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 [...]
Exercises from Assignment 2
Exercise 1: Writing the Brief What I love about Pascal Campion is how he creates atmosphere and warmth in his illustrations of the small, but important moments in life. This is reflected in his “The Unlikely Story of a Pig in [...]
Exercises from Assignment 1
History of Illustration Exercise We were asked to research two illustrators, one modern and one old-fashioned. I chose Edward Aridzzone as my first reference, and I tried to emulate the black-and-white treatment, as well as the cozy mood of the [...]
Assignment 1: Greeting Card
Welcome to my first post and assignment! This is the front illustration of my greeting card. Since the task was not very specific when it came to the illustration, I thought I would use a subject I find comfortable, which is fantasy. I [...]