Category Archives: Coursework

Let’s explore, experiment and make a MESS! I really love mark-making, you can see throughout my sketchbook that I like to experiment, test and try new things out. I was a little worried about this exercise, due to the fact I have tried loads of different mediums, textures, and papers. In fact, every summer myContinue reading “Exploring drawing and painting”

Aiming for a simple “classic” British family in the 1950s result! My main ideas One of my first ideas sketched in my “thinking” out phase, was to have the image within a cutout of an 1950s television. I had a hard time letting go of this idea however I think it is for the bestContinue reading “Using Reference – Pt 2”

Back to the past in 1950s with my research. I have a lot of research! I love research, one of areas I was really good at school was history, I like to pay attention to the small details and can be a pain when comes to getting it right, nothing ruins a good book orContinue reading “Using reference – Pt1”

Inspire me! Like spider diagrams, mood boards are something I do a lot, I find it very good practice for me to start research with, plus I can spend a bit of time on pinterest looking at images and researching. I do this normally pretty much always digitally normally. For me it’s a working methodContinue reading “Making a mood board”

Getting in touch with my inner child! Starting this exercise in my sketchbook with “Don’t be concerned about the accuracy of your drawing or the prettiness of it”, pretty much on my mind. I just started drawing with a normal pencil and as if I was doing a spider diagram I doodled the object thatContinue reading “Turning words into pictures”

Exercise – Create a spider diagram This whole excise and a couple of up and coming ones remind me of a skillshare class I’ve competed by Roman Murador called expressive illustration from idea to execution. https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Expressive-Illustration-From-Ideas-to-Execution/748999642?studentRef=580525&via=student-referral&utm_campaign=student-referral-748999642&utm_source=ShortUrl&utm_medium=student-referralI had a good foundation to grow upon before starting this exercise. Plus I’m the type of girl that enjoysContinue reading “Spider Diagrams”

Following on from my research stage in Pt1 https://emclemmieoca.home.blog/?p=520Let get started on the creative brief. This time I wasn’t going to make picking an illustration in which to write this brief any more complicated than it needed to be, I felt needed to jump right in and no overthinking. So I sat down in frontContinue reading “Writing a brief Pt2”

Exercise – write a brief for an illustration. Let’s write a creative brief in order to be able to fully understand them! Background research and notes. I will be doing this over two parts, one part for some background and ground research and part two for writing the brief. Firstly I’m doing a bit ofContinue reading “Writing a brief. Pt1”

I cannot deny I didn’t go in the direction I wanted to when first read this exercise, but I also cannot deny in the layout mock up I like this piece. If I was just judging by the picture on its own I would have found few faults with it, One being the arm isn’tContinue reading “Getting the Gist – Summary”

Creating the Illustration After the research stage I was finally ready to commit to this design, however, my initial sketches bought some serious frustration. I this vision in my head and everything at first I was sketching was so far from it, was I under the pressure of drawing in my main sketchbook ? wasContinue reading “Getting the Gist Pt 3”