Task 5 (?)

What do you define illustration?

• Drawing purpose
• drawing for,
• Brief driven 
• Proveke a reaction ( Prove synonyms : anger, offend, raise )
• clarification communication 
• context based
• audience specific

What make good illustration?

• image,context and idea
• clarity > The audience receive the message
• accessible/Direct > easy to understand
• Technical ability
• understanding
• value > good/stylish illustration doesn't mean its 'good'

What can illustration do?

• Educate
• Interpret the world
• Inform
• Criticise
• Aggravate  (synonymy : bother, irritate) 
• Communicate
• Change the world
• Persuade
• Agitate  ( synonymy : disturb, trouble)

Differences : illustration, fine art and graphic design 

• Fine art - pure?
• Commercial - Illustration and graphic design creates with purpose. Fine art produce to sell?
• Fine art - no restricted, no limitation > easier > do whatever they like. Illustration and graphic design ? restricted and limitation > need to work with audience > more experimentation + more creative.
• People spent money for fine art? 
• Convey concept
• Fine art careless about communication compared to illustration and graphic design

Arts VS Graphic Art.

• Ambiguity, complexity > need 'special' knowledge to understand fine art. 
• Culture significance ? thousands of gallery about fine art > less/no gallery about graphic art and illustration.
• Individual/ personal expression
• Graphic Design = problem solving
• Art has no function/less function e.g. for the sake being art?. Graphic design > function-able?
• Fine art > wage labour > less creative? 

Task 2

I was given a text to read by Marshall Arisman titled 'Is There Fine  Art to Illustration'

'David Smith, the sculptor, defined commercial art as "Art that meets the minds and needs of other people," and fine art as "Art that meets the mind and needs of the artist." 

I would agree with Smith (or not) as I think commercial art is for selling and client; compared to fine arts, it is more to personal responds and diary. 

Here an example of a work by Alex Gross.this painting will work as an illustration if this goes with an article and it reminds me of surrealism. 

I read a book called The Education of an Illustrator by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman, on page 59, where the author interviewed an artist called Thomas Woodruff. He commented on fine arts and illustration -  'the whole idea about the battle between commercial and the fine art worlds is a battle that has no winners' which is true, it is just a waste of time to fight for a pointless thing.

Task 1

Avatar the last Airbender is my favourite cartoon ever as I found it's funny and interesting; the story line  is different from the other cartoon that I have ever watch. I can't be help but keep watching this tv cartoon whenever I feel bored. My other favourite tv program is Naruto. 

I am a big fan of dress and I wear dresses whenever I'm going out wither with a skirt or a skinny jeans. However, I am thinking of changing the way I dress as I'm getting older and I think the way I dress is too childish for my age. OMG, I am 20 already !. - drew most girls with a dress on. 

Autumn and spring are my two favourite seasons as it is not too warm and not too cold. I like the colour of autumn as it is calm and natural. I also like flower especially when its blossom !!   - happy mood, new beginning. When I am making new illustrations, I tends use bright colours all the time.

You know that feeling when you drink a cup of hot tea during a cold weather esp during winte;  either with our without sugar and milk. In Malaysia, my favourite drink is Milo ice as Malaysia is a tropical country so it is veryyyyyyyyy warm !

My favourite pet animal is cat. I cant be help but gone crazy for a sec whenever I see cat. it is because cat is so fluffy, independent and cute ! Look at that image above, omggggg that cat looks so innocent. It is sad though because in the UK I don't pet any cat and I miss my cat in Malaysia already =( Also, in Malaysia, cat is everywhere but in Great Britain, we bearly can see cat on the road. So sad.