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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
4.3 Self promotion
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
Assignment 4 Presenting your practice
Assessment information
Visual research
Coursework
Visual development
Experiment 1 – Text combinations & visual styles
Experiment 2 – Rules based processes to generate new materials
Experiment 3 – Rules-based processes for text
Experiment 4 – Formats
Resolved work
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
PART 2 – A theoretical framework
Assignment 4 -A working draft
Assignment 5 – Finalising your submission
Assessment information
Sustaining your practice
Coursework
PART 1 – Proposal manifesto
Research: 1.1 Ten manifestos
Research: 1.2 Ten practitioners
1.1 Ten key moments
1.2 Write your manifesto
Research: 1.3 How do you intend to work?
1.3 Write your marketing strategy
PART 2 – Project making and testing
2.1 Review: Making and testing methodologies
2.2 Review: Manifesto and project plan
PART 3 – Project production and networking
3.1 Review: Project plan document
3.2 Exit strategy
3.3 Critique
PART 4 – Project realisation & presentation
Assignments
Assignment 1 – Manifesto and project plan
PART 1 – Design your manifesto
PART 2 – Write your project plan
Assignment 2 – Submission of work-in-progress
Assignment 3 – Work in progress & presentation
PART 1 – Work in progress
PART 2 – PechaKucha presentation
Final project
Discovery
London Comic Mart
Self publishing research
Reading list
Design
Page layout
Visual design – panels
Visual design – full bleed pages
Mock-up
A change in direction
Practice research
Story analysis
Subject research
Visual design
Research
Drawing lessons
Semester 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Semester 2
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
30 Faces/30 Days
Experiment – Print editions
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
Retrospective – Responding to a brief
Retrospective – Visual exploration
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