Learner survival guide - artist illistation inspiration

Artist Inspiration

Paul Jackson inspires me because of the intricate detail he puts into his work. I also like how he uses skulls throughout his work when drawings both animals and humans. His work is quite dark and slightly gruesome but I think his work reflects well with the american horror story theme. Therefore I really want to incorporate somethings form Paul Jackson work into mine. 

 

Michele Parliment's work incorporated the same skeleton theme as Paul Jackson's artwork, except he uses colour into his work but still uses nature combined with skeletons and the human body. I like how his work is also very detailed and life like therefore I will incorporate his style of artwork into mine.

I looked at these artists as they inspired me and both incorporated skeletons and the human form. I will use these images as source material when designing my skeleton and skull drawings to then create a makeup and face paint piece for photography purposes. 

Learner survival guide - Image inspiration

American Horror Story Images 

The research helped me gain knowledge and inspiration for ideas and concepts to do with american horror story. I wanted to mostly focus on the skull make up and text as I want to replicate and get inspiration to make my leaner survival guide cover have the theme and inspiration of american horror story.

I researched into a lot of american horror story season 1 murder house, and looked how they used quotes and picture to symbols and identify american horror story. I mostly looked into the skeleton makeup and font and text. 

I want to replicate the text to make the learner survival guide more symbolized to american horror story.

I looked at how the skull makeup looks and how I could replicate it to make it look similar. It is very detailed and intricate and I want to incorporate this into my makeup to give it the full american horror story theme. 

I also observed the angles and colours of how they edited the picture to make them look scarier or darker. 

I looked at more american horror story text so I can replicate and gain ideas for my text. 

Looking at images on the internet of american horror story helped me gain inspiration to create my learner survival guide cover inspired by the television show. It also helped me get first hand source material to create the skull makeup look which I will incorporate my own ideas to make the makeup my own work.

Learner Survival guide - brief

Brief 

You have been asked to design the front/back cover for the 2015/16 north Nottingham College Learner Survival Guide. the visual style of the survival guide should appeal to all students male and female, from the young to the more mature students, from all social and cultural backgrounds. your primary objective is to produce 3 different designs that reflect the nature of NNC using exciting, dynamic and original typographical style, photo and graphic images.


I looked into a range of different ideas and concepts to create the learner survival guide cover on the mac computer. I researched and analysed ideas to reflect the age group. The brief was set for a age range of 16 to young adults therefore I had to design something that applied to everyone. I also broke down the words of the brief. I looked at the title with the word 'survival' so I thought of ideas to relate to the word survival. the concepts I thought of was related to films and TV series which both fitted the the title but also the age group. I looked on the internet for a variety of TV series e.g. the walking dead, vampire diaries, and american horror story.


I liked the idea of using a television or film as the main idea, as it worked well with the brief. I found the one which I was interested in, was american horror story as it is to do with survival and also appeals to age groups variegating around college as well as both genders and cultures. I looked for inspiration on the internet to do with american horror story looking at the series and plots to each one. I found that the most recognizable image which represents and reminds you of american horror story is the skeleton makeup form season one murder house.

editorial drawings

I looked into a range of editions drawing images of the internet to collect inspiration and ideas of the structure and layout of illustrations used in a comic strip. I also looked at the textures and materials used a I wanted to look how they use different strokes and textures in there drawings. I found that most comic strips are either black and white, using mostly pencils and inks to add contrast or make something stand out. I found that most illustrations were