Digital Surrealism

Graphic arts students recently finished a project where they took their knowledge of digital collage techniques and worked on creating a surrealist landscape.

  

Digital Collages

7th grade graphic arts students recently finished digital collages in Photoshop. Students found images online that they thought represented their personalities and then edited them in Photoshop. Next we discussed how to arrange them in an interesting way that some of the images would overlap and have different proportions in order to create visual interest. I was really pleased with the work that these students did on this unit, they have come a really long way in their ability to edit images and to cut them out from a background. Check them out below: 

Gifs part 2

7th Grade digital art students started the grading period out with a GIF project. First they drew a character that served as an alter ego for themselves. Some students chose to do animal versions of themselves, superheroes, athletes, or just them in a different outfit. Then we used the digital painting software ArtRage to create a background painting on the computers. We put all of the images into photoshop and edited everything and created frames of animation. Lastly we used gifpal.com to create our GIFs. I'm really proud of the work that these students did. Check out the great animations below.

Digital Shape Collages

Seventh Grade digital art students made these quick digital collages using the shape tool in photoshop. This week we are doing digital collages using images that tell the viewer about us. The students did these practice images to play around with the layering tool in photoshop. Students were exploring interesting ways to layer images in a composition. Look out for the real collages soon, I just really liked these and wanted to share them.