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Love In A Bleak Climate: A Tale Of Desolation In The Deserts Of New Mexico, Remy Rogers, Han Dai-Yu Dec 2020

Love In A Bleak Climate: A Tale Of Desolation In The Deserts Of New Mexico, Remy Rogers, Han Dai-Yu

Honors Thesis

As an illustration major and English minor, my thesis melds the two mediums of the written word and visual imagery. One half of this thesis is a short story I’ve written about an old woman and her dog who become stranded in the deserts of New Mexico while on a camping trip following a coyote attack. Using the classic format of book illustrations, I chose 10 scenes from my story to interpret, decorate, and visually explain through the medium of traditional illustration: hand-drawn ink and watercolor drawings. A quote from each scene is included in the illustration itself. The purpose …


Grace Hughes: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Grace Erin Hughes Oct 2020

Grace Hughes: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Grace Erin Hughes

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

  • Mixed-media digital collage
  • 18 inches wide, 24 inches high


Tash Nelson: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic, Tash Nelson Oct 2020

Tash Nelson: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic, Tash Nelson

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

  • Illustration, Digital Collage
  • 18 inches wide, 24 inches high


Introduction To Illustration, Nathan P. Sensel Oct 2020

Introduction To Illustration, Nathan P. Sensel

Open Educational Resources

Illustration is a visual interpretation of the world around us and is meant to communicate ideas in a clear and creative manner. The illustrator uses many different tools to convey their perspective, including painting and drawing, photography, digital media, printmaking and more.

This course is an introduction to the analog, non-digital, handmade 2-dimensional techniques and materials that illustrators use and the messages they are attempting to convey. Throughout the course, you will be asked to describe and analyze different techniques and apply them to your own work. As with any other skill, warming up, exercising and practicing are essential components …


Creativity In Illustration, Jessica Lu May 2020

Creativity In Illustration, Jessica Lu

Introduction to Studies in Creativity

Creativity in Illustration


What Is Creativity In Illustration?, Miranda Vanderkooy May 2020

What Is Creativity In Illustration?, Miranda Vanderkooy

Introduction to Studies in Creativity

Creativity in Illustration


Character Development And Refiguration Of Narrative, Vladan Djordjevic May 2020

Character Development And Refiguration Of Narrative, Vladan Djordjevic

MSU Graduate Theses

Character development is the process of creating believable fictional characters by giving them depth and compelling visual characteristics, which reveal a narrative framework behind formal solutions. Character development is the creation of effective communication. It gives essential information about character progression and the thought process behind a character’s evolution over time in the practice of visual development. This approach is a procedure of creating visual forms that convey clear messages, very often intangible ones. Their meaning is constructed through the use of different iconographic and narrative structures that, when presented within the same context, give thought-provoking and unusual formal solutions. …


Noah’S Ark And Burning Sodom: Woodcuts In The Psu Codex Fasciculus Temporum, Amber L. Shrewsbury Jan 2020

Noah’S Ark And Burning Sodom: Woodcuts In The Psu Codex Fasciculus Temporum, Amber L. Shrewsbury

Fasciculus Temporum

Early printed books were illustrated by means of woodcut block illustrations. These illustrations frequently depicted well-known biblical events or stories and cities, and the woodcuts were frequently reused, sometimes within the same edition.

The focus of this paper is two woodcut illustrations in PSU’s 1490 edition of Werner Rolewinck’s Fasciculus temporum: Noah’s Ark and the destruction of Sodom. Comparisons are made between these two illustrations and relevant woodcuts in other editions of the Fasciculus temporum, as well as those found in a 1493 edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel.


Inventory Of Acqusitions For The Ruth E. Engle Memorial Collection Of Children's Book Illustration, 2020, Murray Library Jan 2020

Inventory Of Acqusitions For The Ruth E. Engle Memorial Collection Of Children's Book Illustration, 2020, Murray Library

Friends of Murray Library

A complete list of illustrators represented in the Ruth E. Engle Memorial Collection of Children's Book Illustration, as of 2020.

Dedicated in April 2004, this collection of original picture-book art by award-winning illustrators was established with gifts given to Friends of Murray Library in memory of Ruth Engle, a charter member who also served on its board. New artworks are added to the collection annually, funded by Friends and gifts from donors. Currently, more than two dozen artworks are on display, reflecting a variety of media, styles and subjects and including works by illustrators from Australia, China, England, Korea, …


Noah Fidlin Senior Art Portfolio, Noah J. Fidlin Jan 2020

Noah Fidlin Senior Art Portfolio, Noah J. Fidlin

Senior Art Portfolios

An art, photography and design magazine that combines analog and digital media.


Maddie Lebrun- Senior Art Portfolio, Madeline Lebrun Jan 2020

Maddie Lebrun- Senior Art Portfolio, Madeline Lebrun

Senior Art Portfolios

A pair of hand-painted alphabets, compiled into an illustrated book to promote sustainability and environmental stewardship.


Bridget Van Beckum, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Bridget Van Beckum Jan 2020

Bridget Van Beckum, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Bridget Van Beckum

Senior Art Portfolios

Portfolio created for the 2020 Senior Art Exhibition as part of the requirements for ART 499. The work includes several repeating patterns made with watercolor and colored pencil.


Tu Amoris Ignem, Casey Murano Jan 2020

Tu Amoris Ignem, Casey Murano

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Light In The Dark, Nichole Schiff Jan 2020

Light In The Dark, Nichole Schiff

The Messenger

Cover illustration for the Spring 2020 issue of The Messenger.


Lost In Time And Space, Nichole Schiff Jan 2020

Lost In Time And Space, Nichole Schiff

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Over The Aesop, Ripp Harrison Jan 2020

Over The Aesop, Ripp Harrison

Master's Theses

Fairy tales and nursery rhymes hold a certain amount of nostalgia. As part of our childhood, these familiar characters are often left behind while we grow and mature. Their stories are frozen in time and shown to the next generation in the same way they were introduced to us. True characters evolve over time, this is how they stay relevant to changing times. These well rounded characters are what make the art of storytelling exciting. It is important to me to be able to intertwine the traditional characters with a more modern appearance.

For this body of work my goal …


The Sunday Night Black & White 4, Sunday Night Bombers Jan 2020

The Sunday Night Black & White 4, Sunday Night Bombers

The Sunday Night Bombers

A zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.


Draw Down Books, Draw Down Books, Kathleen Sleboda, Christopher Sleboda, Zak Jensen, Nejc Prah, Daniel Eatock, Maziyar Pahlevan, Benoit Bodhuin, Bráulio Amado, Jost Hochuli, Ian Lynam Jan 2020

Draw Down Books, Draw Down Books, Kathleen Sleboda, Christopher Sleboda, Zak Jensen, Nejc Prah, Daniel Eatock, Maziyar Pahlevan, Benoit Bodhuin, Bráulio Amado, Jost Hochuli, Ian Lynam

UNBOUND 2020 Archive

Draw Down Books exhibitors. Draw Down is an independent publisher located in the northeastern corner of the United States. Created in 2012, Draw Down publishes small books about graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, art, and architecture.