Illustration

Your fourth assignment is to reinterpret and illustrate a popular children’s story.

1.Select a children’s story.2.Determine whether to illustrate the story using the

characters mentioned or reinterpret the story to include contemporary characters or place the traditional characters within a contemporary context. You can be literal or symbolic.

3. Gather reference materials and draw your scene onto a scratchboard using a pencil.

4. Use a scratch tool to complete your drawing by scratching away the black surface to reveal the white gesso underneath.

In this assignment the way you choose to reinterpret the story is up to you, however, you should pay special attention to:

Design/CompositionDid you make good use of the elements and principles of design to create a dramatic/interesting composition? There should be a focal point in this piece.

Drawing Issues: Value and Line Is there a balance of black and white? Did you experiment with various types of lines? Did these lines create interesting and believable textures?

CraftsmanshipIs the work neat and carefully put together?

Overall AppearanceDoes the work catch the viewer’s eye?

Examples of Works

Francis Barlow

John Vernon Lord 1989

Arthur Rackham “King Log”

Arthur Rackham, “The Bear and the Fox”

Marcus Gerard 1567

“The Frogs Ask for a King”

“The Wolf and the Stalk”

Arthur Rackham, “The Owl and the Birds”

Paula Rego

“Little Miss Moffet”

“Baa Baa Black Sheep”

“Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”

“Rock A Bye Baby”

Three Blind Mice

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