Category: RP: Part 2

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

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

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

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