A Illustrator's Journey

Visual Metaphor 2 01st January 2018   2018 ALREADY!   This will be my first post wrote this year and my second posted this year! So previously I had my feedback for Assignment 2 and it was suggested this I revisit this exercise to see if I can improve the end result as my illustration was too literal.   My first step is too have a look at suggested illustrator Mark Smith . I Feel his work is colour and clever in the ways he illustrates it across to his audience, no type is used, just shapes. I feel this maybe I could take some inspiration from this illustrator and use this in my final piece this time round.   This project I find very difficult and I will have to think about it in a more creative and smart way...Below is the research that I have done on Mark Smith , I chosen some of the images I thought I related to and stood out to me most. Sketchbook   After researching Mark Smiths work, I decided to go with my tutors next advise...

Visual Metaphor   21st August 2017                  Reaching Retirement   Dreams if Romance   Broken Relationship                      Censorship of the Press   High Achievement   Economic Catastrophe   'Choose one of the phrases from above, create a drawn visual list of objects which could be used to symbolize them. Don't be overly concerned with the aesthetic quality or technical accuracy in the drawing. Make a Spider Diagram around the phrase to generate other words, which will bring other visual connotations.'             I started this exercise by doing some research on Visual Metaphors, I have dedicated a page in my sketchbook to the ones I found most interesting and liked the best: Sketchbook     I decided to go with Dreams of Romance, after I had made my decision I decided to do...