Monday, November 27th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 13! Hope everyone had a good break. Who traveled the farthest? I went nowhere, and it was amazing.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

DH12: Scene using 1 point with rounded object
- (lastName)DH12.jpg
Week 12 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
  - or
- (lastName)FloatingDroidsFinal.mp4 if you met the eligibility requirements

10:30 Blender Review

Review of skin and armature

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 Connie will give Constructive Criticism.

Tomorrow Ben will.

11:30 Week 13, 14, 15, 16 Agency Lock in / Pin Design Competition

The SkillsUSA Pin Design competition will be the first Design Competition of the year. It is specifically tests your ability to create a design to be crafted in metal to represent Vermont at the national SkillsUSA Championships. Here are some of last years designs – can you see the commonalities?

And some from 2022.

And some from 2021.

None from 2020 – they all had Covid.

… 2019 and 2019 expanded

2018 – ok, that’s far enough back.

I realize that this is a graphic design competition, but CAWD often has creative students that enjoy creating in different ways (as we have seen in Agencies), and has won the Gold Medal in Vermont numerous times, and with our best ever placing of 2nd Place (TJ) in the Nation.

For the first time I am going to offer this track for students that volunteer to lock in their Agency projects for 4 weeks. If you choose to do so this is the schedule:

Week 13 / Pre Production and Drafts
Week 14 / First Digital Draft (Illustrator)
Week 15 / Second Digital Draft with feedback (Illustrator)
Week 16 Final Digital Draft for submission to Local Round of Design Competition (CTE level)

The Top 3 at CTE (all students vote) will move onto the Vermont State Pin Design Champions in April.

If you choose this Pin Design / Agency track:

You will get a chance to take part in a juried, 3rd-party design competition
You are locked into the December Agencies (have to do all 4 weeks to be eligible to move past the CAWD round). You can always eject to “standard” agencies at any time, but that takes you out of eligibility to be submitted from CAWD. To move to the CTE round form the CAWD round of the design competition, you have to take in the CAWD 4 week process.
I will give you 5 extra points per week on this project, as encouragement to step outside of your comfort zone, and try something harder that may end up looking great in a college admissions portfolio.

If this interests you, here is your Pin Work Product that you will build this week as your Agency work:

Create a folder called “pinDesign” inside your “week_13” folder
Take 1 page of your sketchbook and split into quadrants. In each of the 4 write the following headings:
- Vermont People
  - Give 10 examples (Farmers, Skiers, etc)
- Vermont Environment
  - Give 10 examples (Forests, Lakes, etc)
- Vermont Industry
  - Give 10 examples (Snowboarding, Cheese Making, Tourism, etc)
- Vermont Memes or Cliches
  - Give 10 Examples (Champ, Church Street, cars in snow)
- Scanned and saved as (lastName)SkillsBrainstorming.jpg
Take a second page of your sketchbook and split into quadrants. In each of the 4 create a pre-production sketch that includes some sort of Visual that represents Vermont that each includes the words:
- Vermont
- SkillsUSA (written just as it appears, all uppercase with lowercase “kills”
- 2023-2024 / 23-24 / 2023-24
- Scanned and saved as (lastName)Skills4pack.jpg

11:50 Drawing Content: 2 Point Perspective

This week we are going to move from 1-Point to 2-Point perspective. We are going to use multiple vanishing points (2) to apply some more “rules” to our art.

As always the goal is you become comfortable with some of these classic techniques and can apply them to your concept art, fine art, dog art, etc.

12:20 DH13: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping in 2 Point perspetive

DH13 is going to be demonstrating the skills we just practiced, doing a variation of DH11, but this time in 2 Point Perspective.

Draw 10 floating boxes using two vanishing points. Have at LEAST 5 of the boxes overlapping in some way – hidden / obscured by other boxes.

While you don’t need to color (but you can) you must shade so that the sketches have depth.

Save as (lastName)DH13.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.

(You don’t notice this until 1:30….right?)

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

DH13: 10 floating boxes / 5 overlapping in 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

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.