THE ILLUSTRATION MASTER CLASS 2011

IMC 2010 Assignments

Below are a selection of assignments, cover,interior and Magic: The Gathering Cards. PLease choose ONE to do for the IMC week.

SIZE SPECS:

Images created for book cover or interior art should fit an accepted book cover trim size( measure one of your books!). Please work larger than print size, but no larger than 18x24( or the proportional equivalent based on the book size you choose)

Magic Card Art must be in proportion to the print size,

example:

11.517X15.747-inches-horizontal, will reduce to the correct print size for card art.

- see notes/stylde guide PDF on M:TG at below assignments.

Sketches should look professional. They should be done with ruled borders in the correct proportion -even if the sketch is smaller than your original will be.

Focus on making a ROCKING image.Compose your image with the assumption that the Art Director has told you the type will run outside of the art and you do not have to leave the top of the composition open.

have fun folks!

Rebecca

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Beauty and the Beast(book interior or cover)

 Feel free to interpret this to fit the kind of portfolio you are building, just be clear of your intentions within the picture. It can be done literally as a children's fairy tale book --  or used thematically, pushed into a fantasy or science fiction image.

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Jet cycle getaway:(cover)

 Man and woman on a flying jet cycle. Urban landscape below. Try to tell a story through use of costuming details. Again, interpret this to fit the kind of portfolio you are building — young adult or adult, set in steampunk, post apocalyptic, far future, etc surroundings.

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Joan of Arc(cover)

 Can be historical or pushed into fantasy or science fiction setting. 

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Paranormal Romance(cover)

 Hot girl in contemporary, bad-ass, clothes. Dark urban background. Angel wings implied in the background – either through some interesting architectural details or as magical light.

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War Priest of Thune (Magic Card) 

(Please download M:TG style guide below)       

Color: White creature

Location: Battlefield

Action: This is a cleric who isn't content to sit back and heal the wounded — he/she wades into combat, using his/her own protective magic to make him/her a more powerful sacred warrior. Show a male or female, olive-skinned human cleric in full battle armor. Maybe the armor is plate with leather covering strapped over it. We want a glamor shot of him/her, confronting the camera, heavy mace in hand, as a smog rolls away from him/her unnaturally, as if receding from his/her presence.

Focus: The battle cleric

Mood: A holy badass

Notes: No real-world symbols, please.

Frost Titan(Magic Card)

(Please download M:TG style guide below)        

Color: Blue creature

Location: Glacial/arctic area, perhaps in a blizzard

Action: This titan is part of a cycle of five giants, each of which embodies a powerful aspect or element. This one represents the power of ice and frost. He's huge (about 25 ft/8m tall), with ice-blue muscular physique, and armed with an axe of ice -- a breathtaking and terrible sight for tiny mortals. from his mouth emanates a constant sheet of heavy frost, like a breath of steam from heavy dry ice. He looks down on us, coldly condescending.

Focus: The titan

Mood: Mystical, awe-inspiring, severe

Notes: some giants in fantasy are like stupid, drooling, oversized brutes. This Titan is the OTHER kind of giant: the seldom-seen, almost godlike giants of legend. They're shrewd, majestic, and incredibly powerful.

***Magic Tone in general: Magic is a fantasy property that shuns many of general fantasy’s visual tropes. No bearded wizards in pointy hats. No knights with bucket helmets. No damsels in distress. Armor and weapon design should be edgier than anything historically accurate. We also like to see non-Caucasian or ethnically mixed features for humans. See our ‘vanilla’ styleguide for examples of what I consider good design in the absence of a styleguide or specific world setting.

****Card Art in general: card art needs to be approached very differently than a book cover. At the end of the day the image will be printed in a 2 1/16” (52mm) wide x 1 1/2” (38mm) tall box. It’s nice that the severe reduction can tighten the work in interesting ways, but also possible to just turn the image into noise. The best card art will always have a composition that features large shapes and a deliberate approach to the figure-ground relationship (be it warm-vs-cool, edge or bounce lighting, concentration of detail, etc etc).

              MAGIC STYLE GUIDE PDF BELOW

The Illustration Master Class 2010 Schedule

The Classrooms/Studios:

Studio 101 Fayerweather Hall 

Studio 201 Fayerweather Hall 

Pruyne Lecture Hall (located in Fayerweather)

*Students will be divided into two groups Studio 101 and Studio 201 for classes:  A sign up sheet for your groups will be provided at check in on 6/11.

Friday June 11:

3-9pm:  Students check in at Morris Pratt dorm with IMC staff.  If your travel times are before or after official check in times, special arrangements can be made. Please contact us ahead of time via e-mail. 

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Saturday June 12:

10-11am:   Welcome address with all faculty 

-Pruyne Lecture Hall

11am-12pm: Start critique of sketches

-Studio 101: Jim Gurney, Rebecca Guay, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Jeremy Jarvis

-Studio 201: Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo

12-1pm: Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-5pm:  Finish sketch critiques (in studios).

