Fieldwork Lesson

My mentor teacher has given me free range for my lesson and is very willing to help. We spoke many times about the content of the lesson, it being involved in Illustrator and exploring some basic tools in a creative way. This will be there first creative project since they’ve only been using tutorials to learn the program. I’ve decided to base my lesson off of the ideas expressed in the opening growth test that he administered to the students my second time at the Fieldwork. Revolving around identity, I decided it would be interesting for the students to create an emblem based off of themselves through use of the silhouette and some basic tools in Illustrator. We used PhotoBooth to take profile pictures of the students and dropped them into Illustrator to take a pen drawing of the contour. I also introduced them to the artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster who use shadow and silhouette to create a new image. I also showed them tools involving pattern and warping to enhance their creativity in a visual way by means of the program. The students surprised me and took the project past my expectations, manipulating the program in new ways. 

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