Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Learning Objective: To be able to display creativity and enhance drawing skills using CAD software To understand some more advanced features of Photoshop Learning Outcome: To communicate and enhance design idea using Photoshop and Photography

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Over the next few lessons we will be producing a large scale class comic strip, everyone will produce one A3 still from the comic strip and together it will combine to form a comic strip based on your journey to school, from the moment you wake up, till the time when your tutor takes the register. You will be responsible for collecting and sourcing your images. You will have draw one element of the comic strip. You can decide how you layout it out (Portrait/ Landscape) but it must use the template with the correct font and border. You can decide what colours and what effects to use. Question: What is CAD/CAM? What examples are there of CAD/CAM being used? Why do we use it?

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Step Person Turn off alarm   Get out of bed Brush your teeth Have a shower Get dressed Brush your hair Have your breakfast Check your bag Leave your house Walk to bus stop Check your phone Meet a friend Go to newsagent Buy sweets Wait at the bus stop Get on the bus, swipe oyster Chat to friends Get off the bus Walk to school Walk into school Go to playground Play football/ games Hand in work to teacher Teacher rings bell Go to registration Sit at desk Teacher takes register Task 1: As a class/ group decide which section you want to create as part of the comic strip. Once you pick you cant change your mind, so be sure. Miss will then put it on the list so everyone knows who is charge of what. HW – source your image this can be either a photo you take yourself/ it can be one from the internet. Make sure it is a high resolution so it doesn’t distort when scaled to A3. (If you have taken via phone you need to have emailed to your riddlesdown email so you can access it a school)

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Task 2: Find/Get the image and save the image in your document folder. Then open it up in Photoshop. Create a new document which is A3 Landscape/ Portrait sized and then paste the photo in. This will give you a chance to check the resolution. (If you have taken via phone you need to have emailed to your riddlesdown email so you can access it a school)

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Task 3: You are now going to manipulate this image into a black an white sketch. Duplicate the layer to become top layer. Select top layer. Desaturate the image under Image > Adjustments. Duplicate this layer to become the new top layer. On the top third layer invert the image, Image > Adjustments > Invert Change this layer to Color Dodge. Then select Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. Then adjust pixels to get black and white sketch. Then merge layers, so you can print it off.

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Task 4: Print the edit image on A3. Then using a light-box and fine-liners, create an outline drawing which will be scanned in. Make sure that you join up most lines, especially the external lines to help fill it with colour. Create a new document which is A3 Landscape/ Portrait sized and then copy and paste the scanned image in.

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Task 5: Open up the Comic Strip Portrait/ Landscape Template from Pupilshare and copy your image into this. Click Save As and rename appropriately. Then drag the sketch so it is underneath the border and text layer.

Year 9 Graphics: Comic Strip Task 6: Then add additional features, each time creating a new layer to do it on. Features to add for example: Speech Bubbles Movement marks DON’T FORGET TO REGULARLY SAVE YOUR WORK