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: Part 5 – Key Steps in Illustration
Exercise: Educational strip
You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty. You can decide on which aspect you want to tackle. Due to the subject matter and the intended age group, it is suggested that you…
Exercise: Working for children
Collect as many examples of imagery for children as possible. Group the illustrations you’ve collected into the target age groups. Include at least one image for each age group. Pre-reader, Pre-school (3–5), Early reader (5-7), Established reader (7–9), and Older age groups. Take two of these age groups and, for each one, go through a…
Exercise: Packaging
Produce a series of illustrations for packaging to be used for a new range of organic biscuits for children. There are three varieties in the range Raisin, Choc Chip and Ginger biscuits. The client specifically wants three illustrations featuring extinct animals interacting in some fun way with a biscuit to be used on the boxes….
Exercise: Text and image
Begin by taking each pair of words in turn from the list below and writing them in your own handwriting. Big Small | Fat Thin | Fast Slow | Fun Boring | Calm Mad Now write each pair of opposites in a way that is descriptive – use the shape and size of the word…
Exercise: Travel guides
Your brief is to produce three illustrations for a series of books jackets, at the size of an existing travel guide, for the locations Istanbul, Helsinki and Milan. The client would like you to create illustrations in which many elements are brought together in a diagrammatic way. They would also like the type to be…
Exercise: Editorial Illustration
Buy a newspaper with a supplement and go through cutting out any article that contains an illustration. Notice the heading for each article and read the text that the illustration refers to. Make a mental note about the way the illustration relates to the text, how its ideas relate to the meaning of the piece,…
Exercise: Your own work
Most of the work you’ve created so far has been as a result of specific exercises with clear objectives defining the outcome. However, every drawing, every mark, every image you produce belongs to you and, as your property, has a potential value beyond the satisfying of a brief or exercise. Go through the artwork you’ve…
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