Unlock Your Creativity through Doodling and Digital Painting

Overview

This workshop will provide you with useful information and methods in creative thinking process as well as visualizing your thoughts and feelings through doodling and cartoon drawing. The benefits gained include exercising your mind through creative visual expression and stimulation, group interaction and exposure to different media. Participants are encouraged to keep an open mind throughout this workshop with the ability to doodle and draw fun & basic cartoon sketches.

Outlines

Day 1

• Creative concept development and ideas exploration
• Unleash the creativity within you through doodling into visual form
• A deeper understanding of your doodling and drawing
• Digital file formatting and file management
• Basic function of Photoshop for digital painting
• Digital painting and drawing tools introduction
• Visual tension
• Training your eyes to see hidden messages from a picture
• Your mind and your painting
• Right brain and left brain painting
• Step by step image manipulation for day 1

Project 1 exercise
Q&A session
Project 2 exercise
Q&A session

Filters exploration and wrap up of session one
Briefing for day 2 program
End of day 1 class

Day 2

• Understanding of physical canvas and virtual canvas
• Review and selection of doodling from lesson one
• Advance function of photoshop for digital painting
• Intro to advance tools in photoshop for digital painting
• Creative Drawing onto digital canvas
• Capturing the essence your imagination and creativity
• Understanding the beauty of raw shapes, lines and composition
• Patterns
• Visual lead
• Mind-scape exercises
• Rationale behind your digital painting
• Level and curve adjustment in photoshop for your painting

 

Project 3 exercise
Q & A session
Project 4 exercise
Q & A session

Projects 3 & 4 reviews
Critics session
Wrap up of session 2
End of class

*For ops/student service team
Materials to be prepared and provided to each participant:

• one thick-tip and one thin-tip black color drawing-markers (also named as felt-tip pen)
• one 6B pencil
• one B pencil
• one black color crayon
• 15 sheets of white base A3 size paper