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…
Category: Part 4 – Key Steps in Illustration
Exercise: Character development
Collect as many examples as possible of different characters – newspapers and magazines are a particular good source. Catalogue these characters as types – babies, children, sportsmen, old women – create your own category headings. Decide upon a character you would like to create. This might be one from a book or story, or based…
Exercise: Visual distortion
This exercise is designed to push you through a deliberate process of stylisation. Tackle it with an open mind and be prepared to adapt or adopt some of the approaches you discover. Begin by drawing a cat or dog. Use reference from any source – life, photos or images from the internet. Draw the animal…
Exercise: A tattoo
A friend has asked you to design a tattoo for them based on the word Mum. He would also like you to make it into a greeting card that he can send his mother. (What a good idea for Mother’s Day). Research the history and conventions of tattoos and body art – as well as…
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…
Exercise: A children’s book cover
You are asked to produce a cover illustration for a natural history book for children (age 7–11) entitled Animals from Around the World. The image is to be used as a full colour front jacket to encourage children to choose this book from the library shelf. There is a long history of covers for children’s…
Exercise: Museum posters
You have been asked to produce three illustrations be used as part of a series of A3 posters to publicise the museum to the following audiences: Child aged (5–9) Teenager (13–16) General adult audience The museum wants to encourage diverse sections of the population to visit and to perceive it as a place of interest….
Exercise: Identifying tools and materials
Find a range of illustrators who use a particular medium. You may focus on the traditional such as pencil, watercolour, paint, gouache, coloured pencils, oil or acrylic paint, coloured pencils, collage, prints or on the more obviously digital processes – including digital collage, photography, digital drawing and painting. Catalogue the illustrators according to similarities in…
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