5-6:30pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)

7-8pm:  LECTURE (Shooting, Using, and Implementing Your Reference)

-Pruyne Lecture Hall:  All faculty

8pm-10pm:   All Faculty Painting Demos and Q&A

        -Studio 101:  Jim Gurney, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay

        -Studio 201:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos

2am:  Studios Close

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Sunday June 13: 

10am-12pm: Studio Class( students revising sketches- on on one time with faculty)

      -Studio 101:  Jim Gurney, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Jeremy Jarvis

      -Studio 201:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo

12-1pm:  Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-2pm:  LECTURE  (imaginative realism)

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Jim Gurney 

2-5pm:  Painting, Demos, and Sketch Critiques con't( students finishing sketches and/or watching faculty painting demos)

      -Studio 101:  Jim Gurney, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Jeremy Jarvis

      -Studio 201:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo

5-6:30pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)

7-8pm:  LECTURE (Multiple Figures compositions)

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Donato Giancola and Greg Manchess

8pm-10pm:  OPEN STUDIO With Model and Dan Dos Santos Live Painting Demo  from model.

  Figure drawing Models in both studio's, Dan DosSantos painting in Studio 101

2am:  Studios Close

(After 8:00pm, faculty may be present and painting, but will not be formally scheduled unless stated otherwise.)

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Monday June 14:

10-12pm:  Studio Class -one on one with faculty-students finish up sketch revisions-and starting finishes-try to start your under painting by end of day Monday.

      -Studio 101:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo  

        -Studio 201:  Jim Gurney, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Jeremy Jarvis

12-1pm:  Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-2pm:  LECTURE  

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Greg Manchess (The Art and Theory of Greg Manchess)

2-5pm:  Painting, Demos, and student  work Critiques

      -Studio 101:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo  

        -Studio 201:  Jim Gurney, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Jeremy Jarvis

5-6:30pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)

7-8pm:  LECTURE (finding the emotional hook,concept to finish )

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Rebecca Guay

8pm-  OPEN STUDIO 

      -Both Studios 101 and 201

2am:  Studios Close

(After 8:00pm, faculty may be present and painting, but will not be formally scheduled unless stated otherwise.)

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Tuesday June 15:

10-12pm:  Studio Class-faculty assisting students one on one as they start the under painting on their assignments.

      -Studio 101:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Rebecca Guay, Scott Fischer, Irene Gallo

      -Studio 201:  Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Jeremy Jarvis

12-1pm:  Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-2pm:  LECTURE  (Color and light)

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Jim Gurney

2-5pm:  Jim Gurney Demo

      -Pruyne Hall

5-6:30pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)  

7-8pm:  LECTURE (Creating Creatures)

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

8pm-10pm:  Dan Dos Santos Live Demo from Model studio 201 (8-10pm)

Figure drawing models in both studio's

2am:  Studios Close

(After 8:00pm, faculty may be present and painting, but will not be formally scheduled unless stated otherwise.)

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Wednesday June 16:

10am-12pm:  Studio Class -students working with faculty

      -Studio 101:  Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Rebecca Guay, Dan Dos Santos

      -Studio 201:  Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, Scott Fischer

12-1pm:  Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-2pm:  LECTURE 

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Dan Dos Santos and Scott Fischer

2-5pm:  Paintings, Demos, and Critiques

      -Studio 101:  Jim Gurney, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Rebecca Guay, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo

      -Studio 201:  Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, Scott Fischer, Jeremy Jarvis

5-6:30pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)

7-8pm:  LECTURE 

      -Pruyne Lecture Hall: Donato Giancola:"Why I Paint"

8pm-:  OPEN STUDIO

      -Both Studios 101 and 201

2am:  Studios Close

(After 8:00pm, faculty may be present and painting, but will not be formally scheduled unless stated otherwise.)

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Thursday June 17:

9am: Studios Open

10am-12pm:  Studio Class

    -Studio 101:  Jim Gurney, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo

    -Studio 201:  Donato Giancola, Greg Manchess, Jeremy Jarvis

12-1pm:  Lunch (Valentine Hall)

1-2pm:  LECTURE (Business)

    -Pruyne Lecture Hall:  Irene Gallo

2-5pm:  Painting, Demos, and Critiques

    -Studio 101:  Rebecca Guay, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell

    -Studio 201:  Scott Fischer, Jeremy Jarvis

5-6:15pm:  Dinner (Valentine Hall)

6:30-7:30pm:  LECTURE (General Promotion, Porfolio, Business Q&A)

    -Pruyne Lecture Hall: Jeremy Jarvis 

7:30-8:30: business lecture continues with all faculty Q&A-

paths to starting out, tricks to industry longevity, etc...

8:30pm-:  OPEN STUDIO (Completing Assignments)

    -Both Studios 101 and 201

2am:  Studios Close

(After 8:00pm, faculty may be present and painting, but will not be formally scheduled unless stated otherwise.)

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Friday June 18:

9am:  Studios Open

10-11:30am:  All Faculty Roaming and Critique of Students' Work

    -Both Studios 101 and 201

11:30am-1pm:  Students: Studio Clean-up. Set-up of Finished Pieces in Studios on your easels for open studio.

(Students:this is a "lunch on the run" day-

once your space is clean- grab a snack and head back to the studio's)

1-3pm:  OPEN STUDIO -(invite friends in the area- a table will be set up to buy books, painting videos etc... should folks be interested )

3-4pm: Pruyne Hall-all students and Faculty:IMC 2010 FAREWELL ADDRESS

(The IMC 2010 officially ends at 4:00 p.m., but dinner is included in the meal plan. Check out should be completed by 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 19th.)