Name: Digital Arts Foundations
Price: -1 USD

Digital Arts Foundations

via Udacity Nanodegree

Overview

Explore digital art and graphic design with Canva. This comprehensive introductory course covers the tools and theory needed to easily craft eye-catching compositions.

Syllabus

Welcome to the Nanodegree Program!

Welcome to Udacity! We're excited to share more about your Nanodegree program and start this journey with you!

Elements of Design

Learn the core elements of visual design, including shape, color, layout, and typography, using Canva and Adobe Color to create scalable, well-structured digital compositions from scratch.

Elements of Design and Composition

This course delves into texture in both fine arts and the digital realm, utilizing images, lines, shapes, typography, and layered colors to create depth and a tactile sense. The concept of space is explored, encompassing foreground, middleground, background, and perspective, with techniques for recreating depth using basic elements. The course also covers balance and scale in composition, including understanding visual weight, achieving harmony through balanced and counterbalanced elements, and exploring symmetry and asymmetry in design.

Composition

This course focuses on movement and rhythm in compositions, utilizing repetition and rhythm to establish visual flow. By manipulating elements and utilizing Canva's animation tools, we can guide the viewer's eye movement. Visual hierarchy and emphasis are explored, examining their historical use in advertisements and understanding the order of importance in emphasizing focal points. Points of entry and design briefs are analyzed to enhance understanding. Achieving unity in compositions is also covered, including the concept of unity and various approaches to achieve it. The relation between Gestalt groupings and unity is explored, along with an analysis of a design brief.

Project: Social Media Introduction Poster

In this project, students will create a vector-based social media poster, which can serve as a mockup ad for their new graphic design company and showcase their design skills.