A Illustrator's Journey

Travel Guides   13/02/2019 ' Your brief is too produce three illustrations for a series of book jackets, Travel guides, for the locations: Istanbul    Helsinki    Milan The client would like you to create illustrations in which many elements are brought together in a diagrammatical way. They would like also like the type to be hand drawn in an appropriate style. Write yourself a brief that is challenging but manageable. Be aware of the process which have led to your development in idea generation, visual research, image construction, understanding context and media usage.  Provide Client visuals for all three covers and a mock up of one.'    I started by writing a brief for this exercise, I just outlined the main parts of the brief and I picked a size for the book itself which the most popular size is 6x9inches.    Next I did three moodboards one for each location: Istanbul Moodboard  Helsinki Moodboard  Mi

Editorial Illustration 08/02/2019 'Buy a Newspaper with a supplement, cut out any article that contains an illustration. Notice the heading for each article and read the text that the illustration refers to, how its ideas relate to the meaning of the piece, how it extends the content of the piece. Analyse the type of illustration - is it decorative, conceptual, informational? Does it use metaphor to convey an idea or does it have a narrative base? is it representational, abstract or diagrammatical?  Your task is to provide a visual interpretation of one of below: How green is your food?     The object of my desire The best restaurant in town     Finding your family history         Loves me, Loves me not      A interview with Melvin Bragg        Throwing your money away     Paris, still the best place on earth You may find it useful either to find some text that suits the heading or write a few sentences yourself. Your interpretation can be as pers