Digital Media
Tattoo Design
Objective:
Students will use Adobe Photoshop to demonstrate their own works of art, namely tattoo, which is a personal style in communicating an idea, theme, or emotion. Students will create a pencil sketch, Photoshop traced image, and modify a digital photo of themselves applying the tattoo to a part of their body. Students will discuss their original works of art, using the appropriate vocabulary of art to explain the theme and how this is shown in their work.
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To Start: You will need to research tattoos and look at variety of designs and then design a couple of images to use for this assignment. Why do people get tattoos?
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Tattoos can mean different things to different people. People get tattoos for many reasons: for attention, self-expression, artistic freedom, rebellion, a visual display of a personal narrative, reminders of spiritual/cultural traditions, sexual motivation, addiction, identification with a group
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Since you will be designing this tattoo you will need to decide the reason you would want one and what it will mean to you.
I would suggest basing your own design on several similar designs.
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Remember this should be your own design not a recreation of someone else's work.
Taken from WWW.MRSONARTCLASS.COM
For this assignment you will be designing a tattoo of your choice which you will sketch out on paper and then recreate in Photoshop. Once done you will need to take a photograph a picture of yourself wearing the tattoo without showing your face.
Setup your paper in Photoshop
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8.5 x 11 or 11 x 8.5
Resolution 300
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Using the drawing tablet or the pencil tool
in Photoshop draw the outline of your selected tattoo.
Create a new layer and color in the design.
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Have your picture taken with the specific body part where the tattoo will be placed.
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Open the photograph in Photoshop and copy and paste the tattoo onto the photo.
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Under edit chose transform and then perspective warp so that you can curve the tattoo around the space.
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