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  • Illustration 1
    • Key steps in illustration
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Say hello
        • Assignment 2 – Point of sale display
        • Assignment 3 – A poster
        • Assignment 4 – Magazine illustration
        • Assignment 5 – Seven Days
      • Coursework
        • 1. Getting started
          • 1.1 The history of illustration
          • 1.2 Getting the gist
        • 2. Ideas
          • 2.1 Writing a brief
          • 2.2 Spider diagrams
          • 2.3 Turning words into pictures
          • 2.4 Making a moodboard
          • 2.5 Using reference
          • 2.6 Exploring drawing and painting
          • 2.7 An objective drawing
          • 2.8 A subjective drawing
          • 2.9 Using black and white
          • 2.10 Choosing content
          • 2.11 Visual metaphors
        • 3. Working it out
          • 3.1 Illustrating visual space
          • 3.2 Reading an image
          • 3.3 Image development
          • 3.4 Abstract illustration
          • 3.5 Giving instructions
          • 3.6 Viewpoint
          • 3.7 Client visuals
          • 3.8 Making a mock up
        • 4. Style
          • 4.1 Identifying tools and materials
          • 4.2 Museum posters
          • 4.3 A children’s book cover
          • 4.4 A menu card
          • 4.5 A tattoo
          • 4.6 Visual distortion
          • 4.7 Character development
        • 5. Words and pictures
          • 5.1 Your own work
          • 5.2 Editorial illustration
          • 5.3 Travel guides
          • 5.4 Text and image
          • 5.5 Packaging
          • 5.6 Working for children
          • 5.7 Educational strip
    • Printmaking 1
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Monoprints
        • Assignment 2 – First relief prints
        • Assignment 3 – Developing relief prints
        • Assignment 4 – Collatype collage block prints
        • Assignment 5 – Exploring printmaking and combination print techniques
      • Coursework
        • Part 1 Introducing monoprints
          • 1.1 Your first monoprints
          • 1.2 Positive and negative masked monoprints
          • 1.3 Two-coloured masked monoprints
          • 1.4 Combination monoprints
        • PART 2 Introducing relief printing – linocuts
          • 2.1 Linocuts
          • 2.2 Single colour linocut
          • 2.3 Multi-block linoprint
        • PART 3 Experimental relief prints
          • 3.1 Reduction method linocutting
          • 3.2 Experimental mark making on lino
          • 3.3 Experimental relief prints
        • PART 4 Introducing collatype
          • 4.1 Making a test collage block
          • 4.2 Collatype collage prints
        • PART 5 Exploring printmaking and combination print techniques
          • 5.1 Combination mono and linoprint
          • 5.2 Investigating combination printmaking and incorporating chine collé collages
          • 5.3 Developing a series of four combination and experimental prints
      • Response to feedback
        • Google hangout 12/08/18
        • Printmaking PART 3 and PART 4
    • Illustration sketchbooks
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Recording and sharing your work
        • Assignment 2 – Happy accidents
        • Assignment 3 – Illustrative people & places
        • Assignment 4 – Building stories
        • Assignment 5 – Application and context
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 – Everyday sketchbooks
          • 1.0 What sort of sketchbook should I use?
          • 1.1 What is your relationship with your sketchbook?
          • 1.2 Making mistakes – working fast and cutting up work
          • 1.3 How personal do you want to be?
        • PART 2 – Sketchbook as object
          • 2.0 Rapid sketches
          • 2.1 Limited line drawings
          • 2.2 Investigating a process
          • 2.3 Blind contour drawing
          • 2.4 Drawing with tea bags
          • 2.5 Drawing with objects
          • 2.6 Pareidolia
        • PART 3 – People & Place
          • 3.0 Observation
          • 3.1 Understanding viewpoints
          • 3.2 Working with external visual impetus
          • 3.3 Illustrative drawings
          • 3.4 Interpretation & communication
          • 3.5 Free association
        • PART 4 Sequence & narrative
          • 4.0 Fill it up fast!
