Exploring Illustration

First Edition
Author: Michael Fleishman
ISBN #: 1401826210
©2004   Publish Date: 11/03/2003
Binding: PB
Pages: 322
Publisher: Cengage Learning

Price: $108.95

Description:

Arguably the first standard textbook of its kind, Exploring Illustration presents a curriculum methodology to learning illustration. Written in a friendly, conversational style with input from experienced instructors, this introductory-level book offers a "gallery" of representative approaches to illustration. Fundamental concepts, techniques, styles, and mechanics are highlighted in an approachable compare-and-contrast format, with functional, step-by-step visuals that enhance understanding. The result is an eclectic cross-section of the real world of illustration that is an innovative introduction for students and young professionals alike.

Product Benefits:

• Stimulating coverage embraces basic theory, current wisdom, and illustration throughout the ages, including the influence of culture and the dictates of taste
• Topics at the heart of all artistic endeavors -composition, value, color, line, and texture- provide the groundwork for more core issues, such as portrait and figure, editorial, advertising, and book venues, still life, and landscape
• A digital and electronic overview highlights the impact of computer graphics, the onset of digital illustration, and current hardware and software, with a look into the future of the computer's creative role
• The instructor's guide features a sample mix-and-match curriculum is provided for instructors to illustrate how the book might be used in their courses
• An electronic overview highlights the impact of computer graphics and digital illustration, current hardware and software, and looks into the computer's present and future creative role.

Table of Contents:

IN THEORY: Getting it Dwon. Building Blocks. The Subject Matters. Connections. IN PRACTICE: Dry Media. Wet Media. Pen and Ink. Extended and Peripheral. Collage, Cut Paper & Fabric. Digital Illustration.

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