Digital Art & Design
Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
Student Must Have Completed Grade 5
Requirements
None
Course Summary
We see digital art every day, and in MJ Digital Art & Design 1, not only will the students investigate digital art, but they will also learn how to create it themselves! In this course, they will explore the tools, basic concepts, and techniques artists use to create digital art. They will learn how to use computers, digital cameras, editing software, and more to create digital artworks and grow artistically as they evaluate and respond to their own work.
MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS
Semester 1 :
- Identifying digital art and explore how technology has shaped it
- Recognizing how artists respect copyright laws and intellectual property
- Identifying line and shape and the elements of art and practice creating them in a digital art software
- Analyze the meaning or purpose of a work of art
- Identifying file types
- Exploring layers in a digital art software and use them in a digital image with shapes and lines
- use the artistic process to create digital art, take photographs, and edit a photograph and a digital drawing
- Demonstrating the use of line and shape in a digital image
- Creating an artist statement to reflect on your work
- Identifying texture and space and practice creating them in a digital art software
- Analyzing the meaning or purpose of a work of art
- Exploring how to take digital photographs
- Experimenting with lighting, composition, texture, and space in a photograph
- Reflecting on and apply feedback to one of your digital images
- Identifying color and value and practice creating them in a digital software
- Experimenting with editing digital photographs
- Demonstrating the use of color and value in edited photographs
Segment 2 :
- Identifying form and create it in a digital art software
- Experimenting with digital drawing tools
- Brainstorming ideas and plan for a digital drawing
- Demonstrating the use of color and value in edited photographs
- Identifying variety and movement
- Practicing creating movement in a digital art software
- Experimenting with editing and adding to digital photographs
- Using the artistic process to edit original photographs and combine them into one file
- Demonstrate the use of variety and movement in an edited image
- Creating an artist statement to reflect on your work
- Identifying proportion and balance and practice creating them in a digital software
- Experiment with typography in a digital art software
- Using the artistic process to use typography to create an image
- Demonstrating the use of proportion, balance, and typography to create an image
- Reflecting on and apply feedback to one of your digital images
- Identifying emphasis and pattern and practice creating them in a digital software
- Analyzing the meaning or purpose of a work of art
- Identifying what makes up a logo and experiment with designing one
- Exploring career opportunities in digital art
- Using the artistic process to create a logo that demonstrates the use of emphasis and pattern
- Identifying rhythm and unity and practice creating them in a digital software
- Experimenting with digital collage toolsQ
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