Guest Lecturers - Ashley Potter

Influenced by his dad's job in TV/animation, cutting edge of the day.

Fred Quimby's Tom and Jerry, Airbrushing of Mike English,

Philip Castle (reducing scales), Seymour Chwast, Tomi Ungerer,

Ronald Searle, Saul Steinberg, Claes Oldenberg, Wayne Thiebauld (patterns),

Edward Burra, Mary Blair, Reginald March, Edward Hopper, George grosz, Jack McFayden

Educated at St Martins

Started off drawing muscular men using airbrush and bamboo pen, practised drawing hand whilst working at eye hospital

Worked on book jackets, Tatler Magazine

Did lots of experimenting, worked in animation, painting directly onto people

Uses multiple names for different styles

Canterbury Tales

Care Poster

Guest Lecturers- Viviane Schwarz

Uses Traditional Brush and Paint or Digital depending on space

Character Design using collaged shapes

Puts characters and fit them into shapes to make them more dynamic  

 There are cats in this book and there are cats in this books

Uses a dummy book in design process, and constantly edits the text and working with the art director before book is ready to print

Worked with Alexis Deacon

Advice:

Be able to draw children (if your interested in children's books) as thats your target audience

Take a sketchbook to meetings

Find publisher you like

Find Joy in your work

Get out the house at least once a day

Guest Lecturers - Nick Harrop

First worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, by animating shadows, removing miscellaneous objects. All by hand (before computers were properly used in animation)

worked as an "inbetweener" for animations ( filling in the middle part of animation)

Travelled and worked in Australia with Disney Australia and other companies

Had lot of work from Switzerland

Went to Vancouver for a while and when he came back to UK everything had gone digital

Had to learn new skills on the job 

Worked on Wembley Park (26 episodes, 2 minutes per episode)

Moved to Cornwall, worked for spider-eye company, did several pilots for Jungle Junction which Disney have commissioned 40 episodes for. 

Next working on the Little Princess animation

Guest Lecturers - Georgina Hounsome

Signed up by Eye Candy after university for editorial illustrations

enjoyed having unusual compositions

drawn elements photoshopped together because it is easier to change parts for the client, as there isn't time to redo the whole piece for editorial pieces

After five years of one style she decided to do an MA to help develop styles further 

Does commercial work as day job and authorial/experimental as evening hobby

Did some collaborative projects too

Keen on Sketchbooks, collecting old books reference

Advice:
Be adaptable but try to remain true to your work/style
Use a sketchbook
Mind map
Get a blog
Get inspired
Capture atmosphere, don't reiteriate it

Guest Lecturers - A.Richard.Allen

Primarily Editorial Illustrator

Worked for Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Greenpeace, BBC, Nokia (to name but a few)

Did Fine art degree took an admin job but decided to go back into eduction for an MA, but took a while to fine self after finishing BA

AOI gold medal for Editorial

  

Twelve Drummers - Open Brief for the Guardian for the series Tweleve days of Christmas

 Plan Sponsor - Tiny Pension Returns 

 Did not want to be stereotyped so did some self promotional work without strong lines, although his clients wanted his strong line style he was gradually able to throw in some different styles.

Folio Society - Brat Farrar (block print and foil on cloth)

Picture Books Illustration