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 Mo...

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...