HOW TO CRITIQUE

Last Everything Is New Workshop As we wrapped up the Everything Is New project, our last workshop was preparing us for critiquing and learning how to critique, as further on in the course we will be having group critiques, where we will be expected to critique the work of others, while they critique our own. …

MICRO MAGAZINE

  EVERYTHING IS NEW OUTCOME. The micro magazine we created in the Reconstruction workshop was the outcome of the first project Everything Is New. This outcome not only was the result of a workshop task, but was also a collection of everything we had learned and discussed so far within our illustration course. Working out what illustration …

WORKSHOP 3 – RECONSTRUCTION

During this session we used our Brief Encounters illustrations, as well as the work from the previous deconstruction workshop to create an outcome that portrayed our individual perception of illustration. We used both our work and the work of our peers so that our outcome would be diverse and would include a range of  ideas and …

WORKSHOP 2 – DECONSTRUCTION

  DECONSTRUCTION This workshop encouraged us to become a bit freer with our illustrations, and to begin breaking down the different elements that make up an illustration to get us thinking about the individual parts of illustration rather than final, solid products. We used our illustrations from our Brief Encounters task to create imagery that focussed on the …

WORKSHOP 1

First Briefing and Mini Exhibition Our first studio session consisted of us getting briefed on our first project of the year, the project being called "Everything is New" and it being a way of exploring and defining what illustration and visual media is to us. Following the CTS discussion of "what is illustration" it allows …

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS

First task - "Brief Encounters" The first task we were set was a task called "brief encounters" where we had to create four illustrations inspired by encounters that we faced throughout the week, before handing them in at the end. The illustrations could be in any medium that we were comfortable with, and did not …