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BA (Hons) Illustration Learning Log

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  • Illustration 1: Key Steps In Illustration
    • Part 1 : Getting Started
    • Assignment 1
    • Part 2 : Ideas
    • Assignment 2
    • Part 2 – Feedback Notes
    • Part 3 : Working It Out
    • Assignment 3 – A Poster
    • Part 3 – Feedback Notes
    • Part 4 : Style
    • Assignment 4
    • Part 4 – Feedback Notes
    • Part 5 : Words & Pictures
    • Part 5 – Feedback Notes
    • Assignment 5
  • Illustration 1: Illustration Sketchbooks
    • Illustration Sketchbooks Coursework
      • Part 1: Everyday Sketchbooks
        • Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use?
        • Research Task 1.0: Emma’s Sketchbook
        • Research Task 1.1: Artists’ Sketchbooks
        • Exercise 1.1: What is your relationship with your sketchbook?
        • Exercise 1.2: Making Mistakes – working fast and cutting work up
        • Exercise 1.3: How personal do you want your sketchbook to be? To hide, or not to hide?
      • Part 2: Sketchbook as an object
        • Exercise 2.0: Rapid Sketches
        • Research Task 2.0: Sophie Peanut
        • Exercise 2.1: Limited Time Drawings
        • Research Task 2.1: Lucy Austin
        • Exercise 2.2: Investigating a Process
        • Exercise 2.3: Blind Contour Drawing
        • Exercise 2.4: Drawing with Tea Bags
        • Research Task 2.2: Christoph Niemann & Saul Steinberg
        • Exercise 2.5: Drawing with Objects: A Journey Scrapbook
        • Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia
      • Part 3: People & Places
        • Research Task 3.0: Building a Tool Kit
        • Research Task 3.1: A Reportage Case Study
        • Exercise 3.0: Observation – Topography, Where to Draw & What to Draw
        • Exercise 3.1: Understanding Viewpoints
        • Research Task 3.3: Reporting and Documenting
        • Exercise 3.2 Continued: Crowd Drawings
        • Exercise 3.3: Illustrative Drawings
        • Exercise 3.4: Interpretation and Communication; suppose we make it different ?
        • Exercise 3:5 Free Association
        • Research Task 3.4: Creating Your Own Version Of Reality
        • Research Task 3.5: Visual Research
      • Part 4 – Sequence & Narrative
        • Research Task 4.0: Visual Diaries
        • Exercise 4.0: Fill It Up – FAST!
        • Research Task 4.1: Top Ten Visual Diaries
        • Exercise 4.1: Description And Depiction
        • Exercise 4.2: Storyboarding
        • Research Task 4.2: Case Study: Brandon J Wallace
        • Exercise 4.3: Conversations With Pictures – Interpretation
        • Research Task 4.3: Story Structures
        • Exercise 4.4: Using Basic Narrative Structure
      • Part 5: Summation
        • Exercise 5.0: Taking Stock
        • Research Task 5.0: Visual Language
        • Exercise 5.1: Making an Action Plan – Visually
        • Exercise 5.2: Making Connections
        • Exercise 5.3: Constructing a Visual Journal
    • Illustration Sketchbook Assignments
      • Assignment 1: Recording and Sharing your work
      • Assignment 2: Happy Accidents
      • Assignment 3: Illustrative People and Places
      • Assignment 4: Building Stories
      • Assignment 5: Application and Context
    • Illustration Sketchbooks Tutor Reports
      • Tutor Feedback for Part 1: Everyday Sketchbooks
      • Tutor Feedback for Part 2: Sketchbook as Object
      • Tutor Feedback for Part 3: People and Places
      • Tutor Feedback for Part 4: Sequence and Narrative
  • Visual Communications 1: Graphic Fiction
    • Graphic Fiction Coursework
      • Graphic Fiction Introduction
        • Graphic Fiction Introduction: Exercise 1: What do you want/need from the course unit?
        • Graphic Fiction Introduction: Exercise 2: Setting up your learning log
        • Graphic Fiction Introduction: Exercise 3: Analysing and reflecting
        • Graphic Fiction Introduction: Exercise 4: Managing your Time
      • Part One: Origins
        • Research Task: The History of Comics
        • Exercise 1: Drawing from History
        • Exercise 2: Action and Reaction
        • Research Task: Before and After
