Fantasy Landscapes (Digital Painting)
A High School Level Digital Art Lesson
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Project Objective:
Students will learn about the techniques of digital painting and atmospheric perspective to create original landscapes or environments. Landscape artworks must utilize a symbolic color palette in order convey a certain mood or theme and may incorporate characters, landforms or structures to tell either a surreal or realistic story.
Techniques:
Must use the following digital skills: Paintbrush tool (adjust flow/opacity/smoothing), with at least 2 different brush types, smudge/blending tool, color theory, layer masking/layers
Optional digital skills: Dodge/burn tools, lighting effects/layer effects, layer styles, layer adjustments, clone/patch tool
Media:
Adobe Photoshop or similar image editing/drawing software
Drawing Materials / Sketch
Internet/research resource, Copyright free imagery
Concept or Theme:
Students will explore landscape/background creation and the effect of color, atmosphere and viewpoint on a story or visual message. They will do this through discussion of art and artists create landscapes both traditionally and digitally, brainstorm of ideas and sketches of multiple ideas to curate to one final image, and practice of Photoshop and digital rendering techniques using practice imagery.
Source Material:
Artists to look at:
Jing Hao
Jacob van Ruisdal
Nicolas Poussin
Thomas Cole
Claude Monet
Vincent Van Gogh
Albrecht Durer
Robert S. Duncanson
Bob Ross
Georgia O’Keefe
Kazuo Oga
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