Year 8 Illustration
The year 8 Illustration course is designed for students who love to doodle, draw and animate. Each term we explore different forms of Illustration and develop and grow in skill.
Students explore realism and caricaturing. Illustrate their own book based on a narrative, Create animations using the rotoscope technique and use Photoshop to create digital illustrations.
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Caricature
Tri-Colour Portraits
Realism
Digital Painting
Rotoscope Animation
Illustrating a
folding book
This task enabled students to create an illustrated book. They could choose between illustrating a short story, poem, series of quotes or famous sayings, song lyrics or nursery rhyme.
They were given a concertina style book and had artistic freedom to illustrate it using any medium or style of their choice.
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Illustrating text
Scratchboard illustrations
Scratchboard or scraperboard is a paper or hardboard that has three layers; the bottom layer is a hard paper base. Covering the base is a layer of white clay. On top is a thin layer of black ink. Scratchboard drawing is like engraving – a process where an image is cut into the drawing surface. To draw, the black dark surface is scratched to reveal the white using contour lines, cross hatching and stippling. Drawings can be detailed and realistic or stylised and imaginative. Various marks produce different tonal effects.
For this task, Students were required to illustrate the following statement:
“It was chilly at the bottom of the creepy moonlit garden
and she was all alone.”​
Illustrating limericks
Illustrations can tell a story or give a message. Techniques used to create an illustration can help communicate the story. These techniques can be hand drawn, painted, made from mixed media, collaged from paper, patterns and textured surfaces, digitally created or use a combination of media and techniques.
Students were required to create an illustration that uses paper collaged shapes and drawing to illustrate
the following limerick:
"There was an old man with a beard
Who said, "It was just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren,
Have all built nests in my beard!"
