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COMMERCIAL & DIGITAL ARTS CLASS YEAR 1

What Is Due This Week

  • Your Logo Project

  • Whacky Packs (2) & Disturbing Dick And Jane (2)

WEIRDO GIF OF THE WEEK
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Photoshop Design Practice For The Day

Find Adobe Discover (The magnifying glass in the upper right corner in Photoshop)

Check out "Getting To Know Selections" tutorial.    Additional Resource

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Monday October 3rd

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Sketches For Today: An elderly monkey         Delicious Sandwich

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Design Challenge: Logo Design Your Future Business (Due Today)

  • Have you found a page worth of competitor logos?

  • Have you created color thumbnail sketches and talked w Mr. Juul before starting anything digitally.

  • Create final. See Mr. Juul before uploading to Focus. Print your final and attache your thumbnails to them.

How To Create Whacky Pack and Disturbing Dick & Jane

Find Adobe Discover (The magnifying glass in the upper right corner in Photoshop)

Check out "Use Multiple Selection Tools To Cut Out A Keyhole" tutorial.    Additional Resource

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Logo Print Examples.jpg
Wacky Pack Print Format.jpg

New Project | Design Challenge: Wacky Pack Parodies

Current Project | Design Challenge: Disturbing Dick & Jane

Tuesday - Wednesday October 4th - 5th

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Production Day - Wacky Packs

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Current Project | Design Challenge: Wacky Pack Parodies

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Current Project | Design Challenge: Disturbing Dick & Jane

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Illustrator - CC.jpg
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Alex.jpg

Friday October 7th

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​Friday Artist Profile: American artist and painter Norman Rockwell

Thursday & Friday October 6th - 7th

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Introduction To Project - Concrete To Abstract

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New Project | Design Challenge: Concrete To Abstract

  • Project Specifics (Read Me!)

  • Pre-Production: Watch Demo with Mr. Juul. Understand what
    is asked from each piece of art.

  • Production. Setting up canvas size as LEGAL SIZE DOCUMENT

  • Post-Production: Setting up your final to print on legal size paper. Check Project Specifics on how to set it up. PRINT - PRINT SETTINGS - PAPER - PAPER SIZE - Choose LEGAL

Concrete to Abstract Shark Example.jpg
ARTIST PROFILE
SEMESTER ONE
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SEMESTER TWO
CAPSTONE INFO.
STATE STANDARDS
WIX WEB PORTFOLIO

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:

  • Index Page - Example Page - About You Page - Contact Page


*Pictures for upload must be saved JPEG, BMP, PNG or TIFF file formats.

RESOURCES

INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION
ACCESS ADOBE AT HOME

To Access Adobe From Home

  1. Go to www.adobe.com

  2. Sign-in in the upper right corner using your r2.d2 and password.

  3. Choose SCHOOL ACCOUNT

  4. 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.

  5. Follow directions once downloaded.

SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING
HOW TO PRINT

      We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C792) which is ID'd as:

                                   ET0021B7F99C6A

  • After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up on your screen.

  • Be sure the class printer is selected ( ET0021B7F99C6A )

  • Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)

  • Scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.

  • 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.

  • You can lose your printing privileges is this happens

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HOW TO TURN IN WORK

Save And Upload To Focus

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • .PSD files preserve your layers, allowing you to come back and work on files with all your work preserved.

  • .JPEG files are compressed for display online. 300 resolution or better. Anything below is too blurry.

  • .PNG files are high quality and create a transparent background.

  • .AI files are Adobe Illustrator native

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We have a class network to save your class work:

  • 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:

American artist and painter Norman Rockwell

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