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Project 3 – CONCEPTUAL PORTRAIT

October 26, 2023 / Sara Gómez Woolley / 2 Comments

PROJECT 3

COMD 3633 Advanced Strategies in Illustration Fall 2023 Assignment #3: Conceptual Portrait

Select a subject. They can be a celebrity (alive or deceased), a historical figure, an athlete, or someone from the news. Create a conceptual portrait illustration. Image Size 9”X12” Portrait, Full Color.

For Next Week :

1. Create a series (minimum 5) of thumbnail sketches exploring various conceptual poses focusing on an aspect of their personality.

2. Work Realistically or in Caricature, whichever suits your personal style and portfolio.

3. Once you’ve chosen a concept and pose, find reference images, and create your own photographic reference for poses if necessary.

FINAL ART DUE : 11/16

Specs: Image Size 9”X12” Portrait, Full Color.

Things to consider when creating a conceptual portrait:

•Characteristic Pose

•Props

•Costume/Uniform

•Facial anomaly

•Tattoos

•Unusual Situation

•Style

•Something they are known for.

PROJECT 4 – FINAL

November 16, 2023 / Sara Gómez Woolley / 0 Comments

SELF DIRECTED PORTFOLIO PIECE

BRIEF: Create a portfolio piece that you would use to woo your dream client!

• Revisit your Week 1 assignment, in which you identified who you are as an illustrator and the art directors and companies you’d most like to work with.

• Create an illustration sure to capture their attention!

MORE INFORMATION HERE:

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PROJECT 2

October 4, 2023 / Sara Gómez Woolley / 0 Comments

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

WEEK 4 Remote Assignment

September 23, 2023 / Sara Gómez Woolley / 3 Comments

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

Category: PROJECT BRIEFS

Project 3 – CONCEPTUAL PORTRAIT

PROJECT 3

PROJECT 4 – FINAL

PROJECT 2

WEEK 4 Remote Assignment

PROJECT 1

ASSIGNMENT 1

DUE WEEK 2 – SEP 07

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