Exercise: Museum posters

Exercise: Museum posters You have been asked to produce three illustrations be used as part of a series of A3 posters to publicise the museum to the following audiences: Child aged 5–9 Teenager (13–16) General adult audience Go to your local museum or anywhere that has a range of interesting artefacts to gather good visual

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Exercise: Identifying tools and materials

Find a range of illustrators who use a particular medium. Catalogue the illustrators according to similarities in the way that they use tools and materials.   DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION Digital Art includes every artwork created with the use and/or help of digital software and tools. Said in simple words: art you create with a computer.  

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Exercise: Making a mock-up

For this exercise you are going to mock-up a book cover. I’ve decided to choose from the books I’ve already read. Somehow I feel that it’s not right to make a cover for a book you’ve never read. I’ve chosen an Andy Warhol’s book “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)”.

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Exercise: Viewpoint

Make a small collection of objects around a theme – choose from: Festival, The morning after, Summertime, Workshop To be honest, I don’t own a lot of things. And it’s a big problem to create any collection, even small one. I chose a “summertime” theme because i do have sunglasses and few seashells. It’s obviously

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Exercise: Client visuals

For this task I’ve chosen works of Amy Sol and Cory Godbey. They both have their own unique and recognizable style. Their works are also quite detailed, and that’s exactly what I need for this task. And, well, I really like what they do and it will be pleasure to work with their illustrations. I’ve

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Exercise: Image development

Cut two ‘L’ shapes of card or stiff paper. You are going to use them to explore formats, to zoom in and out of compositions.Take an image which has a range of content and enlarge it to A4 and make ten copies. Use the ‘L’s to create edited versions of each image. Retain the content

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Exercise: Abstract illustration

After I’ve checked the list, I realized it’s been a long time I’ve heard the hot rhythms of Spanish guitar. So I’ve chosen to make an abstract illustration for the music of The Gypsy Kings. It happens for example when you talk on the phone, your hand starts to draw something on the paper by

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Exercise: Giving instructions

Using the internet, magazines, reference books leaflets, brochures and flyers make a collection of examples and reference materials that can help you with an illustration to fit one of the categories below. Making a cup of tea                            Getting to my house  

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Exercise: Reading an image

Look carefully at this image.    There are lots of tales about brave knights and fiery dragons defending their gold exist in the world. My first thought when I looked on hte picture was about Smaug dragon from Tolkien hobbit tale. But when I took a closer look, I realized that a couple of fellows

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Exercise: Illustrating visual space

Using internet searches or your own visual references select an image of a tree, a child running or walking and a building I needed to choose something to work with, and I’ve chosen these images. The main criteria was to get images which could be easily combined together into collages which should look like one big

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