visual exploration handbook

ILLUSTRATORS AND ANIMATORS 2012

VISUAL EXPLORATION

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Week 1

Wednesday 26th September/ 10.00am /Green Room/ MS102.

‘WHO ARE YOU-WHERE ARE YOU?’ (GI)You have exactly one week to generate the following outcome to place on the studio wall.

Task:Using a digital camera, capture yourself in a dynamic self-portrait. How you pose and where you pose are up to you.Take this image on your memory stick to Staples at The Meteor Centre, Derby and enlarge to A0 in black and white.(See slide show from GI) Go to The Quad: ‘Accidentally on Purpose’27 July-7 October 2012Studio: planning and ideas/ proposals LB

Task:

Stick the black and white poster image on your studio or bedroom wall. You will need to work onto this poster by hand (not digitally) in any colour medium.Add original drawing and mark-making to this image in any way that connects the viewer with who you are, physically, spiritually and artistically.

What do you value?What do you see in your mind’s eye?What are your obsessions?What are your fears?What does your world look like?

Materials and approaches:You can use water colours, paint, ink, acrylic paint, printed letters, hand drawn calligraphy, photo-collage elements, charcoal, pencil, fine-liners, stencilling, sprays and found elements of any kind.You can use dry brush techniques, a limited palette of colour, stippling, ripping, reversing, cutting, embellish-ing, decorating, destroying and beautifying.

Produce your artwork by 9.30am next Wednesday for display in MS102.*You also need your photo self portrait on memory stick.

Wednesdays/ Thursdays / WEEKS 1-12

Week 1

GROUP 1

Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm MAC LAB / MS119 -Matt Mould (+ Lydia Riley)

MM to demo Nikon D90 cameras or a general camera guide: image quality, file sizes, RGB, CMYK overview.

Using media store. Print sizes etc.

Week 1

GROUP 2

Thursday 2.00pm-5.00pm /MAC LAB/ MS118 -Stuart Poynton

SP to demo Nikon D90 cameras or a general camera guide: image quality, file sizes, RGB, CMYK overview.

Using media store. Print sizes etc.

Week 2

3rd October/ 10.00am /Green Room/ MS102Posters on studio wall/ Peer Review GI/ LR/ NmcN

‘WHO ARE YOU-WHERE ARE YOU?’ (GI)

Student body to give written feedback to displayed posters on A4 paper.

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SKETCH BOOKS SLIDESHOW(LR+ GI)The sketch book in many forms.

How you record and collect? This is your personal archive and planning medium. One sample page to be generated per student as an exercise on the word ‘window’.What might be your starting point and what should you consider (team)?

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SKETCHBOOK BRIEF (NMcN)Wednesday 3rd OctoberGo to Pickford’s House Museum in Derby.Create 5 (or more) pages of responses to the follow-ing title:

Your challenge is to visually archive not only objects, people and textures found in the Pickford’s House Museum but also feelings, sensations, moods and at-mospheres that occur to you during your visit. For this reason we would encourage notation, colour swatches, texture, word/image/texture combinations, architectural drawings juxtaposed with materials and techniques.Some of what you record may be figurative but some may be more abstract.Half of what you produce can be produced on site and the rest may be developed in your own studio.

Pickford’s House Museum can be found at: 41 Friar Gate, Derby, DE1 1DA. Telephone: 01332 715181

Week 2

GROUP 1


MM to demo Photoshop using students’ own WHO ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? photograph/s.

Blending Modes, Cropping, image size, levels, grayscale, colourise, bitmap, magic wand, selection tools, text tools, fonts.

Week 2

GROUP 2


SP to demo Photoshop using students’ own WHO ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? photograph/s.

Blending Modes, Cropping, image size, levels, grayscale, colourise, bitmap, magic wand, selection tools, text tools, fonts.

Week 3

10th October /10.00am /Green Room/ MS102Sketchbook Review GI/ LR/ NmcN

What did you record?What did you value?

Did you follow a process in your information gather-ing and did you develop a theme within your work?

For example, did you become aware of the female, or male objects in the collection; the status of certain belongings; or the presence of technology?You will have naturally focussed on certain thingsbut what have you tried to convey,? What materials have you used and do your choices of materials now create a subtext for the viewer?

Quick task:On A3 paper, create a composition of three elements from your sketchbook. Cluster these things togetherto combine them in an interesting way.Can you play with shape, meaning or colour?__________________________________________Homework

Pickford’s Collage Brief (Slideshow LR)

Create a collage on A3 paper or board that describesThe Pickford’s House Museum.

You will be asked to focus on colour, texture and mood. You may wish to identify motifs or objects that can be developed and repeated to create a mood.

You may utilise your sketches or make subsequent vis-its to the museum to investigate the collection further.Please remember that your choices start to build meaning and communication for your viewer.If you illustrate ten tea pots in blue inks, the viewer will start to compose their own idea of what this narrative suggests.Is there any thought or feeling that you might like to convey? You may choose to be figurative, or you may choose to behave in an abstract fashion where objects combine, fuse or create conflict.

