WEEK FOUR! COLOURING IN!

WEEK FOUR

In today's class of Introduction to Digital Art we learnt how to trace scanned images using Adobe Illustrator. 

We got a scanned image of a sleeping man that had fallen out of bed with his teddy bear, we then had to copy it into illustrator, go to the window tab and select image trace, after that we were able to change the presets of the trace until we were happy with it. 

 Then we selected the expand button, so we can edit any lines we needed to manually. 

Next we moved onto coloring with the live paint tool, which we used last week. 

This is how my image turned out...

 I really love that pattern on his pajamas, it speaks to me on a spiritual level. 

After we did that we played around with the same image using layers, transparency and the paint brush tool to manually paint the image. That was a bit more difficult and staying inside the lines was tricky. 

After that I had a go at using the tracing tool with some photos of me, the lines didn't turn out bold so it wouldn't be an ideal way to do my pop art comic artworks, so instead I'm going to draw out the photos of me and then scan them to the computer and then trace the scanned drawings and colour them in Illustrator, then add any effects I may need to create the pop art comic images. 

Tune in next week were we use Photoshop. 

Peace! 

xx

WEEK 3: The Leaves Are All Falling

Welcome to Week Three of Introduction to Digital Art!

In today's class our lecture was unfortunately cancelled.
So instead of the lecture I did some searching for examples and inspirations for my artworks.

I've always been fascinated with pop art comics and comic books, so for my collage piece I'm planning on have various images of myself as pop art comics, each image will have a different depiction of myself. I'm excited to start working on this piece and I hope it turns out as well as I can imagine it in my head. Fingers crossed it does!

Here are some examples!

In the tutorial today we went over a some of the techniques in Adobe Illustrator we learnt last week to refresh everything and surprisingly I remembered a lot of it. We then did some work with colouring and using different effects such as glow.

I then had a go at tracing another image of a woman's face, it was a bit more difficult than the ones we started with in week 2 but I think I did a good job for my first go at something more complex.

Next week I am hoping to start on my digital drawings for my collage. 

Till next week! 

Peace! xx

Week TWO: Introduction to Digital Art

This week in Introduction to Digital Art we looked at some amazing examples of Digital Art, some by famous digital artist and some by past VU students. 

It really inspired me with some new ideas for my assignments and I think I've decided to focus my artworks around the topic of Self Portrait, and I've been brainstorming ideas and been drawing on things I see in my everyday life to put towards them. 

In today's tutorial we had our first try at using the program Adobe Illustrator. It was my first time ever using that program, however I have used Photoshop before and the layouts are quite similar. 

We started out by tracing some shapes which got more difficult as we went along.  It was a bit tricky at first and can be quite tedious at times but I'm excited to learn more about what it can do and how to use it in my own projects. 

I'm planning on starting some sketches for digital drawing sometime this week, and hopefully I can post some of these sketches with next week's post! 

Until then...Peace!