A Illustrator's Journey

A Poster 17/03/2018 The Brief 'To design an illustration for a poster for a music event. You can choose: Early Music Concert   Jazz Evening   Pop Group The finished poster will be reproduce in A3 size, but you can work at the size, in proportion, that you feel most comfortable with.   The poster will include the title of the event, the date, time, place and any other information you think appropriate. You can either include in your artwork or indicate where it will be positioned.' 18/03/2018   For this assignment I chose from the list above a Jazz Evening Poster. I think this one stood out to me because I am due to go to New Orleans in 3 weeks time and its perfect to get inspired for the trip and the poster.   I started with a brainstorm: Brainstorm     Then I went onto google search and typed in Jazz Poster's and picked the posters I felt drawn too or liked, I made a moodboard with these illustrations: Jazz Poster Moodboard_01

Making a Mock-Up 07/03/2018 ' For this exercise you are going to mock-up a book cover. From your book shelves or from the library choose a book title that appeals to you. Read the blurb on the back of the book        (or the whole book if you have time). You may have already done an illustration you can use or you may be inspired to make a new one. If you are using one you have already done you may need to modify it in some way. You may need to play with the colours, edit or adjust the composition or alter the size and scale. Don't make changes to the original.   Either copying the design of the cover and adding your illustration or design to the cover from scratch, make sure that you can incorporate the title, author and publisher's details. In your learning log not how well your image worked and any technical problems you had overcome to make a convincing mock-up. '      I am looking forward to this exercise because in the long run i hope to be

Client Visuals  28/02/2018 ' This exercise is to help you to edit an image to its main structural form and to practise creating a clear visual.  From the work you have collected pick at least two finished illustrations. These illustrations should contain a range of content. Using a form of line which feels comfortable and which you can confidently manage, create a visual for each illustration. Be aware of the main shapes and directions; draw the elements of the image with sufficient detail for them to be readable.  Explore how many lines you need to use to describe the content. Try another version of the same image and see how much content you can remove so that the image is distilled to an extremely edited form but still makes sense.  Find some images that make you more aware of the art direction behind them and annotate them to explain the thinking behind them in your learning log.'  01/03/2018   I have decided to look at Peter Thom