You will create two visual essays this semester. Each will consist of a written element, multiple images, and a format intended to support communication of your visual essay’s thesis. For your first visual essay, select one of the two subjects below:
A) CURRENT DEBATE
List 10 subjects open to current debate. Examples might be as weighty as abortion, animal rights, civil rights, the death penalty, genetic engineering, or as light as “wet or dry barbecue?” The issues may be local, global, or personal. Select the subject that seems most compelling to you as an illustrator. Create a mind-map of associations based on this subject.
Write a 500-word opinion statement on your topic. Your opinion may be pro, con, or passionately ambivalent, but it should be informed. Cite at least 4 sources in support of your statement. Add to your mind-map, based on the research for your statement. Generate ten tangents or sub-sections to your subject. Prepare at least 50 thumbnails illustrating the tangents or sub-sections developed from your mind-map.
B) DOCUMENTARY ILLUSTRATION
Choose a place, event, or organization in Memphis to document. Examples might include a nursing home, a night club, a Buddhist temple, a political protest, or a cooking class. Think of yourself as a journalist: find a subject which interests you and which you think other people would be interested to know more about. Through a series of images, tell us as much as you can about your subject. What is going on? Who is involved? Why?
Write a 500-word statement detailing your proposed subject. Be sure that your subject is accessible to you: don’t just barge into a kindergarten and start drawing the kids. They will call the police, and I will not bail you out.
Visit your location every week. Prepare drawings on location. You may take photo-reference if you want. Write about your experiences there. Interview at least two people regarding your subject. Make sure you sketch your interviewees.
The location drawings and interview sketches may be done with the idea of using them as your final pieces, or as preparation for works executed in your studio. Subject Statements due 9/15. The completed visual essay is critiqued on 10/6, and will be turned in on 10/13.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Project 2 : The State of The Union
Review the work you have created in the past three years, both in Illustration classes and out. Answer the following questions on your class blog. Post one section a day for the next week. Answer thoroughly and thoughtfully. Make the posts attractive and interesting: illustrate them with relevant images, and link to informative materials. You will receive a grade on each post.
Post 1 (due 8/25)
What media do you like working in? List them.
What media do you hate working in? Why?
What media would you like to try, but haven't?
List three non-Illustration classes that have influenced you and/or your work positively. Explain.
How has the work of your peers influenced you and your work?
What sort of subject matter do you like to create work about?
What sort of subject matter do you like to read about?
What kind of music do you like? Why?
What non-art related interest/hobbies/skills do you have?
What is something that you like that nobody else likes?
If you had the run of the world's museums, what three works of original art would you like to own?
Post 2 (due 8/26)
Of the artwork that you have done, what is your personal favorite piece (include an image of the piece with details)? Why do you like it?
What piece do other people like most? Do you agree? Why do you think they like it?
What piece surprised you the most?
Choose five doodles or sketches that you like as much as any of your finished pieces.
Post 3 (due (8/27)
Describe your typical creative process, from getting an assignment to finished piece.
Describe what you think your creative process should be like.
Research and describe a professional creator’s creative process (this person need not be a visual artist. Dancers, writers, film directors, and so on, may have equally illuminating views on creation).
Post 4 (due 8/28)
List ten illustrators whose work you admire, or whose career you would like to emulate. Provide images.
Who are their clients? What sort of work do those clients look for?
Go to a bookstore with a large magazine section, like Barnes & Noble or Borders. Find at least ten magazines that you think you could work for. Consider both the content of the magazine and the type of illustration, if any, that they use. Record they names of the art director and any assistant art director's listed, and their contact information.
If you were starting your own magazine and your livelihood depended on it selling well and your sanity depended on it being something you wanted to spend all you time on, what would it be? What sorts of writers and artists would you hire? What subject matter would it deal with? How would you want it to look?
List ten non-magazine clients that you would like to work with. Why are these dream clients? Find and record their contact information.
Post 5 (due 8/29)
If you had to spend the rest of you life illustrating one book, what would it be? Why?
