ESDS-0131 - NEW! Introductory Digital Illustration
Course Description
Explore the digital world of making illustrations with your computer! Turn your drawings, photos or found materials into digital images that you can share in online spaces or turn back into physical prints, apparel or surface designs. Key concepts that are shared across contemporary image-editing softwares will be emphasized, such as raster vs. vector, layers, transparency, filters, blending processes, and painting with 'brushes'. This course is technology agnostic: students can choose their software of choice, whether that's Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Photo, Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, or others. Through presentations, discussions, demonstrations and in-class assignments, students will learn digital processes for making images.
Through presentations, discussions, demonstrations and in-class assignments, we will:
- Analyze contemporary digital illustration and discuss techniques
- Work with key concepts shared across contemporary image-editing softwares such as: raster vs. vector, layers, selecting colours, transparency, filters, blending processes, and painting with digital brushes
- Experiment with digital painting techniques, cut-and-paste collages, and mixing analog and digital images
- Develop software skills in your software of choice, whether it's Adobe Photoshop, Affinity (formerly Affinity Photo), Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, or others
- Learn about considerations when preparing files for printing, posting online, and other applications
