intro to project.

Illustration project.
the concept of this project is that you are making a page or several pages from an illustrated children's book. The drawings should be mainly your own, although you can include elements of found copyright free line art. For example, you could include some backgrounds from the myth images to support your drawings. An example of a poor grade would be: completely excluding your own drawings, or simply coloring copyrighted material or another artist's work. remember there is no such thing as an authorless image. have the courage to focus on your own work, even if you are just using doodles.


Be accountable for all painting techniques taught in workshop sections. This means not missing class or being late. Each class for the next few weeks will begin with a painting technique demo. It is your responsibility to practice up on each technique and come on time to learn them. I cannot be responsible for your tardiness in my curriculum and I will not make the other students sit through the same demo twice. I will be looking for all of the painting techniques in the project grade I assign.

Scan your line drawings. Use File> Import and browse the name of the scanner from photoshop. Don't use independent scanning software. Make sure the length x width x depth numbers make sense and just struggle with the program until you figure out how to change them. an example of not making sense: 40 inches by 60 inches by 20 dpi. take turns on the scanners. you must always hit preview before you hit scan.


Include scanned, hand-written text. Imagine that the story of your children's book will be set typographically in handwriting. you may write your own story or illustrate an existing story that you like.


Layout:
this will be the same as the first project, oriented horizontally. 20 w x 15 h x 200 dpi. If you are a wizard at these techniques I expect you to produce several pages from your story at this size. Big size means a more difficult paste up, but it also means a more compelling portfolio, and the ability to work in full production with just a laser printer. I appreciate your hard work in paste up, and the expense of presentation boards, but that labor and expense are a pretty cheap purchase of a nice looking portfolio. Believe me, when someone says they are a digital designer or artist and they hand you a stack of 8x11 printouts as their portfolio, it is such a joke, and generally those go right in the trash. Output is everything, especially if you want to be in the same world as painting and illustration.