Advanced Graphic Design & Illustration
3GD2
Semesters: 2
Credit: 2 (2 class periods)
Grade: 10-12
Pre-Requisite: Graphic Design & Illustration
This course provides opportunities for students desiring to continue in the creating of skill sets, build portfolios, and solve problems. Art and Design principles and software skill sets relevant to instruction and competitions are the focus of this course. By design, this course is an independent study and the projects assigned will often be self-directed. Students will create a portfolio of year’s work.
Advanced Graphic Design and Illustration TEKS
Semesters: 2
Credit: 2 (2 class periods)
Grade: 10-12
Pre-Requisite: Graphic Design & Illustration
This course provides opportunities for students desiring to continue in the creating of skill sets, build portfolios, and solve problems. Art and Design principles and software skill sets relevant to instruction and competitions are the focus of this course. By design, this course is an independent study and the projects assigned will often be self-directed. Students will create a portfolio of year’s work.
Advanced Graphic Design and Illustration TEKS
Advanced 2D Digital Art Syllabus
This class covers the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) for the course Advanced Graphic Design & Illustration. This course requires students to have access to a computer outside of class. Students may use the computers available in the library before and after school as available. The Digital Art lab will also be available before and after school. See the website for times. It is highly recommended that you have previously completed Graphic Design & Illustration.
You will be introduced to (New) Media artists, digital photographers, and more sophisticated techniques as points of departure to create work that reflects your spirit and your vision. By exploring digital media with your computer, you will be able to develop a body of work that reflects a range of problem solving, ideation and develops versatility with techniques to demonstrate your abilities.
There are project requirements, but the projects are open-ended enough for you to develop your own style and mode of expression. The development of the portfolio is an ongoing process that used informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Work is expected to be of high quality in thought, process, and product. You are expected to use artistic integrity. Work based on another artist’s work of photos must move beyond mere duplication and become an expression of your own personal voice and vision
Book: There is no adopted textbook for this course, and the material studied will vary depending on the project selected by the student.
Additional Help: If you need additional assistance or need more time to use the class software, please talk to me about meeting before or after school or during your off campus period (if you have one). I am happy to help, but please let me know ahead of time so I can make arrangements to meet with you.
BYOD: Bring your own device. Advanced students will be allowed to use their own devices in class. Laptops, Note/Netbooks, iPads, and Tablets will be allowed, if students are using said devices to work on projects for class.
Contests/Exhibitions: You are encouraged to participate in exhibitions and competitions. A list of these will be posted at the front of the classroom/lab and on the class website. You will be expected to participate in an exhibition of your work at the end of the school year. Details regarding the end of year exhibition will be provided during the second semester. Submitting to exhibitions/competitions requires a considered self-evaluation and critique.
Exhibitions/Competitions may include: Youth Art Month, Scholastic Art Awards, Visual Art Scholastic Event, and the AISD Spring Student Art Show.
Evaluations/Critiques: I will have individual critiques and discussions with you. We will have class room critiques and you will also need to write about your work as well as other student artist’s work. Critiques will be roughly every 2 weeks. Questions may include: Describe your work. What do you like about your work? What would you change about your work? How could your artwork impact another’s thinking? What does your artwork mean to you?
Sketchbook: Each student will have a sketchbook. You will maintain this sketchbook with inspiration artists, notes, drawings, thumbnail drawing, critiques, and research.
Copyright/Plagiarism: We will discuss artist integrity and plagiarism. We will have a class discussion about intellectual property. The use of published work (including work on the Internet) of others for duplication is strictly prohibited.
I expect that every student will:
You will be introduced to (New) Media artists, digital photographers, and more sophisticated techniques as points of departure to create work that reflects your spirit and your vision. By exploring digital media with your computer, you will be able to develop a body of work that reflects a range of problem solving, ideation and develops versatility with techniques to demonstrate your abilities.
There are project requirements, but the projects are open-ended enough for you to develop your own style and mode of expression. The development of the portfolio is an ongoing process that used informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Work is expected to be of high quality in thought, process, and product. You are expected to use artistic integrity. Work based on another artist’s work of photos must move beyond mere duplication and become an expression of your own personal voice and vision
Book: There is no adopted textbook for this course, and the material studied will vary depending on the project selected by the student.
Additional Help: If you need additional assistance or need more time to use the class software, please talk to me about meeting before or after school or during your off campus period (if you have one). I am happy to help, but please let me know ahead of time so I can make arrangements to meet with you.
BYOD: Bring your own device. Advanced students will be allowed to use their own devices in class. Laptops, Note/Netbooks, iPads, and Tablets will be allowed, if students are using said devices to work on projects for class.
Contests/Exhibitions: You are encouraged to participate in exhibitions and competitions. A list of these will be posted at the front of the classroom/lab and on the class website. You will be expected to participate in an exhibition of your work at the end of the school year. Details regarding the end of year exhibition will be provided during the second semester. Submitting to exhibitions/competitions requires a considered self-evaluation and critique.
Exhibitions/Competitions may include: Youth Art Month, Scholastic Art Awards, Visual Art Scholastic Event, and the AISD Spring Student Art Show.
Evaluations/Critiques: I will have individual critiques and discussions with you. We will have class room critiques and you will also need to write about your work as well as other student artist’s work. Critiques will be roughly every 2 weeks. Questions may include: Describe your work. What do you like about your work? What would you change about your work? How could your artwork impact another’s thinking? What does your artwork mean to you?
Sketchbook: Each student will have a sketchbook. You will maintain this sketchbook with inspiration artists, notes, drawings, thumbnail drawing, critiques, and research.
Copyright/Plagiarism: We will discuss artist integrity and plagiarism. We will have a class discussion about intellectual property. The use of published work (including work on the Internet) of others for duplication is strictly prohibited.
I expect that every student will:
- Come to class every day prepared.
- Always show respect for the teacher and other students.
- Complete all eating, gum chewing, and personal grooming before entering the classroom.
- Turn in all work on time. If you have a need to turn an assignment in after the due date, consult your teacher before due date to obtain permission. If circumstances beyond your control (meetings not being kept by a teacher, etc.) keep you from turning in an assignment on time, a letter of explanation signed by appropriate parties (the teacher) must be turned in on the due date.
- Be responsible for make-up work. If you were absent, it is your responsibility to get your assignments and new due dates. You have the same number of days to make up work as you were absent. If you were absent one day, then ask for that make up work two days later, you will not be able to receive credit for that work. You have only one day to make up the work.
- Follow rules of appropriate computer usage and appropriate Internet usage at all times.
- Follow all rules contained in the student handbook; and, most importantly PARTICIPATE!!