          • 4.1 Description & depiction
          • 4.2 Storyboarding
          • 4.3 Conversations with pictures
          • 4.4 Using basic narrative structure
        • PART 5 – Summation
          • 5.0 Taking stock
          • 5.1 Making an action plan visually
          • 5.2 Making connections
          • 5.3 Constructing a visual journey
      • Research
        • 1.1 Artists’ sketchbooks
        • 2.0 Sophie Peanut
        • 2.2 Lucy Austin
        • 2.5 Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg
        • 3.2 Reporting & documenting
        • 3.3 Reporting & documenting
        • Google hangout 17/02/19
        • 3.4 Creating your own version of reality
        • 3.5 Visual research
        • 4.1 Top ten visual diaries
        • 4.3 Story structures
        • 5.0 Visual language
  • Illustration 2
    • Responding to a brief
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1: Invisible cities
        • Assignment 2: A sense of place
        • Assignment 3: A graphic short story
        • Assignment 4: You are here
        • Assignment 5: Self directed project
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 The practice of illustration
          • 1.0 Who’s out there and what are they doing?
          • 1.1 Personal voice reflection
          • 1.2 Start a visual diary
          • 1.3 Draw, draw and draw again
          • 1.4 Mixing and matching
          • 1.5 Less is more
          • 1.6 Illustrators who have designed wallpapers
          • 1.7 Visual depth
        • PART 2 Reportage
          • 2.0 Drawing on the familiar
          • 2.1 Courtroom dramas
          • 2.2 Drawing on location
          • 2.3 Fashion illustration
          • 2.4 Everyday fashion
          • 2.5 Architectural illustrators
          • 2.6 Architectural illustration
          • 2.7 Advances in imaging technologies
          • 2.8 A rose by any other name
          • 2.9 A sense of us and them
          • 2.10 There and back again
          • 2.11 Critical review proposal
        • PART 3 Narrative illustration
          • 3.0 Beer Street & Gin Lane
          • 3.1 You are what you eat
          • 3.2 The Metamorphosis
          • 3.3 Illustration & typography
          • 3.4 Illustrators who define a story visually
          • 3.5 Once upon a time
          • 3.6 Narrative arc
          • 3.7 Narrative & visual style
          • 3.8 Girl meets boy
          • 3.9 Animation & illusion
          • 3.10 Animation techniques
          • 3.11 Flick-books & animated gifs
          • 3.12 Animal farm
        • PART 4 Contemporary illustration
          • 4.0 Online social networks
          • 4.1 18th Century political satirists
          • 4.2 Contemporary caricature
          • 4.3 Caricature & character
          • 4.4 World affairs
          • 4.5 Self-published comics
          • 4.6 Self-publishing
          • 4.7 Digital & non-digital illustration
          • 4.8 Pixelated images
          • 4.9 Street art research
          • 4.10 Street art
          • 4.11 Illustrators that use paper
          • 4.12 Paper circus
          • 4.13 Illustrators that use ceramics
          • 4.14 Contemporary ceramics
        • PART 5 Working to a brief
          • 5.0 Client brief analysis
          • 5.1 Writing a rationale
          • 5.2 Self directed projects
          • 5.3 What’s your working process?
          • 5.4 Copyright in the UK
          • 5.5 Client SWOT analysis
          • 5.6 Presenting yourself
      • Assessment information
    • Visual exploration
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Flowing and playing
        • Assignment 2 – Presenting your work
        • Assignment 3 – Movement
        • Assignment 4 – Themed project
          • 4.0 Understand the problem
          • 4.1 Research
          • 4.2 Generate ideas
          • 4.3 Design
          • 4.4 Artwork
          • 4.5 Reflect
        • Assignment 5 – Rethinking and realising
          • 5.0 Understand the problem
          • 5.1 Research
          • 5.2 Generate ideas
          • 5.3 Design
          • 5.4 Finish images
          • 5.6 Reflection
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 Being creative
          • 1.0 Where do good ideas come from?
