Illustration 1: Turbocharging Your Creativity Interactive
Fundamental class showing you how to build solid ideas and images.
Start Date: Thursday Jan. 24, 2019
10 Week class
Enrollment limited to 16 people.
Illustration 1: Turbocharging your creativity
Everything you wanted to know about how to come up with good concepts in your illustrations!
This entry level course will walk you step by step through the process of coming up with good ideas for your images. Every image is built on the foundation of an idea. But clever, visually captivating ideas can be difficult to generate, especially on demand and on a deadline.
This course is designed to identify and cultivate the use of techniques specifically for idea generation. Starting with the fundamentals, students will build on each ideation technique in a clear and understandable way, eventually allowing you to mix and match techniques in a way that suits your artistic inclinations.
In this class you will learn how to:
Format:
This Class will consist of 10 weekly classes. All class content will be online and you can watch it at your convienience (you can take this class no matter what time zone you are in!). You will then do your assignment and upload it to Lee and David. They will provide weekly video critiques of your work. In addition, there will be an active discussion area where you can ask questions at any time.
In each class David and Lee will present an idea or topic and go over how to do it. This will consist of video lectures, demos, pdf handouts, etc.
Included with the class:
Requirements:
Class Schedule:
Class will go from Thurs Jan. 24th -March 28. Each week content will be released at noon for you to watch at your own convienience. Classes are pre-recoreded so you DO NOT have to be able to watch them on tuesdays specifically.
Details:
Refund Policy:
Please Note: When you enroll, we are reserving your seat, and others are not able to sign up. Because it can be challenging to fill seats when there are last minute cancellations, we only offer partial refunds once we are within 13 days of the class start date. However, if you are able to sell your seat to another student, we are happy to give a full refund 😀
Introduction Video
Introduce Yourself! : )
LECTURE: Good Beginnings
DEMO: Marker and Pen Thumbnails
DEMO: Watercolor and Brush Pen Thumbnails
DEMO: Mechanical Pencil Thumbnails
DEMO: Digital Thumbnails
Demo JPEGS
HOMEWORK PDF: Effective Thumbnails
HOMEWORK VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS
Resources
NOTES FOR TURNING HOMEWORK IN
WEEK 1 QUESTIONS/COMMNETS
WEEK 1 HOMEWORK TURN IN
Intro to Homework Critique Videos
Homework video crits being recorded now
Crit 1
Crit 2
Crit 3
Week 2: Plan
Week 2 Lecture: Keywords and greyscale studies
Demo: Movie Stills- Digital Lasso Tool
Demo: Movie Stills- marker on white paper
Demo: Movie Stills- grey paper
Demo: Movie Stills - Pencil on white
Week 2 Homework Assignment video
Homework: Proj 2: Designing Images
HOMEWORK REFERENCE DOWNLOADS
WEEK 2 QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
WEEK 2 HOMEWORK TURN IN
week 2 homework intro
Crit group 1
Crit group 2
Week 3: Mindmapping lecture
Week 3:Composition lecture
Notes about the Comp Process Video...
Demo: Comp Process
Week 3 Homework Assignment Video
Homework: Proj 3: Celebrity Portrait
WEEK 3 QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
WEEK 3 HOMEWORK TURN IN