Homework Assignment #7: Imaginary Worlds
Pick a place you know very well, and create a poster that reimagines that place as the scene of a horror, science fiction, or fantasy story.
Your poster must be a minimum of 11 x 14 inches. You can work in portrait or landscape orientation.
Make sure it is a standard print size. Examples: 11x17, 12x16, 18x24, 24x36.
You’ll be working in full-bleed. Be sure to include an extra 1/4-inch all the way around your piece.
You can work in any medium, including digital.
Due Nov. 25
1. Thumbnails showing your thought process
2. A sketch of your final illustration. Your composition should show that you are thinking about foreground, middle ground, and background.
Due Dec. 2
1. A tightly rendered, full-sized drawing of your final illustration. All of your line work should be close to final. For example, if your final illustration will have inked lines, then I want to see the inked lines at this point.
2. Thumbnails that show how you’ve tested the values of your final illustration by applying different combinations of grayscale shading
Due Dec. 9
1. Your final illustration, at full size and in color
2. All sketchbook homework
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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
The focal point of your illustration must be a man-made space. By “man-made space” I mean a space built by humans and inhabited by humans. Examples: your bedroom, a boat, a bus, a tree house, a car, a bunker, a tower, a library, a tunnel, a playground …
Your scene can take place indoors or outdoors. Meaning, you can show the exterior or the interior of your chosen space.
You will change the context of your relationship to this space by placing it into one of the following genres: horror, science fiction, or fantasy. You can reimagine the space any way you like to fit your genre, and the story you’re telling. For instance, your illustration can be set in the future, it can be blasted apart by a bomb, it can filled with toxic slime, it can be overgrown with magical vines. Think of your illustration as an establishing shot that introduces viewers to this imaginary world. The details and atmosphere of your illustration must support your chosen genre.
NO PEOPLE OR SAPIENT CREATURES may be included in your illustration. A sapient creature is a creature with the ability to think and reason. I don’t want to see creatures/animals/monsters behaving like humans, or dressed like humans.
If you choose science fiction, I don’t want to see an illustration overrun with spaceship explosions and the surface of Mars. Let the man-made space you chose be the inspiration for the rest of your image. The entire environment should make sense together.
Author Ursula Le Guin said that “many science fiction stories are about worlds that don’t exist, but could exist in the future. … Fantasy, on the other hand, tells a story that couldn’t possibly be true.”
**UPDATE**
If you have an idea for an illustration that is not inspired by a place you know in real life, that's ok. The prompt of using a real place as your inspiration was designed to help you start thinking. It's often easier to start with the idea of something familiar than to start with a blank piece of paper. But as long as you fulfill ALL of the other requirements of the assignment, I don't care what your inspiration is.)
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QUESTIONS TO START WITH
1. What is the inspiration for your scene?
2. Have you been there?
3. What did you do when you were there?
4. When you imagine being there, what are the first details you think of?
5. What genre will you be working with?
6. What is the story behind this alternate reality?
a. Since there are no people in your scene, where are they right now?
b. Is this place in use, cared for? Or abandoned/overgrown/wild?
c. Is it part of a thriving community?
d. Did something just happen here? Is something about to happen?
7. What feeling do you want the viewer to have?
Your poster must be a minimum of 11 x 14 inches. You can work in portrait or landscape orientation.
Make sure it is a standard print size. Examples: 11x17, 12x16, 18x24, 24x36.
You’ll be working in full-bleed. Be sure to include an extra 1/4-inch all the way around your piece.
You can work in any medium, including digital.
Due Nov. 25
1. Thumbnails showing your thought process
2. A sketch of your final illustration. Your composition should show that you are thinking about foreground, middle ground, and background.
Due Dec. 2
1. A tightly rendered, full-sized drawing of your final illustration. All of your line work should be close to final. For example, if your final illustration will have inked lines, then I want to see the inked lines at this point.
2. Thumbnails that show how you’ve tested the values of your final illustration by applying different combinations of grayscale shading
Due Dec. 9
1. Your final illustration, at full size and in color
2. All sketchbook homework
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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
The focal point of your illustration must be a man-made space. By “man-made space” I mean a space built by humans and inhabited by humans. Examples: your bedroom, a boat, a bus, a tree house, a car, a bunker, a tower, a library, a tunnel, a playground …
Your scene can take place indoors or outdoors. Meaning, you can show the exterior or the interior of your chosen space.
You will change the context of your relationship to this space by placing it into one of the following genres: horror, science fiction, or fantasy. You can reimagine the space any way you like to fit your genre, and the story you’re telling. For instance, your illustration can be set in the future, it can be blasted apart by a bomb, it can filled with toxic slime, it can be overgrown with magical vines. Think of your illustration as an establishing shot that introduces viewers to this imaginary world. The details and atmosphere of your illustration must support your chosen genre.
NO PEOPLE OR SAPIENT CREATURES may be included in your illustration. A sapient creature is a creature with the ability to think and reason. I don’t want to see creatures/animals/monsters behaving like humans, or dressed like humans.
If you choose science fiction, I don’t want to see an illustration overrun with spaceship explosions and the surface of Mars. Let the man-made space you chose be the inspiration for the rest of your image. The entire environment should make sense together.
Author Ursula Le Guin said that “many science fiction stories are about worlds that don’t exist, but could exist in the future. … Fantasy, on the other hand, tells a story that couldn’t possibly be true.”
**UPDATE**
If you have an idea for an illustration that is not inspired by a place you know in real life, that's ok. The prompt of using a real place as your inspiration was designed to help you start thinking. It's often easier to start with the idea of something familiar than to start with a blank piece of paper. But as long as you fulfill ALL of the other requirements of the assignment, I don't care what your inspiration is.)
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QUESTIONS TO START WITH
1. What is the inspiration for your scene?
2. Have you been there?
3. What did you do when you were there?
4. When you imagine being there, what are the first details you think of?
5. What genre will you be working with?
6. What is the story behind this alternate reality?
a. Since there are no people in your scene, where are they right now?
b. Is this place in use, cared for? Or abandoned/overgrown/wild?
c. Is it part of a thriving community?
d. Did something just happen here? Is something about to happen?
7. What feeling do you want the viewer to have?
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