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• Become adept using a graphic tablet & pen.
• Learn to use Adobe Photoshop software for creating images.
• Sketch and shading with confidence in the digital medium
• Hands-on color theory. Learn how to create images using the Radiative Primarist technique.
• Work with digital cameras, downloading images into the computer, learning how to manipulate them.
• Have a working knowledge of how to prep images for placement on a web site using Photoshop.
• Obtain your own domain name and create your own private web site, using Dreamweaver for it's development.
• A brief introduction into illustration animation using Flash will be offered.

From a work development point of view, we will hone your imaging skills and learn some of the more subtler aspects of manipulating images in Photoshop.
A strong emphasis will be placed on simulating environments that you are likely to face in the image-making industry. Assignments will be constructed so as to reflect this outlook.
Class interaction through the net will be mandatory. We will learn how to effectively use discussion groups and websites to coordinate team projects.

You're going to become proficient using Radiative Primarism and in so doing, you'll walk away from this course with an instinctive grasp of basic color theory.

You'll be given a free website - compliments your instructor - which you can use during the duration of the class. You can even keep it for a few months after the class is over.
If you've not done any web design before, you'll be cutting your teeth on the virtual world in this course.

There is soooooo much to take in. So much in fact, that you can't possibly handle it all on your own. In this class you are going to learn how to work as a team. If the person next to you is perplexed and you are not - help them. Chances are, they'll help you later on with something. We'll be attempting some fairly complex online teamwork during the class and you will be relying on your fellow classmates for the success of a project, so you might as well try to like each other right away.

Assignments.
For the first half of the course, assignments will be peppered throughout, usually expected to be completed within one or two weeks. Towards the middle of the semester, we'll decide on  final projects which will be completed at the end of the course. This one's an important one. A large part of your grade will be determined by your ability to impress me on this final project. Notebooks will be perused frequently. bring 'em in every time.

Finally,

Your end of class presentation displayed on your website.

That's how your final grade will be determined.

Websites will be offered for viewing by the CCS staff.
  

Here's a quick introduction to your instructors work:
http://goodfelloweb.com/art/index2.html
...and...
http://goodfelloweb.com/animations
...A music flash:
http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/flash/police_reaction2.html

We'll take a digital picture of you. Why? Two reasons:
1. I'm terrible with names, so I'll need to see your countenance a few times to start remembering.
2. We'll use the pictures for one of the assignments.

Things to do for next class

1. You must have signed out a WACOM tablet from the Computer Store room before next class. If they run out, you'll have to buy one.

2. Make sure you have two digital storage medias for the next class session.. Iomega Zip disks, or whatever storage you desire, providing they work with the Mac computers at CCS.  Nothing so sad as losing all your work to the 'Click of Death' - an annoying shortcoming of  the Zip storage system; you can loose ALL the information on the disk - hence the need for a backup Zip disk. Nothing worse that having your data become vapor-ware.
Destruction of your work due to not backing it up will not be considered a valid excuse!

3. You are expected to keep a notebook. Bring it to every class.

4. I'll be issuing everybody in the class a website. This website will be free for the duration of the class, plus an additional couple of months. ( If you wish to continue using your website after the conclusion of this class, please let me know.)
5. For next class, I want you to select a domain name for your web account. Go to Godaddy.com - check on a name that is not taken. Next class you'll pull out your plastic and buy the domain name. It's $8.99
Think of an account name and a password as well for next class. No less than five letters.
Discussing Photoshop and other tasty  programs that we may use for the class.
A quick overview of Photoshop. A word about other programs.

Go to Godaddy.com and get a domain name. Have your plastic ready.
Again,  DON'T loose your emailed domain account name & password. Keep 'em  in a cool, dry place.

Photoshop demo. Using Photoshop to sketch and shade with comfort. Layers, sketching shading. Getting domain names up and running. Accessing your site.
Checking out your WACOM Tablets.
Show me your sketch/note book.
Show me your data storage.
Discussion: Why notebooks are important.
Show me your WACOM Tablet, sketch book & data storage.
Get a WACOM tablet before next class, or be prepared to fall behind.

