Illustration Sketchbooks: Recording and Sharing your Work
Assignment 1 Exploring the everyday is a fairly loose theme, but somehow I think I may not be able to adhere to it. So much of what I like to draw is fantastical, but I suppose we will [...]
Illustration Sketchbooks: Exercises 1
Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use? I usually keep at least two or three different sketchbooks, one of which I carry around in my purse, one I use for ideas and planning, and a "sketchbook" which is basically [...]
Illustration Sketchbooks: Research Tasks 1
Research Task 1:0 - Emma's Sketchbook Viewing Emma's sketchbook was a pleasure, it is very different from other sketchbooks I have made or seen. One of the reasons for that is that she works with printing instead of drawing or painting, which [...]
Exercises from Assignment 5
Exercise 1: Your Own Work I started out this exercise by pulling out all my traditionally-created work and spreading it out on the floor. Then I put yellow sticky notes on each of the works I thought would be best [...]
Assignment 5: Seven Days
Assignment 5: Seven Days For this last assignment we were given the "Seven Days" theme to write a brief around. Brief: Create a series of seven illustrations for a personal development magazine. The article is about the importance of novelty for productivity. [...]
Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration
Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration For the Magazine Illustration assignment, we had to select one of the given words. I chose "Discovery". The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of "Discovery" is grandness, like discovering a new land or a [...]
Exercises from Assignment 4
Exercise 1: Tools and Materials The purpose of this exercise was to select other artist's work and analyze their techniques by dissecting and recreating them in one of my own images. Given the task, I decided to take the opportunity to learn [...]
Assignment 3: A Poster
Jazz Evening Poster Before starting out with sketching ideas, I looked up Jazz posters of various types to draw inspiration from, then I wrote down the information I would need to have on my poster. During this, I [...]
Exercises from Assignment 3
Exercise 1: Illustrating Visual Space In these experiments with space, I re-arranged printed images and noted on the type of illusion of space each of them created. The images were selected on the internet, moved into Photoshop and resized to three [...]
Assignment 2: Point of Sale Display
Summer Autumn References for Summer References for Autumn According to the brief, the supermarket I drew these illustrations for takes great pride in the quality of their products, so [...]