Illustrators styles and eras.

I just wanted you to see how a single book or series of books could be reimagined by different illustrators over the course of many years and style and decades. What does each cover say about the time it was created and the art styles that were prevalent at the time and what was considered acceptable and sellable to the readers? I'm using Tolkien because these books have been reprinted a bunch of times, you could even find more versions than these. These were the ones I found at a recent books sale. What I want you to think about is that there is no single look for a book or title and the styles you see prevalent right now are passing. There will be new styles and ways of seeing the stories that are written even ones that seem to be so ingrained in stone.

Job Assignment Preliminary Due December 5th!

On the Job

Assignment-

You have been hired by a magazine to do a spread on a particular Job. Your

assignment is to research a job, learn about itʼs trials and tribulations, learn about what

equipment or technology is needed for this job. You are required to show two people

interacting around this job.

The Plan:

This illustration is about using our photo reference to create a situation in which two

characters are interacting in an environment with some kind of tool or device. The basis

for this is “The Job.” Students will have to get reference for people, research a job or

career and create a scenario using a combination of reference and sketches and notes

on a job.

For those students wishing to use this as an opportunity to do artwork in a

fantasy or science fiction or other fantastic setting I require the student to take a

real world “Job” and relate it to the new world you are creating. See the Illustration by Donato as reference for how this might be done.

You will need to get reference on the place and equipment that your job involves.

Do not : Make up backgrounds or equipment, uniforms or anything! I want reference for

every part of these illustrations. If you are doing Sci-Fi, use real world objects as

analogs for sci-fi stuff

Do not : Use google reference, you should be going deeper researching in library and

other resources.

If the job is something you can get access to the real place the job is done in( a

doctors office, a fast food restaurant, etc) and get some on the spot reference.

Due Next week: Develop at least five concept sketches for a realistic painting for The

Job. Sketches must be at least 8” X 10” in the ratio of 9.5 x 12 “ each mounted on a

single sheet of neutral colored presentation board. I want to see your research on the

Job you are illustrating as well as all your reference.

The final image for this is due on December 12th at Review.

Book Cover project!

BOOK Cover! 

 • Assignment #4: Classic Book Cover:  2000 Leagues under the Sea. Begin visualizing , finding reference and taking photographs for new assignment.

Be sure to use lighting and think composition. Also remember that the title of the Book and the Name of the Author will need to be accomodated for. The best way to handle this is to draw them in on your sketches. Sketches should be in the ratio of 5 x 8 inches.

I’m attaching a short synopsis of the book, but I suggest strongly you research further into it. Reading the entire book is not necessary, but having a good idea of it’s contents and being able to talk intelligently about it is a good idea. I would skim the book and look for interesting passages to illustrate.

• Research and be able to discuss five book cover artists. For each artist,

think about and be able to talk about their work, their area of business and why

you chose their work. Bring 3 examples of their work.

 • Sketchbooks: Draw 5 compositional/tonal sketches from the master

 book cover artists you covered in your research. and 5 color sketches based on the same 5 images.

For Next Week: Bring sketchbooks, larger drawing pads, drawing

materials, colored pencils. Due next week: 5 compositional sketches and

found reference for book cover assignment.

Victo Ngai

James Jean

Jon Foster

Brom

Rebecca Guay

Eric Fortune

Shaun Tan

Jason Chan

John Jude Palencar

Donato 

Dan Do Santos

David Palumbo

Vanja Todoric

Matt Smith

Frank Cho

Jeff Preston

Bruno Werneck

James Gurney

Sam Weber

William O’Connor

Paolo Rivera

Gregory Manchess

Short Synopsis

As the story begins, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal; the creature also damages an ocean liner. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, an expert French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts. Canadian master harpoonist Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful assistant Conseil are also brought aboard.

The expedition departs Brooklyn aboard United States Navy Abraham Lincoln and travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. The ship finds the monster after a long search and then attacks the beast, which damages the steering. The three protagonists are then hurled onto the "hide" of the creature, which they find, to their surprise, is a large metal construction. They are quickly captured and brought inside the vessel, where they meet its enigmatic creator and commander, Captain Nemo.

The rest of the story follows the adventures of the protagonists aboard the creature--the submarine, the Nautilus--which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas free from any land-based government. Captain Nemo's motivation is implied to be both a scientific thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge on (and self-imposed exile from)civilization. Nemo explains that his submarine is electrically poweredand can perform advanced marine biology research; he also tells his new passengers that although he appreciates conversing with such an expert as Aronnax, maintaining the secrecy of his existence requires never letting them leave. Aronnax is enthralled by the undersea vistas, but Land constantly plans escape.

They visit many places in the world's oceans, some known to Jules Verne from real travelers' descriptions and speculation, while others completely fictional. Thus, the travelers witness the real corals of the Red Sea, the wrecks of the battle of Vigo Bay, the Antarctic ice shelves, and the fictional submerged land of Atlantis. The travelers also don diving suits to hunt sharks and other marine life with specially designed guns and have a funeral for a crew member who dies when an accident occurs inside theNautilus. When the Nautilus returns to the Atlantic Ocean, a "poulpe" (usually translated as a giant squid, although the French "poulpe" means "octopus") attacks the vessel and devours a crew member.

Throughout the story Captain Nemo is suggested to have exiled himself from the world after an encounter with his oppressive country somehow affected his family. Near the end of the book, the Nautilus is tracked and attacked by a mysterious ship from that nation. Nemo ignores Aronnax's pleas for amnesty for the boat and retaliates. He attacks the ship under the waterline, sending it to the bottom of the ocean with all crew aboard as Aronnax watches from the saloon. Nemo bows before the pictures of his wife and children and is plunged into deep depression after this encounter, and "voluntarily or involuntarily" allows the submarine to wander into an encounter with the Moskenstraumen, more commonly known as the "Maelstrom", a whirlpool off the coast of Norway. The three prisoners successfully seize this opportunity to escape, but the fate of Captain Nemo and his crew is unknown.

Hiyao Miyazaki

Hiyao Miyazaki is one of the most influential anime artists of the last century. HIs work includes the manga and anime Nausicaa Valley of the Wind and many others. Check out his technique on his new manga.


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