Intro Quiz: Final Piece (Part 1)

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﻿Good morning, welcome to art with Miss Corral. To lesson nine of Empowerment and Equality. We're going to be looking at, Final Designs. What will you learn this lesson? We're going to be evaluating our final compositional idea. What next stages? So thinking about what we're going to do. Planning and preparing all the necessary ingredients for your final composition. And the development of you final response, incorporating all the ingredients between this lesson and next lesson. So what will you need? Of course as always computer or a tablet or a phone if you need to do any further research, if you need to edit any imagery. Your dried primed surfaces, your finished drawings, all of the materials. Gouache I'm going to be using with plastic cups and brushes for water. Kitchen towel, toilet paper or anything absorbent, to dab paint and to clean. Pencils, sharpeners, perhaps scissors if you need to cut any equipment. And I'm going to be using some flower patterned fabric. I don't know if you've brought something, ready to do some work. Let's pause the video, gather any materials that you're planning on using this lesson, and when you're ready we start. So quick recap on the three main artistic links that we have followed: Gabriel Garcia Roman, Tim Okamura, Kehinde Wiley. These, uh, three artists, have inspired and built my skills and techniques, and I hope, so have yours. In this process of working, also my ideas have been shaping and changing, and uh so far, out of all of my responses, as I said and I keep saying, the ones I am happiest with, are the ones of the close up of the face, so those are the ones I am focusing on. And in this lesson, I'm going to work with these. Let's see what I did and how I developed my final idea. Now for the purpose of time and execution, because each task, take it or leave it, has taken me about thirty minutes, and I have been working fast. So it may be that you just stick to one. You're more than welcome to look at my two examples and then depending on what equipment you have, your abilities, your time allowance, you can make a decision. So in one of them I'm going to use collage techniques, and then I'm going to paint on top. This is the first example. First just simply collage. I did this before this lesson. Cut out from the great drawing that I have manipulated in Photopea. I found a patterned fabric that I used. And then I glued it all on my primed board. This is how I did these two exercises. Have a look. So first I cut out a circle out of my fabric. Was shaped to get the halo. With a bit of PVA glue, stuck the cut-out, or cut-outs. And then with the liquefied glue, that is glue with a bit of water, I covered it up. Ensure you put a bit more on the fabric surfaces. Then I cut out another bit of cardboard. This was for my second idea development, which I haven't completed. If you are going to be sticking fabric onto a cardboard surface, use a little bit of liquefied glue and a teeny, weeny bit more once the surface is primed and damp. Flatten, cover with liquefied PVA glue. So that is, PVA glue with a bit of water, maybe half and half. And then stick the cut-out on top. I wasn't sure about the halo, I left it out in the end, just to have a break so that both designs weren't so similar. Please pause the video, and restart when you are ready to see the next stage. Now this was the second composition idea. I didn't quite take it any further, because it's very similar to the first one, you will see. But, uh, in my brief I will probably tell you that I am going to have a go when I a bit of time later on. I'll see what I can do with it. But what I tried to do is repeat the process with fabric. So pause the video for another five minutes to start your second composition developments. And when you're ready, restart. Now this was the result of my final collage. There was a crease on the paper, which is why I decided not to use it. Then I decided to go for another collage, and for that I did a digital manipulation in Photopea, applying a background. Which then I used the method that I showed you to trace onto a board. Let's see how I did this manipulation in Photopea, and think if that is something that you would like to try yourselves. Let's start by opening a drawing. This is the one I saved last lesson, after I adjusted the brightness and the contrast, that was the photograph that I mentioned and I showed you last lesson how to edit it and make it cleaner and neater. Now I looked for some patterns. I decided to use a William Morris pattern with birds. That's my pattern folder, and that is my pattern. If you do edit, transform, scale and click in the boxes you can enlarge it and make it fit. Just watch out the symmetry, so that it's all nicely aligned with your canvas. I clicked on the background, and I duplicated the layer to put it on top. Now what I'm doing is I've clicked on patterned layer, and I have adjusted saturation and the brightness and contrast. Image adjustment for your saturation. Image adjustment brightness and contrast. To try to even out the pattern with my drawn image. The next stage is I'm going to be removing the background. In order to see that, I want to see how the image looks, I lower the opacity first. I have clicked on a mask, let's just pause the video for a second, now what I've done now is, on this layer where my drawing is, I clicked on that tool there. it looks almost like a camera, it's a rectangle with a circle. And that is the masking tool. I showed you all this time, because it is a tricky one to remember. You could of course use the eraser, provided that you are controlling the size of the brush and the softness of it. But the mask is so completely different ballgame, it's much more versatile. The way it works is, when you are painting over the area in black it'll appear as if you are deleting, but you're not. If you look on the little square there, that is the mask, you'll see the areas in which you are painting. If you cover those areas back with white, your image will appear again; which does take a little bit of time to get used to for some. That's my experience doing this for a