Leeds College of Art
BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION
Level
06
OUIL603 Extended Practice
Credits
60
STUDIO PRACTICE
Statement of Intent
Name Jack Newbert
Blog Address j-newbert1417
Date 20/12/16
Rationale
To develop my knowledge and understanding of photoshop -
layer masks, effects, digital painting techniques, formats
To develop my final presentation and professional outcomes to my practice -
attention to detail, context, layout, margins
To develop high standard pieces of work for my portfolio -
(concept art) character development, key art, key frames and applied illustration
(comic art) story telling, lay out, speech, style, line work, colour
Themes / subject
Sci-fi, fantasy, present, horror, drama,
products / methods of distribution
(Concept) Key art, Cover art, Box art, concept, applied, vesta art. presentation boards.
(Comic art) Book illustration, publication, presentation boards.
Practical skill / media / formats
(Concept) character design, location design, thumb nailing, analog drawing, digital painting
compositional roughs, development, research, photoshop.
(Comic art) character design, location design, thumb nailing, digital painting, analog drawing.
page development, research, indesign, photoshop.
Brief 1:
YCN:Roald Dahl
Deadline
23rd of march 2016
Rationale:
create one illustration/key frame of a child with magical creatures from a
Roald Dahl noval.
Brief 2:
Practice development
Deadline
15th may 2017
Rationale:
create a body of work that develops my current skills to a higher standards.
digital paintings, anatomy drawing, cartoon, comic book art.
Brief 3:
colours may vary exhibition.
Deadline
Rationale:
create an illustration based on the theme of the exhibition
‘out of order” to hang and present the illustration in a professional environment
Brief 4:
traveling man exhibition.
Deadline
Rationale:
create an illustration based on the theme of the exhibition “fan art” to create the illustration
with the required colour scheme.
Brief 5:
publication/ comic book format .
Deadline
17 of may 2017
Rationale:
create a publication based on research, the context of the publication will be inspired and created by interviews, statements and reports from people with experience of the chosen subject that will be found in my research.
Additional Project Proposals
Developments to be identified on presentation boards (digital format)
final out comes to be applied to format. (digital format) issue, pdf
Contextual References
Roald Dahl novels, Roald Dahl films, book illustrations,
comic books, comic book artists, concept artists,
character design, tutorials, first hand research, second hand research,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS / TEXTS - (Harvard Refernced)
Frezata sketchbook, Digital painting techniques, how to draw noir comics, star wars Ralph Mcquarrie, star wars the art of. horror comic books, sci-fi comic books.
MAGAZINES / JOURNALS / ARTICLES – (include publication date and details)
comic books, graphic novels, gamer, the empire, polly count, marvel comics, DC comics, darkhourse comics, image comics
ON LINE REFERENCES / WEBSITES / ARTICLES (include specific urls)
art station, its nice that, Instagram, Pinterest, polly count, marvel comics, DC comics, darkhourse comics, image comics. comic forums, concept art forums.
OTHER REFERENCE MATERIAL (Films, events, exhibitions, conferences)
star wars sage, disney films, tutorials, big heads, talks with mike magnolia,
ACTION PLAN – use this section to identify specific tasks that you need to complete in order to resolve the brief.
Brief
What do you need to do?
Deadline
1 YCN: Roald Dahl
To create a body of work that explores the character development
of each chosen character.
create finals for each character
to research and create a body of work for the location/ scene
create final out come of the location.
create illustration of the created location and the characters
to be presented using presentation boards of development and finals (digital submission)
2 Practice development
To create a series of illustrations that allows me to
practice necessary elements with in drawing that will
develop my understanding and drawing skills.
character development
figure/anatomy drawing
digital painting.
to be presented using presentation boards of development and finals (digital submission)
3 colours may vary exhibition.
create a body of practical and research.
to create a body of work of roughs, thumbnails and
developments.
create final illustration.
to be presented using presentation boards of development and finals - exhibition. (digital submission)
4 traveling man exhibition.
to create a body of work that explores composition, roughs and character development.
to show my development skills
create final illustration
to be presented using presentation boards of development and finals - exhibition. (digital submission)
5 publication/ comic book format .
to create a body of contextual research and use that to
create a comic book publication.
create a sketch book that documents my journey through my research and developments through out the comic.
create a body of work that explores character development.
to apply the comic illustrations to pages using indesign and photoshop to creating a publication.
to present the publication lay out by using an issue file ( digital submission)
to be presented using presentation boards of development and finals, its its rightful format (digital submission)
