Author: isaacpeterson
Isaac Peterson is an author, artist, and educator living in Oregon. Isaac illustrates children's books for both print media and animated IOS and Android applications. Isaac is working on his first science fiction novel. You can read portions of it in the writing blog. An accomplished film photographer, he recently won first place in a group show at fotofoto gallery in New York.
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EXPLORE YOUR NATURAL STYLE Draw the best drawing ever. Use your natural approach and play to your strengths. Don’t hold any ideas in your head, just do what you naturally do. Let’s try to be really focused and not check cell phones at all— this is 45 minutes. Make sure to choose your spot in […]
COCC Art Department T-shirt
Art club is restarting! Therefore we are looking for a t-shirt design. Bill Hoppe is retiring this year. He is the main creative force behind the art department at COCC and over the years he has done a lot for students and the art community in Central Oregon. For many years he was the art […]
Drawing a Tile Floor
Tile floor in perspective Create a tile floor in perspective — —Create a large square in 1 point perspective —Place a sequence of lines that are the same size on the forward edge and extend them to the vanishing point. —draw a diagonal across the whole square —use the diagonal to construct the horizontal breaks […]
Basic Photo Editing
Discover Neutrals Use the color sampling tool to neutralize cast in photos. Download the accordion guy, the model pics and the storm picture. Work through color sampling and adjustment until you have balanced neutrals in all three photos. Use masks and adjustments for dynamic range Create masks which correspond to light ranges in a photo. […]
HDR and GIGASTITCH
High Dynamic Range Photos download these three photos at full resolution and use automation to combine them into one HDR image. Compare the result (A true HDR image) with the HDR toning adjustment. Photomerge (also called gigapan / gigastitch) Download the three image sets below and use automation to create 3 different kinds of photomerge. […]
Drawing Inspiration
Giacometti was a master of cross contour, and he invented a way of building up line, then painting over it and continuing to draw on it. Alice Neel was highly selective in her focus. She made powerful choices in her work, rendering some things with intricate detail and others elements as blocky patterns and heavy […]
Week 1
this is the resource page for week 1 DRAWING 1/ART 131 WINTER 2020 Instructor: Isaac Peterson CRN 14346 1-3:45 MW Isaac Peterson ( ipeterson4@cocc.edu ) Office Hours: Before class and by appointment Get a book-size sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and […]
Emerald Design Co.
Jessica Hammerman and I are proud to announce our new business, Emerald Design Co. We design wordpress sites for customers, and offer writing, editing and content services. Check it out and if you need a website or any of the other services we offer, please get in touch right away! All the best, Isaac Peterson
Ruby and Noah
Ruby and Noah on another cuzzy adventure climbing the Bil Keane statue in Scottsdale! In stunning 3-D.