Week 3

GROUP 1


MM to demo ILLUSTRATOR Working with vector outlines grouping, arranging and composing. The pen tool.

Week 3

GROUP 2


SP to demo ILLUSTRATOR Working with vector outlines grouping, arranging and composing. The pen tool.

Week 4

16th October /10.00am /Green Room/ MS102COLLAGE REVIEW/ in studio

To what extent have you utilised the collage medium?Have you used texture and colour in a descriptive way?Have you managed to convey the essence of the house and have you combined imagery in an innova-tive manner?

Note:The idea behind the brief is to deviate slightly from reality, so the collage might create a hybrid where images and textures combine to form a new environ-ment where wallpaper, shoes and teapots blend with lipstick and bird cages.

Do you feel that this process has liberated you from a figurative/ linear world, or has it presented new problems?

Are you happy with your image?__________________________________________

PICTORIAL LETTERFORMSSlideshow GI / LR

Typography is all around us. What happens when the formal text that we are so familiar with comes into the hands of an illustrator?What might happen to the dialogue?

Task:Over hear a conversation and commit it to your sketchbook. Now recreate it showing where it oc-curred and the nature of its surroundings.Play with letterforms and reflect a ‘sense of place’ in the lettering and how it is formed.

If your conversation was overheard in the cathedral, you may combine the letterforms with historic or religious detail, with a penitent face or hands; the launderette may combine washing symbols, colours of detergents, a sleeping man, or seventies design.

Homework:Produce this work at A3 size in the medium of your choice for next week.

Week 4

GROUP 1


MM to demo ILLUSTRATOR Working with vector outlines grouping, arranging and composing. The pen tool.

the hand drawn version.

Week 4

GROUP 2


SP to demo ILLUSTRATOR Working with vector outlines grouping, arranging and composing. The pen tool.

Week 5

24th October /10.00am /Green Room/ MS102

PICTORIAL LETTERFORMS (GI / LR review)

All work to be peer reviewed and placed on display in the studio.Special mention will be made of work that really conveys a sense of narrative and character.

How was this said, to whom?In what manner were the words spoken?

__________________________________________‘A SENSE OF PLACE ’(Lydia Riley)

In teams of two you are now asked to plan an on site visit to a venue of your own choice. This could be a boxing match, a museum, a pig farm, a hospital or other event.A strong emphasis is placed on you being safe from risk and able to draw and record together for an extended period. Each person will produce their own work for the project.You are required to produce eight drawings. within A4 (either landscape or portrait). Please experiment with wet and dry medium (ink+ pencil / charcoal+ pastel). Interesting combinations of techniques will be encouraged.

All of these will be scanned by you at 300dpi and brought into the studio on a memory stick, in week 7.

In week 7, you will be asked to create a publication based on your location in INDESIGN.In week 7 you will be asked to import these illustra-tions into a booklet and to also add text to the pages.

Please keep notes about your location and its history(also your feelings). You will need to add this informa-tion to your publication.

Individual tutorials next week!See listings-

Week 5

GROUP 1

Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm MAC LAB / MS119 Matt Mould

MM to demo INDESIGN Working with grids, type sizes and leading/ kerning. Uploading and placing of images Body copy and exporting to print

Week 5

GROUP 2


SP to demo INDESIGN Working with grids, type sizes and leading/ kerning. Uploading and placing of images Body copy and exporting to print

INDUCTION TO PRINT: 10 x students from GROUP 2 to Shed 3 10.00 am with Martin Leedham / 11.00-12.30pm with Lydia Riley (bring a high contrast photocopy)

Personal Tutorial Week- Graphic DesignRecorded discussion with Level 1 students (LB) (ET) (TAS) (GI)

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THURSDAY (LR)


Personal Tutorial Week- IllustrationRecorded discussion with Level 1 students (LR) (GI) (NmcN) (MB)

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Personal Tutorial Week-AnimationRecorded discussion with Level 1 students (MM)

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Week7

7th November/ 10.00am /Green Room/ MS102SENSE OF PLACE / REVIEW

Groups x 4 talk about their chosen location and reveal their location drawings to one another.

SLIDESHOW/ GI*Create a paper dummy of your publication

The aim of this session will be to create a pagination plan for this afternoon’s INDESIGN session.

Gemma will discuss how to plan images and text and to guide students how to work on folded paper to simulate the 8 x page booklet.

PUBLICATION BRIEF:

‘A SENSE OF PLACE’ (Or a title of your own)

Create your INDESIGN booklet this afternoon.Please ensure that you place your images and create a cover and reverse cover.You should leave the MACLAB with a concise version of your design. You may edit text, flow in someone else’s words, poetry, or even write your own journalistic content.

We are interested to see how you pace and stage your images in your final design.

Please keep all your assets in a folder make sure that everything is saved to your memory stick.

Week 7

GROUP 1 Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm MAC LAB / MS119 -Matt Mould

MM to demo INDESIGN 2 Students will import their images and start to compose their Indesign booklets. Body copy /linking text boxes/ editing text.

