Thursdays 6:00-9:00 P125
Halloween is a holiday that holds a special place in my heart. It’s a time when we can showcase our creativity and decorate without constraints. As someone who loves to express my artistic side, I’ve always been keen on utilizing my illustration skills to design unique Halloween decorations and seasonal greeting cards.
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
OCT 5th | Week 6 (Editorial Illustration) & Intro Project 2(NewYorkerCover)
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:
4. 10-minute Break
5. Intro Project 2/New Yorker Cover
6. Student Questions.
DUE NEXT WEEK
Class #5 – Project 1 (Editorial Illustration) –
** 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
6. 10-minute Break
7. Lecture / Working in Multiple Illustration Styles
8. Discuss Expectations for next week
DUE NEXT WEEK
**Submit your work to the Dropbox for Critique BEFORE class time, or it is counted as LATE WORK.**
Alcohol Abuse
Drug Abuse
Mass Shooting
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:
THIS PROJECT WILL BE DUE WEEK 7 for MIDTERM
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