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High School Digital Art Imaging I

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

You interact with digital art every day, why not learn how to create it? In this course, you will explore the fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques of digital imaging. You'll learn how to use computers, digital cameras, editing software, and more to create digital artworks and use the critique process grow artistically as you evaluate and respond to your own work. This course provides elective credit and fulfills a performing/fine art requirement for high school graduation.

Module One: Digital Imaging

-Identify characteristics of digital imaging

-Explore how technology has changed art as well as opportunities to experience art

-Recognize how artists demonstrate personal responsibility, ethics, integrity, and respect for intellectual property

-Explore the elements of shape and color

-Analyze the meaning of a work of art

-Practice creating and layering shapes in different colors with a digital art software

-Use the artistic process to create a digital image with the use of color and shape

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images


Module Two: Photography

-Explore the elements of line and space

-Explore career opportunities in the visual arts

-Analyze the meaning of a work of art

-Explore how to take digital photographs with basic photographic techniques

-Demonstrate the use of emphasis, ethics, line, and space in a digital image

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images


Module Three: Capturing Light

-Explore the element of texture and the principle of movement

-Explore how to take digital photographs with lighting techniques and various perspectives

-Demonstrate the use of movement in a digital image

-Use the artistic process to create digital images with a theme that demonstrate texture and lighting and other techniques

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images



Module Four: Editing

-Explore the principle of emphasis

-Explore the history of and experiment with photo manipulation

-Experiment with digital editing tools

-Use the artistic process to take a digital photograph and edit using a digital art software

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images

Module Five: Collage

-Identify balance and how artists use it in digital collages

-Experiment with digital collage techniques and typography

-Use the artistic process to create a digital collage with shapes and original photographs

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images


Module Six: Typography

-Identify rhythm and typography

-Describe characteristics of typeface categories and typographic techniques

-Explore how to create and edit text

-Use the artistic process to create a digital image that includes personal symbolism

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images


Module Seven: Drawing

-Explore the element of form and the principle of proportion

-Experiment with digital drawing techniques

-Explore career opportunities in the visual arts

-Use the artistic process to create a digital drawing

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images


Module Eight: Animation

-Explore the principle of unity

-Experiment with digital animation techniques

-Analyze the meaning of a work of art

-Brainstorm ideas for your digital image

-Use the artistic process to create a digital animation

-Create an artist statement to reflect on your work and whether it conveys the intended meaning