ILLUSTRATION 1 – HE4
Laura Arnold - 419919
MY RESPONSES TO TUTOR REPORTS: ALL ASSIGNMENTS
ASSIGNMENT 1
Points from my tutor Jane to
consider for future exercises:
A positive response about drawing from observation –
continue to do so.
Practice drawing at different paces, quickly on longer and
more considered ‘stints’
Think less!
Focus on the weight, tone, colour of line.
Integrate text and play in a loose way within illustrations.
Formalise my learning blog.
Artists to reference: Added to my learning log
- Ø Sarah Fanelli
- Ø Lauren Childs
- Ø Shirley Hughes
- Ø Louise Prendergast (Liv)
- Ø William Blake
- Ø David Shrigley
- Ø Paul Davis
- Ø Tanya Kovats’ – The Drawing Book
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ASSIGNMENT 2
ASSIGNMENT 2
Keep drawing even the most mundane things from direct observation. It is good practice.
Look at Sarah Fanelli, Lauren Childs and Shirley Hughes.
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ASSIGNMENT 3
Classify and connect exercises on the blog.
Gaps in my working methodology. Have I edited what I have posted?
My response - redesigned my entire blog and posted further digital sequence of my supporting work. Remember to document all the steps more carefully on blogger. Digital records are a challenge.
Keep directing energy into drawings for more personality.
Keep analysing other artists to see what connects.
Part 3 - Making a mockup: Explore a variety of ways to visual problems - it's currently too minimal with jumps.
For example - develop the book jacket further as an exercise. Show my thinking on a technical level:
My response - I have taken this into new creative directions as I play it safe and am task oriented - need to apply playful, explorative direction. Apply digital graphic design knowledge with InDesign and develop other ideas. Posted further creativity on the exercise post: Experiment with new typefaces.
Use alternative thumbnails and experiment with different compositions, alternative text positions and colours. Draw a range of colourways and ideas. Experiment more with typefaces.
In future you can repeat part or all of a drawing with different textures, colourways or materials. Say what you enjoyed and why and which approaches seemed most natural. Evaluate each exercise and asses the media you found easiest to worth with and say why.
My response - Very important to go back throughout all my exercises and assignments and see where I can develop them further and also give a self analysis.
See that any drawing can form the basis of some playful, focused experimentation by copying, changing scale, applying colour in interesting or unusual ways, digitally also.
Make connections between selected artists and eventual outcomes.
Include more sketches from sketchbooks.
Include artist research in exercises and document this. Evaluate and critique work in terms of the artists.
My response - experiment further with this, digitally also.
Look at
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ASSIGNMENT 4
The output here is quite minimal - no contextual analysis influencing the work, consider editorial pieces and an editorial layout for it.
Methodology is great but too little experimentation -
Demonstrate how you make connections with other artists in your own work -
Regarding focusing on composition development and exploring alternatives through thumb-nailing and visuals - this needs more creativity, risk taking and demonstration of more imaginative outcomes -
Ensure you look at other artists and illustrators and demonstrate relevance and connections in your work.
My response - I have developed this exercise much further than my initial submission to my tutor, so that it explores different ideas with elements of risk taking and experimentation and critical connections to influential illustrators' work through the use of thumbnails and techniques implemented by Greg Betza for the use of black line and colour, Harriett Russell for layout and typography. See contextualisation - editorial layout.
Add a summative critique and evaluation of each exercise and assignment in terms of how they connect to the illustrators and artists selected.
CAN BE DONE RETROSPECTIVELY. - My response - done retrospectively for the entire module.
Exercises - feedback
Audiences: How and where would you develop type? - My response - further technical and creative work done.
Areas of illustration: Bit minimal, actually testing my idea of coloured backgrounds and chunky type would've been good. My response - furthered my knowedge of Photoshop and InDesign with a course and implemented these techniques.
Menu: Alternative ideas should've gone further eg: colourways and different compositions, experiments with different materials? - My response - taken this further with extended work.
Tattoo: It would be good to reflect on other designs and apply this understanding to my own work. My response - Added further work.
Visual distortion: How can you harness this playful energy in further work? Look at Mary Fedden's prints for inspiration.
Character development: Limited characters, analysis missing: what kinds of distortion are prevalent in contemporary character design and where are they used? Do you gravitate towards specifid types of characterisation? (eg. you work well from reference). Expression, choice of belt, gesture of hands, shoes - consider these. My response - further work rendered.
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ASSIGNMENT 5
Assignment 5
Exercises:
ASSIGNMENT 3
Classify and connect exercises on the blog.
Gaps in my working methodology. Have I edited what I have posted?
My response - redesigned my entire blog and posted further digital sequence of my supporting work. Remember to document all the steps more carefully on blogger. Digital records are a challenge.
Keep directing energy into drawings for more personality.
