Special emphasis will be given to your illustration concept or idea with this class project, as well as the style and craft of the final image.
Creative Brief
The first step after choosing which project you’d like to do, is to create a creative brief for the assignment using the template on the class blog for guidance.
The event may be hypothetical or an actual upcoming activity. The book however, must be actual and relatively known.
You may use the event or the book itself as the sender, but be sure to define what the event is or what the book is about (message), and who the intended audience is.
Be sure to include media and/or physical specifications of the final poster and/or book (cover, spine and back) in your brief.
Be sure to include the actual particulars of the event, and/or the book, as part of the creative brief as well.
Write and layout your creative brief and post it to your individual class blog no later than 8:30 am Tuesday morning, November 7th.
Research
If you are chomping at the bit to get working on this project, the next step will be to develop a concept or an idea to illustrate from. Start generating ideas with a word list and/or a mind map, then gather subject and object images refencing the words and compose them into an idea board.
Ideation
Use your research to develop at least a dozen or so quick thumbnail sketches to get your illustration out of your head, down on paper and into the real world.
Next, review your sketches, then choose three that you think have the best potential as an attention-getting visuals. Refine them further into larger tight pencil roughs proportioned to the poster and book cover, but smaller in size.
Post your word list, mind map, and image/idea board, along with your dozen thumbnail sketches and three tight pencil roughs, to your individual class blog no later than 8:30 am Thursday morning, November 9th.
Project Schedule
Illustration Brief Due Tuesday, November 7th Post on Blog
- Book Cover or
- Event Poster
Illustration Research/Roughs Due Thursday, November 9th Post on Blog- Event Poster
- Word List, Image Board
- A dozen Thumbnails
- Three Tight Roughs
- Selected Laser proof hung on crit wall
- Critique / Work in Class
- A dozen Thumbnails
- Three Tight Roughs
- Selected Laser proof hung on crit wall
- Critique / Work in Class
Tight Illustration Comp Due Thursday, November 16th Post on Blog
- Laser proof hung on crit wall
- Critique / Work in Class
- Discussion on Typography
- Discussion on Typography
Finished Illustraton with Type Due Tuesday, November 21st Post on Blog
- Laser proof comp hung on crit wall
- Critique / Work in Class