          • 1.1 Thinking about your workspace
          • 1.2 365 projects
          • 1.3 Good working habits
          • 1.4 Flow and play
        • PART 2 Visual approaches
          • 2.0 Getting into the zones
          • 2.1 Multi-dimensional thinking
          • 2.2 Visual dynamics
          • 2.3 Words to pictures
          • 2.4 Word associations
          • 2.5 Process artists
          • 2.6 Word processing
          • 2.7 Cut-ups
          • 2.8 Composing pictures
          • 2.9 Collage approaches
        • PART 3 Making
          • 3.0 Fast
          • 3.1 Slow
          • 3.2 Slow TV
          • 3.3 Fast and slow art
          • 3.4 Big
          • 3.5 Large scale image-making
          • 3.6 Small
          • 3.7 Paper toys
        • PART 5 – Personal project
          • 5.0 Reflection on Assignment 4
          • 5.1 Creative audit
          • 5.2 Creating connections
        • PART 6 Critical review & pre-assessment
          • Assignment 6 – Critical review
      • Level progression
      • Assessment information
  • Illustration 3
    • Advanced practice
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 Understanding your practice
          • 1.1 Writing a personal statement
          • 1.2 Skills audit
          • 1.3 Creatively exploring your process
          • 1.4 What’s next?
        • PART 2 Text and image
          • 2.1 Visual dynamics
          • Research 2.1 Visual languages
          • 2.2 Finding texts
          • Research 2.2 The visual language of graphic novels
          • Research 2.3 Visual research
          • 2.3 Developing content
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Personal statement
        • Assignment 2 – Text & image
    • Visual research
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 – Project proposal
          • 1.1 Initial ideas
          • 1.2 Getting started
          • 1.3 Identify resources
          • 1.4 Narrowing down your visual topic
          • 1.5 Narrowing down your research topic
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Initial project proposal
  • Research
    • Practice research backlog
    • Practice research approach
    • Definition of ready (DOR)
    • Definition of done (DOD)
    • Retrospective – Responding to a brief
    • Retrospective – Visual exploration
    • Mini life drawing symposium
    • Mini life drawing symposium 2021
    • The cut and fold
    • Body, space and narrative
    • Keeping up momentum
    • Keeping up momentum – Part 2
    • Keeping up momentum – The Garden of Earthly Delights
    • PYSB online workshop
    • Mark resist experiment
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Illustration 3

Illustration 3 is the third and final level on the OCA Illustration Degree Pathway.

It consists of three units:

  • Advanced practice – in progress
  • Visual research – not started
  • Sustaining your practice – not started

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  • Home
  • About
  • Illustration 1
    • Key steps in illustration
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Say hello
        • Assignment 2 – Point of sale display
        • Assignment 3 – A poster
        • Assignment 4 – Magazine illustration
        • Assignment 5 – Seven Days
      • Coursework
        • 1. Getting started
          • 1.1 The history of illustration
          • 1.2 Getting the gist
        • 2. Ideas
          • 2.1 Writing a brief
          • 2.2 Spider diagrams
          • 2.3 Turning words into pictures
          • 2.4 Making a moodboard
          • 2.5 Using reference
          • 2.6 Exploring drawing and painting
          • 2.7 An objective drawing
          • 2.8 A subjective drawing
          • 2.9 Using black and white
          • 2.10 Choosing content
          • 2.11 Visual metaphors
        • 3. Working it out
          • 3.1 Illustrating visual space
          • 3.2 Reading an image
          • 3.3 Image development
          • 3.4 Abstract illustration
          • 3.5 Giving instructions
          • 3.6 Viewpoint
          • 3.7 Client visuals
          • 3.8 Making a mock up
        • 4. Style
          • 4.1 Identifying tools and materials
          • 4.2 Museum posters
          • 4.3 A children’s book cover
          • 4.4 A menu card
          • 4.5 A tattoo
          • 4.6 Visual distortion
          • 4.7 Character development
        • 5. Words and pictures
          • 5.1 Your own work
          • 5.2 Editorial illustration
          • 5.3 Travel guides
          • 5.4 Text and image
          • 5.5 Packaging
          • 5.6 Working for children
          • 5.7 Educational strip
    • Printmaking 1
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Monoprints
        • Assignment 2 – First relief prints
        • Assignment 3 – Developing relief prints
        • Assignment 4 – Collatype collage block prints
        • Assignment 5 – Exploring printmaking and combination print techniques
      • Coursework
        • Part 1 Introducing monoprints
          • 1.1 Your first monoprints
          • 1.2 Positive and negative masked monoprints
          • 1.3 Two-coloured masked monoprints
          • 1.4 Combination monoprints
        • PART 2 Introducing relief printing – linocuts
          • 2.1 Linocuts
          • 2.2 Single colour linocut
          • 2.3 Multi-block linoprint
        • PART 3 Experimental relief prints
          • 3.1 Reduction method linocutting
          • 3.2 Experimental mark making on lino
          • 3.3 Experimental relief prints
        • PART 4 Introducing collatype
          • 4.1 Making a test collage block
          • 4.2 Collatype collage prints
        • PART 5 Exploring printmaking and combination print techniques
          • 5.1 Combination mono and linoprint
          • 5.2 Investigating combination printmaking and incorporating chine collé collages
          • 5.3 Developing a series of four combination and experimental prints
      • Response to feedback
        • Google hangout 12/08/18
        • Printmaking PART 3 and PART 4
    • Illustration sketchbooks
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Recording and sharing your work
        • Assignment 2 – Happy accidents
        • Assignment 3 – Illustrative people & places
        • Assignment 4 – Building stories
        • Assignment 5 – Application and context
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 – Everyday sketchbooks
          • 1.0 What sort of sketchbook should I use?
