Werwolf Bar Mitzva! Illustrator becomes an adult!

As Tracy Jordan sings in the popular TV show 30 Rock, "Werwolf Barmitzva! Spooky, Scary!"

It's "Spooky Scary" how GREAT all the Freshmen in Chou and Eliza's class are! And they proved it today by having a wonderful and productive session.

We started off the morning with an AWESOME Illustrator Jeopardy that helped us review for our permit test (Yay!). There were some questions that NOBODY knew, but we did know a lot of them. (Yay for us!) Then we watched a You Tube video of how to make an illustrator image that looks as real as a photograph. Can you believe it? Amazing!! It must take HOURS!.

Then, after our break, we had some work time to polish up a former project and to work on the BTW. Everyone was hard at work and it seemed like everyone remembered most of the tools and was feeling comfortable with using the program. AJ showed his fantastic BTW project and everyone was impressed.

We spent the rest of the class period just working on our BTW projects, on finishing some projects to display at the Holiday Luncheon and on our permit test.

Session 5 - Photoshop (Chris/Ryan)

Much of what we want to do with the rest of the Photoshop unit is to keep the interest of the students by having them tell us what they want to learn within this application. Our Day 5 quiz addresses these concerns by asking for the student input.

Unfortunately, at 9am....students only want to input themselves back into bed. We did not receive much input from the students, but I'm hoping that we get some e-mail responses from them to help us direct the course in the future.

The students are starting to work on the web layout for their Behind the Wheel. Students are also trying to polish some of the previous in-class homework assignments. There is no real development at this time because many of the students were just starting to work on their projects. As of now, the students seem to be receptive to the project assignment...seemingly more to the actual design of the website versus polishing pre-existing assignments, which is interesting considering the web design is easily the more difficult portion.

Chou and Eliza's Class: Where the Wild ThANgs Are

Everyone came in all ready to go and we hit the Learn@UW quiz right off the bat. Chou helped us do a review of what we have learned to do with Illustrator. Some of the students came up to demonstrate how to do things. Besma was right on it with the "text on a path". She showed us what to do and Chou narrated her actions so everyone could review together. Cool!!

Eliza started a free draw lesson about point of view. The goal was to see how different the same picture can look different from two different points of view, for example the difference between a ant looking at a cookie and a person looking down on a cookie near his feet.

Theme and Variation is the focus point for the art concept that the class went over. We looked at many examples of images that had a repeated visual theme but where variations were used by changed the size, color or position to create an interesting image.

Then everyone thought about a super power they would like to have and they worked on making an image that would illustrate that super power (while also keeping in mind the idea of theme and variation).

Juan's "Absorbing Power"






Aubrey's power: to lift a garbage truck with his mind

Nandi: Superwoman on the moon (and black hole in space)

After break we looked at some of the images to see what everyone came up with, we did a critique and then we worked on the Behind the Wheel project.

Clara has a good start with her web design:

And Patrick too: