Monday, December 4th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 14! Let’s all make our folders now.
Visitor season is going to start picking up soon. These are times when you show off what you do in class, and you farm extra credit. Students will have their names in the Dayplan the day of having visitors. We will have visitors tomorrow and Wednesday this week.
Fire Drill today at 10:15. Outside for attendance, be quick, and let’s get back in. ALL TIME before break is used for Last Looks today. Get in ASAP, you get more time. I will copy the folder down at break.

10:05 Attendance

10:10 Last Looks

Interactive mechanic
- lastNameMechanic.mp4
DH13: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping in 2 Point Perspective
- (lastName)DH13.jpg
Week 13 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
- OR Pin Design Agency work

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

11:00 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Today Jace will give Constructive Criticism.

Tomorrow Otto will.

11:30 Week 14 Pin Design Work

If you are on the Pin Design track, this weeks agency project will be take your 4 pack of concept art sketches, and pick which one you think will do the best in the Design Competition and create your first draft in Illustrator.

Remember that this is practical art – not fine art. I really don’t care which design you have that speaks to your soul of an artist, what we care about here is finding a way to monetize your skills and get a comfortable career. That means you have to have people like your designs, vote for you, want to pay you, etc.

In Illustrator start our with a 1000px by 1000px canvas and create your pin. Place your imagery in as a reference, or create freehand. Make sure that you are including the following text in your design:

SkillsUSA
Vermont
2023-24

Save your file as lastNamePin_V1.jpg for grading (and obviously the AI file to work on this month).

If you are not doing the Pin Design track, do an agency as normal.

11:40 Drawing Content

Drawing buildings in 2 point perspective

12:15 DH14: Architectural Drawing in 2 Point Perspective

For DH14 I want you to draw an architectural drawing in 2 Point Perspective. Buildings, straight lines, really push the idea that all design elements are connected to the 2 vanishing points.

These skills should start showing up in all your concept art going forward!

Save your file as lastNameDH14.jpg.

12:25 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:55 Attendance and Article

1:00 A Gentleman in Moscow

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

DH14: Architectural Drawing in 2 Point Perspective
- (lastName)DH14.jpg
Week 14 Agency / Pin Design 1st Draft
- lastNamePin_V1.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.