Project 1: Pencil vs. Camera
"Pencil Vs Camera" is an imaginative and fun art form pioneered by Belgian visual artist Ben Heine that began in 2010. Blending photography and drawings, Heine brings together real photographs with fantastical sketches into a fascinating mixed medium where the artist's hand is always present in the images to represent the connection between viewer, artist and artwork.
JHS Graphics Students took inspiration from Heine's work to create their own "Pencil vs. Camera" Art. Enjoy!
JHS Graphics Students took inspiration from Heine's work to create their own "Pencil vs. Camera" Art. Enjoy!
Project 2: Digital Color Wheel
It is important to learn to use color in any form of art. Especially with digital art and graphic design. The most successful graphic designers are experts in composition and color. They know what combinations to use to really catch peoples eye and ultimately increase business for the people they have created the ad or product for. JHS Graphics students recently created digital color wheels. Using tools and skills learned previously, like removing a background, adjusting hue and saturation, and "free" transforming an object, students worked with may layers to create a color wheel with 3 Primary Colors, 3 Secondary Colors, 12 Tertiary Colors and a Gray Scale (de-saturated) element.
Semester 1 Final Exam: Digital Collage Self Portrait
Graphic students created a self portrait using Digital Collage for their final exam. They were required to utilize all of the photo editing tools we have learned so far in class as well as experiment with several more. It was crucial that they understood how to label, arrange, and manage layers as they were working with 25-30 images. Check out what they created!
Low Poly Portraits
For this assignment JHS Graphics students worked in the GIMP Software to create a low poly portrait of a person or animal. A lot of work went into selecting each shape, and finding an appropriate color to match. The hard work paid off though because they turned out really great.
Stereographic Projections
Students used various blending and warping tools to create these unique globes. They also played around with incorporating other images such as hands and a background to create an interesting composition. Beginning with a single landscape, sea scape or city scape, they proceeded to stretch and warp their photo so it appears to be a sphere or globe. From their the tricky part was to blend the seam of their photo so that the orb looks continuous. After that they used their knowledge of image selection and layering to include a hand to look as though it is holding the globe and a background to add contrast.
Double Exposure Paint Splat
For this project, JHS Graphics students began to experiment with the concept of a Double Exposed photograph. Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image. This can be done using traditional photography as well as digital photography and through the use of a photo editing software such as Photoshop or GIMP. They created a double exposed image of a paint tube spilling out something other than paint!
Double Exposure Photograph
JHS Graphics students created a second double exposure project where they created three versions of their original photo, double exposed with 3 different texture layers.