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PROJECT 2

NEW YORKER COVER

Project #2 Brief:

“NEW YORKER COVER ART”

Create an illustration for the cover of The New Yorker.

The concept should reflect your interests and fit in your portfolio.

Use the following topics and prompts to create your art:

1.NYC Life: Broadway/Fashion Week/Book Week/Comic Con./etc.

2.Borough Life (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island).

3.Current Events: Climate Change/Black Lives Matter/ Me Too/ Woman’s Rights/Politics/Voting Rights/Gun Control/LGBTQQ+

4.Holiday:  Halloween/ Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ New Years/ etc.

5.Seasonal, first day of Winter/ Spring/  Summer/ Fall.

6.Eustace Tilley (a conceptual portrait that includes butterfly).

7.Post Pandemic New York Life.

Project #2 Specs:

“NEW YORKER COVER ART”

•Illustration should be a positive reflection of NYC.

•You may combine prompts, for example: Springtime in Prospect Park, or Halloween in a NYC high rise.

•7 ¾” x 10 ¾” color cover art for the New Yorker.

•Leave room for the masthead (typeface will be provided).

CLICK HERE FOR TYPE FACE AND SPECS

OCT5 | WEEK 6

OCT 5th | Week 6 (Editorial Illustration) & Intro Project 2(NewYorkerCover)

 

  1. Attendance & Warm Up
  2. Meet Lara Antal!
  3. Critique of Finished Art Project 1 EDITORIAL

Please have the Art Scanned For Class Critique.  If it is not in our class dropbox by start of class, it will be considered late work.

Prepare to answer these questions during the Critique:

  • What Is the Title of the Editorial or Article?
  • Why did you choose this article?
  • Does the Illustration you intend to create fit the market you want to reach?

4. 10-minute Break

5. Intro Project 2/New Yorker Cover

6. Student Questions.

 

DUE NEXT WEEK

  1. Project 2: New Yorker Cover:  DUE Next Class: 5Thumbnails for New Yorker Cover.
  2. Answer this question: How does the theme you chose to illustrate reflect the type of work you want to do in the future?
  3. CONTINUE MAILING LIST PROJECT as prescribed on page 102 of Inside the Business of Illustration CH5 .  You may share your list with other who are interested in the same markets that you are.  You may work as a team. You SHOULD combine all the information you have gathered by researching your illustration heroes.  DUE Week 7

 

 

SEP 28 | Week 5

 Class #5 – Project 1 (Editorial Illustration) – 

  • 1.Attendance
  • 2.Warm Up
  • 3.Student Questions about last week.
  • 4.Class Critique of Refined Sketches for Project 1.

** Please have Thumbnails scanned and in DROPBOX For Class Critique **

Prepare to answer these questions during the Critique: 

a.What Is the Title of the Editorial or Article

  1. What is your source (where did it come from?)
  2. Why did you choose this article
  3. Does the Illustration you intend to create fit the market you want to reach
  4. Explain your thinking process for your thumbnails.

6. 10-minute Break

7. Lecture / Working in Multiple Illustration Styles

8. Discuss Expectations for next week

 

 

DUE NEXT WEEK

 

  • EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION FINAL – 9×12 finished color art (medium is the artist’s choice, but work will be reviewed digitally.)

**Submit your work to the Dropbox for Critique BEFORE class time, or it is counted as LATE WORK.**

  • READ CHAPTER 5: Inside the Business of Illustration
  • Continue your Mailing List as prescribed on page 102 of Inside the Business of Illustration CH5.  You may share your list with others who are interested in the same markets that you are.  You may work as a team. You SHOULD combine all the information you have gathered by researching your illustration heroes.  THIS PROJECT IS DUE WEEK 7

 

WEEK 4 Remote Assignment

READ: Inside the Business of Illustration CH5 . 

DO: Based on these readings, start your personalized “list”. Try physically going to the Barnes and Nobles on 16th St. Union Square and looking at magazines and books. Try going to Books of Wonder to look at children’s books. Try going to Forbidden Planet for comics. All of these shops will welcome you browsing and you do not need to buy anything.

*Create a Google Doc to track the information you learn from researching illustrators you admire and publications you’d like to work for.

*You may work as a team on this project with another classmate.

 Include things like:

  • Client List
  • Art Directors
  • Markets they work in or hire for (Books (Children’s, Sci-Fi, etc., Editorial Illustrations, Advertising)
  • Specific Themes or Subjects they are known for or thathtey like (Political, Dark, Sports,Etc.)
  • Specific Techniques? Hand Lettering for example

THIS PROJECT WILL BE DUE WEEK 7 for MIDTERM

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