Print Booklet command and where to print this? You may print spreads ONLY for next week

Week 7

GROUP 2


SP to demo INDESIGN 2 Student will import their images and start to compose their Indesign booklets. Body copy /linking text boxes/ editing text.

Print Booklet command and where to print this? You may print spreads ONLY for next week


Week 8

14th November/ 10.00am /Green Room/ MS102Publication ReviewGI,LR, NMcN

By now you may have finished your publication. Please place your spreads on the studio wall.

Peer Review process:Please focus on how the images relate to what is being said in the text. Give direction on whether the document is legible, interesting and well composed visually. Is there a change in colour or scale that would improve this work and help to convey the theme?Notate onto the work if possible or add a sheet of comments on the side. Please do at least 2 x booklets/ people, taking ten minutes on each one.

Have you enjoyed formatting your images with text?Did you find that you needed more images or did find that you could crop, edit and tint the ones that you had?

11.30am / MS102Briefing for animation projectStuart Poynton / Matt Mould

‘NUMEROLOGY’: ANIMATION

Create a short film that shows a pictorial journey from number ten, counting down to number one.

To do this, you may create your numbers by hand, draw them in chalk, photograph them, destroy them or dig them into the landscape. Each number must be illustrated, realised or crafted in some way..

Try to be as creative in your choice of letterforms as you are in your treatments of them.

Your film should last no more than 60 seconds, end-ing on 0 and contain a title ‘ NUMEROLOGY’ and any credits.

Week 8

GROUP 1

Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm MAC LAB / MS119 -Matt Mould

NUMEROLOGY/ ANIMATION

Week 7

GROUP 2

Thursday 2.00pm-5.00pm /MAC LAB/ MS118 -Stuart Poynton NUMEROLOGY/ ANIMATION

*NEXT WEEK GROUP SWAP:

GROUP 1 STUDENTS should attend session with Stuart Poynton GROUP 2 STUDENTS should attend session with Matt Mould


Week 9

21st November /10.00am /Green Room/ MS102

FiLM WORK IN PROGRESS(LR, GI, NMcN)

Each student is welcome to work in the studio and can access staff this morning regarding the subject and content of the film. Technical questions will be an-swered in the MAC LABS tomorrow.You are also welcome to work in your own studio

Week 9

GROUP 2


SHORT FILM/ CONTINUED

Week 9

GROUP 1


SHORT FILM/ CONTINUED


Week 10

28th November /10.00am /Green Room/ MS102

FIGURES SKETCHBOOK (Team)(Slideshow LR/ simple lines/ what not to draw)

A morning will be spent recording students the Markeaton Campus from various vantage points.The opportunity exists to record figures walking in The Street area.

You may observe from above at various levels but please do not hold drawing boards or books over the balconies for safety reasons.

Your aim will be to ‘capture’ figures in various activ-ities and to represent them using as few lines as you are able without compromising their form.

You may reduce the sketches to a series as a drawn animation or storyboard is you wish and may choose to add colour and texture to these at a later stage.

Homework:

Go online to posemaniacs.com

Create 4 x sketches of assorted poses in pencil in your sketchbook for next week.

In Pose 4, you should attempt to clothe and model your character with glasses, hair and footwear etc.

Try to create a narrative by adding a bag, special equipment such as a butterfly net or other curious item. If you do this, please use reference for any items you draw.

Week 10

GROUP 2


SHORT FILM REVIEW: ENDS

Week 10

GROUP 1


SHORT FILM REVIEW: ENDS


Week 11

5th December/ 10.00am / Green Room/ MS102 WORKCHECK IN STUDIO

10.00am- 12.30pmRegister to be taken

1. ‘Who are You?’ poster and images2. Pickford’s Sketchbook Brief3. Photoshop tests.4. Pickford’s Collage5. Illustrator tests6. ‘Pictorial Letterforms7. Indesign tests8. ‘Sense of Place’ sketchbook9. Sense of Place’ publication10. ‘Posemaniac’ work11. Short film in progress* 12.. Peer feedback notes and comments13. Work in a folder properly labelled with code.

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Week 11

GROUP 2


ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SESSION

Week 11

GROUP 1


ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SESSION


Week 12

12th December 10.00am /Green Room MS102

TUTORIALS

Open tutorials with LR/ GI/ NMcN

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12.00pm x 5 12.00pm x 5 12.00am x 5

THURSDAY

Thursday 9.30am-12.30pm /MS119 Open tutorials with MM

Thursday 2.00pm-5.00pm / MS118 Open tutorials with SP

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ASSESSMENT DEADLINE:

Friday 14th December 2012. MS102 / 9.30am

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

1. Engage with a diverse range of method and media, showing the emergence of a personal approach to your work.

2. Engage in observation, investigation, enquiry and visualisation.

3. Demonstrate through your practical outcomes, a basic awareness of how media and images communicate

4. Demonstrate a capacity for supported experimentation within digital image making.

visual exploration handbook

Documents

image quality

file sizes

white poster image

print sizes

memory stick

colour medium

general camera guide

nikon d90 cameras