Keep analysing other artists to see what connects.
Part 3 - Making a mockup: Explore a variety of ways to visual problems - it's currently too minimal with jumps.
For example - develop the book jacket further as an exercise. Show my thinking on a technical level:
My response - I have taken this into new creative directions as I play it safe and am task oriented - need to apply playful, explorative direction. Apply digital graphic design knowledge with InDesign and develop other ideas. Posted further creativity on the exercise post: Experiment with new typefaces.
Use alternative thumbnails and experiment with different compositions, alternative text positions and colours. Draw a range of colourways and ideas. Experiment more with typefaces.
In future you can repeat part or all of a drawing with different textures, colourways or materials. Say what you enjoyed and why and which approaches seemed most natural. Evaluate each exercise and asses the media you found easiest to worth with and say why.
My response - Very important to go back throughout all my exercises and assignments and see where I can develop them further and also give a self analysis.
See that any drawing can form the basis of some playful, focused experimentation by copying, changing scale, applying colour in interesting or unusual ways, digitally also.
Make connections between selected artists and eventual outcomes.
Include more sketches from sketchbooks.
Include artist research in exercises and document this. Evaluate and critique work in terms of the artists.
My response - experiment further with this, digitally also.
Look at
- Veronica Lawlor
- Evan Turk
- Jill Calder
- Laurence Zeegan (read The Fundamentals of Illustration)
- Steve Simpson
- Harriet Russell
RESPONSES TO TUTOR REPORT
ASSIGNMENT 4
The output here is quite minimal - no contextual analysis influencing the work, consider editorial pieces and an editorial layout for it.
Methodology is great but too little experimentation -
Demonstrate how you make connections with other artists in your own work -
Regarding focusing on composition development and exploring alternatives through thumb-nailing and visuals - this needs more creativity, risk taking and demonstration of more imaginative outcomes -
Ensure you look at other artists and illustrators and demonstrate relevance and connections in your work.
My response - I have developed this exercise much further than my initial submission to my tutor, so that it explores different ideas with elements of risk taking and experimentation and critical connections to influential illustrators' work through the use of thumbnails and techniques implemented by Greg Betza for the use of black line and colour, Harriett Russell for layout and typography. See contextualisation - editorial layout.
Add a summative critique and evaluation of each exercise and assignment in terms of how they connect to the illustrators and artists selected.
CAN BE DONE RETROSPECTIVELY. - My response - done retrospectively for the entire module.
Exercises - feedback
Audiences: How and where would you develop type? - My response - further technical and creative work done.
Areas of illustration: Bit minimal, actually testing my idea of coloured backgrounds and chunky type would've been good. My response - furthered my knowedge of Photoshop and InDesign with a course and implemented these techniques.
Menu: Alternative ideas should've gone further eg: colourways and different compositions, experiments with different materials? - My response - taken this further with extended work.
Tattoo: It would be good to reflect on other designs and apply this understanding to my own work. My response - Added further work.
Visual distortion: How can you harness this playful energy in further work? Look at Mary Fedden's prints for inspiration.
Character development: Limited characters, analysis missing: what kinds of distortion are prevalent in contemporary character design and where are they used? Do you gravitate towards specifid types of characterisation? (eg. you work well from reference). Expression, choice of belt, gesture of hands, shoes - consider these. My response - further work rendered.
RESPONSES TO TUTOR REPORT
ASSIGNMENT 5
Assignment 5
Not enough
work produced, limited documented development and creativity. Limited submission
and it’s too minima.l Consider use of colour, the scale of images and influence
on tone and energy, the composition, how zoomed in the drawings are. Which
other illustrators or artists work this way and where is my work positioned
relatively?
My response -
to use the material I have produced, to upload my supporting work on the
assignment and explore further and give this assignment a big overhaul before
assessment. Explore my tutor’s criticisms and improve upon this work to
showcase what I have learned so far combined with my awareness of these
elements.
Exercises:
Authorial practice – create a range of drawings or a
gallery around faces and expression and show that I have considered the format.
Show how this is communicated and how the items integrate into a set.
Editorial illustration – Explore this further in my sketchbook
to show how the imagery and text relate to each other like the Milan drawing.
Make theswe coherent as a set of covers that relate to each other.
Text and image – Show that you have a set that
works together and show how the design will work within the format of a chosen
pack. Experiment further with the text. How would material, colour, scale and
markmaking be intelligently considered within the context of typography for
communicate expressively?
Working for children – Show the examples I looked at
and describe how these influenced my own choices.
- Artists to
reference - Daisy Fletcher (use of pencil)
- Picasso plates -
authorial reference
- Laura Carlin
and Anna Bushan - appl.ication of drawing to concepts and contexts of
illustration for further long term reading.
- Harriet Russell -
typography
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