Presenting the 2017 James O'Keefe Comic contest winners
Thanks to Nick Sousanis for coming out and talking about his new book, Unflattening and Joe Field from Flying Color Comics for talking to our DVC students and encouraging them to keep being creative no matter what.
Monster Draw: The goal for the event is to create and share drawing ideas and see some great movies with others. At different times the movie will pause and the drawing begins, the times for the drawing will range from 4 to 6 minutes. Bring your sketchbooks, pencils and pens. Admission is free.
2. In your sketchbook, neatly draw 12 tools that you would find around the house. Organize the the drawings into a grid. Notice how simply the drawings are done and how evenly spaced they are. No color, go ahead and ink.
Wonderful Day Everyone! Homework: 1. Next week bring your blank sketchbook, pencils and pens. 2. Bring a sample collection of all the letters of the alphabet on one page. You can go hands on, cut out the letters, glue them to the page or create a word document with a wide sample of letters, no two the same and with different colors. 3. Next week we will be talking about fonts. 4. Click on the video tab and watch the 3rd & 4th videos down from the top of the page. Both are about Typography. We will talk about them next week.
Great job today everyone: Your info graphics are looking great. Your homework this week: 1. Design 4 different combination logos in your sketchbook for a toy. 2. Using the toy that you chose as a basis for your designs, your goal is to use the colors and the shape of the character to design a new name, and identity. A. Pick a new name for your character. B. Use Word, Photoshop, Illustrator or any other text based program to experiment with different font styles. C. Pick 4 different font styles in the name you have chosen and draw them as you see them on one page in your sketchbook. D. On a fresh page in your sketchbook, using pencil, draw 12 different graphic images that could be used with your text logo. E. Pick 4 of the graphic images and 4 of the text logos you created and experiment with matching them together on the same page in pencil. (Below is a combination of 12 examples, you are only required to create 4)
1. Pick a topic on a subject that you really like, you are going to create an info graphic on that topic.
Definition:Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends.
Or as shown with legos:
2. In your sketchbook, think of a way to break down your topic using as many icons/simplified drawings that represent the background or supporting information regarding your topic.
(See samples below)
3. Using pencil only, arrange the icons around your main topic. Use as few words as possible. (See example below)
4. Once you have sketched your icons use a fine line marker or black ball point pen and trace. Do not shade or add color. Next Saturday we will import your drawings into illustrator and add color.
(Here is a quick video about the basics of color.)
5. Read Chapter 2 of the class text book
it covers color and the basics of how to arrange objects in the picture plane.
(Here is a quick video about the basics of organization)
6. View the last videoon the class blog by Lynda Barry(Click video tab on main blog page to find it.).
We will talk about her video at the end of the next class.
