Category Archives: Part 4

Here a few famous faces selected as a starting point for this exercise:- Film Stars:- Sport personalities:- Attorney’s and politicians:- . I am not sure which TV programme this next photo comes from — Robin Hood may be. However it looks interesting to explore and then Mary Berry who is such an inspiration :- SoContinue reading “Exercise: Character development”

For this exercise I need to draw a cat or dog using any source for reference. Susie Hamilton paints two life pictures of her beloved dogs from Hospital Rooms (digital Art school) YouTube. It is lovely watching her paint with such gusto and confidence. She is painting a Welsh Terrier (she refers to as herContinue reading “Exercise: Visual distortion”

This exercise is designing a tattoo for a male friend based on the word “Mum”. This design also needs to be suitable as a greeting card for Mothering Sunday. As directed I am researching the history and conventions of tattoos and body art in terms of the past and other cultures (as well as lookingContinue reading “Exercise: A tattoo”

The purpose of this exercise it to produce an illustration for a menu card of a sophisticated quality fish restaurant – modern, bright and contemporary in design. The image is also to be intended as a logo so it needs to be straight forward and clear. An example of the logo needs to be 40Continue reading “Exercise: A menu card”

This exercise is to produce a cover illustration for a natural history book for children (age 7-11) entitled Animals from Around the World. The image is to be used as a full colour front jacket to encourage children to choose this book from the library shelf. The aim is produce at least three ideas asContinue reading “Exercise: A children’s book cover”

This is about researching illustrators’ work in terms of style, content and use of medium eg whether pencil, water colour, paint, gauche, collage, pen & ink or application of technology – in terms of digital drawing/photography & painting. Or use of a variety of mediums. To work through this exercise I am referring to theContinue reading “Exercise: Identifying tools and materials”