Knowing how to tie knots can be very helpful by itself, whether your fishing, camping, or tying off a boat, there are many knots that come in handy for various reasons. For our purposes we’ll use rope and knots to learn about art elements of line, shape, and...
Sole Swapper was inspired by the practice of swapping the sole of one sneaker and adhering them to the another in order to customize them. This project is intended to develop skills with the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator while exploring the customizations that can be...
Los tableros del humor o los tableros de la inspiración son una manera para que el diseñador establezca un tema para su línea de modas, definiendo elementos del color, de la armonía del color, de la textura, y del patrón. Los diseñadores pueden inspirarse en una...
Mood boards or Inspiration boards are a way for the designer to establish a theme for their line of fashions, defining elements of color, color harmony, texture, and pattern. Designers can be inspired by a season, a culture, a place, or a a variety of things from...
The early video games are sometimes refereed to as the 8 bit video game era, these include games such as Donkey Kong and Pac Man. In these games a pixal-ated character, known as a sprite, moves over a static, or sometime scrolling background. The Atari 2600 was...
There are myriad patterns and woven fabric for the fashion designer to choose from. Some patterns are hundreds of years old and have been in use for centuries. Many patterns have cultural or national origins. It is important for the fashion designer to be able to...
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Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York City where he lived most of his life of 74 years. Although he loved to draw, his High School didn’t offer art classes so he would draw during his free time. After high school he studied art at Ohio State...
Paul Poiret (1879-1944) took the fashion world by storm by designing un-corseted, loose-fitting kimono like garments that followed the natural contour of a woman’s body. At the age of 24 he established his very own fashion house in Paris in 1903. Born in poor...
Using several website tutorials and class instruction students will understand how to navigate the various menus and shelves to access the different tools in Maya. The tutorials provided below will guide students through the foundation skills of extruding 3...
Digital Tutors is a video tutorial service that will guide students through the basic workings of a program. Students are required to create a free account with DigitalTutors.com using their Google email account. Assessments within the Digital Tutors site will be...
Birds have been the study of many artists throughout history, most notably the artist John J. Audubon. Audubon was a renown ornithologist who became famous for his extensive study of North American birds and the detailed illustrations that depicted birds in their...
Perspective is a technique used by artists and designers to show three dimensional objects on a flat surface. It was began to develop prior to the Renaissance by artists and architects to depict buildings in a more realistic way. It is based on the understanding that...
A movie poster is designed to promote a film or play, they normally combine graphics with text. Contemporary posters often showcase the main actors, the main characters, and the director. During the 1980’s, illustrations where very popular, much like the Star...
