A Illustrator's Journey

Using Reference  06th July 2017     For This exercise I have been asked to reference as much as I can find on the 1950's which is an interesting exercise, and pout the information into categories. There are 8 Categories all together and you find out what they are as you read along.     Before I got started I had a look at other student work and how they had approached this exercise, Some of them had just done sketchbook approach and some straight blogged there findings so I decided that I would my usual research for my sketchbook and write about each category in my blog. Sketchbook Research     For each category I did some research as I don't know much about the 1950's so I thought it was a good ideas to read up on the era. Below you see the pages I have dedicated to each category:    For this researched I considered the typography I used and downloaded a fifties type that's called Becker Black TTF ty...

Moodboard    For my next exercise it was to create a Moodboard here is the brief: 'Choose one word from the previous exercises. Collect swatches of colour and texture or create your own palette of colours and repertoire of marks. Google some of the words and from the images link, either print off or draw from some of the images that emerge. Go through other books and magazines and take snippets of images, which have associations with your words and themes. 'You are not creating a piece that is a designed artefact in it own right. You may want to incorporate words into you moodboards as an aide-memoire.'      So I decided to pic ' wild' and I'm really looking for to creating my moodboards around this word, so where to start....    I have never created a Moodboard before and recently all the exercises I have been given is creating new skills for me, First I looked as a few links that talked about moodboards and what shou...

Spider Diagrams and Turning Words into Pictures    I have decided to do exercise two and three together as they are linked in how I have done my work.    For exercise Two we had to create a Spider Diagram for each of the following words: Seaside   Childhood   Angry   Festival 'Try to remember your own experiences of these things even if you have only experienced them through TV, Film or Photo's. Include a list of objects you associate with each word: list colours, use adjectives, textures, and subjects. Test you Spider Diagram with at least one other person - use a different colour for each person you interrogate and tick the words that were common.'    Like the exercise said I created a separate Spider Diagram for each of the following words and I got one other person to do a Spider Diagram for each of the words too. Here are the results when I compare the two together, My Spider Diagram is on the Lef...