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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
        • PART 3 – Working with an audience
          • 3.1 Being part of an audience
        • PART 4 Presenting your practice
          • 4.1 Re-assessing your practice
          • 4.2 Talking about your practice
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Personal statement
        • Assignment 2 – Text & image
        • Assignment 3 – Better by design
          • 3.1 Agile Leadership visual identity
          • 3.2 Agile Leadership research outputs
          • 3.3 Agile Leadership experiments
          • Assignment 3 evaluation
    • 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
    • Experiment – Caricature
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Illustration sketchbooks

This section is the Learning Log for Illustration sketchbooks including Coursework and Assignments.

Illustration sketchbooks is my third OCA module that is part of the BA (Hons) Illustration pathway.

It consists of five parts:

  1. Everyday sketchbooks
  2. Sketchbooks as object
  3. People and places
  4. Sequence and narrative
  5. Summation 

 

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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
        • PART 3 – Working with an audience
          • 3.1 Being part of an audience
        • PART 4 Presenting your practice
          • 4.1 Re-assessing your practice
          • 4.2 Talking about your practice
      • Assignments
        • Assignment 1 – Personal statement
        • Assignment 2 – Text & image
        • Assignment 3 – Better by design
          • 3.1 Agile Leadership visual identity
          • 3.2 Agile Leadership research outputs
          • 3.3 Agile Leadership experiments
          • Assignment 3 evaluation
    • 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
    • Experiment – Caricature
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