Mid-Year Course Survey

Hello Students,

ROP uses a course survey mid-year and at the end of the year to gather information and receive feedback about our courses and class material. This information is used to provide evidence of the course work, student achievement and relevancy of our curriculum in ROP classes. This information ensures funding and helps to ensure that ROP classes continue to be offered to future High School students.

Please click this link and complete the survey: Mid-Year Course Survey for ROP

Thank you for your participation!

 - Mr.W

Student Showcase: Digital Illustration with Perspective

Student Showcase: Corporate Identity Packages

Portfolio Development

Hello Students,

Having a polished and professional looking portfolio is key to your success in finding work after High School and moving on to developing a career. Download the ROP Portfolio Handbook to use as a guide for creating your own portfolio, a requirement in all ROP classes.

Portfolio's are due by the January 18th and must be ready for presentation, evaluation and critique. You will complete a digital version as a PDF file for evaluation. Class winner will be able to print and prepare their portfolio for inclusion in the Portfolio Showcase competition

Remember that the best portfolio in class will be sent to the portfolio design competition that ROP has at the end of each school year, your portfolio will compete against other graphic design classes across the county, and there are prizes!

A judge evaluates print portfolio's from past entrants...

Portfolio Development Assignment:

• Your portfolio must be created in Indesign and the final file must be a multi-page PDF document
• Use the Pages palette to create multiple pages for your portfolio with Indesign
• Your portfolio cover, table of contents and all materials should look clean and consistent. Use consistent design style across all aspects of your portfolio, this includes color, typography, layout and style

Your Portfolio must contain in this order: See portfolio handbook for more details...

1. Cover page with your name, class title, year. Spend some time on this, it should show good design skill and be reflective of your personality
2. Table of contents
3. Letter of Introduction
4. Resume
5. Handwritten Job Application 
6. List of References
7. Letter of Recommendation -  cannot be from your ROP teacher or a family member
8. 3 or more work samples with written explanation about the work, why is it important to your career choice? What did the project entail, what were the challenges and difficulties? Give us details.

How Your Portfolio Is Evaluated:

• Contains required content and format
• Well organized
• Free of grammer problems
• ROP related work samples
• Shows creativity
• Nice appearance
• Shows skill development
• Appropriate for use in job search
• Professional appearance
• Nice presentation

A print portfolio can take many forms, it can be professionally bound, stitched by hand or bound with a spiral ring... how will you create your portfolio, what will make it stand out above the rest?

Tips For Winning The Portfolio Competition:

In the last few years the portfolio competition has gotten fierce, especially for the graphic design category. Other schools have printing facilities that we don't, so you must use your creativity, ingenuity and eye for design to stand above the rest. Consider purchasing a large format portfolio binder and printing work samples at 11X17", or consider making a hand-bound book format to showcase your work. The limits are only contained by your creativity!

Use this as a rough guide to laying out your own portfolio...

Ok, have fun!

- Mr.W

Student Showcase: Event Poster Designs

Special Guest Speaker: Steve Voizin of SOV Interactive

Yesterday our class was honored to host Steve Voizin as a special guest speaker. Steve is owner and operator of SOV Interactive, a media development company located in the San Lorenzo Valley. Steve is a visual designer and creative director for desktop, web, video and mobile projects. Steve provides his clients with elegant interactive multimedia marketing solutions, cutting edge collateral and has a passion for graphic design, typography and color theory. Steve shared his time with our class to discuss his work and career path and showed portfolio examples and behind the scenes images from his client projects.

About SOV Interactive:
SOV Interactive LLC, is a multimedia company that provides the marketing and advertising services to promote the particular lifestyle related to the product. The company was founded in 1999 and SOV Interactive is a cutting edge, independent digital media studio, specializing in motion graphics, video production, flash design, web engineering, and multimedia presentation services. SOV Interactive currently operates as an LLC in the State of CA. Steve Voisin, the chief creative office and business owner, has over fifteen years of professional multimedia experience working with major consumer and entertainment companies producing digital marketing collateral for events, trades shows, advertising, sales demos, and product launches. His goal is to offer “Highest Quality at half the price”. All of SOV's staffing are consultants and our company operates on a lateral and global level, where everyone has an equal part and voice on our creative projects.

Our class extends a big thank you to Steve Voizin for sharing his time... Thank You Steve!

  - Mr.W

Digital Illustration Project: Using 1,2 or 3 Point Perspective

Hello Students,

Your new assignment is to create a series of illustrations using perspective. You will create this artwork in Adobe Illustrator. Your drawing must be rich with detail and in full color. Poor effort on this assignment will result in a poor grade.

Digital Illustration with Perspective Assignment:

• Create a single-point perspective cube
• Create a two-point perspective cube
• Create a three-point perspective cube
• Choose a perspective and create an illustration, it could be the inside of your room or home, a building from the outside or several buildings in a city scape, or it could be a surreal illustration that used perspective. Must be in full color and well rendered.

About Perspective:

Of the many types of perspective drawings, 1,2 and 3 point perspectives are most common. The numbers refer to the amount of vanishing points in your perspective drawing. If you look along a straight road, the parallel sides of the road appear meet at a point in the distance. This point is called the vanishing point and has been used to add realism to art since the 1400's in Florence, Italy.

One-Point Perspective:

One single vanishing point is typically used for drawing roads, railroad tracks, hallways or buildings when viewed from the front. Any objects that are made up of lines that are directly parallel with the viewers line of sight or directly perpendicular can be represented with 1 point perspective.

Two-Point Perspective:

Two-point perspective can be used to draw the same objects as 1 point, but rotated. If you look at a house from the corner, instead of straight on as in 1 point perspective, one wall would recede towards one vanishing point and the other would recede towards the opposite vanishing point.

Three-Point Perspective:

This technique is usually used for drawing buildings as seen from above or below. In addition to the 2 vanishing points (one for each wall) there is a 3rd that shows how the walls recede into the ground. This 3rd vanishing point will be below the ground, if we were looking up at a building than that 3rd vanishing point would be up in the air.

OK, sound fun? No? Sounds hard? Well don't sweat it!! Illustrator has some awesome tools for drawing in perspective. Adobe Illustrator has Perspective Grids. Just navigate to to VIEWMENU / PERSPECTIVE GRID and then choose your one, two or three point perspective, click on the angle you want and create a shape, it will be aligned with the left, right or bottom side of your perspective grid.

Previous Student Work Examples: