Lecture
This week starts from a drawing instead of a prompt. Image-to-image tools take your sketch first, and the model builds on top of it. We run one sketch through ChatGPT, Gemini, Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Midjourney and Illustrator and compare how closely each one follows it. Then we talk about style: why an artist’s name in a prompt isn’t a style, where to find public domain references, and when influence turns into imitation. We finish with keeping a character the same from picture to picture, and with inpainting and outpainting, which let you fix one part of an image and keep the rest.
In Class Assignment
The second half of class is the midterm workshop. You’ll write a three-sentence brief: what you’re making, who it’s for, and what problem it solves. In groups of three, read it aloud, show what you have so far along with the Discover and Define pages of your process book, and ask the group what they would cut. Then cut one thing. Use the rest of the time to work. Before you leave, write down what you’ll finish each day until presentations.
Homework
There’s no separate assignment this week. Finish your midterm, following the plan you wrote in class. Everything is due at the start of class on Monday, October 26: the final design, your process book, the 300-word reflection, and a five-minute presentation about your decisions, not a tour of the work.
Due today: the Ethics Position Paper (500 words) and the Week 5 slop poster.