This broad brief gave us the creative freedom to develop our own project in accordance with our own interests. To practice working on a broader project with greater autonomy before the final major project in Stage 3 .
Select one word from the list below and use it as a starting point for a project. We must consider our project end user context and how it functions successfully within it.
Futures
Home
Path
Values
Light
Here & Now
Growth
Collections
Drawing and Composition Workshop – A really useful exercise in using tone, line, negative space, looking at the formal elements, rabatment, placement, perspective etc …
The brief rationale is to consider using different viewpoints in image-making, to consider personal viewpoints and also those held by others. It sets out to develop thinking skills and conceptual skills and lead to creating innovative imagery. These are all core skills which a contemporary illustrator should possess. Lastly this brief “will allow to further define preferred areas of practice.” This project became an informative introduction to authorial book publishing.
A “client led” brief to produce a mock up some early prototypes of monster desk top ornaments. The monsters will be printed on paper / card stocks, so that people can easily cut them out and stand them up as desk ornaments about 18 cm tall. Each monster would be contained on an A4 sheet of patterned paper, but if needed elements of monster could be on additional sheets. Age range: 7+ also marketable to adults.
How do you create a monster…?
Editorial illustration sees illustrators making work to accompany a text. We were on campus this week for a workshop exercise from an editorial illustration brief. I love these types of challenges! To create a digital flat colour image (3-4 colour layers) for a medical publication, no outline, not more than four colours – which can overlap. The work must illustrate an article on IBS and a low-FODMAP diet, written by Dr Michael Mosley. The initial art is created by hand, one layer per colour, then scanned into Photoshop, colours digitally added to each layer, and then created into a complete final digital artwork. http://mandmade.co.uk/?page_id=294
The UCAS deadline for application is getting closer. I’ve been getting on with my application – BA Illustration at AUB – and have drafted and re-edited several versions of my Personal Statement so far. It’s been tricky working out old examining boards for certificates … and after a complete panic thinking I’d lost all my certificates, I finally found them … in the filing cabinet …. ahem.
This week I also managed to work out how to reserve and click ‘n’ collect AUB Library books online.
This has been a month of testing, exploring and discovery. Webinars, workshops, and sunshine. I‘ve been experimenting with my own analog collage and some cyanotype/ sunprinting. The sunprinting took a while to work out arranging layers and which objects gave the best effects. I found a map Manhattan that I printed onto acetate, then used it as a background to a layered image of a feather and a sprig of dried flowers from my garden. It’s an addictive process, I developed 20 cyanotypes one sunny afternoon.
