What is Illustration? Part 1: Illustrative Pathways

After our weekly briefing on Monday 28th we went into our blog groups to continue our 'What is Illustration?' work. However a problem occurred - I, among many others in the studio, has misunderstood what was asked of us. The brief stated we find 25 images and print off all five of one pathway of illustration, where most of us had printed off one from each pathway.

(My five images showing Narrative, Socio/Political, Minimal, Humour and Concept)

Its very important to make sure I'm reading my briefs correctly. One simple mistake could set me back a huge way should this have been a big project.

We spent the rest of our time analysing the images that we had brought in and thinking about which different categories they could be put in. Finally we got together into one studio group and gave Fred our results. From these results we formed seven important parameters to search for illustration; Function, Content/Message, Process/Media, Atheistic, Context, Practitioner, Audience. I can say that due to each of these I have at one point searched for an illustration.