“For me the number three is important, but simply from the numerical, not the esoteric, point of view: one is unity, two is double, duality, and three is the rest.”

Marcel Duchamp

COMMUNICATION WITH AN ART DIRECTOR

Clear communication is essential to the practice of illustration.

Art Directors can get hundreds of emails a day, so your letters should be brief, concise and clear.

A typical email with sketches can look something like this:

“Hello/hi/dear (depending on your relationship with the AD) {name},
Here are the sketches for {the assignment}, please let me know what you think!

(optional: I tried to focus on the theme of {something} and {something} via {something})

{Description of the each concept (1-2 sentences)}

(the descriptions can be set in the image itself)

(optional: any further comments on the final finish/medium, deadlines, etc)

Regards/thanks/best/etc {your name}”

ASSIGNMENT 2: TWO COMPOSITION

Come up with an illustration around the theme "transformation."

Pick two of the six formats listed below and make two variations on the same idea. Do not make two different illustrations—you can rearrange elements and adjust style, but it has to be the exact same concept, reinterpreted three times using only composition as your tool.

The pieces should be executed in black & white with no grays, half-tones or washes, focusing on composition and design.

Pick two formats out of these:

  1. square 2x2"
  2. round 3x3"
  3. vertical 2x6"