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Adobe Youth Voices @ Body & Soul – Final Workshops

Posted by Hannah in Animation, Graphics, Illustration

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For six weeks now, Ben has been running his Adobe Youth Voices sessions at Body & Soul and now, sadly, they have drawn to an end.

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The time seems to have flown by, but we have all really enjoyed it, and hopefully learnt a lot about photoshop, and attempting to teach a class of teenagers!

The last 4 weeks have taken us from the initial pen sketches to laptops, and you can see the wicked illustrations that the kids came up with! Watch this space for future talents!!

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The hardest part of learning Photoshop was getting to grips with using layers, their importance, and why you bother!!!

We spent time showing them how to transform the characters, that started as mere pencil sketches that we scanned in to the computer, and used as a guide to create their characters on Photoshop.

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Using different layers they created a range of effects on their characters from mum tattoos to chicken bones. They definitely got creative!!

Even more praise to the guys, as using Photoshop on a touch pad on a laptop is pretty tough, and half of them hadn’t used a mac before either, so there were lots of things to get to grips with in our hourly sessions!

The kids at Body & Soul have been amazing, and levels of talent have varied, but we have been really impressed by how quickly a lot of them picked stuff up!

Click here to learn more about Adobe Youth Voices and all the project!!

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