          • 1.1 What is your relationship with your sketchbook?
          • 1.2 Making mistakes – working fast and cutting up work
          • 1.3 How personal do you want to be?
        • PART 2 – Sketchbook as object
          • 2.0 Rapid sketches
          • 2.1 Limited line drawings
          • 2.2 Investigating a process
          • 2.3 Blind contour drawing
          • 2.4 Drawing with tea bags
          • 2.5 Drawing with objects
          • 2.6 Pareidolia
        • PART 3 – People & Place
          • 3.0 Observation
          • 3.1 Understanding viewpoints
          • 3.2 Working with external visual impetus
          • 3.3 Illustrative drawings
          • 3.4 Interpretation & communication
          • 3.5 Free association
        • PART 4 Sequence & narrative
          • 4.0 Fill it up fast!
          • 4.1 Description & depiction
          • 4.2 Storyboarding
          • 4.3 Conversations with pictures
          • 4.4 Using basic narrative structure
        • PART 5 – Summation
          • 5.0 Taking stock
          • 5.1 Making an action plan visually
          • 5.2 Making connections
          • 5.3 Constructing a visual journey
      • Research
        • 1.1 Artists’ sketchbooks
        • 2.0 Sophie Peanut
        • 2.2 Lucy Austin
        • 2.5 Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg
        • 3.2 Reporting & documenting
        • 3.3 Reporting & documenting
        • Google hangout 17/02/19
        • 3.4 Creating your own version of reality
        • 3.5 Visual research
        • 4.1 Top ten visual diaries
        • 4.3 Story structures
        • 5.0 Visual language
  • Illustration 2
    • Responding to a brief
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1: Invisible cities
        • Assignment 2: A sense of place
        • Assignment 3: A graphic short story
        • Assignment 4: You are here
        • Assignment 5: Self directed project
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 The practice of illustration
          • 1.0 Who’s out there and what are they doing?
          • 1.1 Personal voice reflection
          • 1.2 Start a visual diary
          • 1.3 Draw, draw and draw again
          • 1.4 Mixing and matching
          • 1.5 Less is more
          • 1.6 Illustrators who have designed wallpapers
          • 1.7 Visual depth
        • PART 2 Reportage
          • 2.0 Drawing on the familiar
          • 2.1 Courtroom dramas
          • 2.2 Drawing on location
          • 2.3 Fashion illustration
          • 2.4 Everyday fashion
          • 2.5 Architectural illustrators
          • 2.6 Architectural illustration
          • 2.7 Advances in imaging technologies
          • 2.8 A rose by any other name
          • 2.9 A sense of us and them
          • 2.10 There and back again
          • 2.11 Critical review proposal
        • PART 3 Narrative illustration
          • 3.0 Beer Street & Gin Lane
          • 3.1 You are what you eat
          • 3.2 The Metamorphosis
          • 3.3 Illustration & typography
          • 3.4 Illustrators who define a story visually
          • 3.5 Once upon a time
          • 3.6 Narrative arc
          • 3.7 Narrative & visual style
          • 3.8 Girl meets boy
          • 3.9 Animation & illusion
          • 3.10 Animation techniques
          • 3.11 Flick-books & animated gifs
          • 3.12 Animal farm
        • PART 4 Contemporary illustration
          • 4.0 Online social networks
          • 4.1 18th Century political satirists
          • 4.2 Contemporary caricature
          • 4.3 Caricature & character
          • 4.4 World affairs
          • 4.5 Self-published comics
          • 4.6 Self-publishing
          • 4.7 Digital & non-digital illustration
          • 4.8 Pixelated images
          • 4.9 Street art research
          • 4.10 Street art
          • 4.11 Illustrators that use paper
          • 4.12 Paper circus
          • 4.13 Illustrators that use ceramics
          • 4.14 Contemporary ceramics
        • PART 5 Working to a brief
          • 5.0 Client brief analysis
          • 5.1 Writing a rationale
          • 5.2 Self directed projects
          • 5.3 What’s your working process?
