Illustrating Principles with Principles

This covers two assignments. I'm having my HS Commercial Art class illustrate quotes, poems or songs. This is from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. My 8th Grade Art class is learning about the Principles of Design, I asked them to use visual principles to illustrate/express democratic principles ( I also teach their Civics class). This is my humble offering. I'm also going to make a stamp version (ink and rubber, instead of in photoshop).

COMM.ART- Project One: Illustration

Design Process | Step One, Define the Task
Illustrate each of the following-

• A Song
• A Poem
• A Childrens' Book or Story
• A Quotation or Proverb
• A Novel

You will work on all 5 for Design Process Steps One through Four,
you will narrow it down from 5 to just 2 or 3 for steps Five and Six of the Design Process.
Eventually you will only be responsible for 1 or 2 for step Seven
and you'll only have to have 1 finished project (Step Eight). Refer to your notes from Thurs 8/21 for the Nine steps in the Graphic Design Process.

MON 8/25 | Step Two, Research

Spend class looking through poetry books, browsing through magazines, or using computers in the Yearbook Lab or your own devices to help you begin generating ideas and notes. You may want to look for examples or better yet, start compiling a "morgue" of images of subject matter to base your sketches on.

TIP- you may print things off or cut them off and paste them in your sketchbook, or if you prefer working digitally, you may want to save some items to your device or "pin" them on Pinterest.

TUES 8/26- WED 8/27 | Step Three, Brainstorming

• TUES- Presentation from Mr. Mallory on the purpose & methods of brainstorming
• WED- "Studio Time" to continue research, brainstorm on your own or begin sketching

THUR 8/28- Representative from the Creative Center in Omaha

FRI 8/29 | Step Four, Sketching

Spend time creating several thumbnail sketches (as small as you like, but no bigger than 3x5 inches).

MON SEP 1 "FRIDAY CHECK-IN" | Mr. Mallory will meet with each student during class to review their individual progress, make sure you've been working on steps One thru Four for all for options, and discuss which 2 or 3 you'd like to drop and which 2 or 3 you'd like to keep pursuing.

NEXT WEEK (SEP 1-5) | You will advance to Step Five, Design Direction, where you'll have time developing a few of your sketched further. Then we'll have some Peer Feedback time where we'll meet either in groups or as a class to help give each other figure out how to start executing our comps and final projects.

Creative Center Representative Visit

A rep from the Creative Center in Omaha will be visiting Commercial Art Class, 6th period on Thursday, August 28.

Other BV students interested in her presentation should see Mr. Marlin about getting a pass to the Art room from their other 6th period classes. I'd strongly encourage Drawing and Yearbook students to consider attending.