Digital Portraits Lesson

This is a Digital Portraits Lesson for your middle school art students.

This presentation will begin with 3 questions for students to ponder, discuss and answer:

What do you know about digital art? How is it created?

What is a vector image?

How is that different from a Raster (Bitmap) image?

Students will get a chance to learn about each of these art forms in further detail through descriptions, explanations, and visual examples (with credit to the artists that created them).

With each artwork example slide, you can allow students to form groups and discuss what they see and how techniques were applied to these digital portraits. This is also a great opportunity for whole group discussion.

Student’s assignment will be:

“You will be creating a digital vector portrait of yourself. If digital art is entirely brand new to you, you will watch this tutorial (you have permission to speed it up) and create your own digital portrait using Google Drawing. 

If you are experienced with digital art, I challenge you to use Google Drawing (an incredibly simple platform in comparison to what you probably use) to create your vector portrait. Take a look at the tutorial above to get some ideas for strategies. 

However, if you choose to use your own digital platform to create your portrait, it must still be in the “vector art” style, and must have some additional creative elements like the few portrait examples towards the end in the previous slides. 

Once you’re finished, submit your work as a Google Drawing file/link in the Google Classroom and complete the attached reflection. Additionally, save the image from the app, and set it as your Profile Picture on Google.”

A scoring rubric is included.

A 22 slide editable PowerPoint