        • Exercise 3: Drawing a Grid
      • Part Two: Words & Pictures
        • Research Task: Bad Examples
        • Exercise 2: Turning Pictures into Words
        • Research Task: Bad Examples
        • Exercise 1: Wordplay
        • Exercise 2: Turning Pictures into Words
        • Research Task: The ‘gag’ Cartoon
        • Exercise 3: Character Sketches
        • Exercise 4: Finding Reference
        • Exercise 5: Black & White and Colour
      • Part Three: Structures & Stories
        • Exercise 1: Starting a Story
        • Research Task: ‘The Spirit’
        • Research Task: Extreme Style
        • Exercise 2: Introducing your Character
        • Exercise 6: Exercises in Style
        • Exericse 3: Point of View
        • Exercise 4: Adapting Text
        • Exercise 5: Speaking in Pictures
        • Research Task: ‘Silent Comics’
        • Research Task: Extreme Style
        • Exercise 6: Exercises in Style
      • Part Four: Genres & Styles
        • Research Task: Life Stories
        • Research Task: ‘The True Story of Leopold and Loeb’
        • Exercise 1: True Stories
        • Exercise 2: Create a Children’s Comic Character
        • Research Task: Superheroes
        • Exercise 4: Future Worlds
        • Research Task: Comic Visionaries
        • Research Task: Funny Pictures
        • Exercise 5: Caricature
        • Research Task: Funny Pictures
        • Research Task: Autobiographical Comics
        • Exercise 5: Caricature
        • Exercise 6: Documenting an Event
        • Research Task: Autobiographical Comics
        • Exercise 7: A day in the life
        • Exercise 6: Documenting an Event
        • Exercise 7: A day in the life
      • Part Five: Creating Your Graphic Fiction
        • Research Task: Comic submission guidelines
        • Research Task: Visual language
        • Exercise 1: Reviewing your own work
        • Exercise 2: Make a Mini-Comic
        • Exercise 3: Create an artwork
        • Research Task: ‘The art of Comics’
        • Exercise 4: Shoot a photo story
    • Graphic Fiction Assignments
      • Assignment One: You Are A Character!
      • Assignment Two: Exploring Time and Place ‘Four Seasons in One Page’
      • Assignment 3: Nine Panel Grid
      • Assignment Four: Cover Versions
      • Assignment Five: Your Graphic Fiction
    • Graphic Fiction Tutor Reports
  • Personal Development
    • Life Drawing Sessions
      • 2B Or Not 2B Collective Life Drawing: Session 1
      • 2B Or Not 2B Collective Life Drawing: Session 2
      • 2B Or Not 2B Collective Life Drawing: Session 3
  • Illustration 2: Responding To A Brief
    • Responding To A Brief Coursework
      • Responding To A Brief Introduction
        • Part 1: Introduction
      • Part One: The Practice of Illustration
        • Part 1: Developing Your Drawing
        • Part 1: Your Tool Box
        • Part 1: Visual Space
      • Part Two: Reportage
        • Part 2: Reportage Illustration
        • Part 2: Fashion Illustration
        • Part 2: Architectural Illustration
        • Part 2: Natural Sciences
        • Part 2: Travel Illustration
        • Draft of Critical Review
      • Part Three: Narrative Illustration
        • Part 3: Visual Storytelling
        • Part 3: Image And Text
        • Part 3: Sequential Illustration
        • Part 3: Animation
      • Part Four: Contemporary Illustration
        • Part 4: Introduction
        • Part 4: Satirical Illustration
        • Part 4: Self-Publishing
        • Part 4: Digital Illustration
        • Part 4: Street Art
        • Part 4: Illustration As Object
      • Part Five: Working To A Brief
        • Part 5: The Brief
        • Part 5: Working With A Client
      • Part Six: Pre-Assessment & Critical Review
        • Assignment 6: Pre-Assessment & Critical Review
    • 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
      • Assignment 6: Pre-Assessment & Critical Review

Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use?

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I am a 26 year old student studying Illustration BA (Hons) with OCA. Student number: 525084

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