Using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop - Keith Negley

Gigi posters  
Responding to the style, feel and process of Keith Negley

Objective
Create a response to Keith Negley
To improve your mixed media and digital skills
To provide a new, creative method of making ideas.
To further develop your ideas in relation to your band/artiste.

Task
1 Draw out some elements of Negley's work. Get the feel of how he stretches 
   and deforms limbs and simplifies objects. Cover two pages with a visual  
   investigation and annotations. 
2 Choose a scene/feeling/imagery from your 'developing a concept' research..
3 Work on 2 pages of ideas as to how you will illustrate the scene.
3 Draft out a final A4 drawing with the same detail as Negley.
   Scan into Illustrator and away you go!
   Please ensure that you take screenshots as you go...

Help Resources
Download my Negley Illustrator File
Download my Negley Photoshop Doc

Expected time
5 hrs

Deadline
TBC


Here is a video of the process needed in both Illustrator and Photoshop. 

List of tasks 19/1/18

Sketchbook hand in: end of lesson on Monday 22nd Jan

Gig posters
Inky overlay
Developing a concept - Creatively presenting ALL of your findings.
(lyrics, moodboard x 2, words, juxtapositions, visual investigation, scamps) 
Simple analysis - Describing the personality of poster designs
Contextual investigation - to include at least 3 of the responses from THIS sheet
Reading tasks: HERE Up to and including 'Eclectic experiments'.

Magazine
Final design / work in progress / evaluation
Drafting final designs
Photoshoot/contact sheet
Masthead Typography
Magazine copy
Photoshoot/contact sheet for copy
Contextual investigation 

Inky overlay process - Aspect To Aspect

Objective

To create a set of illustrations that utilise the design process for making screen prints.

To allow for chance to make an appearance in your work.

To work on multiple images in one go with the goal of increasing your success rate.

To introduce you to the idea of 'aspect to aspect' composition.

Task

1. Choose 9 things from your research so far. Look at your 'Developing A Concept' work. This could include any iconography or imagery.

2. Gather images of these. Take your own, or use the web. Put them into an A3 page using Photoshop - see my example below

3. Divide your A3 page up into 9 portrait or 8 landscape panels 

4. Using the lightbox, A3 layout paper and black Indian ink, felt tips, crayon, collage etc,  ink/draw your panels. This is the bit where you need to concentrate as this is important.  You are going to be inking this set of images 3 times. Each of these 'ink passes' needs to be approached in a different way. N.B. Those students that are confident with drawing, do some that are not on the lightbox—'eyeball' them.
Where it's darkest, ensure that this part is inked on all 3 sheets. Lightest parts only get one inking or 'pass'. Geddit?

Presentation

Photograph each of the 3 'inked' sheets, your A3 reference sheet, screenshot your w.i.p. (use close ups).
Post a Jpeg of your favourite outcomes.

Checklist for assessment

Lots of interesting textures used.
Consideration given to tones. Dark tone = 3 passes, Light tone = 1 pass

Exploration of colour.
Good drawing

Deadline

TBC

Example below.

Created with Padlet

Developing a concept

Developing a Concept  Design For Music

The following small tasks should be attempted in the order set out below. They are designed to allow you to generate evocative concepts and move away from merely literal ideas.
This is definitely a chance for you to be creative and playful and wistful and fascinating!

1 Choose which band/singer.

2 Describe or draw the most literal, obvious designs you can think of. (get it out of your system!)

3 Gather chunks of lyrics and annotate them, don't worry about whole songs (by annotating you should pick out interesting words and imagery, notice themes, define ideas, interpret concepts)

4 Create a band/singer mood board (look on their website, album covers, posters interviews)

5 Audience mood board typical audience member - what do they wear? What do they like? What do they say? What do they own? What do they remember from their childhood? Mine your audience for everything!

6 Similar artefacts - if you haven’t already… gather loads of posters that you like and could maybe influence you. Why do you like them?

7 Write 30 interesting words that relate to your band/singer.

8 Record 20 compelling words that relate to your audience.

9 Interesting juxtapositions are going to create enigma and provoke interest. Write 10 words that describe the music… then join some of the words together with words from above.

Extra idea!
(Use 20 words in two columns on an A4 sheet. 10 down each side. Then cut them up and replace them together to find interesting unexpected juxtapositions.)

10 “The music makes me / the audience feel like ………”  Write 3 of these and go into detail. (for best results - use loads of imagery)

11 Collect plenty of resources (pictures, text etc) based upon all of the above and gather them physically and print others off.

12 Look at the stuff that you have collected so far. Select 3 fragments even if they are just glimmers of ideas.

13 Develop the 3 ideas into drafts. Use the scamping design ideas below to get you started