Emotive Typers Fall 2010

The Fall quarter class at Portfolio Center is usually the largest of the year. 2010 is no exception. I've got 12 students in Emotive Type and 13 in Production. Whoa! This class has so much fun energy with good balance for thoughtfulness and play all around.

Last Saturday we took our traditional Saturday morning field trip to Xpedx, Forsyth Fabrics and Atlanta Vintage Books. But first, we met up at the West Egg Café for breakfast. Here they are, awake and ready to inspire. :)

Pencil to Pixel Directions

These are the directions I pass out to my Production class at Portfolio Center where we turn a pencil drawing into a crisp marker drawing and then into an Illustrator vector file. The whole point of this exercise is to learn to maintain the original energy in work done by hand when moved into a digital environment.

I got the original idea from this fabulous blog at Instructables dot com.

Examples of work created from this process can be found here.

Anton

Here's a portrait I did of Anton as a class demo during Production at PC. Such fun! Love you little bunny.

Below are a few I've done over the past coupla years....

new portrait

Hi Friends,

Here's another self portrait I did with the Production class at Portfolio Center. So much fun! The idea for this assignment came from Instructables.com and I use it every quarter. We will be finishing these up next week, so I just might do another.

Instructions can be found here.

Nother Self Portrait

I'll be working on this one with the new Emotive Type Summer crop of PC students. Awesome group of people. Lovable, honest, hard-working and fun.