Roy Lichtenstein Name Roy Lichtenstein liktenstain Life October 27 1923 September 29 1997 Location Primarily NYC Why we know him American pop artist works displayed ID: 782771
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Roy Lichtenstein
Pop-Art Portraits in Adobe Illustrator
Slide2Roy Lichtenstein
Name: Roy Lichtenstein (liktenstain)
Life:
October
27, 1923- September 29,
1997
Location
: Primarily NYC
Why we know him?
American
pop
artist; works displayed
along with
Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns,
and a
l
eading
figure in the new art movement
His artwork defined the basic premise of pop art better than
any
other through
parody (humor)
Slide3Characteristics of his Works
Old fashioned comic strip as subject matter
Hard edged, precise compositions, incorporating
humor
Heavily influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style
He described pop art as “not American painting but actually industrial painting.”
Slide4Ben-Day Dots
The Ben-Day dots
printing
process, named after
illustrator
and printer
Benjamin Henry Day, Jr.
,
[1]
is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely spaced to create pink. Pulp comic books of the 1950s and 1960s used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones. (Wikipedia)
Slide5Lichtenstein Famous Works
Slide6Slide7“Drowning Girl” and “Wham” from 1963 are two of his best known works.
Slide8Your Assignment
Create a self-portrait in the Roy Lichtenstein styleTake a photo- Think “drama…” You should be
surprised, upset, daydreaming, shocked, brooding, afraid, scheming….
Re-size
this image in Adobe Photoshop to about 8 x 10”
Place
this image in Adobe Illustrator 11 x 17
” document
Slide9Use the
pen tool to outline the face, hair, eyes, eyebrows, lips, teeth, etc. (NO FILL
)
THESE SHOULD ALL BE ON
SEPARATE LAYERS
Create your
Ben-Day dot pattern (we will do this in class) and save as a swatch
Begin
filling
your shapes with solid colors and Ben-Day dot patterns (50% may be filled with solid color but the rest must be Ben-Day dot filled)Use the brush tool to add the finishing black outlines (find a brush with varying thickness to imitate the look of a true, painted brush stroke)Create a talk-bubble and add your unique caption….
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* PROBLEM SOLVE to come up with solutions to design issuesHELPFUL TUTORIALhttp://illustrator.adobe-tutorial.com/turning-a-photo-into-lichtenstein-style-pop-art-with-illustrator
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/turning-a-photo-into-lichtenstein-style-pop-art-with-illustrator/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+vectortuts+%28Vectortuts%2B%29
I love Graphics more than anything in the world…
Slide11VOCABULARY
Ben-Day dotsPop-ArtRoy Lichtenstein