Week 4 Homework

Grid.  16 x 20" or 15 x 20" board or good paper (bristol etc) Rule off a 1" border around edges. Then pencil rule 1" grid within the border. Once that is accurate and neat, ink it.  This will be you foundation grid and a test to see your "craft" attention to detail and neatness. You will be graded on both.

Next, on tracing paper, establish your eye level or Camera Line, start building your room. One wall will be removed. Review rules of one point perspective. Bring drawings in progress and room measurements to class to continue.

Week 4 Perspective Info

One Point Perspective - Here are some links to information regarding one point perspective.

http://www.detaildesignonline.com/technical_drawing/233

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWZUKzAoC4&noredirect=1    Tom aka Tomato Dragon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3VyhG4ekUk&playnext=1&list=PLE720D4CAC2332632

on that last one, sorry, the soundtrack is more of that Journey song from the sopranos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm1CFQ-uufw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=7-hpcCGnuy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWA-ifEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8p_gRiLBk



Room Layout

http://www.americandrew.com/planner.asp

More Week 3 info - foreground, middle ground, background.

original image

foreground

middle ground

background

File Naming Protocol

You files should be named using the following protocol:

Week# LastName project #
example:  
Week3Otto1- that would be the drawing of your room
Week3Otto2 - that would be the Sopranos shot count.
Week3Otto3 - that would be your foreground, middle ground, background project.

Place these in your class folder on the server.

Week Three Homework

1. Refine your room drawings. Make sure you have a such info as possible. How tall is the dresser? How tall is the bed? etc etc etc. Make sure you have sketches of each wall and a floor plan with as much info as possible. You might want to transfer that to an Illustrator or Photoshop File. A standard scale for drawings like this is 1/4" = 1', or 1/2" = 1', or 1"= 1'. Ex. If your room is 12' wide, it would be 3" long in the drawing if you are using a 1/4"=1' scale. If you use a 1"=1' scale, a 12' room will be 12" long on the drawing.  Bring your drawing board, supplies, and your room measurements and drawings for next week.

2. Watch The Sopranos Finale: Final Scene.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpDxCo2vic

Count how many different shots are in this scene (everytime the shot changes is a new shot). Make note of how many shots are repeated. Notice that many of the shots are taken from either a POV (point of view) of one of the characters, or eye level with the action. With the exception of the outdoor parking shots, everything takes place in the diner. One environment. 

3. Find an image from your favorite Animation or Game from Googles images. Make sure you can differentiate Foreground, middle ground, and background. Make sure the image is a large as possible. An image that is 420 x 360 pixels will be pixelated with rough jagged edges when you zoom in. Try to find something 700 pixels or larger. 
Utilizing Photoshop, Open the file, duplicate the background. Save it. Now using your selection or masking tools, separate the foreground from the rest and put it on another layer. Save your work. Now do the same with the middle ground. Save your work. Finally separate the background of the image and put on a layer. You should end up with the Background layer, the duplicate background layer (these 2 are your original images) a foreground layer, a middle ground layer, and a layer of just the background of the image. Save you work.
Explore placing a blur filter on the background layer. Now try adding the same blur to your middle ground layer. Save your work with and without blur filters. Bring them to class. 

Week Three

Well now that it's finally winter.....
Bring your homework files and drawings to class. We will review work and naming protocols. Do not bring your drawing boards to class this week.....we will be working digitally. Bring USB drives, CD-r or some other storage device.

Homework Week 2

1. Find an interesting place in a campus building and do a continuous line drawing. This can be done in your sketchbook. 10 minutes should do this. Remember, a continuous line drawing is a drawing executed without lifting your pencil or pen off the paper until the drawing is done. These are good for a quick study, maybe capturing mood, and for just practice drawing. Feel free to do more of these, there is no penalty for doing too many of them! Try doing an exterior of a building.

2. Measure your room (dorm or bedroom). Create a floor plan containing all furniture. Measure all furniture. Width, length, & height. Get as much information as you can. You will use this to create a perspective drawing of your room. Chances are good you will be using this information for other projects. Be thorough. You might want to do it in your sketchbook first, then do it in Photoshop or Illustrator for a neat project. 

Revised Materials List

Portable Drawing Board (18" x 24") - if it has a parallel rule you do not need a T-Square. If it does not have a parallel rule, you do need a T-Square.
30/60/90° and 45° triangles.
Protractor
T-Square (if your drawing board does not have a parallel)
4H, 2H, HB, 2B Pencils
Rapidograph or fine point marker pens (i.e. Microns, Bic Intensity, etc.)
Tracing Paper, 24" roll or pad
Roll of 3/4" wide Masking Tape
Protective drawing transport tube or portfolio to fit your drawing board. 
Portable digital media storage (cd, dvd, usb drives etc- you MUST BACKUP your digital work)
Sketchbook

Part one Week One Homework:

Select a building on the Drexel Campus and take 8 different photos of it. One wall or side of the building must appear in every shot. Example. If you shoot the front of the building, then the front must be in every shot. Take close ups, 3/4 views, shots from other buildings, etc. Bring your photos into photoshop, make them grayscale mode(discard color information), size (edit >transform> scale) them to fit in each of the rectangles on the template page below. Put your class meeting (i.e. Monday 9am) and your name in the spaces provided. Flatten the file (Layers menu), save as jpg file, name file "week one" and your last name (i.e. week one smith). You can copy the template holding down your control key when you select it. 

Part two Week One Homework:

Choose a food truck of your liking. Look at different angles and points of view. Do 10 different 30 second thumbnail sketches of the truck. Choose your favorite 2 sketches. Do a 2 minute sketch of each. Then choose your favorite and do a 10 minute drawing of that. The 10 thumbnails can all be on one or two sketchbook pages, The two minute drawings should be both be on one page ( half page each) and the final 10 minute drawing should fill a page of your sketchbook. Use pencil or pen, make line drawings, shading is not necessary. Do this for 5 different food trucks. See example layouts below:

You may work vertical or horizontal as you see fit.

Review and Critique

There will be reviews during every class meeting. There will be critiques often during the course of the quarter. You will be asked, and sometimes required to participate in many of them. 

Remember, a critique is not an attack. It is an analysis. It is intended to identify weaknesses AND strengths. Critique is a big part of the career path you have chosen. Do not be afraid of critique, use it as a tool to help you improve your work, and if appropriate, yourself.  

Sometimes it is a matter of something being right or wrong. Sometimes it is a matter of something just being different.

Please remember and recognize this when critiquing each other’s work. 

Welcome to  

"DIGM 110 Drexel University Winter 2013 Otto".

I will be using this blog to communicate and share information with you. If you have something that you would like to add, something that may benefit the class, I encourage you to contribute. 

This quarter I will be teaching 3 sections of this course. This blog will be used by all 3 sections. 

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