Assignment 3
Narrative Illustration Task: Create a series of comic pages based on a short story. The Masque of the Red Death is a well-known short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story goes that there was in a kingdom a rich [...]
Part 3: Projects
Part three: Narrative Illustration Narrative and image are inseparably linked, even the simplest images consisting only of a single color can communicate something. An illustrator must learn to use this connection to best communicate with whoever their audience is. This [...]
Part 2: Projects
Reportage Projects In this chapter we're diving into the world of reportage illustration. The range of reportage illustration types is as vast as the range topics one can choose from to write about in any given publication. We will only [...]
Assignment 2
Assignment 2: Reportage The brief: "Your local tourist board has commissioned you to produce a series of reportage illustrations that celebrates aspects of local culture." Targu Mures is on the smaller side as cities go, but it still has [...]
Assignment 1
Assignment One: Octavia, Thin City The text to illustrate: "Thin cities 5 If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the [...]
Part 1: Projects
Thoughts on the beginning of this course Here I am, starting 2021 with a brand new Level and a brand new Illustration course. I learned a wealth of valuable information from the Level 1 courses (a.i. Illustration 1: Key steps to [...]
Assignment 5: Your choice
Assignment Five As I said in part three: I think I would like to select a paragraph or poem and create a booklet with it. In it, I would play around with the lettering and push the typographical elements while still maintaining [...]
Project 1: Publishing models
Publishing Models In this last section of Creative Book Design, I will have to deal with the process of creating and printing a small book. I have played around with zines, art books, creating covers, typography, and so on, but I have [...]
Project 2: Workflow
Workflow To have an efficient process in creating this new book project the workflow must be established and followed, if not to the letter at least in general, depending on the type of book created. The process of making something can be [...]
Project 3: The printing process
Exercise 3: On press The decision to print the book and have it bound by someone else made it necessary to research places which would be willing to do so. Big presses were eliminated from the get-go because I would only [...]