exercise museum posters

For this exercise we was asked to use an artifact from a museum, and then create an illustration for three age brackets , child, teenager and adult.

Child tumb nails

Artifact

i chose to use a smaller artifact for the childrens an eye,symbolising what the child would see, in my earlier concepts i tried to convey that the british museam covers cultures across the world. 

if i had more time i think i would redo this. 

Rough mock up - the colours on this only partially work I liked the blue British museum against the hands. It would be better if the hands where child size to.

Teenage sketches b movie horror film inspired 

when i started the teenage one, i had an idea for old b movie hammer horror style posters somthing that is recognisable even to teens. i wanted to make it cool and a little scary, safe scary!  even to young adults the idea of the howard carter curse in king tutnkhamons tomb is interesting. i wanted to play on this idea. the british museam currently houses a percentage of there vast collection on the left hand wing.

the collection is composed of large status and further in more specific items. 

Thumb nails 

Adult 

for the adults poster i wished to do somethng very monotone and graphite. with striking black and white text. i chose the bast cat as the main focus and statue.

Finished art work 

The colours I think work really well I tried to work on my lines, which I find hard generally and harder digitally.. I'm not sure if my pen needs re calibrating. I like the hand it's creepy and the look I'm going for, I could have added detail to the tomb? Ok again the text needs work. 

exercise identifying tools and materials

find a range of illustrators who use a particular medium. i have chosen water colour and ink.

ths medium i have chosen seems to be common for both fashion illustration and childrens illustration.

many notable illustators such as quentin blake and beutrix potter use this method.

the artist Beautrix Potter uses a combination of water colour and ink the image is composed to show the mouses profession and intellgance shown in the reading of the news paper, the paws are distorted to hold the paper as is the pose. the white highlights though im not sure if these are done in gouche or a pencil maybe chalk.  the artist also uses a one point perspective system to create depth.

the colour of the spool and the ears creates contrast with the more earth tones. 

the texture of the mouse conveying fur and the spoil also contrast with the block smooth textures of the paper and the top and bottom of the spool.

the mouses trade is symbolised in the tools of his professtion, ie the thimble and thread. 

the commonality between then is use of ink outlines and detailing to create caractors and definition. water colour is used as wash or to create fluid sweeps of colour. the combination of both gives fluid but defined images.