Tutorial: Digital Cut Paper

Tutorial: Digital Cut Paper from Scott E Franson on Vimeo.

This is a basic tutorial to create a cut paper effect using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

I am sorry, The video ends abruptly. I am trying to work out the bugs in the process.

An Apple

It doesn't quite look like oil lift out, but I think it is interesting.

DI: crash

The students have posted to their blogs an image based on the word crash (from Illustration Friday). The students want to improve and would be grateful for any critique.

Have fun looking at their images.
Alex, Ashley, Audrey, Becca, Brittany L, Brittany W, Casey, Cheyenne, David, Devan, Evan, Heather, James, Jenn, Jessi, Joshua, Michelle, Mike, Trevor, & Tricia.

DI: sprout

The students have posted to there blogs an image based on the word Sprout (from Illustration Friday). The students want to improve and would be grateful for any critique.

Have fun looking at their images.
Alex, Ashley, Audrey, Becca, Brittany L, Brittany W, Casey, Cheyenne, David, Devan, Evan, Heather, James, Jenn, Jessi, Michelle, Mike, Trevor, & Tricia.

DI: red

The students have posted to there blogs an image based on the word Red (from Illustration Friday). The students want to improve and would be grateful for any critique.

Have fun looking at their images.
Alex, Becca, Brittany L, Brittany W, Casey, Cheyenne, Dallin, David, Devan, Evan, Heather, James, Jenn, Jessi, Joshua, Michelle, Mike, Trevor, & Tricia.

DI: Super Hero

The students have posted to there blogs an image based on the word Super Hero (from Illustration Friday). The students want to improve and would be grateful for any critique.

Have fun looking at their images.
Alex, Ashley, Audrey, Becca, Brittany L, Brittany W, Casey, Cheyenne, Dallin, David, Devan, Evan, Heather, James, Jenn, Jessi, Joshua, Michelle, Mike, Trevor, & Tricia.

DI: 80s

The Digital Illustration class is up and running now. The students have posted to there blogs and image based on the word 80s (from Illustration Friday). The students want to improve and would be grateful for any critique.

I would especially like former members of the class to give the students feed back.

Have fun looking at their images.
Alex, Audrey, Becca, Brittany L, Brittany W, Casey, Cheyenne, Dallin, David, Devan, Evan, Heather, James, Jenn, Jessi, Joshua, Michelle, Mike, Trevor, & Tricia.

DI: Illustration Friday

This will be the first week that the digital illustration class will be participating in Illustration Friday. Since we are just getting started and some of the students are just beginning to learn the computer, they can choose how they will complete the assignment. I want them to use the computer as much as possible, for some of the students that will mean a "traditional" illustration scanned into the computer.

The deadline for the students is Wednesday before 4:00pm. I have their blogs listed as links under Digital Illustration Class. Please take a look and give them some feed back.

Linear perspective in Adobe Illustrator

Using Adobe Illustrator draw 2 cubes in correct two-point perspective in a room, with cast shadows.

Learning to use the pen tool in Illustrator opens many doors in Photoshop and so that is where we will start the digital illustration class. Use linear perspective to construct the cubes, with vanishing points (vp), measuring points (mp), station point (sp), and light source.

As always, pay attention to the composition.

Digital Illustration Class: Day 1

This semester I am teaching a digital illustration class that I have taught many times before. What will be different about this class is that the students will be posting their work along the way. I am really excited to see how the students progress.

Today was the first day. I decided to have them post their work on a blog so that they can begin to be seen by the illustration world and see what others are doing. Each student created a blog today and they will begin posting to their blogs soon.

This class is taught much like a media experimentation class where we will experiment with the kinds and varieties of marks that we can make with our tools. The students will do a simple still life to demonstrate that they understand the process. Then we will be using the word from Illustration Friday to create an illustration using the process that they just learned. Then they can make comments on each others work.

I am really interested to see how this experiment works. I will post links to the student blogs within the next couple of days.