uploaded to Mediafire. If anyone can't access to the download, please drop a comment and I'll upload to another server ASAP.

P.S. The artist that Dr Sian had shown earlier during class is Caravaggio. If you thought you heard Michelangelo, you didn't hear it wrongly. It's his first name after all, just that he's not the one who sculpted David.

The drill is as usual; drop a comment if there's any missing details or enquiries. Cheers.