Intermediate-Advanced* $25 Materials and Studio Fees**
Have you ever looked through rows of books and magazines, or scrolled through an article on your phone, and noticed the art accompanying the text and wondered how or why that specific image is there? These illustrations tend to go through a distilling process of rough sketches and color studies until they successfully visually communicate what is happening in the text they accompany and, hopefully, stand on their own as a dynamic artwork. In this workshop, we’ll dive into this specific aspect of the vast illustration world and learn how to translate text into a visually striking image that tells the viewer a story or gives them an idea of what to expect from a book title of your choosing. We’ll also gain a better understanding of the process of an illustration’s creation through building our own images and the many ways we engage with it in our daily lives.
*Students should have some drawing/painting knowledge and, when it comes to drawing from memory and laying out a drawing, be somewhat comfortable with going out on their own.
**Materials and studio fees are charged to students based on studio usage and materials Touchstone is providing at the request of the instructor. Additionally, some instructors may also require that you bring certain materials and tools with you, in which case a list will be provided. Final cost of these fees will be posted at least two weeks ahead of the workshop to be paid in full prior to check-in.
MATERIAL LIST
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS should bring the following materials for the workshop
*It is recommended that you wait to hear if the workshop is running before you purchase materials. Touchstone will let you know if a workshop is running no later than 2 weeks before the start of the class. Regardless of the outcome of the class, running or not, Touchstone is not responsible for the reimbursement of any materials bought for a workshop.
- 1 Sheet-Strathmore vellum Bristol Board (4 ply-22”x30”)
- 1 Steadtler Lumograph drawing pencils set of 6
- 1 set of 3 Pink Pearl erasers
- Winsor & Newton drawing Ink (Black 14ml)
- Winsor & Newton watercolor brushes (set D-set of 5)
- Sakura pigma micron pens set of 6 (black-extra fine to fine)
- Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolor pocket set (Set of 16-Assorted Colors)
- Speedball sketching project set
- Sketchbook you are currently working in that has plenty of pages for drawing in
- If you do not have a sketchbook, please bring a Canson sketchbook 9×12”-60 pages
- Passages of text from a book you really love and want to illustrate or book titles you’d love to illustrate a cover for. We will break it down to 1 of the choices for you to illustrate.
- Pencil and Pen
- Reusable water bottle
- Apron (Optional)
Suggested Reading
- The Arthur Rackham Treasury
- The Art of Bob Peak
- illustrationart.blogspot.com
- instagram: @nytimesopinionart
- Any of the American Illustration competition annuals (1-42)
Download this list: Concepts Narratives and Image Making_Materials-List
