Illustration Unit Editorial 2009

ECU > 1st Semester 2009 > Design > Vector illustration > Editorial illustration “If the image repeats the words why run the story?”—Jerelle Kraus, New York Times Art Director. ILLUSTRATION UNIT :: EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

03. Illustrate one of the articles*. Present your illustration as an A4 portrait PDF document AND a second A4 document which includes your source images and rationale (see overleaf ) emailed to your tutor by the end of Week 10, Fri 8th May. In addition to the usual considerations regarding composition, point of view, colour, texture and line, your editorial illustration needs to use one of the following methods: A) The realism continuum. How realistic will your subject(s) look? Would it make more sense for them to be photographically precise or stick-figure simple, or somewhere in between? or B) Relative to a norm. What is the perceived norm for your subject? Would it communicate the way you want it to if it were more exaggerated beyond the norm (caricature) or pulled back towards a norm (anti-caricature)? See the reverse for further instructions …

*Conscience of a Conservative

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09rosen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Kids On ADHD Drugs - Dangerous Path To Addiction http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_672.shtml The world weeps for Luciano Pavarotti http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8517 Elderly get to grips with gadgets http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/06/news

Image-search using Google and/or any of the online stock image If using method A)

libraries. Download (or screen capture) a realistic version of your subject. Place this image into your second document as a reference. (Include the URL in small print at the bottom of the page) Draw a distilled version of this thing/person. For e.g. if it’s a person, the distilled version may simply be a stick figure or a ‘man’ or ‘woman’ pictogram as seen at an airport. Place the images at either end of a line. Roughly estimate where your editorial illustration sits between these two points. For e.g.

Provide a brief rationale as to why you chose that level of realism, and whether thinking about how realistic your image should be was helpful for the meaning of your illustration and why.

Image-search using Google and/or any of the online stock image If using method B)

libraries. Download (or screen capture) a realistic version of your subject. Place this image into your second document as a reference. (Include the URL in small print at the bottom of the page) Draw a ‘norm’ for that person or thing, even if such a norm does not actually exist. Explain briefly why you think this is the norm for this person or thing. For example:

Provide a brief rationale as to why you chose caricature or anticaricature, and whether thinking about exaggerating your image away from a norm (imagined or real) or reduction towards a norm was helpful for the meaning of your illustration and why.