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Assignment 5 Part 5: Words and Pictures

Assignment 5: Seven Days

The exercises that you have completed in this part should have helped you identify the forces which shape a commission and the processes to go through to create an illustration ready for print. You should now be ready to work as an illustrator. This assignment is an opportunity to consolidate the understanding you have gained […]

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Part 5: Words and Pictures

Exercise: Educational Strip

Brief You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty. You can decide on which aspect you want to tackle. Due to the subject matter and the intended age group it is suggested that […]

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Part 5: Words and Pictures

Exercise: Working for Children

Brief Collect as many examples of imagery for children as possible. Group the illustrations you have collected into the target age groups. Include at least one image for each age group. Pre-reader Pre-school (3-5) Early reader (5-7) Established reader (7-9) Older age groups Take two of these age groups and, for each one, go through […]

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Exercise: Packaging

Brief Produce a series of illustrations for packaging to be used for a new range of organic biscuits for children. There are three varieties in the range: Raisin, Choc Chip and Ginger biscuits. The client specifically wants three illustrations featuring extinct animals interacting in some fun way with a biscuit to be used on the […]

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Part 5: Words and Pictures

Exercise: Text and Image

Brief Begin by taking each pair of words in turn from the list below and writing them in your own handwriting: Big / Small Fat / Thin Fast / Slow Fun / Boring Calm / Mad Now write each pair of opposites in a way that is descriptive – use the shape and size of […]

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Exercise: Travel Guides

Brief Your brief is to produce three illustrations for a series of books’ jackets, at the size of an existing travel guide, for the locations Istanbul, Helsinki and Milan. The client would like you to create illustration in which many elements are brought together in a diagrammatic way. They would also like the type to […]

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Exercise: Editorial Illustration

Brief Buy a newspaper with a supplement and go through cutting out any article that contains an illustration. Notice the heading for each article and read the text that the illustration refers to. Make a mental note about the way the illustration relates to the text, how its ideas relate to the meaning of the […]

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Exercise: Your Own Work

Brief Most of the work you’ve created so far has been a result of specific exercises with clear objectives defining the outcome. However, every drawing, every mark, every image you produce belongs to you and, as your property, has potential value beyond the satisfying of a brief or exercise. Go through the artwork you’ve created […]

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Assignment 4 Part 4: Style

Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration

This assignment should give you the opportunity to show off your developing style and use of tools and materials. If you decided to work digitally save the early stages of your image and print out key points of your experimentation. Often illustrators working editorially for newspapers and magazines will be given a very loose brief […]

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Exercise: Character Development

Brief Collect as many examples as possible of different characters – newspapers and magazines are a particular good source. Catalogue these characters as types – babies, children, sportsmen, old women – create your own category headings. Decide upon a character you would like to create. this might be one from a book or story, or […]