A Illustrator's Journey

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 su...

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...

Newspaper Illustrations    After I had finished my first illustrations using another artist style my next challenge was to look in a newspaper, magazine, blog etc. and pick an article, then I was to highlight the main words which the article was describing the story in which the article was about. When I first read this challenge I wasn't very enthusiastic about it because I tend to stay away from the news with it being so negative ... So I picked up the newspaper from the buses which is called the metro and I flicked through, I chose a news clipping about President Trump naturally because he's all over the news these days and one about Space which is a guilty pleasure of mine!  Ear ear! Trumps very bunny Easter speech    This article was my first pick and its about President Trump host the White House's 139th annual Easter egg roll. The article describes that Trump stood on a balcony with an Easter bunny and he seemed to have grown a g...