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Thinking visually for illustrators

Wigan, Mark Unknown Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (London, 2014) (eng) English 9781472527493 Basic Illustration Series 2nd ed. ILLUSTRATORS-VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; Unknown Thinking Visually for Illustrators features a wide range of work, demonstrating diverse visual languages, context, ideas, techniques and skills. It also looks at the ways in which illustrators develop their own personal visual language. Contemporary illustrators from all over the world engaged in a diverse range of approaches to the discipline have contributed their artwork and commentaries on visual thinking and the working process. The text also features the work of recent graduates, present students and observations from educators past and present. This edition has been updated to include a new chapter on illustration for the digital context and new approaches to working.
Physical dimension
183 p. 23 cm. ill.
Summary / review / table of contents

Introduction
How to get the most out of this book
Chapter One: Getting started
Ideas generation
Research
In focus: Yuko Kondo
Sketchbooks
Inspirations
Chapter Two: Ways of drawing
A history of illustration
Outsider art
The portrait
In focus: Miles Donovan
Life drawing
Chapter Three: Experimenting
Quotes
Print workshop
Cross-media and cultural cut-ups
Chapter Four: Types of illustration
Social commentary
Caricature
The decorative
In focus: Aubrey Beardsley
Reportage
Underground urban street art
In focus: Jean Michel Basquiat
Fantastic worlds
In focus: Jorge Goytizola
In focus: A Secret Club
In focus: Daniel Bueno
Chapter Five: The new digital paradigm
The next big thing in illustration
In focus: Micah Lidberg
In focus: Merjin Hos
The future is now
In focus: Catherine McIntyre
Flexibility
Chapter Six: A career in illustration
Collaboration
In focus: Priya Sundram
In focus: Big Active
Briefs and deadlines
Industry insights
Appendix
The projects
Glossary
Canon of key artists and illustrators
Bibliography
Conclusion
Index
Acknowledgements

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