Thursday, March 10, 2016

Unit 3

Create business card - 2 sided

critique another student work- White Space by writing a new blog post and following guidelines given to you.

Answer the following questions:
1.  Was the message of the advertisement clearly communicated?  Why or why not?
2.  Does the advertisement use 90% whitespace?  If not, how much was used?
3.  What is one area that was successful ?
4.  What is one area that needs work?


Independent practice
Garage Sale Flier
Garage Sale File

Friday, February 19, 2016

Painting Tools- Grapes

Painting Tools: GRAPES!
Set up a new document: 8.5” x 11”, CMYK color mode

Create an artistic composition using the following criteria:

  1. Draw a bunch of grapes.
    1. Fill them with a purple radial gradient.
    2. Group them together.
  2. Draw a stem using the paint brush tool.
    1. choose a new brush in the bushes panel (other than an oval brush)
  3. Draw at least 3 leaves using the pen tool.
    1. Fill the leaves with a linear gradient
    2. Draw the veins on the leaves with the pencil tool.
    3. Group all of the elements together.
  4. Use the rectangle tool to draw a table. Fill it with a pattern texture.
  5. Use the blob brush to draw a shadow underneath the grapes.
    1. Change the transparency
  6. Add a slogan. What text can you add to get people to stop and purchase your grapes?

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

snowball sketch

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i1yj9kw2sx5xzqx/Snowball%20Sketch.tif?dl=0

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ee35aly27w36z7o/AADLK--Ts5A2h2brOjSJZFRba?dl=0

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Thursday, Feb 11.

Your Olympic Logo is due at the end of the day on Friday.
Monday we move forward to Unit 2- Painting Tools

Friday, January 29, 2016

Monday, Feb. 1st

So far in Graphic Design you should have:
1.  made a blog
2.  emailed it to Mrs. Schiefelbein
kschiefelbein@dce.k12.wi.us

3. Find an example of Graphic Design.  Save and Post it.  Include a paragraph
stating why you think it is a good example.

4.  Add 5 links to National Graphic Designers
5. Add 5 links to Local Wisconsin artists- any type

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Next we will start Unit 1
Drawing Tools

Monday, January 25, 2016