If you could go apprentice with any two artist's in the history of the world, who would they be? Why?
If you were banned from the art world, but could have any career you wanted that wasn't in art, what would it be? Why?
Describe the project you would propose under the following circumstances. Describe the project in detail: what would it be, how would you spend the money, how would you schedule the time alloted, and how would the work be presented upon completion?
1.) You have one month and one thousand dollars (all of which must be spent on art expenses).
2.) Six months and ten thousand dollars.
3.) One year and one hundred thousand dollars.
Post 6 (due 8/30)
Review your responses to the above questions.
What sort of an illustrator are you?
What sort of career do you want to have?
Does your present body of work reflect your aspirations? Could it do so more strongly?
List ten images/themes/techniques/subjects/formats that your portfolio needs in order to become more in line with your aspirations.
Post 1 (due 8/25)
What media do you like working in? List them.
What media do you hate working in? Why?
What media would you like to try, but haven't?
List three non-Illustration classes that have influenced you and/or your work positively. Explain.
How has the work of your peers influenced you and your work?
What sort of subject matter do you like to create work about?
What sort of subject matter do you like to read about?
What kind of music do you like? Why?
What non-art related interest/hobbies/skills do you have?
What is something that you like that nobody else likes?
If you had the run of the world's museums, what three works of original art would you like to own?
Post 2 (due 8/26)
Of the artwork that you have done, what is your personal favorite piece (include an image of the piece with details)? Why do you like it?
What piece do other people like most? Do you agree? Why do you think they like it?
What piece surprised you the most?
Choose five doodles or sketches that you like as much as any of your finished pieces.
Post 3 (due (8/27)
Describe your typical creative process, from getting an assignment to finished piece.
Describe what you think your creative process should be like.
Research and describe a professional creator’s creative process (this person need not be a visual artist. Dancers, writers, film directors, and so on, may have equally illuminating views on creation).
Post 4 (due 8/28)
List ten illustrators whose work you admire, or whose career you would like to emulate. Provide images.
Who are their clients? What sort of work do those clients look for?
Go to a bookstore with a large magazine section, like Barnes & Noble or Borders. Find at least ten magazines that you think you could work for. Consider both the content of the magazine and the type of illustration, if any, that they use. Record they names of the art director and any assistant art director's listed, and their contact information.
If you were starting your own magazine and your livelihood depended on it selling well and your sanity depended on it being something you wanted to spend all you time on, what would it be? What sorts of writers and artists would you hire? What subject matter would it deal with? How would you want it to look?
List ten non-magazine clients that you would like to work with. Why are these dream clients? Find and record their contact information.
Post 5 (due 8/29)
If you had to spend the rest of you life illustrating one book, what would it be? Why?
If you could go apprentice with any two artist's in the history of the world, who would they be? Why?
If you were banned from the art world, but could have any career you wanted that wasn't in art, what would it be? Why?
Describe the project you would propose under the following circumstances. Describe the project in detail: what would it be, how would you spend the money, how would you schedule the time alloted, and how would the work be presented upon completion?
1.) You have one month and one thousand dollars (all of which must be spent on art expenses).
2.) Six months and ten thousand dollars.
3.) One year and one hundred thousand dollars.
Post 6 (due 8/30)
Review your responses to the above questions.
What sort of an illustrator are you?
What sort of career do you want to have?
Does your present body of work reflect your aspirations? Could it do so more strongly?
List ten images/themes/techniques/subjects/formats that your portfolio needs in order to become more in line with your aspirations.
Project 1 : Blog
A web presence is an absolute necessity for the modern Illustrator. It is highly recommended that you get a web page as soon possible. A regularly updated blog is also advisable, and extremely easy to set up. For this class, you will be expected to maintain a blog documenting your research and development as an artist. You will be expected to post an entry to your blog at least once a week on whatever you are working on that week. These posts can include sketches, pieces in progress, writings on your subject, or on your artistic influences, or anything that is relevant to your work as an illustrator.
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