Products: Choice of Wine Labels or Tarot Cards
Sketches due: Sept 28
(No Class Oct 12)
Final due: Oct 19
Illustrated Text:
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Ode To Baby
A bit of talcum
Is always walcum.
Further Reflections on Parsley
Parsley
Is gharsley
Reflection on Ice-Breaking
Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker
Fleas
Adam
Had'em
Creation Story
Size: must reprint as a 10”x 6” (h) image. Same ratio.
Color: try to create a palette based off of the presentation in class and the idea of “sophisticated complementary colors”.
Illustrate the Inuit creation story about Sedna. You will not have to worry about placement of text, as it would be placed below the image, not inside. You can take multiple approaches including being inspired by Inuit folk art, making this a children’s illustration, or exploring the dark nature of this tale. You WILL have to think about building your palette from a set of complimentary colors, something we will go over our next class before you move onto the final.
Sketches Due: Sep. 14th
Final Due: Sept. 21st
At the beginning of the world there were giants.
They lived on the land and ate the fruits of the land. One year, as the days began to get shorter and colder, a baby girl was born to two of the giants. They named her Sedna.
Day by day, as the sun became weaker and smaller, Sedna grew stronger and bigger. She grew and grew very quickly until, in no time at all, she was huge. Soon she was bigger than her giant parents.
The bigger she got the more she ate and the more she needed to eat, but there were not enough plants on the land to satisfy her hunger. One night, ravenously hungry, she began to gnaw her parents legs.
‘Owww!’ they cried, ‘that's enough of that.’ With a great struggle they bundled Sedna up in a blanket and carried her to their canoe. It was dark but they paddled out to sea in the light of a hazy moon. When they reached the middle of the ocean, they pushed Sedna overboard into the icy waters.
And that, they thought, was that. They started to paddle back towards the land, shivering for the cold and also for shame at what they had done to their own daughter. Yet before they had gone far, the canoe stopped - no matter how fast they paddled, the canoe would not move forward. To their horror they saw two hands, Sedna's hands, reaching out of the water to grip the canoe and then to rock it from side to side.
The giants felt the boat shaking. Soon they would be tossed into the ocean they would surely drown, unless they did something quickly.
Simply to save themselves, they pulled out sharp knives and chopped off Sedna's fingers. One by one the fingers splashed into the sea and, as they sank, they changed into swimming creatures. One became a whale, one a seal, another a walrus, another a salmon. The fingers changed into all the creatures of the seas.
As for Sedna, she drifted through new shoals of fish to the bottom off the ocean. There the fishes built her an underwater tent. Above her, the cold waters formed a crust of ice and sealed Sedna in her wintry, watery world. She still lives there, and whenever the Inuit are short of food, they call on Sedna and she provides it, even in the depths of winter.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Size: determined by artist
Black & White
In any style, create a black and white image depicting the sin you have selected. Use this as a chance to “introduce” yourself to me, whether it’s through high contrast, graphic shapes or subtly painted values and tones. Your final should be well-crafted and have a strong concept (we should be able to tell what it is when on the wall).
Final Due: Sept 14th
Editorial: “So, Tell Me What I Want To Hear”
Size: must reprint as a 5”x6” image (final has to be the same ratio)
Full Color
Writer Cecil Donahue manages to take a dry subject (the job interview) and create a fresh article full of whit, sarcasm, and interesting imagery (“corporate kabuki” is full of illustration potential!). This was originally printed in Gentleman’s Quarterly (known as simply GQ), a men’s magazine attracting young men along with older readers. Your goal is to create an equally fresh and engaging image to go along with the text.
Editorial Illustration is full of many styles and approaches, from silkscreen inspired images to sleek, fashionable interpretations. Create something that is in tune with the article as well as your artistic vision.
Sketches Due: please email 2-3 high quality sketches to me by 5:00 p.m. on Sept 7
(72 dpi Jpegs, no larger than 600 pixels tall or 5 inches tall)
Final Due: Sept 14th
