A Illustrator's Journey

Magazine Illustration  03/08/2018 'A magazine wants an illustration on one of the following: Lost   Disaster   Discovery   Guilty Secret They want an illustration based on still life.You have the freedom to select the items for the still life and are given creative free rein. The rest of the content, the method you use to produce it and the colours you use are all for you to decide.'    I chose the word Disaster to work with on this magazine Illustration. To start my create flow I did two moodboard, one was natural disasters and then I looked at magazine covers: Moodboard_01 Moodboard_02   Next I did a Spider Diagram to see what I could come up with around the word disaster: Spider Diagram    I came up with a lot of doom and gloom and because I haven't had a great week I thought I would play with the word cancelled. I did some quick Idea sketches: Ideas_01    I have bee...

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...

Client Visuals  28/02/2018 ' This exercise is to help you to edit an image to its main structural form and to practise creating a clear visual.  From the work you have collected pick at least two finished illustrations. These illustrations should contain a range of content. Using a form of line which feels comfortable and which you can confidently manage, create a visual for each illustration. Be aware of the main shapes and directions; draw the elements of the image with sufficient detail for them to be readable.  Explore how many lines you need to use to describe the content. Try another version of the same image and see how much content you can remove so that the image is distilled to an extremely edited form but still makes sense.  Find some images that make you more aware of the art direction behind them and annotate them to explain the thinking behind them in your learning log.'  01/03/2018   I have decided ...

Viewpoint  21/02/2018   ' Make a small collection of objects around a theme - choose from: Festival   The Morning After   Summertime   Workshop Using a digital camera move around your set of objects. Look at them from above and from underneath. Look for interesting combinations of shapes and textures, and document them using photographs. Experiment with diagonals within the structure and deliberately position some elements close to the frame.  Do the same thing with drawing but work in a format that is different from your viewfinder, such as a square format, or long and thin, or an irregular rectangle. Repeat the exercise of exploring viewpoints but this time document your visual journey around the set in your sketchbook. Draw shapes to work with that are the same format as your viewfinder. You may find it helpful to draw around for your viewfinder to create a set of thumbnail shapes. Choose your favourite design. Your favoured desi...