Educational strip The brief: You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young people how to cope with the onset of puberty. You can decide on which aspect you want to tackle. Due to the subject matter and the intended age group it is suggested you use metaphor and humour when conveying the message, The client would also like you to provide a single illustration of your character for the use on the front cover. Research: Out of my depth here I started to look at how a strip is put together, I collected a number of examples to observe: Simple and fun characters. Not all in colour. Wording, but nor too much. A narrative. Square of rectangle boxes. It is so lovely to have the opportunity to look at the 'Snoopy' Strips by Charles M. Schulz . Ok, so here I studied a more relaxed, humorous style of illustration by Purple Ronnie : Very simple, child like people that are r...
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Working for children I started this exercise by looking through as many illustrations as I could. For ease as requested I catalogued the drawings together into what I believe to be their relevant age brackets. Pre-reader illustrations by Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)... Pre-school illustrations by Helen Oxenbury (We're Going on a Bear Hunt) and Axel Scheffler (Room on a Broom): Early reader illustrations by Peter H Reynolds (Judy Moody books) and Beatrix Potter: Established reader illustrations by Quentin Blake (Roald Dahl collection) and Tony Ross (Horrid Henry): Older age groups illustrations by Jim Kay (The Illustrated Harry Potter books)... I had a rummage through our book collection, having two children now aged 7 and 10 years, books have played an integral role of our learning journey both for my children and me as a parent. We have read hundreds of books over the last decades and some are just too ...
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Packaging The brief: Produce a series of illustrations for packaging to be used for a new range of organic biscuits for children. There are three varieties in the range - "Raisin, Choc chip and Ginger" biscuits. The client specifically wants three illustrations featuring extinct animals interacting in some fun way with a biscuit to be used on the boxes. The drawings should be in full colour and the client would like the colours to reflect the 'flavour' of the biscuit. Research: I started by taking a good look at the market. The question - how will you stand out amongst others? I think the subject I will be working with, extinct animals does give me an advantage here as it is different and attractive to children, I could not find any other brand using this subject matter. I would like my packaging to attract children, as I feel my subject matter will be best suited to children, so I have chosen "pester power". Packaging on the ma...