What makes a Corita Kent?

Corita Kent Cut & Paste Poetry

Objective

Look at and emulate the work of Sister Corita Kent.

To utilise differing methods of generating content and design.

Info

The Surrealists used numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism.

Task

You are going to allow this uncertainty to influence and inspire your work... both visually and written. 
Read through the instructions in the presentation above. 
Template HERE

Presentation

Images of sketchbook pages, screenshots of work-in-progress, photographs of final book.

Checklist for assessment

Does it look like a creative nun made it? Does your poem make people weep, sigh or smile? Both should be yes. 

Deadline

TBC

Covering your sketchbook.

Objective

As you are a Graphic Communication, you will need to communicate your magic powers to the general public! To do this you will create a beautiful sketchbook cover from stuff you have collected.

Task

Create a Pinboard that is full of stuff you could cover your sketchbook wth. Consider stickers, photos, artwork, illustrations, patterns, textures, maps, stamps, labels etc etc.

We will be pasting them into Photoshop and resizing them, so there is no need to print anything off just yet.

Basic Colouring in Photoshop

Objective
To improve your Photoshop skills.
To further your badge designs.

Tasks

Watch the tutorial above to revise the process.
Colour your badges, backboard and top thingy. Consider the limited colour scheme.

Presentation

Screenshot (x 2) your Photoshop work

Checklist for assessment

Coloured badge designs.

Time needed

2 hrs

Deadline
ASAP.

Inking, scanning and Photoshop editing.

Objective

To learn how to ink and scan your designs.

To utilise Photoshop to edit and layout on a template.

Task

Firstly, size doesn't matter.
Now that you are going to be using Photoshop all the time, you can put away the thought that you must work at the 'end result' size.

Draw your designs at a comfortable size, that may be 5mm or 50mm wide.

Use a variety of different drawing implements - fineliner, soft pencil, brush and ink, pencil crayon etc.
You may use layout paper to trace your original designs for this task if you wish. Just ask.

Scan the drawings into your Graphics folder and open in photoshop. 
Lastly, adjust the Threshold accordingly, select and paste them into the 'badges template' 

Templates!
Badges HERE    
Title Card Thingy HERE
Backboard HERE

Download them both and save them into your Graphics folder.

Presentation

Photograph your inked drawings and post to your blog.

You will be graded on

Neatness, use of drawing implement.

Time needed

1 hr

Deadline

tbc