What is Illustration? Part 1: (Continued)

On Monday 21st we began our week as usual with our weekly Studio Briefing. After this we got back into our Blog Groups where we showed each other our 5 chosen works involving Informative, Concept, Narrative, Investigative and Promotive. It was interesting to see why others had chosen what they had and how different their choices were to mine.

After this we moved to a different table and organised other people's images to coralline with our 5 illustrative groups. We were then tasked with sorting the images into as many different grouping as we could such as whether the pieces were digital/analogue, humorous, black/white or colour etc. We came up with roughly 14 differing groups before, as a studio, we made a compiled list;

• Use of Media & Method of Production
• Tone of Voice
• Simplicity of Image
• Attention to detail / skill / complexity
• Socio / Political Meaning or Message
• Audience specific / engagement / interaction
• Narrative - sequential imagery
• Use of Type or Text
• Relationship between Composition, Form & Format
• Humour
• Function or Purpose
• Conceptual development, sketchbooks development work
• Concept art & visualisation.

Our next task was to go away and decide on 5 categories to investigate before finding five images for each. This will result in a total of 25 images for next Monday.

I've decided (at the moment) I'm going to look at;

• Socio / Political Meaning or Message
• Narrative - sequential imagery
• Humour
• Conceptual development, sketchbooks development work
• Attention to detail / skill / complexity