Illustration

Special Topics: Illustration

Syllabus

Assignment 4: Portrait

Here are links to the illustrators we looked at in class:

http://eddieguyillustration.com/index_s.html

http://www.johannagoodman.com/

http://www.illoz.com/goldin/

http://www.kristianhargis.com/

http://www.camillerosegarcia.com/Pages/galleries.html

Assignment:

Develop a portrait or caricature of a recognizable figure from the world of politics, science, business or entertainment. Your piece should be done to print at a full magazine-sized page (or larger) with bleeds, and communicate a writer’s or your own feelings about the person and what he or she does. It should also (of course) be recognizable.

Three roughs due: October 22

Final Due: November 1

Up Next: Final Project

Choose an area of illustration to focus on—either one an assignment has been based around (editorial or political illustration, portraiture or information illustration) or something new. While there are many possibilities,, some choices might include a complete feature package (lead illustration and spots illustrating a single long fiction or non-fiction piece; architectural illustration, children's book illustration, narrative, graphic novel or comix illustration, product illustration or medical or scientific illustration.

Jandos Rothstein, Assistant Professor of Graphic Information Design

George Mason University, Department of Art and Visual Technology

College Hall, Room C218, 4400 University Drive, MS 1C3, Fairfax, Va., 22030