Exercise: Identifying Tools and Materials
Identifying Tools and Materials 01/05/2018 'Find a range of illustrators that use a particular medium. Catalogue the illustrators according to similarities in a way that they use tools and materials. How do they distort or exaggerate the representation of elements in their work? How do they communicate through use of metaphor or symbols? Choose one image that you most appreciate visually. Ask yourself questions such as; How are colour, tone and texture used to evoke the mood or convey an idea? Has the illustrator distorted the content within the imagery and how does this work for the purpose the image fulfils? Go back to a visual you created for an earlier exercise and now render it using the same tools and materials as your chosen artist.' For this exercise I could not decide on one particular medium to choose from so I picked three, and then I picked three illustrator from each category to research. The mediums I chose to look at are; Tra