What Is Due In Week 1...
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Class Questionnaire due by Monday, August 15th
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Personal Portrait illustrations due by Thursday, August 18th
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Sketching Practices
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​Introduction To Graphic Design & The Class.
- Class Photos
- Photoshop for beginners and intermediate
- 'Flip Face & Fonts' project
Monday August 15th
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If you missed it last week... take this learning style profile.
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Finishing your About You Questionnaire and turning it in / uploading to Focus.
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Using a 5" h x 3.5" w index card, illustrate a Personal Portrait of yourself. The illustration can be all of you or your face.
It should be in color and include your first and last name prominently. Take some time with it. Include other elements that tell us
about you.
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Deep Dive Into What Graphic Design Is:
PRESENTATION: About Graphic Design & Our Class
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20 Reasons Why Design Is Important https://www.canva.com/learn/design-at-work/
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How Important Is Design? 23 Designers Weigh In https://www.thisdesignlife.net/graphic-design-2019/
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You've completed and turned in your About You Questionnaire ?
Tuesday August 16th
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Working On Your Personal Portrait
Wednesday August 17th
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Working On Your Personal Portrait
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Thursday August 18th
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Editing Photos.
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Personal Portraits Due Today
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Two Sketches for today from memory (Please do not look up online or on your phone):
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A Heavy Metal Owl
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A favorite toy of yours from when you were much younger
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Friday August 19th
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Class Check-In
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Discussion of SkillsUSA Participation
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We visit the history of our class
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Friday Artist Profile: Chuck Jones
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Artist / Illustrator / Director: Chuck Jones
WIX.com is a simple web page creator that lets you look at thousands of website templates and then save one and edit it. Remove their pictures, put in yours. Remove their text, put in yours. Changing color schemes, etc.. The best portfolio pages have a simple landing (or Splash) page, and then links to your gallery.
Design an online portfolio for yourself. Include your artwork you've designed this semester, year or so far during your time in class. Your name should figure prominently into the design.
Pages should include:
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Index Page - Example Page - About You Page - Contact Page
*Pictures for upload must be saved JPEG, BMP, PNG or TIFF file formats.
RESOURCES
To Access Adobe From Home
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Go to www.adobe.com
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Sign-in in the upper right corner using your r2.d2 and password.
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Choose SCHOOL ACCOUNT
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Now, choose Creative Cloud to Download. This will put the links to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign on your desktop. If you only need one of these or already have one or two installed, look for the individual software you need and download that.
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Follow directions once downloaded.
We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C792) which is ID'd as:
Commercial Arts Lab Laser Printer
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After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up on your screen.
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Be sure the class printer is selected ( Commercial Arts Lab Laser Printer )
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Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)
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Scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.
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Press print
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Please DO NOT Print: Work From Other Classes, Memes you Just Made And Think Are Funny But Are Not, Pages of Solid Colors, Work that has nothing to do with our class.
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You can lose your printing privileges is this happens
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Save And Upload To Focus
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All work will be turned in using FOCUS. I will be able to grade your work, count your work and give feedback on your work using Focus. In class, turn in work using the class InBox. Final Project folders will be numbered and titled. Make-Up work turned in past the due date will not be able to be uploaded in Focus. Use the class In Boxes
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Grading
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Grades will be entered within 1 or 2 weeks of turning in your project. Some projects will take one or two days for you to complete, some will take several weeks. Please be patient as grading is completed. Make-Up work or late work is graded at the discretion of the instructor.
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Late Work
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Work turned in late will receive one letter grade lower each day it is late. If it's more than 3 days late without instructor approval, absence, excused absence or extenuating circumstance, not turning in even one project can have a negative effect on your grade. Due Dates are very important in our industry and modeled in our class.
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Saving Files
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.PSD files preserve your layers, allowing you to come back and work on files with all your work preserved.
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.JPEG files are compressed for display online. 300 resolution or better. Anything below is too blurry.
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.PNG files are high quality and create a transparent background.
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.AI files are Adobe Illustrator native
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We have a class network to save your class work:
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It allows you to keep work in class that you are working on. This file contains a folder for your class work. It is where you can keep your design work in class or move things into from your One Drive or your Flash Drive if you do work at home.​
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One Drive Cloud Storage - Your Free Cloud Storage Space: