Photoshop: Pop Art Portrait Project

Pop Art Portrait

OVERVIEW

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Photoshop has many filters and features that will allow designers to replicate the pop art era. Using these features in Photoshop students will use their creativity to create a pop art portrait expression of themselves.

OBJECTIVE

Students will analyze the works of Roy Lichtenstein and create original artwork based on Roy Lichtenstein’s Comic Book style of Pop art using a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop Layers, Artistic Filters and Brushes.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Research the work of Roy Lichtenstein and look at examples of Pop Art.
2. Take a photo of yourself. Choose the one you like best.
3. Drag your picture into Photoshop.
4. With the pen tool or selection tools; carefully select your head and shoulders.
5. If you used the pen tool, in the layers pallet click the paths tab>Make selection.
6. Copy the selection.
7. In Photoshop-File> New < U.S. Paper_Letter 8.5 X 11 inches 300 resolution.
8. Paste selection.
9. Edit >Hold Shift Key>Free Transform (resize your photo to fit 75% of page)
10. Duplicate your image layer. Layer>duplicate layer.
11. On The duplicate layer you will apply a halftone.
12. Filter>Sketch >Halftone >Size3 >Contrast>4 _Pattern Type Dot.
13. Change the Layer style on the Halftone Layer to Multiply
14. On your original image layer apply-Artistic> Cut Out or Poster edge filter (Your Choice)
15. On the background layer use the brush tools to design your pop art background.
16. Open the brush pallet >Assorted Brushes>Append.
17. Design your pop art/ comic background using the halftone brushes and by adding color.

IDEAS/EXAMPLES

ASSESSMENT

You will be graded according to the following criteria to earn a total of 40 points: