Honors: Portraiture

This quarter you will focus your work on portraits. They may be self portraits or portraits of friends, family members, pets--whoever you can get to sit for you. You will employ a variety of techniques and principles to do so.

Your first task is to review the below web links and make a blog post stating your thoughts, reactions, suppositions, etc.

This web page is presented by photographer Eddie Bonfigli and, as he states, "is intended as a brief and general outline of how" he approaches portraiture.

I like this page because the information given contradicts some of what Eddie Bonfigli. I think that this information is just as valid.

Finally, Digital Camera World gives this sound advice on ways to avoid making common mistakes when shooting portraiture.

Due Friday, January 10, is the blog post with your newly-gained insight and three stunning portraits.

Advanced: Enter the Kaufman Kamp T-Shirt Contest

It must contain the words " Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp" or "SKAK", must say "Maryville, TN", "19th Annual" and have a cool, Kamp feel. 

If your design is chosen you get fame and glory and $150.00. If it is not chosen, it may stay on file at Flatpik Central for future use and at that point you will get fame and glory and $150. All artwork becomes property of the Kamp and we will not mail it back. Send JPGs or original art to steve@flatpik.com or PO Box 1020 Alcoa TN 37701.

Contest ends January 15, 2014. Have fun and thanks for entering. Good luck and let the brush strokes begin.

Here is a link to past t-shirt designs:

Scholastic Pieces Time!

http://www.artandwriting.org/Ors/Teachers/Students

Go to this link and create an account. You will submit work.

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You will use an image of one person in at least four different poses to create an image. There must be a change. The change can be in clothing, height, mood, expression, etc.

Vexels with a 'tude!

A vexel image is an image created using bits, pixels in our case, while it emulates vector images.

 

The one on the left is the results of a great tutorial, and here is my version.

The difference between the two is that a vector image is drawn using mathematical equations and not pixels. So if I made an image using vector graphics at the size of 4"x4" I could blow that image up to 400"x400" or 4,000"x4,000" without any change in the image--it would look exactly the same! If I make an image in Photoshop at 72 ppi (pixels per inch) at a size of 4"x4" and blow that up to just two or three times that size I would begin to see pixels, and the image would become abstracted.

So a vexel image is not a great image to make if you are printing it large scale, and Adobe Illustrator or some other vector based program should be used. But we are just emulating a vector image to create something , so we are fine.

You must conceive of, design, and then create a vexel portrait with an attitude--it must be dynamic.

Tilt Shift Photography!

You will create a tilt shift image like this:

Follow the linked tutorial.

Web Sites w/ Great Images

Here is a link to five web sites where you can find amazing historical photographs.

Cracker Kung Fu

A simple animation.

Advanced Kids: Funny Character

Use some of the objects in the room to dress up one of your classmates; then do the tutorial linked below:

Beginning Kids: Text Tutorials

Your task is to complete one of these tutorials. I want you to change the text within the poster to something in which you have an emotional investment.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/how-to-create-an-ice-cold-poster-with-3d-text/?search_index=7

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/how-to-design-a-rockin-80s-party-poster/