Category: Exercises: Part 1

Brief “The title is Seven days. These can be the seven days of the week or random days that tell a story. Your interpretation can be objective or subjective. You can produce seven separate, one large diagrammatic or a continuous strip illustration. You can decide on the media and methods you will use; the context […]

Brief “You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty.“ To correctly achieve the result of this exercise I started doing some research about puberty in young boys and girls. I found some helpful […]

Brief “A magazine wants an illustration on one of the following topics:” Lost Disaster Discovery Guilty Secret “They want an illustration based on a still life. You have the freedom to select the items for the still life and are given creative free rein. The rest of the content, the method you use to produce […]

Brief: “Collect as many examples of imagery for children as possible. Group the illustrations you’ve collected into the target age groups. Include at least one image for each age group”. Pre-reader Pre-school Early-reader Established reader Older age groups Pre-reader: Pre-school: Early reader: Established reader: Older age groups: Brief#2 “Take two of these age groups and, […]

Brief “Produce a series of illustrations for packaging to be used for a new range of organic biscuits for children. There are three varieties in the range Raisin, Choc Chip and Ginger biscuits. The client specifically wants three illustrations featuring extinct animals interacting in some fun way with a biscuit to be used on the […]

Brief: “Begin by taking each pair of words in turn from the list below and writing them in your own handwriting.” Big Small Fat Thin Fast Slow Fun Boring Calm Mad “Now write each pair of opposites in a way that is descriptive – use the shape and size of the word and the relative […]

Brief: Your brief is to produce three illustrations for a series of books jackets, at the size of an existing travel guide, for the locations Istanbul, Helsinki and Milan. I was asked to write myself a brief: “A travel agency wants you to create an illustration for the three cities that they are promoting for these Christmas holidays. They […]

Brief#1 “Buy a newspaper with a supplement and go through cutting out any article that contains an illustration. Notice the heading for each article and read the text that the illustration refers to. Make a mental note about the way the illustration relates to the text, how its ideas relate to the meaning of the […]

I started this exercise by gathering all of my favourite illustrations that I have done during this course: Then I decided to use this image to promote commercially in a product: I think that this image could be used in a phone case, printed as a poster, or even to promote the watercolours I used. […]

Brief “Collect as many examples as possible of different characters – newspapers and magazines are a particular good source. Catalogue these characters as types – babies, children, sportsmen, old women – create your own category headings.” Here are some images of the research I did about different character and their categories: Women heroes: Male heroes: […]