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Final illustration: Ideas Development Getting started I decided to base this assignment work around a friend's band, Ivy Fire.  Rather than make something fictional for this assignment, I felt would be much better to use a real band who do real performances.  I also think it is quite important that I can ask them questions, and then gauge their reaction to the final illustration at the end of the assignment. They describe the style of their music as being "quite rocky with funk". The poster is for a performance at an Eastbourne town centre pub. Visual Research I collected together a wide variety of different gig posters onto a Pinterest board.  I was struck by the incredible diversity of the illustrations and artwork. I'd say that this particular field of illustration seems particularly alive, vibrant and exciting. A side thought occurs to me - why do most movie posters use photography to catch attention, whilst gig posters are more inclined to use il

Exercise details The purpose of this exercise is to produce a mock-up (alternative) book cover for an existing publication.  I chose Iain Banks' The Crow Road as I read it fairly recently. The real cover is rather striking and I was intrigued by the notion of how I could do it differently. My final mock-up cover below: Developing the mock-up Visual Research I started off by finding different covers for the same book.  I felt it was important to see the range of ideas that had been chosen for real covers.  These are the notable covers used for this title: Cover 1  - I find the complexity of this cover pleasing.  It is interesting how an illustration has been framed inside the shape of the crow.  The cover is stark and rather unforgiving in style (much in tune with the content of the novel).   However, my criticism is that it looks a little too much like a sci-fi, whereas the novel itself has a contemporary setting. Cover 2 - Photography as opposed to Illustra

Exercise details In this exercise I will be taking two finished illustrations and creating the line visual for each one. Visual for Illustration 1  I've chosen a children's book called,  Recipe for Bedtime,  illustrated by Sarah Massini.  I chose the artwork on the cover of the book because I felt it was charming and had a sufficient range of content for me to work with. Initial line visual: I found this exercise to be rather curious. It felt like a no creativity exercise; merely basic observation and drawing skills.  The line drawing was quite straightforward to produce, and reducing down the visual detail into a simple drawing was fairly straightforward.   I think I've been very tight and controlled in this drawing, there is no looseness and expressiveness to the line.  I was constantly mindful of having to create an accurate and sharp line drawing of the original image. I feel that the drawing is fairly successful it is faithfulness to the original imag

Exercise details: In this exercise I'm choosing the theme of workshop .  In particular the theme of my particular "workshop" is my garden shed.  It is a working place for me and my garden, and it feels like a natural choice for this assignment.  I've grabbed some of my common tools that I use for my garden work for the still life. Exploring with photos: I took a variety of pictures of the still life at different angles.  I then spent some time cropping down digitally and experimenting/refining the framing and composition.  For each picture I created an alternative with colour and filter effects applied in Photoshop.  I was going to present all of them in sequence on this blog page but I felt that would look rather dull, so instead I thought it more interesting to put them together into a messy composition: I found those images where the objects are at a diagonal had more energy, whilst those pictures where the objects are horizontally positioned crea