7 - exaggeration

Photoshop drawing – exaggeration

Using basic brush, eraser and paint bucket tools, mixed with transparency and color choices, create an 8x10” digital drawing at 300dpi. Use five different layers to construct your drawing, and let objects/forms overlap from layer to layer. You can use photographs that you take or sketches as references, but you cannot trace them as you did in illustrator. Save as “your name exaggeration.psd”

I want you to illustrate something that you’ve exaggerated. While I know that you are (of course) strictly tellers of truth, I’d like you to consider a point in your life, or a single event where the exaggeration of a simple truth ended up being significant. Consider the use of visual exaggeration as a way to emphasize the aspect of that moment that mattered. Try to avoid clichéd imagery – long noses for lies and things like that.

Homework:

1. Complete the drawing assignment.
2. Bring an object from home to scan – preferably a 3D object that has some interesting edges, shapes or lines.