Assignment 2

Assignment 2

In AI or PS create an homage to an illustrator who you find inspiring and whose style you feel is a strong influence on your own.

Study their style. Try to work out how they do what they do. How do they create the textures, colours, line-work that they use?

This assignment will be in two parts.

Part 1

Select a piece of art by your chosen illustrator.

For example, my choice is Michael Cho.

Here is the piece I like

http://www.optimumwound.com/artist-michael-cho-on-putting-in-his-time-at-the-board.htm

Now select a small section of the image

Explore methods which will enable you to replicate the piece.

It doesn't have to be an exact copy. You are just trying to find ways of working which will enable you to see how your favoured artist might work.

It might allow you to make insights into how they use line and colour, how they compose their images, how they choose what to put in and what to leave out.

Post jpgs of your research and experiments to your blog

Part 2

After you've explored your chosen artist's work it's time to move onto your main piece for this assignment.

Choose from the following themes:

Lost and Found

Walking in the Moonlight

The Hamster Wheel

Creepy Crawlies

Now create a work which pays homage to the style of your chosen artist.

Dimensions 20cm x 20cm.

1 Create a high quality rough in pencil.

2 Submit it to me for approval either in person or via email.

3 When approved, commence final art.

4 Export your art as a 300dpi jpeg and post it to your blog

Due end of class Fri 14 March.

The assessment for this assignment will take into account both your research work and your final illustration.

Assignment 1

Create an illustration to accompany a letter to Quick Fix, a humourous fictional advice column in a magazine.

This assignment is to be started and finished in 1 day.

Because the turnaround time is quite short, think about keeping the imagery fairly simple.

Create your rough in pencil, them show it to me for approval before commencing your final.

The dimensions for the finished illustration are:

100mm x 100mm

Export the finished illustration as a jpeg and post it to your blog.

Wedding Quick Fix

Dear Quick Fix,

My spouse-to-be and I are stuck at a crucial stage in the planning of our wedding. What substance shall our guests throw gaily into the air as we leave the church after the ceremony? For various reasons, we’ve had to reject every one of the usual options: rose petals (flimsy and sinister); doves (stinky, incontinent); confetti (vulgar, flammable, rhymes with ‘spaghetti’); rice (my partner’s hamster almost choked on a grain of rice; he died several days later of a urinary tract infection, which was unrelated – still, the incidents are connected in the family’s mind). The wedding is days away, we still haven’t found our Dream Substance and we are furious. What should we do?

Betwrathed

Dear Betwrathed,

Seems to me that you’ve gotten yourselves all bogged down in traditional options. Your wedding will be The Best Day of Your Entire Lives as well as an unmissable opportunity to really express yourselves! Get quirky, kooky, offbeat and oddball – it’s all about you guys! You need to start thinking more laterally: what are the solids and substances that really express everything that you, as a couple, believe in and stand for? That’s a question only you two can answer, though personally I’m getting the vibe that you’re the sort of people who ought to be pelted with mincemeat or something creative and unique such as shuttlecocks stuffed with compost.

Quick Fix