3D Illustration - Beyond a Flat Earth
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3D Illustration - Beyond a Flat Earth
Bill Wright
Illustration is often practiced on flat surfaces - but not in this course. Here we'll explore using 3D - cut-outs, modelling, sewn designs, 3D collage, assemblage - as legitimate routs to useful, vibrant illustrations. Increasingly, as publishers and media companies seek innovative ways to communicate with the public, they turn to non-flat illustration that's unique, surprising or memorable. In this course we'll look at imaginatively addressing a brief and then nurturing our ideas into successful 3D-based communication. We'll explore materials of non-flat illustration - cloth, clay, card and found and bought objects, for example - and methods of working with them. We'll gain from individual and group reviews, learn some related photo skills and examine works by successful 3D illustrators. Experience the celebrated Central Saint Martins' idea-school ethos in this unusual, but practical illustration course. Your resulting work should enhance either a professional or education-oriented portfolio. All levels of experience welcome.
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Bill Wright is a practising artist and has taught drawing, illustration and design in the US and UK. He currently teaches on the illustration pathway of BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins.
Alternative Dates and Times
Many of our courses are repeated throughout the year. If the above dates is not suitable for you,
or there are no dates showing for this session, then please choose an alternative session.
Please bring with you to the first session:
- A sketchbook for diagramming ideas
- Pencil or pen
- A digital or phone camera.
NOTE: During the first class, we'll have a thorough discussion of materials and where they can be purchased. But keep in mind that in working in 3D modelling it's helpful to collect an odd bunch of supplies to explore. So consider beginning your own such collection of bits and pieces such as buttons, screws, pins, toothpicks, thread, wire, twigs, beads and miscellaneous leftover items that you might have lying about. And/or, your interest may lie strongly in a particular direction, such a sewing, cut paper, clay, street-worn/found materials, items found in nature or art supplies such as cut pieces of wood. In that case, as the course progresses, please bring materials appropriate to your passion, or plan to buy or find some in the course of the class. If you have questions about a given material - types of clay, for example - don't buy any till after the first class.