A Illustrator's Journey

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 ...

E.H Shepard Research and Thoughts      For my first assignment I start by selecting a Illustrator from a list of six that interest me the most: Edward Bowden, Edward Ardizzone, Kathleen Hale, John Milton, Eric Ravilious or Earnest Howard Shepard. I personally thought this was a tough decision as they all interested me in different ways! As I looked into the Illustrators work one by one I picked them off till I made the decision on Earnest Howard Shepard.    I then had to research information on Shepard and there was not a lot of information out there about him. I had managed to find that from the age of seven he loved to draw and he favorited drawing battle scenes which is very different compared to what he ended up drawing in the future, He developed an interest in illustrators in the 1860s and hoped to contribute to  Punch.     Punch  was an magazine that ran from 1841-2002.It was first published on July 17th, 1...