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Key Steps In Illustration
Assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 1: Say hello
Assignment 2
Assignment 2: Point of sale display
Assignment 3
Assignment 3: A Poster
Assignment 4
Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration
Assignment 5
Assignment 5: Seven Days
Coursework
Part 1
Exercise 1: The History of Illustration
Edward Ardizzonne
Edward Ardizzone: Analysis of his water colour style
Edward Ardizzone: Exploring the hatching technique
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Ardizzone: Final Piece
Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan: Understanding his techniques and style
Drew Struzan: A more detailed approach
Drew Struzan: Final Piece
Drew Struzan
Exercise 2: Getting the Gist
Simian rescue robot
Part 2
Exercise 1: Writing a brief
Exercise 2: Spider Diagrams
Exercise 3: Turning Words into Pictures
Exercise 4: Making a moodboard
Exercise 5: Using Reference
Exercise 6: Mark Making
Exercise 7: Exploring Drawing & Painting
Exercise 8: Creative thinking and problem solving
Brief 1: Good Food Magazine
Brief 2: Radio Times Article
Exercise 9: An Objective Drawing
Exercise 10: A Subjective Drawing
Exercise 11: Using Black & White
Exercise 12: Choosing Content
Exercise 13: Visual Metaphors
Part 3
Exercise 1: Illustrating visual space
Exercise 2: Reading an image
Exercise 3: Image Development
Exercise 4: Abstract illustration
Exercise 5: Giving Instructions
Exercise 6: Viewpoint
Exercise 7: Client Visuals
Exercise 8: Making a Mock Up
Part 4
Exercise 1: Identifying tools and materials
Exercise 2: Museum Posters
Exercise 3: A Children’s Book Cover
Exercise 4: A Menu Card
Exercise 5: A Tattoo
Exercise 6: Visual Distortion
Exercise 7: Character Development
Part 5
Exercise 1: Your Own Work
Exercise 2: Editorial Illustration
Exercise 3: Travel Guides
Exercise 4: Text & Image
Exercise 5: Packaging
Exercise 6: Working for Children
Exercise 7: Educational Strip
Drawing-1: Drawing Skills
Part One: Form & Gesture
Exercise 1: Temporary Drawings
Project 1: Feeling & Expression
Exercise 1: Experimenting with expressive lines and marks
Exercise 2: Experimenting with texture
Assignment 1
Project 2: Basic Shapes & Fundamental Form
Exercise 1: Groups of objects
Exercise 2: Observing shadow and using blocks of tone
Exercise 3: creating shadow using lines and marks
Exercise 4: Shadows and reflected light
Part Two: Intimacy
Project 1: composition
composition notes
Exercise 1: Detail & Tone
Project 2: Detailed observation of natural objects
Project 3: Still life
Exercise 1: Still life using line
Exercise 2: Observing shadow and using blocks of tone
Exercise 3: creating shadow using lines and marks
Assignment 1
Exercise 2: Composition – an interior
Exercise 3: Material Differences
Part three : Expanse
Project 1: Trees
Exercise 1: Sketching individual trees
Exercise 2: Larger observational study of an individual tree
Exercise 3: Study of several trees
Project 2: Landscapes
Research point: Landscapes
Exercise 1: Cloud formation and tone
Exercise 2: Sketchbook walk
Exercise 3: 360° studies
Project 3 Composition
Exercise 1: Developing your studies
Exercise 2: Foreground, middle ground, background
Project 4 Perspective
Exercise 1: Parallel perspective – an interior view
Exercise 2: Angular perspective
Exercise 3: Aerial or atmospheric perspective
Project 5 Townscapes
Exercise 1: Sketchbook of townscape drawings
Exercise 2: Study of a townscape using line
Exercise 3: A limited palette study
Exercise 4: Statues
Assignment three
Part Four The figure and the head
Project 1: Fabric and Form
Exercise 1: Drawing fabric using line and tone
Exercise 2: Emphasising form with cloth
Research point: The changing nude
Project 2: Proportion
Exercise 1: Quick studies
Exercise 2: A longer study
Project 3: Form
Exercise 1: Basic shapes
Exercise 2: Essential Elements
Exercise 3: Stance
Exercise 4: Energy
Project 4: Structure
Exercise 1: The structure of the human body
Exercise 2: Three figure drawings
Research point: The underlying structure of the body
Project 5: The moving figure
Exercise 1: Single moving figure
Exercise 2: Groups of figures
Project 6: The Head
Exercise 1: Facial features
Research Point: About face
Exercise 2: Your own head
Exercise 3: Portrait from the memory or Imagination.
Research point: Self portraits
Assignment 4
Part five: Personal project & written element
Assignment five
Graphic Design 1: Core concepts
Part One: Getting started
Exercise: Picture charades
Assignment 1
Part Two: Problem Solving
Project Working to a Brief
Exercise: Working to a brief
Project Researching and developing ideas
Research Point : Collected Items
Exercise: Book cover design
Project Visualising your ideas
Exercise: Visualising your ideas
Project Critiquing your work
Research point: How do you approach being self-critical?
Exercise: Too much or not enough information
Project Finishing your artwork
Research point: Software
Exercise: Point of sale display
Assignment 2
Part Three: Visual Language
Research point
Exercise: A visual diary
Exercise: Signs and symbols
Exercise: Seeing the light
Project: Understanding colour
Exercise: Understanding colour
Project working with colour
Exercise: Abstract cities
Project Photomontage and collage
Exercise: Photomontage
Assignment Three: Colour Me
Part Four: Typography
Research Point: comic book lettering
Project The visual word
exercise: playing with words
Research point: Magazine typography study
Project The anatomy of a typeface
Exercise: A typographic jigsaw puzzle
Research point: Vernacular typography
Project Different typefaces
Exercise: If the face fits
Project Typesetting
Research Point: collecting type
Exercise: Lorum Ipsum
Project Hierarchy
Exercise: Hierarchy
Assignment 4 Show Me
Part Five Layout
Project Magazines & books
Exercise: Magazine Pages
Research Point : Publishing house & book series styles
Exercise:Judging a book by its cover
Project Information Graphics
Exercise: Giving Information
Exercise: Birthday list
Project Publicity & Marketing
Research Point: Movie Posters
Exercise: Poster & Flyer
Project Branding
Research Point: Logos
Exercise: Chance Housing Association
Exercise: The French Hen
Assignment 5
Assignment Five
Research & Reflection
Exhibitions & Books
Notes
Illustration 2
Responding to a brief
Exercise: Draw, draw and draw again
Key Steps In Illustration
