Illustration: Day 1

In the theory section of illustration we began to look at what illustration actually is and where you see it, as a group we came up with: 

Newspapers

Books/Book Covers

CD covers

Magazines

Posters

Comic's

Advertising

Editorial

Tattoos

Clothing

Products

Greeting Cards

Scientific Illustration

Medical Illustration

Fashion Illustration

Logos

Clip Art

Then we looked at what makes a good illustrator: 

Imagination

Passion

Observational Drawing Skills

People Skills

Good contacts

Patience

Dedication

What tools they use:

Pencil
Pen/fine liner
Photoshop
Camera
Watercolour/gouache/acrylic
Sewing machine
Printmaking – Lino, collagraph, etching, monoprinting, screenprinting
Wire
Drawing board/easel
Paper
Collage
Sculpture

Then we gave some examples of existing illustrators:

Mick Marston

Herge

Eric Carle

Jaime Zollers

Norman Rockwell

Quentin Blake

Arthur Rackham

Dan Mumford

Edward Gorey

Jon Klassen

Nick Sharrat

Drawing skills are very important in illustration therefore one of our first tasks was used to help us loosen up and improve our drawing skills. First with our our eyes closed we had to feel our faces and draw our features. I found it quite hard but it made me more determined to feel my face better, although I wasn't impressed with the drawing it help my observational skills.

We then did more observational drawings, some we had to use our left hands to draw others we had to only look at the object when drawing these attempts where all intended to improve our observational skills. We also applied masking tape to some drawings so we could re-do some parts afterwards.