LECTURE  PDF in Course Files

• Class Presentations & Review Last Week
• Discuss the Reading Nuts & Bolts Ch 1

• Guest Speaker: Steven Harris

• Lecture

1. Idea Generation – Discus Jillian Tamaki Reading
2. Who’s Who in Illustration REVIEW
3. Typical Illustration Workflow
4. Illustration Heroes Research Assignment

• IN CLASS RESEARCH: Create a Google Doc to track the information you learn from researching your Illustration Heroes.

DUE NEXT WEEK

1. Illustration Heroes Google Doc  (See Below

2. Write a Blog post on the following: Relate YOUR personal Style and Influences to the illustrators you have researched.   Show images of Your work as well as theirs and help us to understand where there are commonalities. 
3. If you didn’t last week, please Read Yuko Shimizu: Visual Vocabulary
4. Continue your Sketchbook.  Play with Personal Style and imagery .   Consider what kind of work you’d like to be hired to make.  DRAW THAT.
5. Read: Inside the Business of Illustration by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman, CH2 Style.

• If you have not already done so, Join the OPENLAB & share your EPortfolio.

Create a Google Doc to track the information you learn from researching these illustrators. Include things like:

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