Frankenstein Project

The Frankenstien Project

Step 1: In photoshop taking reference from the internet and/or personal resources, using at least 10 separate photos, create a figure with human pieces combined with an animal or machine, or whatever to create a new creature doing an activity in a background. Create the background/setting using multiple images to place this creature inside a new place. Use textures and colors from other spaces to make the image truly unique.

Step 2:

Bring in your collage/concept next week. create a version in black and white. we will talk about them and go design concepts. work on color roughs in class

Step 3 Once you have gotten approval, Use this image as reference( or even lightbox a  print of the image and add your own twist with your drawing skills) to draw a new black and white image ( whatever medium is most comfortable) that tells a story. Scan the image at 600 DPI in RGB format. Have 600 dpi rgb file ready for class next week.

step 4
create a finished painting based on the drawing and the collage. You may want to bring in color or texture from the original collage or go completely off. create color thumbnails before completeing and bring to class ahead of time.)

Image Size: 7” by 10” tall, 600dpi ( pixel dimensions will be 4200 pixels by 6000 pixels and the scanned image should be about 72.1M

Image format 600 dpi RGB image ready for working at start of class on Monday

Objective: Explore different ways of using layers and finding textures and images. Push yourself to try to use as many different images as possible.

Tips: Make sure that the reference images you are using have a high enough dpi to look good at 600. unless you are planning on redrawing the image using the reference completely and not interested in using textures from that image in your final piece. Also, use your own reference and mash it up with other ref. Be creative with your use of imagery.

Assignment over Break

I apologize for not getting this to you last week. I had a surgery last week that threw me for a loop.

Here is the assignment for this Monday.

1. Finish up the portraits we had been working on for homework. Of the three different color versions find the one that works the best and react to the colors to create an even stronger piece.

2. Bring in photos of People, Animals and backgrounds. We are going to be creating a Frankenstein image/collage in class and you need to bring in a lot of different references. We can even share the references we’ve found with each other. Don’t worry too much about the quality of the images( not high resolution) because we will be collaging them and using them as inspiration for another piece of art.  Bring in at least 20 images scanned or photographed in to your machine ready to be cut up and pieced together.

Thanks,

Steve