2017 - Week 5 - Class 2 - Homework

Work on finishing your cover illustration (can be line art, value rendered, or in color - but needs to be an image that would be finished enough to be taken to color, not a sketch-in-progress)

Finish Storyboards

Finish one color interior spread

Finish two final line drawings from interior (one of those can be the image you take to color, but it would be better if they are two other images)

Finish scanning all art for dummy with text applied (ready to print)

2017 - Week 5 - Class 1 - Homework

2 1/2 size color comps of your realized cover design (1 or 2 designs)

Lookybooks: 2 book covers that rely heavily on type treatments

Storyboard to dummy size - lay in type to size

Keep working towards one color interior final (if you need to go back and do value/character/light/color studies to accomplish this, do so)

2017 - Week 4 - Class 2 - Homework

Finish Storyboard

Complete and fully render one interior final piece at full size

We will go over Chip Kidd's GO in Lookybooks

2017 - Week 4 - Class 1 - Homework

Lookybooks: Pick out books to evaluate for continuity of color palette, design, style, plot movement, etc. (You can pick out one that's doing this exceptionally well and/or one that's doing this poorly.) Continue working on storyboard, media studies, etc.

2017 - Week 3 - Class 2 - Homework

Create half-sized color/media studies (2 to 3) for one spread of your choice to determine your final medium of choice (or one that you’d like to experiment with)

Finish 2 final interior black and white drawings to full size (ready to be rendered drawings)

Continue tightening up storyboard

Lookybooks: Go over your mentor books more – reexamining color/layout/proportion. Share on Tuesday. Also: Select two books that have artwork rendered in ways you admire and/or hope to achieve

Bring your computer to the next class!

2017 Week 3 - Class 1 Homework

Lookybooks: Bring a book and discuss its style and how a different style might have changed the meaning of the story.

Watch Will Terry's "Am I Good Enough to Become an Illustrator?" (link is also in the Hollinzeen video list).

Pick 2 illustrations from your storyboard and create half-sized black and white finished sketches in full value, planning out your light source(s) and using other discussed design choices to carry the viewer's eye around the page.
Note: Making a black and white copy will help you figure your values when you go to final color.

Read Nodelman, Chapter 9 to go over in Thursday's class

Continue working on your storyboards, characters, and color studies.