Unit 1 - "Personal Tales" Self Portrait Collage Summative
Directions
- After watching and reviewing each video on the Elements & Principles from the link button above, select one artwork examples from the 12 given below.
- With the iPad, click and hold on the image. Select Save Image. This will save it to your photos.
- Import the image into Notability.
- Complete the prompts from the provided pdf file in Notability. Submit the image and file as assignment submissions to Schoology.
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Artistic Challenge
For this unit's summative, you will be going back into Photoshop to create an expressive self portrait that will depict your personality, mood, experiences, talents, etc., by using images and elements of art to portray abstract design. You will need to complete the Mood Board and this pages formative assessments before beginning the summative. This will be a good way to get to know your classmates.
Investigate
Why do artists create self portraits?
How can portraits communicate an idea?
How do artists make photos "new"?
Plan = Mood Board
Brainstorm: Who are you? What are your interests? What do you want to communicate to others about yourself?
Find a partner to work with while taking images if you want.
Complete the formative lessons
Plan how you will compose the visual information
Project Criteria:
For this unit's summative, you will be going back into Photoshop to create an expressive self portrait that will depict your personality, mood, experiences, talents, etc., by using images and elements of art to portray abstract design. You will need to complete the Mood Board and this pages formative assessments before beginning the summative. This will be a good way to get to know your classmates.
Investigate
Why do artists create self portraits?
How can portraits communicate an idea?
How do artists make photos "new"?
Plan = Mood Board
Brainstorm: Who are you? What are your interests? What do you want to communicate to others about yourself?
Find a partner to work with while taking images if you want.
Complete the formative lessons
Plan how you will compose the visual information
Project Criteria:
- Take 5 selfies with different poses or faces (ie.; close eyes, look sideways, move mouth, stick out tongue, make angry / happy face, etc.). Keep them, but for this intro project use only 1. Utilize the dark room, umbrella lights to get dynamic lighting effects.
- Use the Rule of Thirds, Symmetrical Balance, or Asymmetrical Balance for your composition.
- DO NOT use full images from the internet. Anything you borrow must be majorly altered or manipulated from the original.
- DO NOT use recognizable characters or images.
- Document Setup: Use a portrait style orientation. Dimension size: 9x12 inches. Resolution: 300 dp
- Use multiple layers. A minimum of 20 layers.
- Use custom brushes
- Use blend modes
- Use texture layers
- Have fun with it. Explore different design ideas.
More Examples of Photoshop Portraits
Formative Lessons
When finished with each Formative Lesson, submit a jpg copy or pdf copy to Schoology.
Vid #1 - Clone Stamp ToolPick one image. Use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove the captioned part of the picture as accurate as possible. Make it look believable and not "Photoshopped."
Vid #2 -
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Vid #3 - Image Adjustment: Threshold
Use one of your selfies and apply a threshold effect to it.
Vid #4 -
Duplicate Layer, Content Aware, Liquify
Create an example of this effect with one of your selfie pics. Apply the same steps and effects to your own image in the way the creator of this video does for his image. Naturally we don't have this image of the woman.
The creator of this tutorial refers to "control". He is working on a PC. When you hear "control", click "command" instead.
There are some areas that might be helpful to pause and rewind.
Content Aware: Choose Edit>Fill and from the Use menu, choose Content-Aware. Click OK andPhotoshop fills the selection with surrounding pixels and blends them. The voodoo it uses to fill your selection is random and changes each time you use the command.
The creator of this tutorial refers to "control". He is working on a PC. When you hear "control", click "command" instead.
There are some areas that might be helpful to pause and rewind.
Content Aware: Choose Edit>Fill and from the Use menu, choose Content-Aware. Click OK andPhotoshop fills the selection with surrounding pixels and blends them. The voodoo it uses to fill your selection is random and changes each time you use the command.
Optional Videos.
Project Requirements
| Portrait Requirements.pdf |
Rule of Thirds
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When finished with the Rule of Thirds tutorials, go to Schoology and complete the assignment in Unit 1 folder.
