Illustration Drawn to Digital Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Join this short course and experiment with combining old and new technologies to create beautiful illustrations, bringing together the handmade and the digital.
You'll start with handmade drawing, printmaking and mark-making and be encouraged to develop drawings and texture libraries.
With the guidance from your tutor, you will be encouraged to explore the transition between these two ways of working to create projects that can be printed and manipulated digitally, while still retaining the hand of the artist. By working in this way, you will be able to make digital technologies work for you and gain the confidence to use these to support your current practice.
Who this course is for
Any artist, designer or illustrator looking to use more handmade elements alongside digital work. Suitable for those looking to keep the traditional methods of mark-making alive without abandoning the benefits available with digital methods.
An ideal course for those wanting to find new approaches to their practice and find inspiration from working within an experimental environment.
Key information
Topics covered
- Artist research, inspiration boards and project development
- Creating handmade textures
- Image and texture libraries
- Printmaking (stamps, stencils, collage, mono printing)
- Experimental painting
- Specific areas of Adobe Photoshop
- Cleaning of images
- Adding digital colour
- Digital Collage
- Digital pattern repeats
- Preparing artwork for print
Learning outcomes
- An understanding of how personal artistic practice can be enhanced by digital means
- Uploading work onto the computer to learn how to manipulate your designs in Adobe Photoshop
- How to clean up images
- Adding and experimenting with textures
- Playing with the possibilities of pattern repeat and digital collage
- Confidence and skills in using Adobe Photoshop to use the application in your own time to find new ways to add personal style to digital images
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- A laptop with access to Adobe Creative Cloud, plus a mouse if you have one
- Please note: If you do not already have Adobe Creative Cloud, please sign up for a free 7 day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud for the duration of the course (to coincide with the start of your course)
- Sketchbook and loose sheets of paper - size A4 or A3
- Pencils for sketching
- Access to a scanner, camera or smart phone to create digital images of your work. The device that you use should have the capability to transfer images to your laptop
- Craft foam sheets - size A4 Craft Foam roller, Jakar or similar for rolling ink
- Black printing ink
- A perspex sheet or an old tray for rolling out ink - size A4 is fine or A3 is better
- A scalpel
- A cutting mat or rigid piece of card to cut on
- Tracing paper size A4
Tutor
Augusta Akerman
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