Assignment 3: Project 3: Concept Sketches

By Week 4, Day 4, select your best five or six concepts, scan them in, and post them to the Discussion Area so that your classmates can view them.

Now is the time to begin generating concepts for this project. The project is to create an illustration with appropriate copy, suitable for use as a poster to announce a special event of your choice, such as a music festival, carnival, parade, etc. The design should be primarily based upon visual imagery, not type. Siince this is a course based upon the use of traditional media, the illustration is of primary importance, as well as the tagline and concept.You may use your own method of approach for this stage or try some of the suggestions given. Keep in mind that the copy will be superimposed over the acrylic illustration. No digital backgrounds are acceptable, so plan your design accordingly.

Once you have collected several ideas, make small sketches for each (pencil is fine) with the intended copy printed beneath each one. Please indicate within the layout where you plan to place the copy. You can do this using double lines or pencil in the text. Prepare your sketches for professional presentation by formatting them with a black line around each one and space in between them so that they are not run together. Be sure to write your name on each sheet as well.