What is Illustration for ? VECTOR ILLUSTRATION

Vector graphic on Illustrator is used for so many different purposes and applications of Illustration.

Sequential. . 

Sequential Illustration. . 

Always with Honor Illustrations. . 

Ryan Todd Illustrations. . 

Suzanne Carpenter

Stuart Kolakovic

Publishing Illustration. . 

Stuart Kolakovich 

luke pearson

Ryan Todd Illustration

Andrew Bannacker 

Illustration for Bicycle Magazine

Editorial illustration. . 

Charles Williams

Luke Pearson. . 

Packaging Illustration. . 

Andrew Bennecker

I really like how Bennecker has manages to still maintain a sense of texture in these illustrations despite them being produced digitally.

Steve Simpson. .

I like how Simpson uses minimal colour palette in his vector work. I think this works really well with the strong use of vector shapes.

Stuart Kolakovich. . 

Like Steve Simpson, I really like the simple use of colour in these works.

Promotional Illustration. . 

Andrew Bannecker Illustraton. .

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campaign for Nike

Stuart Kolakovic

OTHER VECTOR ILLUSTRATORS I LIKE. . 

LESLEY BARNES..  

Ben the illustrator 

Malika Favre 

Stranger and stranger illustration 

stranger and stranger illustration 

Malika favre

STUDY TASK 5 WHERE AM I NOW

What are your goals. . . 

As I am quite a methodical and organised person, I prefer to set myself little targets or bench marks to aim for which I feel is more approachable than setting myself one massive target that I should somehow end up at in my life time. And so in terms of my career and my illustrations my goals are

By the end of my degree: By the end of my degree I want to have mastered the art of perspective and proportion in my drawing. As I am one of those people who like an image to look like what it is but to then be more interesting than a photographic copy of something, I feel this is important; once something is proportionally and perspectively correct I can draw it in any way and use any material and it will still look fairly accurate. 

I also aim to have a whole bank of photographic and emphemera reference that I've collected over my 3 years, be it photos of places ive been to or things ive seen, or just weird and wonderful objects I've picked up. 

Since starting my degree I have learnt so decent levels of Photoshop. As someone who is almost scared of technology, I'm quite impressed with myself and so I aim to have mastered Photoshop so a fairly high standard by the end of my degree.

A few years after uni; As I am quite young (I will only be 20 when I finish my degree) I feel that I am in the very advantaged positioned where I could still go out and do more after my degree before settling in to the big bad world of mundane working. Why should the learning stop in 2016? My goal is go out, meet as many people as I can and go to as many places and to take in as much as I can.

By the time im 30: By the time I'm 30 I would have been out of university for 10 years. I would have hoped by this point that I would have started establishing myself in the creative world by this point. However at this point I would like to be putting my skills towards building my own company. Before university I always saw myself having my own line of illustrated wall paper, tea towels, cushions and fabrics ect. However I've realised that there's Allot more I could do which involves my other interests. I currently work for a nursery and for my mums catering company and so I'm really interested in children, food as well as architecture and travel. I'm hoping that by the time I'm 30 that I will be working towards developing a business that incorporates my other interests as well. 

THE BIG 4-0: god knows what I'll be doing at 40 its is 22 years away and I'm interested in far too many things to narrow it down I'm afraid.

What are your expectations. . 

My expectations of this degree and for the rest of my career are generally that it will be really hard and involve alot of grafting; but also that I'm going to learn so much and that there will never be an end point into what I can do. I also expect there to be times when this career can seem impossible but if I just sit around at that point and do nothing then it will definitely be impossible!

How will I achieve my goals. . 

With alot of Graft and hard work. However this makes it all sound very tedious and incredibly boring. I was put off studying architecture because someone told me that I would have to spend 20 years designing stair cases and fire exits before I got to build the dream house or the next Chrysler building. This combined with the endless talks from Illustrators that have come in has made me realise that if I'm going to achieve my goals then I have to stick to doing what I really enjoy and practise it a lot and become really good at it! So my action plan is to draw what I like to draw in then way I enjoy drawing it and to do that a lot.

How well will I judge my success

I think that in the early stages of a creative career that it is important to judge the success of your work by how much you like it and how much thought and effort that went into it. If I can identify what I need to do and change and develop, and then if I like the end product then I have a decent foundation to work on. Once I am out in the big, wide, working world I cant start to judge my success on how much the client likes my work.

STUDY TASK 4

10 Things I have learnt about myself as a learner and an individual . .. 

1). I tend to work best in a studio space where there are little distractions.

2). I find looking at other illustrators work both inspiring and influential on my own work.

3). I work very slowly

4). When I'm finding work difficult, it is useful for me to step back from it and to think before continuing.

5). I work better at night

6). As an individual I constantly compare myself to others

7). --> As a learner I find comparing myself to others also influences and drives me to work harder

8). I need sufficient sleep to be able to work properly

9). I find that taking the time out to do other things besides uni work tends to motivate me more and inspire and influence my work more.

10). I work best in a nice, quiet environment ( for example my attic room at home).

10 Things I have learnt about myself as an illustrator. . 

1). I constantly compare my work to others around me

2). I perhaps dabble and experiment with unknown processes when I should just exhaust the ones I already know and am good at.

3). I appreciate detail in work.

4). I don't appreciate and cant really follow comics.

5). I find it easiest when working from a reference

6). I work best from photos I have taken myself or of images from books rather than the internet.

7). I draw inspiration from my own interests and surroundings rather than completely random things

8). I like the concepts of pattern and repetition in work

9). I would like to explore printing more

10). My best work is the simplest and from the simplest reference.