Thursday, 13 February 2014

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

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