Fill the Gaps with Fonts
Lesson 5 from: Mixed Media for Digital ScrapbookersTiffany Tillman-Emanuel
Fill the Gaps with Fonts
Lesson 5 from: Mixed Media for Digital ScrapbookersTiffany Tillman-Emanuel
Lesson Info
5. Fill the Gaps with Fonts
Lessons
Class Introduction
17:38 2Building Your Digital Mixed Media Studio
03:32 3Discover Non-Traditional Objects
02:09 4How to Use the Internet to Build A Digital Studio
02:51 5Fill the Gaps with Fonts
03:46 6Match the Right Object with the Right Digitizing Process
02:20 7Photograph Dimensional Objects
03:47 8How to Scan Flat Objects
01:33Extract a Bead of Jewelry from a Photograph
25:51 10How to Create a New Bead
17:28 11Extract a Faux Stem from a Photograph
17:44 12Check Extraction for Ghost Pixels
11:15 13Extract Painted Brushes from a Scanned Canvas
18:35 14Create a Transfer from a Gesso Background
25:21 15Project 1: Introduction
03:33 16Project 1: Deconstruct Layer-by-Layer
03:15 17Project 1: Start with a Digital Substrate Layer
39:14 18Project 1: Add Photos & Frames
19:27 19Project 1: Add Clusters with Brushes
11:33 20Project 1: Blend & Reinforce Photos
14:26 21Project 1: Fine Tune & Finalize
03:19 22Project 2: Introduction
04:38 23Project 2: Deconstruct Project Layer-by-Layer
03:07 24Project 2: Start With a Digital Substrate Layer
12:56 25Project 2: Create Drama in the Project
14:48 26Project 2: Add Embellishments
19:21 27Project 2: Fine Tune & Finalize
04:58Lesson Info
Fill the Gaps with Fonts
Okay another good thing to use are fonts. I'm not a doodler for example. I kinda can doodle but most of the time that left me when turned like 15, 16 years old. The ability to doodle, you know when you're kids, you can doodle all day in class, but after I got outta class I was like, I can't doodle. fontsquirrel's a great resource to use. They have great dingbats, which is what I usually search for so that if you wanna create this kind of mixed media art journaling type of pages, this is a really great font to use. I would use it just like you would a type. Another one if you wanted to go more with a more formal look, this is another one that I found on fontsquirrel. Again great things that you can use and all of these are free. You can get all of these, you don't have to pay anything. And let's say splats, we all like those ink spots on our pages and add color to them and they help round out some of the stuff that we add to our photos, splats. Finally do not forget your art supplies. I...
'm not a artist by any means, and, but when I'm feeling courageous, and even though I love digital, I still like to get my hands dirty. I still like to add my paper and get artistic and what not. So you can do art. Now I have some examples that I'm going to share just to prove to you guys that I'm not an artistic, I'm a digital artist, but I wouldn't call myself a paper artist. But something like this, you grab a variety of strokes, you know, I grab the glue stick, like the other half of a glue stick, put it into some acrylic oil-based ink, that one was oil-based, and then just stamp it all over the page. And then I digitize that, I scan that in and use it on my pages. And again, once I do it once I don't have to keep doing it. So I have a couple of examples. You don't have to be the best painter, this is something I would like to do. You know, because these, when we create them on a page, they, and you're gonna see it, they make so many beautiful things. On that mixed media page that you guys see with my cat up there, this is some of the stamps that I've used up there. Some of these in that 40 piece kit, this is the kit that you're getting at, okay. They came from this, so I scan 'em. And it's just a simple brush with some watercolor that I added up there. Took one minute, I let it try for a good seven minutes and then I put it on my scanner and I scanned it in. But the amount of things that you can do with this digitally is so amazing, right? So just you guys can see, Yani I'll start with you and you can pass it around if you'd like. Um, so yeah, broad stroke watercolor marks. They work perfectly for photo masks and building backgrounds, making things look pretty. You can also draw familiar shapes with the watercolor touch. And I think I actually, nope, I didn't bring that one. But even for another example, it doesn't have to be all pretty. These are things that we're gonna use digitally that make it look amazing, okay? And I'll pass this one to Yani too just so you guys can see it. So you don't have to be the most amazing painter in the world. All you have to do is have access to the supplies, canvas, watercolor brushes, acrylics. Look around your home for stamps, don't buy any stamps, just look around your home. You can use stamp pads if you're an old school scrapbooker and you have stamps, use those things for your digital stuff to add them in. They'll help you add texturing and to help you create things that you can absolutely love. So mixed media, the epitome of mixed media to me means taking every single thing that you can find and somehow using it on your digital page. Thinks like fonts and adding supplies, all that.
Class Materials
Bonus Material with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Jane Millar
This class is FABULOUS! Tiffany is very knowledgeable and was extremely well prepared. (I watched the entire class from 9 to 4 today, August 18, 2016.) She speaks clearly and is easy to understand. She does move quickly through the material, so I would recommend buying the class so you have unlimited access to the videos. The bonus materials are great! This class is well worth the money. However, the class is probably for those with at least intermediate skill in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Beginners would probably find it overwhelming. I will add that the class is well suited to anyone interested in digital art as well as those who do digital scrapbooking.
a Creativelive Student
love love love this class...Tiffany is an awesome teacher. She has really organized this class to provide maximum value to the audience. Being a paper crafter and digital scrapbooker, the instructions/ideas Tiffany has shared will definitely help me to take my work to the next level.
Anita
What a fun class! I've been doing digital design for over four years but learned so much today! Tiffany Tillman-Emanuel is a very competent instructor, was very encouraging, and stressed that there is more than one way to do something in Photoshop and the importance of discovering our own style...highly recommend purchasing this course along with her class on compositing for digital scrapbookers...I got a great deal on both. BTW, I am not a scrapbooker but create and sell digitally painted background and art journal papers, so there's something for everyone in this class!