Hello Eager Illustration Participants!
Thanks to Irene Gallo-our esteemed AD, you will find (below) your assignments for the Illustration Master Class. Please pick ONE to work on during your week with us. While it is not absolutely mandatory, it is HIGHLY encouraged that you take part in this assignment. In the next month please start your rough sketches and shoot your reference to bring with you to class. Final paintings must be no smaller than 200% of print size (you'll need to work bigger than the book cover sizes listed below: 200% of 5.5 x 8.5 is 11 x 17), and no larger than 300%. The medium is up to you.
You can contact me or Sara if you have any questions.
Have fun! -Rebecca
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FANTASY
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ROBIN HOOD
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
Focusing on Robin. Feel free to play around with cool
design elements --
like the bow and arrow, or dappled light from trees. Maybe
using unusual
angles -- looking up in the trees or down from the trees,
on horse back,
etc. Or, you might want to explore using elements from
other settings, flags
from the tournament, castles, etc.
Whether you choose to show him in motion or still, it
should focus on the
Robin.
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GREEN
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
This is a fantasy story by Jay Lake. It follows a girl who
is sold into
slavery, escapes and joins a band of highly trained
assassins.
Green is: Coffee-colored skin, dark eyes, long wavy black
hair. She has been
trained from the age of 4 in martial arts, so she is
elegantly muscled and
graceful. She wears a simple shift/tunic like thing. She is
very wary, very
intelligent. (The editor described her as being a lot like
River Tan from
Serenity/Firefly, for anyone that has seen that.) She tries
to destroy her
beauty by cutting each cheek with a knife.
The setting is a mix of cultures, ranging from Green's
more tropical
background to more of a middle eastern setting - feel free
to play mix and
match to come up with something exotic. But again, make the
image all about
Green.
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SCIENCE FICTION
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AMELIA EARHART OF THE FUTURE
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
Portrait of a female explorer/adventurer in the future. You
can go far
future with a super high tech ship and flight uniform or go
more of a
steam-punk route. Either way, keeping some version of the
trademark goggles.
She can be in a ship, outside a ship, perhaps even next to
the crashed ship.
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PEPPER -- MILITARY SF BOOK
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
Based on a character from Tobias Buckell series of novels.
Pepper is a large
Caribbean military man. Dreadlocks. He and others have
"dropped" into a
tropical island to rid the planet of aliens. He dropped
down from a
spaceship wearing a blue and white exoskeleton. Focusing on
Pepper, you can
show him with the helmet off, perhaps with a gun, a
contrast between his
metal suit and the lush tropics could be fun to play with
although - whether
a scene in motion or a straight portrait, make the main
focus on Pepper.
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FEMALE MILITARY SF BOOK
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
Female character outside of a space ship in armored suit.
She has a large
gun. You can play with backgrounds that show more of the
ship, or more of a
space background. Manly, we want to focus in on the woman
and her face.
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CREATURE: SF OR FANTASY
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PLANT LIFE
Book Cover: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ( or full wrap: 8 1/2 x 12)
A human figure that mixed some aspects of a plant life --
it could be
fantasy or science fiction. It could be a mix of human plus
weeds, moss,
flower, vines, etc. Still, a strong emphasis on the human
form.
Hi Folks!
Some of you have asked about leaving room for type on the cover assignment- there are several options-
you can leave the traditional "open' space at the top of the image- or come up with another area at the bottom for the type, or go with a solution like the one attached.
Or you can go on the premise that type will be placed in a border above or below the art and not think about it at all within the composition.
We're giving you pretty free reign with this.
On reference- others have asked if they have to specifically SHOOT ref- or if it's okay to gather what they already have and piece things together.
Either is fine-our "shooting reference" lecture early in the MC week will give those who want to learn more about shooting REALLY GOOD specific images for future projects.
I'm a "frankenstiener" myself- an put things together from different sources.
Donato, Boris, Julie, Dan Dos, and Greg all shoot their own ref.
Scott and I do a lot of composite reference.
Give us a shout if you have any other questions-
Best-
Rebecca