Personal and Professional Practice: STUDY TASK 1 . . why am I here and what do I want to learn

WHY AM I HERE AND WHAT DO I WANT TO LEARN

5 Reasons I chose to study on this programme. .

- To go to a completely new city and environment than to what I am used to.
-For the facilities that are available to me and the opportunity to be in a professional environment.
- Because the tutors seemed enthusiastic and knowledgeable
- Because I wanted to expand my knowledge and expose myself to other ways of working
-To meet new people

5 Things I want to learn whilst on this course

-New processes of making images
-further my knowledge of screen printing
- how to use photoshop
-how to get out there with my work and how to expose myself with it
- what other areas of illustration there are

5 Skills that are my strengths. .

- my fineliner work
-my attention to detail
- getting proportions and perspective fairly right
-I know about alot of different approaches to images
-sketchbooking and recording my work

5 things I want to improve
-My fineliner work and detailed images
-My ability in Screen printing
-My aversion to digital processes
- my painting skills
- my work process

5 Ways which I will evaluate my process. .
-To keep up to date and get into the rhythm of this blog
-to ask my peers and tutors opinions and feedback
- to take the time to sit and evluate my work to see how it can be improved
-Constantly looking into other artists and processes
-To inform myself as much as I can.

Defining Illustration. . . .

We were asked to write down everything that was illustration to us , be its processes, mediums or contexts . We were then asked to narrow this long list down to 5 subsections , my groups were. . .

Communication:Communication is the overriding concept behind Illustration as they are essentially images that have a purpose and so the different elements of the image have to communicate its purpose. This can be done through the images compositions, subject matter, use of colour, scale and any typography and text included.

Safety manual on a plane

Educational Illustration;

Ikea instruction manual

Educational Illustration and encompass many things from illustrations in non-fictional books such as illustrated encyclopaedias, to an illustrated diagram or manual (Ikea flat pack handbooks) and even the illustrations in children's books. The illustrations in a lot of book for very young children particularly focus on education to help boost their learning development. This is done by mainly concentrating on basic colours and creating characters or images out of standard shapes. Young childrens books often focus on a communicating a lesson or moral they have to learn which has to be equally evoked in the image.

'The hungry hungry caterpillar' illustrations which use colour and basic shape as an educational device.

Illustrations in an animal encyclopedia.

Commercial Illustration:

Commercial Illustration encompasses how illustrative designs or images are used to communicate not so much a moral or a message but more a product or a concepts behind a company. This can be seen in the fields of marketing and advertisement as well as the branding of a company or areas such as the music, film and fashion industries.

Julien Opie's Blur album cover

The Apple , silhouette campaign

Cath Kidston illustrations incorporated into her designs and products.

David Downton's famous illustrations for the Marks and Spencer's campaign

Personal Illustration:

To some artists, Illustration and the illustrative style is purely used as a way of recording their own personal thoughts, whether that is something they are experiencing within themselves or something they wish to share and make a statement about.

Ed Fairburn Illustration using maps

James Jean using his sketchbook to record day to day life scenes.

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire on his third day of drawing the New York skyline from memory

nigel peake

abby diamond

Narrative Illustration:

Narrative illustration takes the concept of communication through images at its most literal because aspects such as graphic novels and comic tell a story almost entirely through images.