Brief
This first assignment is to introduce yourself to your tutor and give them the opportunity to get to know you and your work. This assignment is not submitted for formal assessment
You are going to send a ‘greetings card’, telling your tutor about yourself, your interests and inspirations, the materials you feel happy working with and maybe what you would like to get from the course.
First of all you need to work out what you want to say. Keep notes to accompany the making of this illustration in your learning log. These notes could cover why you decided to portray what you did – what you included and even what you omitted.
The artwork can be in any form and size. You can use any drawing or painting materials, collage or produce it on a computer.
When you have finished photocopy or print it out at greetings card size to check that it works as a card.
It is not your tutor’s job to formally assess your work at any time, but to give you constructive feedback to help you develop your skills.
Put your name and student number on the back of the work and send it together with your sketchbook pages and learning log to your tutor. Alternatively, with their agreement, you can photograph your work, learning log notes and sketchbook pages and email them to your tutor.
Key words
- Greeting card
- About myself
- Interests
- Inspirations
- Media/ materials for work
- What I would like to get from the course
- Any size
- Any format
Mind mapping
Design process
Final design
Mock-up
Printed card
Self-reflection
For this assignment, I needed to introduce myself to my tutor by making a postcard. I started with mind mapping to make a list of information that I can mention in postcard.
As digital art is one of my favourite media, I made my postcard in Procreate, using the inspiration from nature/ flowers.
I know this assignment doesn’t count for final assignment, but I had lots of fun working on my digital sunflower postcard.
I didn’t have a colour printer at home to check it, so I printed B&W on a yellow cardboard.
I really hope that in this course, I would be able to improve and strengthen my knowledge about illustration by the help of my tutor.
Maryam: OCA Graphic Design 