Brief To design an illustration for a poster for a music event. An Early Music concert, a Jazz evening or for a pop group. You can choose. The finished poster will be reproduced at A3 size, but you can work at any size, in proportion, that you feel most comfortable with. You will need to […]
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Exercise: Making a Mock-up
Brief For this exercise you are going to mock-up a book cover. Choose a book title that appeals to you. Read the blurb on the back of the book (or the whole book if you have the time). Examine the design of the cover to identify what the brief would be for the illustration and […]
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Exercise: Client Visuals
Brief This exercise is to help you to edit an image to its main structural form and to practice creating a clear visual. From the work you have collected pick at least two finished illustrations. These illustrations should contain a range of content. They can be representational, diagrammatic or metaphorical. Measure the image at the […]
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Exercise: Viewpoint
Brief 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 underneath. Zoom in and out. Look for interesting combinations of shapes and textures, and document them using photographs. Be unusual […]
Brief Using the Internet, magazines, reference books, leaflets, brochures and flyers, make a collection of examples and reference materials that can help you with an illustration to fit one of the categories below: Making a cup of tea Getting to my house Playing a tune on an instrument Start by working out the information you […]
Brief Listen to a piece of instrumental music by a musician such as: George Gershwin The Gypsy Kings Beethoven Miles Davies As you listen to the music create marks which convey your interpretation of the essence or mood of the piece. Work quickly and intuitively to bring a degree of self-expression to the exercise. Be […]
Brief Cut two ‘L’ shapes of card or stiff paper. You are going to use them to explore formats to zoom in and out of compositions. Take an image which has a range of content – a family photo, an interior from a magazine or another artist’s work – and enlarge it to A4 and […]
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Exercise: Reading an Image
Brief Look carefully at this image. List the contents of the picture – breaking the image into its constituent parts and answer the following questions: What is the image about? Work out the narrative and identify the story. Describe the palette and tonal range which has been used. Note if the colours are hot or […]
Brief Using internet searchers or your own visual references select an image of each of these: A tree A child running or walking A building Photocopy them individually in black and white at different scales so that you have several versions of each image to work with. Working in a square format, arrange some of […]