Editorial Illustration

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Type-Base Illustration

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Type-Base Illustration Project Statement

The Project Statement

1. Background

This is a type-based illustration of Ricky Gervais.  Ricky Gervais is the co-creator of the Office television show franchise.  He wrote and stared in the original UK series.  He has created and stared in other TV shows as well as acted in movies.  Ricky is also a stand up comedian.  He is well known for his award winning podcast where he and his creative partner Steven Merchant discuss topics with their odd friend Karl Pilkington.

Ricky hosted the Golden Globe awards for the third time in January of 2012.  He is known for making fun of the celebrities with no regard for their feelings or egos. This illustration will accompany advertising for the event.

2. Target Audiences

The target audience is Ricky Gervais fans, and awards show watchers.

3. Objectives

The objective is to get people excited to watch Ricky Gervais host the Golden Globes.  Bring attention to the fact that Gervais is hosting the Golden Globes.  Let the audience know when to watch the Golden Globes.

4. Obstacles

One obstacle is the question: Will the audience see the connection between the illustration and the event?  Will they get that it is a play on the Grammy Awards.

5. Key Benefit

A key benefit is a larger audience for the Golden Globes. 

6. Support Statements/ Reasons Why

Ricky Gervais mocks the celebrities when he hosts the Golden Globes.  The Grammy’s already created type based illustrations for their awards show.  This illustration will be a stab at awards shows as flamboyant just as Ricky stabs at celebrities as a host.

7. Tone

Quirky. Cheeky. Endearing.

8. Media

Print: magazines, posters.  Web: banners, Golden Globe site.

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from Ricky Gervais' website: www.rickygervais.com

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Editorial Illustration Project Statement

The Project Statement

1. Background

The Military has recently received a backlash from the incident of the Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.  Some of the public was outraged and some were supportive.  But the majority felt it was too far past the line of dignity.  The author writes about an interview he had with a Vietnam Veteran.  He does not condone what the Marines did, but holds no judgment. He explains how those who go to war experience things normal people do not have to and it changes a person.  

2. Target Audiences

There are two separate audiences for this article: Military personnel and nonmilitary personnel.  Military are a secondary audience as they already understand what the author is explaining.  They are an audience who will read it to appreciate it.  The primary audience is those who have judged the Marines who urinated on the Taliban corpses.

3. Objectives

The audience should feel darkness and madness when looking at the illustration.  They should understand what the article is saying about how war creates a madness in a person.  It changes a person.  They should understand how a normal rational person in a civilian setting would never dream of doing such atrocities that have been committed by Soldiers against their enemies.  And how a normal rational person does not exist after going through war.  They will feel the emotional darkness from the image and they will develop empathy for the Military.

4. Obstacles

Civilians who have not been to war, cannot understand the pressure or the conditions of war.  They can only understand how a rational person in a peaceful setting should act.  An obstacle is those who are not able to empathize with the Military.  Obstacles are those who are not open to the idea of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

5. Key Benefit

The audience can have a better piece of mind.  When crazy, undignified things happen, people can become hopeless about the future.  People want explanations for things.  This article and image can give a little insight to the mind of a warrior.

6. Support Statements/ Reasons Why

Ignorance is not always bliss.  Ignorance can set boundaries, stereotypes and judgment.  By having a little more insight into the mind of a Soldier, the reader can break down the walls and step away from judgment.

7. Tone

The tone should be dark, somber, maddening.

8.  Media

This is an editorial in the newspaper, online and print.

9.  Creative Considerations none

Editorial Thumbnails try 2

 1) Uniform hanging on door. 2) person on a park bench, war on left, nice park on right. 3) Soldier huddled on bed, monster hands coming out from under. 4) Uniform compared to civilian clothes. 5) Scale, video game controller on left, M16 Rifle on right. 6) Soldier, with monster behind

Top left is based by Goya's Sleep of Reason painting.  Substituting the man for a Soldier and the owls for bats. Top right: eyes looking out of darkness, M16 and helmet on the ground. Bottom right: Soldiers running away from bats. Bottom left: simple dog tags.

 Goya, Sleep of Reason

1) Simple Purple Heart. 2) Soldier sleeping on the ground with weapon, monsters and bats approaching from behind.  3) Person sleeping, dreaming of himself sleeping on the battlefield. 4) Soldier sleeping by a tree, bees on their way toward Soldier.

Below is a reverse just to see what it would look like with a black background.

Editorials: take 2

1) Same-sex Couples Strengthen Family Values
2) The Degradation and Madness of War
3) Education Reforms

I'll be going with #2.

Thumbnails: Editorial

I decided to go with the Italian Cruise Ship that ran aground for my illustration.

From top left to bottom right (1-6).  1) People reaching their arms out to each other from life boats. 2) People with blankets over them, huddled together.  3) A dark hallway with hazard lights. 4) The side of the ship with a life boat hanging off of it. 5) Orange life vests floating in the ocean. 6) Rescue boat with passengers and smoke coming from the top left of the frame.

From top left to bottom right (7-12). 7) Close up view of a map of where the ship was supposed to go. 8) An auditorium of people and a stage with the curtains horizontal.  9) A hallway of the boat on it's side with water at the bottom.  10) Map of Italy with dots on the places it was to go. 11) A helicopter with a ladder and the sea below. 12) A parent holding a baby.  Possibly a parent holding out the baby to give to another person.

Stephen Campbell, Illustrator

Autumn Whitehurst, Illustrator

Alex Mathers, Illustrator

30 tips for Illustrators and Designers
For example: Tip 7

“Create seminal pieces that tell the world about what you love, where you draw inspiration from, and where your enthusiasm peaks. This could attract a dream client or collaborators you share a common bond with. I love nature, so I create pieces to attract clients needing something nature-themed, to work together promoting, recreating, or enthusing over nature.”

Ben O’Brien, illustrator and creator of the Speakerdog line of paper toys

Editorial 3: Italian Cruise ship run aground.

Editorial 2: Ricky Gervais

Editorial 1: Killer's Kin from Mayflower