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Archive for May, 2012

Digital Art – The Basics of Manga Comic Storytelling

For this week, we will be working on the inside of your Manga. To understand the basic structure of Manga comics, feel free to look at the sequence of reference below. Hopefully, this gives you an understanding of the basic structure of cells and how the narrative flows. Read more

Too Good to Pass Up: Avengers, Assemble

As much as we’re pretty much done with Infographics, I had to sneak this one in for obvious reasons! Read more

Here’s to the Normal People

I’m not a fan of thinking inside the box. Nor am I a fan of compliance. However, I do like this poster. Courtesy of DDB Stockholm. Read more

Final Thoughts on Year End Tasks

As our year gracefully draws to a close, there’s just a few more things that I want for people to consider before the last day of school. Here’s how your year should wind down: Read more

CPT: The Hero Project

For our final project of the year, we will be focusing on creating wearable art by way of a propaganda style artwork that features our own personal heroes. By definition, a hero is a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. For your project, you must seek this quality in someone who has persevered through all odds and continues to help society at large through his or her work.  Read more

Anime / Japanese Cartooning: Drawing Hair and Clothing Folds

For today’s class, we will be looking at how to draw human hair and folds of clothing. This will be our references for today: Read more

CPT: Digital Portfolio or Retrospective Poster

OPTION # 1
As a final project for the year, you are given two options to complete your final task – the CPT. Read more

Anime / Japanese Cartooning: More on Hands and Feet

This week we are going to continue our study of hands and more importantly, feet. You will be adapting this to your final character so getting to the details is very important. Here’s our references: Read more

Final Project: Choose from 3 Options

Project Option # 1: Branding Guideline for the YCDSB Centre for the Arts

The time has arrived and we are now in the final phase of the grade 12 course. As an extension of the grade 11 course, we are going to continue to develop our skills in branding by developing and identity for our very own York Catholic District School Board Centre for the Arts. This project was borne out of a conversation I had with Doug Speare, the theatre’s operations manager. In it, we discussed the possibility of my students designing a logo / brand for the theatre. Perhaps your design is destined to be used in the near future. THE DEADLINE FOR THIS PROJECT IS FRIDAY, MAY 18. Here’s some information that will be critical to your design: Read more