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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
Exericse 3: Point of View
Exercise 6: Exercises in Style
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
Research Task: Funny Pictures
Exercise 5: Caricature
Research Task: Autobiographical Comics
Exercise 5: Caricature
Research Task: Autobiographical Comics
Exercise 6: Documenting an Event
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
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
Part 3: People & Places
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