while. So, that is what's going to happen now, let's move on. Now, I'm doing it quite loosely, it doesn't have to be a refined exercise. Since I'm going to be tracing over it anyway it's not a final outcome. Now here what I've done is I've right-clicked and duplicated the layer. You can also click and drag that layer onto there and that will give you another layer copied on top. And when you click on that layer and you go to the blend modes, the blend modes are here, where this is normal. I've changed it to multiply, and that will make the colours, again I like say, pop out. They make some areas darker, and that's a really nice effect. Now in this next stage, what I've done is I've sandwiched, if you like, between the two layers with the drawing and the blend modes, and the pattern of the canvas, a blank new layer. And I'm going to be painting with white, so that it doesn't show as much of the pattern on the area around the face. Okay so I'm using white, and making the brush bigger, and I'm just dabbing, with about forty percent of opacity to hide the pattern on the flesh skin. Export file. Export as a jpeg. And if you want to save a psd, file, save as psd. When you're ready, pause the video for about a minute. If you need to replay the video again, and try to do it yourselves, be my guests, and restart when you're ready to move onto the next task. There, that's the image from this board here, which again is just a little test of an idea that I didn't develop. So that's why I called it testing. Um, I used the print out. As I said it could be traced or transferred. All in all, this would take you about, perhaps, five minutes, no more. And transferring a drawing will take you a little bit longer. Maybe another five minutes. Okay? Let's have a look, very quickly, at how I did this. Watered down PVA, the print-out from the Photopea manipulation, glue over the top. I tried the halo, cut a little bit more, and put a little bit, a little bit of extra glue for fabric. That is it. If you want to have a go at this third composition development, or if you want to try it out or embed it in as part of your process, then pause the video again. And when you're ready to move on, restart. And this is the final compositional idea. What I decided to do in the end, is to use the Photopea print-out, and transfer it onto one of my specially primed boards. This will be the final outcome, and you'll see me painting it in our next lesson. Um, I will be playing the demonstration for this video so you can see how I did it. It's going to take you about ten minutes to do. Um, you will also see that I improvised on the surrounding areas, so I could build areas around here, just using flower patterns. About ten minutes. Once you've transferred your image onto the primed board, you will notice it's lacking detail. So will need to use a fine liner or a pencil to refine or go over the bits that you've lost as part of that tracing. It tends to be that when you trace you lose quality. Try to regain that quality. Five minutes, at least, if not more. Making sure that you're ready to move on. For this stage I used a metallic pen that you saw me using to draw and write in the Gabriel Garcia Roman, uh, lesson, to go over the outline, and highlight with a bit of silver, some of the areas of my image. This will get covered up later on, but it keeps really nice, well I like to call it the popping effect. This is the final composition of this lesson, and the final demo. And this is the one that I will carry on working and developing, next lesson. Let's have a look how I did it. So instead of pencil this time I used charcoal, because I had some and it's quicker. If you don't, use pencil instead. You can see how I went over all the key outlines. I only put masking tape at the top, so I can keep on checking. It's nothing that more annoying than remove the bit of paper and realise that you've missed out an eye. So it's always good to keep on checking that all of your areas have been traced. This is where I'm tracing the pattern, just the outlines. Although I did block some of the dark areas of colour. As I said before it is very important, that you allocate and invest time refining your drawing, prior to painting. So that there's no area for doubt or confusion. Don't see the tracing exercise or aspect of it as a boring part. You should always try to refine and improve the work that you did, so to speak. I know it's a completely different medium. Now what you see here is me going free agent and, uh, just trying to make up some flowers and patterns and leaves. Because I didn't just want to have the whole William Morris pattern. Silver pen, and then the fine liner just like I did it with the Gabriel Garcia Roman to refine areas of the drawing, areas where the silver pen is, and added in extra detail. As I said I do like the freshness of quick exercises. With a bit of paper and rubber, you can then move, uh, remove if you need to, charcoal or pencil. End of theme. Now again, if you now need to pause the video for another ten minutes. You have seen these three composition developments, Lots of mini techniques, plus the Photopea task. The beauty of this medium is that you can rewind and watch them again. Take this as a bit of a pick and mix lesson. Develop your ideas. Start preparing your material. Next lesson from me is going to be about painting two final outcomes, which will look like this. So, that means what we're going to be doing, completing our last composition ideas and developing and finalising our personal response. I'm going to now let you go. It's a chore to listen but you need that time to develop and refine work and get ready for the final painting session next. So if you're finished, take the end of the lesson quiz and see what stuck from today's learning. I look forward to that final development of your ideas. Have a good day. Goodbye.

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In today's lesson we are starting our final piece/s inspired by the different artists. We will use digital techniques to visualise pattern with our designs. I will show you ways of transferring your designs to your primed surfaces.

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