Here is an example of a caricature of President Trump by Iranian illustrator Hadi-Asadi:
Part I:
We will have a visiting illustrator, Joshua Peterson, who will introduce this project with a series of preliminary drawing demonstrations and exercises.
To prepare for his visit on Tuesday, February 20th, you will need to have the following posted on your blog by the BEGINNING of class that day.
• Choose a living or dead, well-known sports person, entertainer, writer or artist.
• Write a creative brief for this editorial portrait assignment.
• Create two image research boards:
- Photos and scrap of your chosen person.
- At least three examples of professionally illustration portraits/caricatures from
three points-of-view:
• Humorist / Satire;
• Cute / Childlike;
• Realistic / Exaggerated
Part II:
The next phase of this assignment is to create a minimum of three portrait sketches of your chosen subject from the same points-of-view you researched professionally illustrated portraits:
• Humorist / Satire;
• Cute / Childlike;
• Realistic / Exaggerated
Josh will revisit the class on Tuesday, February 28th to critique your three portrait explorations. Please have them post on your blog, as well as printed out and posted on the crit wall by the BEGINNING of class that day.
Part III:
The final phase of this assignment is to create the actual illustration for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. If you visit the web site of the magazine and download their media guide you will find the size of the magazine - 8 x 10.875.
Here is a sample layout of a Rolling Stone magazine cover.While you will need to leave appropriate space in your illustration for the masthead, you are not required to add the masthead to your illustration.
If you wish to do so however, please output that as a separate file and also you also write and add a cover article title as well. Be sure to use Rolling Stone’s actual masthead and magazine typefaces.
As a side note, the magazine’s actual print resolution requirement is 100% size at 133 dpi. A rule of thumb is to set up your digital file twice (2X) the print resolution, or in this case 267 ppi, with 300 dpi the usual standard. The final digital file format required by the magazine to print the illustration is also a PDF-1XA file. You will need to covert your final illustration to a smaller jpg format however in order to post it to your student blog
The schedule for the final assignment illustration is as follows:
– Concept Roughs due Thursday, March 1st.
– A Tight Illustration Comp due Tuesday, March 13th.
– The Final Finished Illustration due Thursday, March 15th.
ATTENTION! An extension for this project has been given:
– The Final Critique for the Illustration in situ as a Magazine Cover is Tuesday, March 20th. Print out to size, on the best printer you can afford, have it posted on the crit wall.
As this assignment constitutes a month’s worth of class work, it will have a large impact on your overall class grade. Put in time and effort into the project to make it the strongest and best illustration you have created to date.
