Editorial Illustration 

To get started on our first brief of this new semester, I read through my article before the briefing on Monday and used some different YouTube tutorials and links available on the blackboard to give myself a direction with what to do. 

My Article: 
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/hotter-than-ever-how-pizza-conquered-britain-leaving-its-rivals-in-the-dust?CMP=share_btn_url
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To start I made notes on the interesting bits of my article and what the summary of it actually was. Using these videos I made a list of quotes from the article that made me think of concepts I could use in my illustration. Made a note of these and roughly drew them out. 
Notes from the brief:

Initial Sketches 

Artists from the Lecture:

Brad Holland

I seen Brad Holland as a master of conceptual Illustration, not only that but he is fantastic at using scale to its full potential, which was something I wanted to learn from. 

​Jean Jullien

Looking at Jullien's confidence with line motivated me to practice making more graphic images, and expressing thoughts through these bold pictures. 

​Dan Bejar

I was impressed with Bejar's imagination and I was in awe at this ability to perfectly portray this. I looked at his work to be able to learn and take inspiration from his creativity and intelligence. 

​​Christoph Niemann

After watching 'Abstract' I learned a lot about Niemann's process and how he looks at the things around him which was helpful for me to fully understand the task I had at hand.

Artists I liked:

Tom Gauld

The style that Gauld uses is a mix of pen and ink with flat colour, I love the humor in his art. 
I want to create something smart that has a simple enough style.
Gauld creates intelligent yet light-hearted, intricate yet simple pieces of illustration and I took inspiriation from his choice of media and his focus on story-telling

​Giacomo Bagnara

Next person I was looking at was Giacomo Bagnara, I wanted something that uses shapes to conveys a clever idea. 
And with my experience I had on illustrator made me excited to see what I could do with that, as Bagnara's work was predominantly done through Illustrator. 

Guardian Illustrators

This research was to help me see what type of work is actively being shown in the guardian

Conceptual Illustration, more artists who excel at this drawing

​Davide Bonazzi
​Sofia Salazar
​Kotryna Zukauskaite
​Malika Favre

First Thumbnails

After picking some artists and ideas I wanted to look at I created a good few thumbnails to go of.

Development

Further Development after feedback

Illustrator 

After I created these I decided to try out some Illustrator stuff, while looking at Giacomo's work I wanted to create something smooth and tidy. 
I wanted to experiment with a few of my thumbnail ideas on Illustrator so that if i liked the outcomes I could decided to develop them further or not. 
After testing out some different effects, I realized I really liked the pixel art version I created. To created more images like this to my full potential I watched this youtube tutorial, and looked at a bunch of different types of pixel art. 
https://www.shynola.com/shynola-info
After not finding anything I quite liked Dwayne showed me Shynola, an artist whose work I really liked and thought was a good fit for what I had in mind. 
With what I was learning about Illustrator Pixel art I decided to recreate a few of my thumbnails to see how they would look mocked up this way. 

Analog

Still wanting to also experiment with Tom Gauld's art process and style I decided to again recreate two of my thumbnails and see how they worked with my Article. 
In this drawing I gave everything a little more detail as well as making it much less simplified as I felt it needed some sophistication to be paired with a news outlet like the Guardian. 
Still going with the same style I gave these thumbnails a more serious look, while keeping the conceptual look, I made the composition straight forward and gave more detail to the subject matters. 

Added after Formative feedback

Still going with inspo from Tom Gauld I created this illustration where I agreed with Tony in feedback that it wasn't really using negative space to my advantage, however the concept and idea were solid.

New stuff after formative feedback

Black and White Image further development/ Outcomes. 

I wanted to redo my black and white spot illustration partly because I dont believe I pushed it far enough as well as the fact it doesn't mesh with my larger CMYK illustration as well as it could.

Final Outcomes:

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