Design a digital dreamscape

Art and design

Art about dreams

Illustrate a piece of text about dreams

Make a portrait of a sleeping person

Add tone to your sleeping portrait

Surreal dreamscape collage

This unit explores how dreams have inspired artists, especially the Surrealists. Pupils will illustrate a piece of dream text, then learn how to draw and shade a sleeping portrait, before transforming it into a digital design.

Dream portraits: drawing and digital design

Photographic images always reflect reality.

{{ }} means to change or alter an image using digital technology.

An artist can {{ }} images to add depth to their composition.

Which composition style could be useful to an artist?

Artists always make artwork based upon something they have seen in the real world.

by placing the images which are most important at the front

How can overlapping images help an artist to share what is most important in their artwork?

Photographs are always a true reflection of reality.

Photographs can have their contrast digitally changed.

Which of these statements about photographs are **not** true?

Digital manipulation means to {{}} an image using digital technology.

Starter Quiz

Tone can only be achieved with charcoal.