          • 5.4 Copyright in the UK
          • 5.5 Client SWOT analysis
          • 5.6 Presenting yourself
      • Assessment information
    • Visual exploration
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Flowing and playing
        • Assignment 2 – Presenting your work
        • Assignment 3 – Movement
        • Assignment 4 – Themed project
          • 4.0 Understand the problem
          • 4.1 Research
          • 4.2 Generate ideas
          • 4.3 Design
          • 4.4 Artwork
          • 4.5 Reflect
        • Assignment 5 – Rethinking and realising
          • 5.0 Understand the problem
          • 5.1 Research
          • 5.2 Generate ideas
          • 5.3 Design
          • 5.4 Finish images
          • 5.6 Reflection
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 Being creative
          • 1.0 Where do good ideas come from?
          • 1.1 Thinking about your workspace
          • 1.2 365 projects
          • 1.3 Good working habits
          • 1.4 Flow and play
        • PART 2 Visual approaches
          • 2.0 Getting into the zones
          • 2.1 Multi-dimensional thinking
          • 2.2 Visual dynamics
          • 2.3 Words to pictures
          • 2.4 Word associations
          • 2.5 Process artists
          • 2.6 Word processing
          • 2.7 Cut-ups
          • 2.8 Composing pictures
          • 2.9 Collage approaches
        • PART 3 Making
          • 3.0 Fast
          • 3.1 Slow
          • 3.2 Slow TV
          • 3.3 Fast and slow art
          • 3.4 Big
          • 3.5 Large scale image-making
          • 3.6 Small
          • 3.7 Paper toys
        • PART 5 – Personal project
          • 5.0 Reflection on Assignment 4
          • 5.1 Creative audit
          • 5.2 Creating connections
        • PART 6 Critical review & pre-assessment
          • Assignment 6 – Critical review
      • Level progression
      • Assessment information
  • Illustration 3
    • Advanced practice
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 Understanding your practice
          • 1.1 Writing a personal statement
          • 1.2 Skills audit
          • 1.3 Creatively exploring your process
          • 1.4 What’s next?
        • PART 2 Text and image
          • 2.1 Visual dynamics
          • Research 2.1 Visual languages
          • 2.2 Finding texts
          • Research 2.2 The visual language of graphic novels
          • Research 2.3 Visual research
          • 2.3 Developing content
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Personal statement
        • Assignment 2 – Text & image
    • Visual research
      • Coursework
        • PART 1 – Project proposal
          • 1.1 Initial ideas
          • 1.2 Getting started
          • 1.3 Identify resources
          • 1.4 Narrowing down your visual topic
          • 1.5 Narrowing down your research topic
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Initial project proposal
  • Research
    • Practice research backlog
    • Practice research approach
    • Definition of ready (DOR)
    • Definition of done (DOD)
    • Retrospective – Responding to a brief
    • Retrospective – Visual exploration
    • Mini life drawing symposium
    • Mini life drawing symposium 2021
    • The cut and fold
    • Body, space and narrative
    • Keeping up momentum
    • Keeping up momentum – Part 2
    • Keeping up momentum – The Garden of Earthly Delights
    • PYSB online workshop
    • Mark resist experiment
  • LinkedIn
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