Category Archives: Illustration 1: Key Steps In Illustration

Exercise One: Your Own Work I started this by going through my past works for this course and picking any I liked or thought had any promise with some more work done on them. All of the images selected have elements that I like. I think that some of them make a striking image thatContinue reading “Part Five: Words and Pictures”

Exercise One: Identifying Tools and Materials For this exercise I decided to look at artists who use markers for their work. I thought that this would be a good idea as I had just bought my own set of alcohol markers, though I didn’t limit the search to purely alcohol markers. When cataloguing the artistsContinue reading “Part Four: Style”

Exercise One: Illustrating Visual Space I started this exercise by researching visual space. Doing this lead to me looking at some examples of the use of visual space by artists such as: Andrew Wyeth, Henri Matisse and Henry Moore. A couple examples of the use of visual space I looked at were Wyeth’s Christina’s WorldContinue reading “Part Three: Working It Out”

Exercise One: Writing a Brief To start part two I was tasked with writing a brief. This brief had to be of a professional standard. To start with I had to find a piece of work by an illustrator whose work I find some connection with. I chose to use the front cover of aContinue reading “Part Two: Ideas”

History of Illustration For the first part of this assignment I decided to use the artists Kathleen Hale and Shichigoro. I believe a big part of my decision to use Kathleen Hale may have been influenced by my love of cats. However I do love her work and wish I could make pieces like hers.Continue reading “Assignment One”