Having reached end of Part 2, I reflected on the Assessment Criteria Points. Demonstration of technical and visual skills – materials, techniques, observational skills, visual awareness, design and compositional skills. This section forced me to carry out more observational drawing, which I believe I am gradually becoming more confident doing, as demonstrated in several of the… Continue reading Part 2: Reflection
Category: Part 2: Reportage
Assignment 2: A Sense of Place
Your local tourist board has commissioned you to produce a series of reportage illustrations that celebrates aspects of local culture. Base your illustrations on real local events, locations and people. Capture a sense of place through drawing from life. Produce between three and five pieces of work, at least one of which should be in… Continue reading Assignment 2: A Sense of Place
Exercise: There and Back Again
With sketchbook in hand, go on a journey and document the experience. Depending on your circumstances this might be a regular commute from one end of town to the other on the bus, a short holiday, or a day trip. Wherever you decide to go, produce at least three drawings or illustrations that say something… Continue reading Exercise: There and Back Again
Research Point: A Sense of Us and Them
Source a range of images in which illustrators have created a sense of us and them or ‘otherness’. Read the images and identify how you think they have done this. Think about how they could have represented the subject differently, to avoid creating such a distance between them and the subject. You may want to… Continue reading Research Point: A Sense of Us and Them
Exercise: A Rose By Any Other Name
Choose a houseplant, a cutting from the garden or a bunch of flowers. Focus on a small area and draw what you see. Be as accurate in describing shape, form and detail as you can. Aim to create a drawing from which somebody else could recognise your plant. Now, draw the plant again, this time… Continue reading Exercise: A Rose By Any Other Name
Research Point: Natural Science Illustrations
The Wellcome Trust is a global charity that supports biomedical research into human and animal health, part of which is the Wellcome Collection – a London-based gallery and online resource that explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past present and future. Visit the gallery or website or do your own reach… Continue reading Research Point: Natural Science Illustrations
Exercise: Architectural Illustration
Create an architectural illustration that shows the contrast between a building or structure of you choice and its surroundings. This contrast may be the relationship between an old building and its more modern neighbour, its location, or perhaps the contrast is more embedded in its alterations and renovations. Alternatively you can choose a structure such… Continue reading Exercise: Architectural Illustration
Research Point: Architectural Illustrators
Different architectural illustrators approach the task of documenting visual space and the built environment in different ways. Some are driven by the ideas that drawing and illustration offered, others by the ideas inherent in the architectural style they are representing. Look at a range of different architectural illustrators and identify how their choice of drawing… Continue reading Research Point: Architectural Illustrators
Exercise: Everyday Fashion
Draw a range of people in different clothes. In some of the drawings try and describe their whole outfit; in others, focus on specific elements, such as different types of hat. You can take a reportage approach and draw people out on the street, or use yourself, friends or family as models. Focus on describing… Continue reading Exercise: Everyday Fashion
Research Point: Fashion Illustration
Is there a difference between the imagery created by the fashion illustrators from the early twentieth century to the 1950s and those since the 1990s? Research historic and contemporary examples of fashion illustration by looking magazines, accessing internet resources or visiting galleries. Has fashion illustration changed over this period or is it the fashion of… Continue reading Research Point: Fashion Illustration