A Illustrator's Journey

A Tattoo 21/07/2018 ' A friend has asked you to design a tattoo for them based on the word mum. He would also like you to make it into a greetings card that he can send his mother for Mothers Day. Research the history and conventions of tattoos and body art, as well as the modern ranges look at the designs from the past and other cultures.  Decide on how complex your design will be and whether you will be using colour.  Draw up your design on a large scale. Write up your decision making in your Learning Log.' History of Tattoo's   It is arguably claimed that tattooing has existed since 12,000 years BC. The purpose of tattooing has varies from culture to culture and its place on the time line.    Tattoos have always had an important role in ritual and tradition. In Borneo, women tattooed their symbols on their forearm indicating their particular skill. If a woman wore a symbol indicating she was a skilled weaver, her status as p

A Menu Card  16/06/2018   ' For this exercise you are asked to provide an illustration for use on the menu of a sophisticated, quality fish restaurant, the restaurant is modern, bright and contemporary in design. Any food depicted needs to be visually appetising. Although the image will be used at a small size on the actual menu, if it is successful the restaurant would be interested in also using the image as a logo on their stationary and vans.  You will probably want to work on the artwork at a large scale but you need to provide an example reduced to 40mmx40mm as it will initially be used.'    I began with making two moodboards. The first moodboard is google searched of contemporary restaurant logo's, The second is a google search on fish logo's: Contemporary Restaurant Moodboard  Fish Restaurant Moodboard   I couldn't find a lot of existing fish restaurant logo's on just google search so I took some inspiration from

A Children Book Cover 11/06/2018 ' You are top produce a cover illustration for a natural history book for children (age 7-11) entitled Animals from Around the World. The image is to be used as a full colour front jacket to encourage children to choose this book from the library shelf.  There is alo9ng history of covers for children's reference books and styles have changed over the years. Think about a modern audience and how you can attract children to the contents.  Draw up at least three ideas as coloured client visuals. Include information on the final the size and format, and where the type will be positioned. Note in your learning log the decisions you made through the design process.'     I started with two moodboards to see what was already out there with children's animals around the world: Moodboard_01 Moodboard_01      There are a lot of materials out there as you can see by the two moodboards I was able to ma