The briefThe title is Seven days.These can be the seven days of the week or random days that tell a story. Your interpretation can be objective or subjective. You can produce seven separate, one large diagrammatic or a continuous strip illustration. You can decide on the media and methods you will use; the context –…
Category: Assignments – Key Steps in Illustration
Assignment four: Magazine illustration
This assignment should give you the opportunity to show off your developing style and use of tools and materials. If you decide to work digitally save the early stages of your image and print out key points of your experimentation. Often illustrators working editorially for newspapers and magazines will be given a very loose brief…
Exercise: A menu card
For this exercise you are asked to provide an illustration for use on the menu of a sophisticated, quality fish restaurant – one in a chain sited in major European cities. The menu uses fresh ingredients and the ambience of the restaurant is modern, bright and contemporary in design. Any food depicted needs to be…
Assignment three: A poster
The brief To design an illustration for a poster for a music event. An Early Music concert, a Jazz evening or for a pop group. You can choose. The finished poster will be reproduced at A3 size, but you can work at the size, in proportion, that you feel most comfortable with. You will need…
Assignment two: Point of sale display
This assignment will consolidate the skills and knowledge you have gained from the projects and exercises so far. At this stage of your development it is important that you focus on research and gathering and evolving your ideas. The brief To create images which will be used within a campaign for a supermarket, to package…
Assignment One: Say Hello
This first assignment is to introduce yourself to your tutor and give them the opportunity to get to know you and your work. This assignment is not submitted for formal assessmentYou are going to send a ‘greetings card’, telling your tutor about yourself, your interests and inspirations, the materials you feel happy working with and…
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