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 […]
This assignment will consolidate the skills and knowledge you have gained from the projects and exercises so far. At this stage of your development it is important that you focus on research and gathering and evolving your ideas. Brief To create images which will be used within a campaign for a supermarket, to package and […]
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Exercise: Visual Metaphors
Brief Collect as many examples of visual metaphor as you can find. Often metaphors are used within political and issue-based works to give complex or subtle ideas greater clarity. For this reason you are likely to trace them more easily within editorial contexts: newspapers and articles in magazines. Reaching retirement Dreams of romance Broken relationship […]
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Exercise: Choosing Content
Brief (Abridged Version) Read the extract provided from The Daffodil Affair by Michael Innes. Make notes on these questions: If this were to be made into a film what would the main character be like? What clothes would the character be wearing? What furniture is in the main area which the action takes place? Collect […]
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Exercise: Using Black and White
Brief Produce a line visual around one of these words: Sea Extraordinary Building Journey Through brainstorming you may decide to draw from an object or selection of objects or work in a more narrative way around a scene or idea. Ensure that the line visual you produce through visual exploration and development is very clear, […]
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Exercise: A Subjective Drawing
Brief Take another object and write a list of a words to describe it. In this drawing you are not describing its function or purpose but its particular qualities. Is it shiny, hard, soft, fluffy, delicious or antique? These objectives are subjective – there is no wrong or right – whichever words you select will […]