Screen Printable Art
Convert a grayscale to printable art.
Objective:
Learn different drawing techniques to convert grayscale images into screen printable art work.
Self portrait assignment:
Take a close-up photo of your face.
Use the high contrast feature in Photoshop or another photo editing program and apply it to your picture.
Use the light table to trace your face. Get every detail. Look for highlight and shadow.
Use a Sharpie to convert your line drawing into a stippled (all dots) drawing.
Make second drawing using line and a third using shapes.
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Magazine Assignment:
Find a larger grayscale image in a magazine or take the photo yourself.
Look for something that fills the entire page. A photo of a face works well.
Keep it simple. Complex and detailed images are too hard to reproduce.
Make a photo copy of the image. Enlarge the size so the image fits on a 8.5"x11" sheet of paper.
Use a piece of vellum paper and tape in over the picture.
Use a Sharpie to create three different drawings. See examples.
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Examples
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Dot drawing Look for the dark and light shapes. Use more dots in the ark areas and less dots in the light areas. |
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Line Drawing Look for the outlines of the shapes. |
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Negative/Positive shape drawing Make the dark areas of the photo black. |
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Grayscale his a drawing but most student will not complete this drawing. Instead, the students should find an original picture from a magazine to work from. |
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Example of a finished dot reproduction by Luke Maurer
