Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business

Leah Walton2025-05-14T17:43:39-04:00

Welcome to Our Digital Art Course for Homeschoolers: Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business

Does your teen have a flair for digital design? Is she the person who creates T-shirts for family reunions and fliers for homeschool group events? This course will help your student take it to the next level! With thirty-six lessons on Photoshop® tools and techniques, accessing photos legally, editing images, branding and marketing, and starting a business, this course can help anyone turn the hobby into a vocation!

Getting Started with Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Homeschool Course

This digital art course introduces homeschool teens to the world of possibilities for putting their artistic and creative skills to work online in any number of fields. Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business covers the rules governing images, where to find them, how to edit and manipulate images, fonts and word art, logos and banner ads, product design, and more.

Please note: Students need access to Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6, or CC (which requires a membership) for this course. CC has the most updated tools. The teacher is currently using CS5. Lightroom is not required. Please contact us with any questions.

Overview

36 lessons
Includes downloadable lessons, videos, and activities
Grades: 7–12

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research; access to Photoshop C54, C55, C56, or CC. (All of these require a membership.) Lightroom is not required. This is not included with your membership to SchoolhouseTeachers.com.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and course outline. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Course

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Lesson 3: Graphic Designer Wages

Activity: Image Size and Compression Guide

Have you ever heard the expression, “Don’t muzzle the ox”? It’s another important standard in life and in the world of freelance design that I would like to address. What we’re talking about here is strengthening your morale, taking care of your needs, fueling your interest, and even finding energy as you work on professional projects over time. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. What it really covers is compensation—being paid for your time, your skill level, and the extra effort in what you produce.

While most believers are very charitable and giving, they too have needs; they all need to eat, drink, have shelter over their heads and pay their bills. So, at some point in time, they have to be compensated for the work they provide. Even Paul addresses the human need for workers to be compensated, whether on the missionary field, at home with the kids, on the job miles away, or even in the living room on the computer doing cool digital art projects (wink). We all need some form of compensation.

Deuteronomy 25:4 (NKJV) – “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”

1 Corinthians 9:9 (NKJV) – “For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.”

Let’s keep in mind that this course is directed at the prospect of helping you design products for small business purposes, whether you want to learn how to create products to sell or how to provide graphic design services for hire on an hourly wage basis.

Transcript Information for Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Course

If this digital art course is thoroughly completed, and the homeschool student spends approximately 180 hours completing all reading assignments and projects, it may count for 1.0 academic credit.

*Please be informed of your state’s academic requirements.

Visit our High School Help page for resources and information about:

Finding out your state’s academic requirements.
How to create a transcript
Keeping a schedule
Career Exploration
And more!

Course Outline for Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Course

Thirty-six digital art course lessons introduce homeschool art students to the possibilities for putting their creative skills to work online in a variety of fields.

Part One – Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business

Unit One: Higher Standards

Lesson One: Introduction: Be You. Be Unique!
Lesson Two: Researching Perspectives Gets Results
Lesson Three: Graphic Designer Wages
Lesson Four: Image Theft and How
Lesson Five: Party Time with Public Domain
Lesson Six: Giving Proper Credit
Lesson Seven: Stock: Good, Bad, and the Filthy
Lesson Eight: Awesome Tools for Amazing Results

Unit Two: Focusing on Photoshop

Lesson Nine: Stay Focused and Do What You Love
Lesson Ten: Categories, Types, and Targets
Lesson Eleven: Blending In – Put Yourself Anywhere
Lesson Twelve: Changing Skin Tones
Lesson Thirteen: Looking Younger
Lesson Fourteen: Dreamy Backgrounds
Lesson Fifteen: Fun Shapes that Save Time
Lesson Sixteen: Changing Eye Colors
Lesson Seventeen: Typography
Lesson Eighteen: Save Time and Look Great
Lesson Nineteen: Lightning Bolts
Lesson Twenty: Colors that Persuade

Unit Three: Creating and Selling Real Products!

Lesson Twenty-One: Business Planning and Setting Goals
Lesson Twenty-Two: Logo Design and Logo Branding
Lesson Twenty-Three: Dive in and Sell Stock
Lesson Twenty-Four: Who Can Make Your Product

Unit Four: Challenges

Challenge One: Bokeh Background Stock
Challenge Two: Inspirational Poster
Challenge Three: Graphic Design Banner Ad
Challenge Four: Inspirational Poster
Challenge Five: Photo Manipulation Art Project
Challenge Six: Digital Art Flowers
Challenge Seven: Flamingo Clipart: The Invitation
Challenge Eight: Whimsical Tree and Flowers Made from Shapes
Challenge Nine: Thanksgiving Day Turkey Greeting Card
Challenge Ten: Photo Manipulation Project: Time
Challenge Eleven: Photo Manipulation Project: Peacock Princess
Challenge Twelve: Basic Artists eBay Store Design

More About Digital Art and Product Designs for Small Business, Our Digital Art Course

This digital art course is for the teen who has ever thought about being a professional digital artist or just wants to learn how to create products like T-shirts, brochures, book and magazine covers, advertisements, logo designs, and business cards, or even abstract art to sell online or in the retail stores downtown. With over 10 years of creative digital art experience and inquisitive fervor, Crystal Calhoun teaches homeschool teens how to stand out from the rest and to bask in the unique awesomeness God has given each and every one of them! Her words can be a bit lofty, and her confidence soars to the skies, but that’s okay. Homeschool art students get a good dose of healthy confidence themselves as they dive into Crystal’s digital art course and take on the new challenges presented with each lesson she brings. Jump in, ask questions, and share the finished projects. It’s a lot of fun!

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Digital Art and Product
Designs for Small Business

Length: 36 lessons
Content type: Printable lessons with activities
Grades: 7–12

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