Professor Diana Schoenbrun | COMD 3313 | SP22

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Midterm review

Your midterm review is a presentation of all your sketchbook homework and assignment 1 homework so far this semester. Any updated homework should be included. (I will read the posts for any writing assignments on openlab.) Please download the templates and send me a pdf via wetransfer when complete. The pdf should be sent before Friday’s class.

Isolating your line art on a transparent background in photoshop

  1. Scan art in at 300dpi or higher in RGB. Make adjustments with levels or brightness and contrast. 

2. Zoom in and see if the white of the page is pure white and not grey or yellow.

3. Change image to to greyscale. Image>mode >greyscale

4. Open Channels up.

5. Select inside the channel. And hit command.

6. Now do Select Inverse. That will select the line.

7. Now copy onto a new layer, command V.

8. Then adjust levels. Image>Adjustments>levels

9. Move all sliders to the right to increase the darkness.

10. Make sure to add a white background layer behind the line layer.

11. Change file back to CMYK or RGB before coloring.

  • to change the color of the line layer you need to lock the layer and then select your color and paintbrush.

Week 7

Class Info

  • Date: Friday, October 14

To-Do Before Class

Editorial Illustration Assignment 2 (just reread)

Assignment 2 part-1

Sketchbook-Week 6

Catch up on assignments missing or behind

Activities

Warm Up Exercise

  • Editorial warm-up article
    “Why Strangers are Good For Us”
  • read, brainstorm, and sketch thumbnails

Sketchbook

  • Small group sketchbook share of Food drawings

Critique:
Share your article with the class

Lecture

Case study editorial Illustrators Ana Juan and Edel Rodriguez

Demo
Victo Ngai

traditional line to digital

Lab

Due Next Week

Editorial: Assignment 2, Part 2
Midterm Presentation/template

No sketchbook this week


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