Project Inspiration:

On this page you can look at several different topics for possible project choices. You can use these to get your own ideas going or choose one of the projects and take it on. The titles and links will help you to get started but you will need to dig deeper into any of these topics in order to find out the information you need to know. If you find some resources that you would like to add to the page please share them with me. 

The Brainstorm List of Your Ideas:

Graphic Design 2:

  • Make Posters
  • Line Art Techniques
  • Illustration- Landscape and/or Character Design
  • Skateboard/Longboard Deck Designs
  • Learn to use a Free Design Program
  • Digital Painting: Mixed Media, Watercolor Paint Effects, develop a style or technique
  • Photoshop Light Effects: adding laser beams, orbs, lightning, 
  • Learn to Digital Draw
  • Develop a board game, packaging, game, game pieces, playing cards.
  • Sticker Design
  • Logo Design
  • Emblems
  • Develop a process for digital illustration, develop a style.

Digital Design and Animation:

  • Animation
  • Make a Game
  • Speed Paint/Drawing Recording
  • Line Art Techniques
  • Learn to use a Free Design Program
  • Stop Motion
  • Make Posters
  • 3D Modeling
  • Make Machines
  • Skateboard/Longboard Deck Designs
  • Flash Animation

Resources:

Inking and Coloring Line Art:
You Tube: Using Live Paint to Color Line Art in Illustrator

Photoshop Tutorials:
You Tube Worm Hole: Displacement Mapping: Wrapping images on the surface of another object or texture. There are many ways to do this technique but it's a great PS skill to build on.

Illustrator Tutorials: 
Blend Tool Applied to Strokes...now thats pretty cool. Check it out.

Graphic Design 2 Projects:

Illustration

Illustration can be an expansive topic to cover several genres and styles of creating images. You can use both Illustrator or Photoshop to explore techniques for illustration. Illustrations can stem from your interests in books, films, music, theater, or creating imagery for your own stories. 

Google Search Terms:
  • DIgital Painting
  • Digital Landscape Painting
  • DIgital Character Design
  • Inking and Coloring Photoshop or Illustrator


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Font Design

Design your own font style and learn how to create a .ttf or .otf file so that other people can install and use your typeface.

Logo and Branding

Design a logo and brand for the new elementary school in our district. Rankin Elementary School will open in Fall 2018 and they will need designs for the mascot: The Raptors. The school colors are purple, silver, and white. 

Digital Design and Animation Projects:

Digital Design and Animation projects can explore the use of motion, time, sound, and 3D Modeling. You can develop animations, video edits, sound editing, and motion graphics. These programs can become more involved but you can start off simple and take these projects as far as you are comfortable. 

Stop Motion

Animation

Get Started with Flash:
Mr. Cummings has a compilation of videos he gathered from the internet on how to get started with some Flash basics. Look toward the bottom of this page. 

Time Lapse