Class Info

  • Date: 2/16

To-Do Before Class

Topic:

• Value and how it’s achieved.

• Design Concepts in Illustration: Advancing our understanding of Composition by way of VALUE

• Pencil Techniques transitioning to Inking Techniques

Aubrey Beardsley

Objectives

  • Last week the Professor WOULDN’T SHUT UP about 4 Fundamental Pencil Techniques. This week we use that understanding of techniques and apply the consideration of “Value” and start finessing those techniques into a range of darks and lights to achieve a full range, lifting our drawings out of “THE GREY ZONE”
  • Explore how COMPOSITION is vital to the conception and execution of the art. How to give consideration to your audience and devise your art in ways that illicit certain sensations, ideas, and satisfaction.
  • That know-how of COMPOSITION is made stronger with the fundamentals of these basic instruments to Illustrators.

Activities

Discussion

  • Thumbnails + Composition + Value + Line Art

Sketchbook

  • Quilt cont + Artist Selfies + Advanced Thumbnails

In Class:

  • Pencil Line Art exploration a la Herge
  • 5 Brush Pen Activity Sheets

Review Assignments and Expectations for Next Week’s Class

Due Next Week (WEEK 5)

W4 Sketchbook Assignment 1 : Midterm Poster : Step 1 • 8 (EIGHT) THUMBNAILS.

This is what I want to see:

  • Your words used to develop the CONCEPT
  • 8 Different ideas/compositions/approaches
  • TEXT IS OPTIONAL / 20% OF IMAGE MAX
  • TOPIC/CLIENT IS UP TO YOU
  • Thumbnails that use PENCIL TECHNIQUES (hatching + cross-hatching + scumbling + stippling + etc) to quickly convey value in your preliminary sketches.
  • Guide yourself through the work that lies ahead, pencil sets the pace for pen!
  • FINAL WILL BE: -Inked -On Bristol board/Illustration Stock. -No Digital.

W4 Sketchbook Exercise 2 : FINISH INKING YOUR QUILT

  • Using a variety of pens and inking techniques, ink the pencil-markings you set created in your quilt last week. Apply care, make it look nice, feel how the brush pen rolls in your hands, identify what size felt-pen is best for hatching and following your pencils.

W4 Sketchbook Assignment 3 : 4 (FOUR) CROSS CONTOUR INK DRAWINGS

  • Sketch out an object IN PENCIL, just enough to establish the shape your contour lines will follow.
  • Use PEN/BRUSH PEN to create cross-contour lines across sketch
  • This is a VARYING-LINE-WEIGHT exercise—If your contour lines all appear the same width/thickness, you are not doing the assignment right. Give your pencil sketch volume by inking it with lines that accentuates its -TEXTURE -LIGHTING -DEPTH -FORM.

W4 READING + RESEARCH:

WEEK 4 CLASS PRESENTATION:

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