Playful Portraiture

Introduction
4 Lessons
- Introductions
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- Course Supply List
  Start
- How This Classroom Works: a few tips for navigating this course
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- Let's look at faces
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Silly Selfies: cartoons and caricatures
3 Lessons
- Faces are all about proportions and placement
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- Supplies for making silly self portraits
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- Make a silly selfie
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Tracing a Photo: it's all about shapes
4 Lessons
- Choosing a photo: the good, the bad, and the goofy
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- Supplies for creating a pattern
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- Trace your photo to create a pattern
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- Enlarging and marking your pattern
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Fusible applique and choosing fabric
4 Lessons
- Supplies & practice patterns
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- Choosing Fabric: value is more important than color
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- Grouping your pattern pieces
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- Fusing your fabric
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Building your face with fabric
7 Lessons
- Transferring your pattern to fabric
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- Cutting and organizing your shapes
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- Positioning and fusing your features
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- Choosing a background
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- Sewing down your shapes - or not
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- Tips for quilting faces
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- Facing a quilt
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Using a tablet or smart phone
6 Lessons
- What you will need for digital pattern making
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- Paper Camera app for making clear "value" photos
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- Snapseed app for altering existing photos
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- Snapseed app for altering existing photos 2
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- Adobe Illustrator Draw: Basic use and creating a pattern
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- Adobe Illustrator Draw: Basic use and creating a pattern 2
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Wrapping up & a few extras
5 Lessons
- Student gallery
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- If you want to learn to draw a face
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- Ten books to read if you are an aspiring artist
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- Course Evaluation
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- You Might Also Enjoy ...
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Course Curriculum

Introduction

Silly Selfies: cartoons and caricatures

Tracing a Photo: it's all about shapes

Fusible applique and choosing fabric

Building your face with fabric

Using a tablet or smart phone

Wrapping up & a few extras

Lyric Kinard Kinard