Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
EU's:
- Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
- Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
- The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
EQ's:
- How do media artists generate ideas?
- How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
- How do media artists improve/refine their work?
Assignment: To design and develop your own cartoon character to be used for an original candy
Objectives
- Strengthen digital illustration skills
- learn new color application skills in illustrator
- create original artwork
Steps:
- Brainstorm ideas on paper of candy ideas. Think about what type of candy and the name you would like to have
- Draw an image of a character to be scanned in to build over or work over and image on the internet to help with the shape only
- Use shape tools to help you whenever possible and the pen tool for the rest
- Add shading to clothes using Illustrator (No Photoshop for this one)
- Critique and refine work
- Upload to blog discussing candy idea and how you came up with the character
