Illustration
5/19-5/23
Livoti
Monday 5/19
Aim: How can you continue to work in an open
studio to complete your Fashion Editorial
Illustration?
Do Now: Review terms for test
TEST TOMORROW!
HW: Song Illustration:
Choose one part of a song lyric from your favorite band/musician
and interpret it visually. Write the lyric on the side of your
sketchbook page with the song name/artist name. Due Friday
5/22
Tues 5/20
Aim: How can you complete your Fashion Editorial
Illustration?
Do Now: review test #1 (moved from Friday)
HW: Song Illustration:
Choose one part of a song lyric from your favorite band/musician
and interpret it visually. Write the lyric on the side of your
sketchbook page with the song name/artist name. Due Friday
5/22
Wed 5/21
Aim: What is the Illustration and Design final exam
and project?
Do Now: List the different kinds of illustration you have
learned about thus far.
HW: Song Illustration:
Choose one part of a song lyric from your favorite band/musician
and interpret it visually. Write the lyric on the side of your
sketchbook page with the song name/artist name. Due Friday
5/22
Final Exam: Monday June 9th- 40 Multiple Choice
Questions (40 points)
(Not a work day! Final exam review June 5th)
Monday May 26 school is closed
June 3 is not a school day
Final Project: Begin Thurs May 19
Project is due for Critique/Written Analysis by Tues. June
10th.
June 11-16 Last days of class, portfolio documentation,
bring home work.
Final Project:
Goal: To create a conceptual illustration based on a song lyric
from your favorite musician for a vinyl record album cover
Materials: Open material choice, with inclusion of printmaking/stencil
techniques, photograph, scanner art and collage is allowed.
Title of the record must showcase typography techniques and strong
compositional skills.
What is conceptual illustration?
• Conceptual illustration expresses the illustrators personal and creative ideas
about a subject of their choice. Idea based!
• Often times these illustrations are considered surreal or dreamlike.
• The illustrations do not have to depict things in a realistic way.
• Many kinds of illustration can be morphed together to create a conceptual
illustration.
What makes a good conceptual illustration?
Balance between clarity and uniqueness
Conveying meaning
Telling the story but in a direct way
Simplicity and elegance
Ability to evoke a memory or feeling in the viewer
Juxtaposition- combining 2 unrelated things to create meaning
Making something exist even though it doesn’t exist in real life
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/
13/100-obscure-and-remarkable-cd-covers/
http://www.redefinemag.com/2013/albumcovers-year-2013/2/
Baroness – The
Red Album
(1988)
This gorgeous
cover art was
created by
Baroness lead
singer John
Dyer Baizley.
Baizley does all
of the band’s
artwork and has
also worked on
art for other
bands.
Illustrator Ian Wright ran with the "Paper Trail"
theme for T.I.'s post-prison comeback, building
an incredibly intricate portrait collage out of
scrap paper and money
Renowned Japanese
pop artist Takashi
Murakami took Yeezy's
collegeiate theme to the
next level with his eyecatching send-up of the
ongoing student life
metaphors represented
by the rapper's album
titles. The cover's
setting, Universe City, is
popping with color,
symbolism, and a
boldness that reminds
us that he was the
biggest music star on
the planet when
Graduation dropped.
Jacob Bannon: Converge
http://www.jacob
bannon.com/
To convey themes of
“memory loss, birth,
death, growth, [and]
decay” for Bon Iver’s
self-titled album,
Minneosta painter
Gregory Euclide literally
constructed and
deconstructed his art
with painting, drawing,
and an array of natural
materials.
ARTWORK
– TOBY
LEIBOWIT
Z
Oneohtrix
Point Never
– Replica
MICHAEL CINA,
ARTIST AND
PAINTER
Thurs 5/22
Aim: How can you brainstorm ideas for your
conceptual record cover illustration?
Do Now: List your favorite music albums of all time
Research your favorite music albums; find the artist who did the album
art. Describe the illustrators style. Determine what materials may have
been used to create the artwork. Does the style of the art match the
album’s concept/musical style?
List your favorite song from your favorite album. Choose one lyric to
interpret visually! How can this be the basis for your conceptual
illustration? What materials would you use to create it?
HW: Song Illustration:
Choose one part of a song lyric from your favorite band/musician
and interpret it visually. Write the lyric on the side of your
sketchbook page with the song name/artist name. Due Friday
5/22
Fri 5/23
Aim: How can you create a compositional sketch for
your conceptual illustration?
Do Now: Sketch a design using only shape and line that
may represent a feeling or emotion associated with your
song lyric choice.