Professor Diana Schoenbrun | COMD 3313 | SP22

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Week 2

Class Info

  • Date: Friday, September 9, 2:30-5:50 pm

To-Do Before Class

Topic

ILLUSTRATION PRACTICES: PROCESS & WORKFLOW

Activities

Warm Up Drawing

  • Window Views
top left, Artist: Henri Matisse, The Open Window 1905
top right: Pierre Bonnard, French Window with Dog, 1927
bottom left:  Utagawa Hiroshige final masterpiece, a series known as ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1858
bottom right: Katherine Lam, untitled, 2020

Discussion

Sketchbook

  • Let’s share our Meet the Artist

ILLUSTRATION PROCESS

  • The importance of multiple solutions.  
  • Personal Vision         
  • Thumbnails: How to and how many is too many?

Lecture 2

Illustration Process and Workflow

Conversation between Soojin Buzelli and Jon Han

BREAK

Review thumbnail drawings and concepts for Assignment 1, Part 1

Lab time to work

Due Next Week

Sketchbook Week 2: Windows

Let’s continue drawing windows. You are the viewer looking through a “window.”

1. First read through the short comments and review the illustrations from The New York Times article, 17 Artists Capture a Surreal New York From Their Windows.

2. You may use a pencil, ink, or color. Feel free to experiment with materials.

3. Draw a total of three windows. Draw at least one window based on an actual view. For example, you could draw your kitchen window view, bedroom window, coffee shop window, library window, subway window, etc. The other 2 windows are your choice. They could be windows from your imagination. A made-up view; an imaginary magical window view, or a window view that you would like to see, or one that you wouldn’t want to see. There are no limits.

Want to be more playful. What else can be a window? Glasses, a telescope, periscope, peephole, keyhole, etc. You can stretch the idea of what a window is.)

*Make sure to include the window frame. You may include some of the inside wall or wallpaper or room that the viewer is looking out from if you want as well.

3. You will draw at least 3 windows. Use 1 page per window. You don’t have to fill the whole page but I want you to draw your window at least 5 x 5 inches. Label or give a title for each window below the sketch.

4. Post to Openlab.
GO TO: CLASS SITE

DASHBOARD > POSTS > ADD NEW >

Write your post. Add a Descriptive title such as Week 2: Windows

Choose CATEGORY (bottom right side): Sketchbook

PUBLISH

Assignment 1, part 2

Spots continued.

After the critique decide which concept you want to continue with.

Do you need to revise your concept or make it more specific?

Draw, Draw, draw. You will have 6-10 finals but I suggest doing at least 10-20 thumbnails first. Keep these simple.

Choose your top 10 thumbnails and draw your rough sketches.
These will be the sketches you will present to the art director. They can still be loose but should communicate your idea and be readable.

Still stuck? Talk with your peers or ask me for help.

Post your 10 sketches to Open lab along with your final concept or theme. If your spots are sequential make sure to number them so we know what order to view them.
Openlab in STUDENT POSTS>WORK IN PROGRESS>Assignment 1, part 2

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