First assignment:  Use Photoshop and your WACOM tablet. Beginning with a white background, setting foreground color must be black. Pencil or brush size no larger than 10pix. Canvas size: 8 X 10 - Resolution: 144pix.

The purpose of this assignment is so I can determine your ability to sketch and shade.

Draw two people arguing at a bar. You must make 80 - 90% of the image black with your WACOM pencil. No bucket fill-in allowed.
First assignment due January 28th - Be impressive. It's peer review. That means everyone gets to laugh at your assignment if it's slipshod.

First assignment due. Peer review, Instructor comment.
Do you have email? If not, let's get you set up.
( DON'T loose your emailed domain account name & password. )

Discussion: Why a website?

Some confusion may reign during this session. Getting technical snafu's out of the way where possible.
Second assignment: View the photos at:
This location
Click on the pictures for larger images. Using your WACOM tablet, Create a composite face from several individuals. Make it believable.
Due Wednesday February 4th

Second assignment due. Peer review.
Discussing file types and  discussing preparation of your images for the web.
Instructor demonstration.

Demonstration@8:15pm: The rudiments of Web Design - plagiarizing.Getting websites are up and running. A quick introduction into DreamWeaver.

Demonstration - Logging on to your website using DreamWeaver
Here are instructions.

Third assignment: Create two Radiative Primarist images. Good artists borrow from the great masters. Great artists steal. Go to the DIA database http://diamondial.org and grab something to inspire.
Due Wednesday, Febuary 18th

Work on assignment.
Demonstration - Logging on to your website using DreamWeaver
Here are instructions.

Work on assignment.

Work on 5th assignment
Flash Demo

Demonstration for 5th assignment. Digitally, this is what you must have completed by the end of term:
At an absolute minimum, a home page with links to the assignments you have done for this class.
Preferably, I'd like to see the entire body of your work online.

5th assignment: Digitize (scan, digital photo) your drawings, paintings illustrations. Place them in separate folders and name the image files in the order in which you would want them displayed on the web.( 001, 002, 003,- keep the suffix of the program in which they were created e.g.: .pdf - .tiff - etc.)  Size and file-type may vary, except for Illustrator files with layers, which must be flattened or converted to PhotoShop documents beforehand. 
This assignment is due Wednesday...so get to work!
Work on assignment.

Demonstration: Automatically cutting images to size and generating web pages for your web galleries, using Photoshop/Automate/Web Gallery. Placing galleries online using DreamWeaver.

6th Assignment - Research the Minoan Civilization, Cir.2800 BC. Imagine yourself as royalty having designed your own palace in the Minoan style. See yourself in the courtyard of your palace.
Using the WACOM tablet, the paint brush or pencil tool (black on white,) illustrate this. Please your instructor - lots of shading.
File should be at least 288pix in resolution, 1000 width. Use Photoshop.
Due March 24th
 

Those of you with unfinished previous assignments, let me see 'em on March 31st.

7th assignment - Lets pretend.
The World is coming to and end. The only escape is going back in time. For the select few - you - this choice is being offered. You are going on a one-way ticket trip back in time. The object is to survive and thrive. Consider obstacles, such as the language problem, customs, etc.
1. You pick the time period of your choice.
2. You cannot go back any less than 1800AD
3. For disguise, you will be clad in the dress of the period that you have chosen.
4. You may take three objects along with you, no more than you can carry.

I want to see a bill board sequence of not less than 12 images, (but as many as you like) depicting  where you went, how you inserted yourself into the culture of your choice, what you sought to achieve.

Make it believable. For the class critique, all participants will be invited to poke holes in the logic of your intended destinations and means of survival.

You may work in the  medium of your choice.
Impress me. Assignment due the 31 of March

Your magnum opus; the FINAL project. Think about it. Tell me what you want to do. Make a decision by Wednesday 12th. I'll want to see it on the web.

Last day to tell me today what your final project will be. Inability to think of something is grounds for instant dismissal from college. It should be something you are enthusiastic about, and MUST blow your instructor's socks off.

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