Brief
This exercise is to help you to edit an image to its main structural form and to practice creating a clear visual.
From the work you have collected pick at least two finished illustrations. These illustrations should contain a range of content. They can be representational, diagrammatic or metaphorical.
Measure the image at the size it was reproduced. Draw a box at least two and half times larger and in proportion to each of the printed illustrations.
Using a form of line which feels comfortable and which you can confidently manage, create a visual for each illustration. You are not tracing from the original nor are you claiming this artwork as your own. Be aware of main shapes and directions; draw the elements of the image with sufficient detail for them to be readable.
Explore how many lines you need to use to describe the content. Try another version of the same image and see how much content you can remove so that the image is distilled to an extremely edited form but still makes sense.
This practice in editing and purposefully using selective line to describe an image will be applied in later images of your own generation. Give yourself space of a couple of days and then refer back to the original illustration and evaluate how honest your visual is to its source.
This exercise may have given you insight into the reverse process where the client edits the visual to get a final image.This is known as art direction. Find some images that made you more aware of the art direction behind them and annotate them to explain the thinking behind them in your learning log.
Key words :
- Pick at least two finished illustrations
- A range of content
- Using a form of line which feels comfortable
- Create a visual for each illustration
- Explore how many lines you need to use to describe the content
- Distilled to an extremely edited form
Finished Illustrations
Visuals
Extremely edited form
Obviously, the extremely edited forms look more appealing and give the client the better idea of the finished work. However, the visuals with less details allow the client to see the essential and give them the opportunity to make some changes as they wish.
Self – reflection
It was a very useful exercise to see how simplifying an image can help to see the basic of the shapes that can be used. It helps to see the procedure of making a finished illustration step by step.
The figures are the main part of the illustrations that I’ve chosen. The backgrounds help to create the environments.
It’s important to give the clients the right amount of information. The information should be clear but not too much so give them clear vision and opportunity to make changes.
Maryam: OCA Graphic Design 