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Basics Illustration: Thinking Visually

Basics Illustration: Thinking Visually
By Mark Wigan

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Features the work of more than one hundred international illustrators, educators and students demonstrating diverse visual languages, contexts, ideas, techniques and skills. Introduces fundamental techniques to inspire, inform and act as a useful resource. Explores the importance of ideas, research, drawing and experimentation and is an educational tool featuring short exercises, methods, workshops, techniques, media and a range of historical and contemporary contexts.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #94237 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-11-20
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 176 pages

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About the Author
Artist, illustrator and academic Mark ‘Wigan’ Williams graduated from Hull College of Art specialising in film. Mark is an initiator and chronicler of urban art and club culture. His projects included nightclub promotion e.g. The Brain Club and Loveranch, illustration and photography for iD magazine, his own Total Art merchandise shops in Japan, animation and cd design, mural and live painting, gallery exhibitions including Parco Gallery and Spiral Hall (Tokyo) and Circulo des Bellas Artes (Madrid). He is currently subject leader of BA (Hons) illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, London.

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A useful but not amazing sourcebook3
This is a stimulating source book containing a lot of interesting visual material and a handful of quite stunning images. The text is not particularly informative and I'm guessing is aimed at beginning students, aiming to teach them some big new words for quite straightfoward things. Much of the text is in the form of lists which, apart from those giving the names of interesting artists to follow up, are not terribly informative. The book has not taught me how to do anything new or triggered any great flashes of insight or inspiration. However, it did point me towards the work of George Grosz, who has become my new current favourite 20th Century artist. I can imagine that I will browse the images in this this book again from time to time. Useful but not amazing.