Just wanted to post this up.

This is what i did to produce the hand drawn image.

Picked a typeface,

Edited it, to make it interesting and then traced over the typeface with a sheet of layout paper, and then did my thing over the top. really happy with this image. If the time is there and I manage it well enough, this will be a really nice screenprint.

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SEND TO PRINT!

These are the three images I am going to use in the end of it. Just need to be printed. The had drawn one is also gunna be treated on photoshop and illustrator becasue I want to screen print it using two colour separations. Ill post that up on here once Ive been able to scan it in (its A3).

I do also want to screen print the "more careless" one, I think using a different colour to black will be really nice too. maybe a purple text on a turquoise stock or something like that. yeah. nice.

Quote 3

This quote was From the Tim Dowling article :"More careless on the right ones" I just liked it because an idea came to me about this one really quickly. I thought a really crisp clean vector image would be good, but then make the right hand side of the text appear sloppy or not cared for.

2nd Quote development

Decided I wanted to produce a photographic image for this quote, which was "Recycling household junk" - I just wanted to use household junk to create a typeface. Im thinking this would be a nice a1 digital print as it is, I mean I'll have a mess about with editing colourways etc if i get a chance, but at the moment I'm quite keen on how these three images are looking. Just have to pick one now.

1st Quote development

This is the first idea I had for the quote "Thymus Glands Shrink" it looked good so i decided with some camareadery from martyn to put this into photoshop and colour it. The idea behind it was that the text is visually based on a thymus gland. I want to do something similar for the final, just neater. I will also use helvetica as a skeleton template to put some flesh over so to speak.

Illustrative type: Brief and rationale

The next brief was to take three quotes from the articles we illustrated for (1 quote per article) and then produce three illustrative type pieces for them. The pieces could be drawn, vector photography like on the last brief, but the visual had to reflect the tone of voice of the article it's quote was from and also visually interpret the quote itsself.

All Finals

Final Editorial Image

This was the original sketch i produced for this image - its an amoeba, it took about 3 hours to draw all the dot shading. but it was really worth it in the end. I tried super - emposing this as it was onto the article, but the white looked a little wrong. I then had the idea to edit the channels on photoshop to make the image appear blue. I did this because; A) the blues match with the rest of the page, B) it would give the image an under the microscope sort of look, which really fits the article - which was all about illness and cells and immune system.


This is the final edited image on hard copy of the article. I was really happy with it and it is definately my strongest image. I also think this could easily actually be in the guardian because it almost looks like a photograph.

Development work

Development work for the four editorial images.

Research

I researched into some of the illustrators that have done work for the Guardian to see what their approaches to things like audience and style are like in the context of imagery that has to fit in the guardian's magazine bit.

Matt Johnstone - Two illustrations that were used in the guardian.
Christine Berrie - Really nice hand drawn Illustration, looks like it was coloure with pencil crayons too.. naughty.

I'm Having problems uploading images, so I'll come back to this post when it decides its going to work.

The Four Articles

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The first task was to respond to four articles taken from the guardian with illustrative imagery, this could be hand drawn, photography, collage or whatever else we wanted. This was the brief: