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Design New Media I is an art foundation class for graphics, animation and filmmaking students. The purpose of this course is to give these digital media students a strong art foundation: learning the Principles of Design and Elements of Art, Perspective, Drawing and Painting.
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shape: figure ground projectUsing construction paper, students created geometric or organic shapes to create a figure/ground composition. Both your “figure” and the “ground” need to be equally strong in the composition so that your eye can see either way the possibility of being figure or ground.
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shape: matisse project Using paper and scissors, students cut out geometric and organic shapes and collaged them together to interpret a piece of artwork from art history in the style of famous painter and collage artist Henri Matisse.
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1-point perspective: arial view of citystudents created a city where the buildings go to one vanishing point.
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2-point perspective: corner blockstudents created a corner of a city block where all buildings go to 2 vanishing points.
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2-point perspective: roomstudents had to created a hand-drawn room in 2-point perspective, then scanned and filled with color in photoshop.
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gesture drawings: mannequin warmupsstudents warmed up by gesture drawing a wood mannequin in 15 second, 1 minute and 5 minute intervals.
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form: clay animationstudents sculpted a figure each day and drew from it. They then scanned all drawings into the computer, layered them in photoshop, dropped in color and created an animated gif animation.
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form: still lifevarious examples of still life using pencil and charcoal.
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form: charcoal self-portraitstudents were required to use a mirror, sit 3/4 view and create charcoal self-portrait.
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color: upside down paintingstudents were given a blurred upside down image which they had to paint from. every 15 minutes, the image was focused more, until the image of Manet's At the Cafe, was clear (and still upside down). Drawing upside down trains their eyes to really see.
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color: group grid paintingstudents were assigned a square from a grid of Sandro Botticelli's Primavera. the used a grid technique to enlarge their square and painted it. not only did they work individually on their canvas square, but collaboratively with each other to check for accuracy in the overall enlarged painting. the following are details of student squares as well as the overall group piece.
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color: painted self-portraitstudents were to draw from a photo and enlarge it on a canvas. they were to paint their self-portrait using their choice of color scheme (monochrome, complimentary, split-complimentary, analogous, triad, etc).
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color: abstract paintingstudents were to use color to create an abstract painting of their choice.
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