This exercise asks to create a series of cover illustrations for travel guides, including a hand-drawn type, for three cities: Milan, Istanbul, and Helsinki. The illustrations should…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Travel Guides”
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Key Steps in Illustration: Editorial Illustration
This exercise focuses on editorial illustration as this is a broad area and often gives illustrators the freedom to work on a piece freely within a certain…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Editorial Illustration”
Key Steps in Illustration: Your own work
This exercise is quite different from the previous ones: I am asked to review my sketchbooks I have created for the course so far, and review my…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Your own work”
Key Steps in Illustration: Tutor’s Feedback – Part 4
I’ve received my tutor’s feedback on part 4. As with the previous feedbacks, I am overall happy and got some good ideas to consider for the next…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Tutor’s Feedback – Part 4”
Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Final
Seeing the three magazine layouts next to each other, I still could not quite decide if I like the painted or the vector version better. My personal…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Final”
Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Pt. 2
I let the image go a few days to work on some other projects, and then created a magazine mock-up to put it into context. Seeing my…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Pt. 2”
Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Pt. 1
The fourth assignment asks me to do a magazine illustration, based on a still life, on one topic (Lost; Disaster; Discovery; Guilty Secret). The brief is as…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Assignment 4 – Magazine Illustration, Pt. 1”
Key Steps in Illustration: Visual Distortion
For this exercise I was asked to create an objective illustration of a dog, and then simplify and distort it to create a new effect. The first…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Visual Distortion”
Key Steps in Illustration: Character Development
This exercise asked to create three different characters, either based on a story, a sterotype and draw the character from different angles and in different situtations. To…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: Character Development”
Key Steps in Illustration: A Tattoo
This exercise asked to create a tattoo around the word “MUM” for a friend. The design should then also be used for a greeting card. I started…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: A Tattoo”
Key Steps in Illustration: A Menu Card, Pt. 2
As I didn’t like the mermaid idea too much, I looked at other themes again, and decided to try with the whale idea. I wanted to create…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: A Menu Card, Pt. 2”
Key Steps in Illustration: A Menu Card, Pt. 1
This exercise asked to create a logo (square format) and a menu card for a seafood/fish restaurant (high quality, modern chain that can be found throughout Europe).…… Read more “Key Steps in Illustration: A Menu Card, Pt. 1”