A Illustrator's Journey

Abstract Illustration  06/02/2018   'Listen to a piece of instrumental music by a musician such as: George Gershwin   The Gypsy Kings   Beethoven   Miles Davis  As you listen to the music create marks which convey your interpretation of the essence or mood of the piece. Bring a degree of self-expression to the exercise. Be selective in your use of materials, colours, marks and textures. Stand back from your worksheet and choose an adjective or word that you feel describes the tone of the piece. Go through your drawings and choose a square area that you feel communicates the meaning of your chosen word and has visually interesting qualities.  Using a square format and working at any size, reproduce your selected area. Starting with your chosen adjective, introduce colours, textures, shapes. Choose any media you like for this exercise and experiment by mixing them. Try not to over complicate the image.  Be conscious of t...

Image Development 05th January 2018 ' Cut two 'L' shapes out of stiff paper or card. Explore formats, to zoom in and out of compositions.  Take an image which has a range a content - a family photo, and interior from a magazine or another artist's work - and enlarge it to A4. Scenes with action with a background and foreground can be most useful here.  Use the 'L's to create edited versions of each image. Try presenting it in different formats. Repeat this using your photocopies.  1. Do some images seem to have more drama because of the way you have cropped them? Has the focus changed - Have you made the original subject of the image seem more or less important? Choose a word for each image that relates in some way to the content. Using one of the images as a basis for an illustration, draw up your artwork to make a poster. Add colours and textures to emphasise your message.  Use the word you selected as the title and reproduce it in...

Hierarchy in the Image  05th January 2018   Mark Oliver 'Tom's Clockwork Dragon' 'Look carefully at the image: Then in your learning log list the content of the picture- answer the following questions 1. What is the image about? What is it saying? 2. Work out the narrative and identify the story. 3. Describe the palette and tonal range which has been used. Note is the colours are hot or cold, whether the elements are detailed or textural, and where these approaches are used.  4. Is there any connection between hot colour and the importance of the elements in telling the story?'   Whilst observing this image I begin to notice that the main feature of this illustration is the Dragon. It takes up most of the image, It is particularly eye catching because of the warm colours of it, the reds and oranges they almost seem to glow when put together like some mystical power that the dragon hold's. This contrast from the cold colours ...

Illustrating Visual Space 03/01/2018   'Using internet searches or your own visual references select an image of each of these: A Tree  A Child Running   A Building  Photocopy them in black and white and in different scale and sizes so you have several versions of each image, arrange some of the cut-outs to create a representational image. You may use the distortion of scale of one element compared to another to create an image which is interesting visually. Answer these question: 1. How does your sense of the image and its meaning change when the figure is smaller than the other elements? 2. If the elements are at different angles to each other and at an angle to the frame, what dynamic is suggested? 3. If all the elements are completely horizontal and vertical in relation to the frame what dynamic is suggested? What is your opinion about this image and what sensation does it communicate? 4. Which is your favourite composition?...

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...