ADVANCED GRAPHIC DESIGN/ SPECIAL TOPICS
ART 457

Helga Watkins
e-mail: helga.watkins@unlv.edu     tel: x54804  895.4804
Office: FDH 205
Office Hours T-TH 11:30-1:00


Overview o
Schedule subject to change , new studio lab classrooms expected completion mid September.
8/27 Course introduction. Syllabus, topics, policies.
Overview of projects & activities. Homework: Claim Your Space
8/29

Research Notebook/Process Notebook overview and requirements. In-class assemble photos for Claim your Space, or if you do not yet have photos, work on Stripe studies/perceptual exercises. Homework: Obtain or create research notebook and break it in with some artwork or notes. Presentations time/day lottery.

9/3 Labor Day Recess
9/5 "Claim Your Space" and creative statement presentations to class
9/10

Didactic Sequence paper to pixels or paper to vector
Discussion and project assignment

9/12

Bring drawings for Didactic Sequence/ process book check-in. How-to Sequence labtime.

9/17 Refine composition and expand descriptove range in design drawing. Transfer design to computer as appropriate.
9/19 Small group response sessions. Sequence Project labtime.
9/24 2-color design images/ spot color and discussion. Review spot color and alternative palettes; separations and trapping. Sequence Project labtime.
9/26

How-to Sequence Projects due; critique (computer document)

 

10/1 How-to Sequence Projects due; critique continued
10/3 Bring art materials to class. Spot Illustration/ icon illustration series project worktime.
10/8 Spot Illustration illustration series 10 drawings due.
10/10 Spot Illustration illustration series, worktime individual meetings.
10/15

Spot Illustration illustration series.

10/17

Class does not meet.

10/22

Illustration series due.

10/24

Finish review of illustration projects. Assign Streetscape.

10/29 Maryland Parkway studies- bring camera, sketchbook, drawing materials to class.
10/31 Line quality & texture demo and discussion. Streetscape worktime.
11/5 Texture Painting studio in progress class review and response.
11/7 Streetscape studio worktime.
11/12 Veterans Day Recess
11/14 Texture Painting Project/Maryland Parkway Streetscape Due (computer document)
Texture Painting Project class review and response.
11/19 Streetscape kinetic image.
11/21 Project research, individual meetings.
11/26 Project worktime
11/28 Cintiq and digital painting practice and worktime
12/3 Digital Painting/Book Jacket design
12/5 Digital Painting Final Project Digital Painting/Book Jacket worktime
12/7 Semester Ends
12/12
Final Exam Period, Digital Painting document due, Course archive CD due at beginning of period.

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