Briefed editorial Illustration for bird.

Following a visit from a graduated student from Hereford College of Arts and a successful illustrator, Nicholas Stevenson, we were asked to create an illustration from a brief he gave us.

The brief was to create an editorial illustration for the assigned article he had given us (the red-billed fire finch flying away with the feeling of a human's unhappiness.) The proportions were limited making it challenging for us to work with, it was important to keep to these proportions to make it work on the page.

He wanted us to use a limited colour palette, so the main focus would be on the shape rather than the colour. My inspiration to use typography came from Jonny Hannah, he curves his words around the objects or thing he's illustrating, I decided to take that idea further and have the words shape the bird. I also like how he mostly uses a calligraphy font and thought i should stay with this theme of typography.


These are the ideas I came up, I decided to keep the typography theme, but also tried other mixed media such as acrylic, watercolour and fine liner.


My first idea was to have birds flying away from hands, the birds symbolising negativity (with the words shown) and the hands showing the negativity itself, hence why I used cold colours. To still get the feeling of it being cold. 

After a group discussion and some feedback from my tutor, I decided that this piece is too busy and needed to be simplified. The layout also filled the entire page, with this the illustration itself didn't fit the brief because the proportions were too big.


I decided to simplify my piece by using only one bird, although my first idea didn't work I liked the words used, (not so much the font) so I decided to keep the same words, used a calligraphy font with my own typography. I experimented with using different colours paper and inks, my final piece came out in colour but decided I could make it more professional by limiting the colour palette. After experimenting this final result was the piece shown underneath.

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