Gipi watercolour process

Drawing in the Style of Gipi

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Objective

To improve your understanding of the process involved in line and watercolour.

To introduce the work of relevant practitioners.

To partly address assessment objective 2 & 3 'experiment' and 'record'. 

Task

Choose another page from your plan.
Gather examples of relevant iconography (subject matter).

Draw them in the style of the graphic artist Gipi—his work is shown below.

  Gipi's drawing style is loose. He has a wandering, broken line that is partly a 

  result of holding the pen further up the shaft. (I have included a video of 

  drawing of shoes executed in the same manner.)

Fill a spread (or A3 page) with examples of iconography from your book. 
Draw smaller than you usually would - about 7/8cms tops!   
our watercolour pans and brushes are small :)

Presentation

Take a photo of your pages and post to the blog.

Checklist for assessment

Loose but accurate drawing style with a wandering, broken line.

Time needed

40 mins.

s WQ

“The ceramics teacher announced that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”. At grading time, a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”

- Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Gipi painting a landscape in landscape.


Gipi drawing.

Planning the page content

Objective
To enable the effective page planning of the song lyric book.

Task
Using the example above–ten panels on each page–draw the template into your sketchbook.
Complete the pages by in putting the imagery on the left side and the lyrics on the right.
N.B. Ensure that your imagery and page lyrics match up! E.G. Left side - Cowboy on old TV / Right side - The lyrics ‘watching cowboy films on gloomy afternoons’


Presentation
Photograph (preferred) or scan into a new blog post. Post title: Planning the page content.


Checklist for Assessment
Neatness, clarity of information, clear images.


Deadline
tba

2 tasks for brainstorming your lyrics

Over the coming weeks, you will be embarking on a Song Book Illustration Project. You will be researching existing book layout, developing your own illustration ideas, experimenting with different processes and techniques and finally presenting a finished book. Your book will be at least 8 pages long.

The subject of your book will be illustrations of a song lyric - using the whole or part of a song.

Objective

To use the lyrics get as many visual ideas as possible.

To understand that early planning is best done using a pencil.  It's much faster and sparks the brain 10x faster than a word processor.

Task 1
Choose a suitable song, (believe me, it takes longer than you think) If you are struggling to find a whole song, choose 6 or more different ones that you find interesting - and could work well visually.

You don't have to understand what the lyrics are referring to, they could be very vague - the most important thing is that they are creating images in your head. Your job is to be 'poetic'.

Task 2

Take your lyrics (12pt, left align on an A4 page) and print off.

Using a pen or pencil, go through the words and associate any image you can–however obvious. 
Go for beautiful poetic interpretation.

Presentation

Photograph them and post them to your blog. 
Post name–Brainstorming lyrics.

To get a the best mark you can, ensure that your pages are busy and full.