Working in Black & White
In this exercise we chose a word to illustrate. I chose journey. The illustration could be of objects or in a 'more narative style'. I started off with a mindmap…
Protected: Objective and Subjective Drawing
In the first of these two exercises we had to choose an object and represent it objectively. I chose glasses and made a pencil drawing of them sitting on white…
Exploring Drawing and Painting.
For this exercise we had to choose a subject and then explore different ways of depicting it with media. We were encouraged to use anything we had available and as…
Drawing from Reference
For this exercise we had to collect reference material from different sources and catalogue the images under given categories. I combined some Google searching with 2 books, Retro Graphics: A…
Mood Board
For this exercise we had to choose a word from the previous exercise and collect imagery stemming from our sketches. My search re-enforced the association of bright colours with 'exotic'…
Turning Words into Pictures
There are 2 sides of the brain: the left, a verbal and rational side that deals in numbers and words, and the right, an intuitive side which works with patterns…
Spider Diagrams
This exercise required us to mindmap out all the words we could think of stemming from one word. We had 4 words: childhood, angry, seaside and festival. 'Angry' was probably,…
Writing a Brief
For this exercise we had to identify a piece that we connected with in some way and write the brief that might have been given for it. I chose the…
Assignment 1 – Saying Hello
Woohoo! This brief is all about ME. Jokes aside, it's really about my decision making process and getting me to think about how I make decisions. So I reckon I…
Getting the Gist
This is the second exercise in part one of the course. It involves choosing an editorial piece to illustrate, reading it, highlighting key wwords and/or phrases then extracting those words/phrases…