We had to put our functions of illustration pieces into context. Therefore for my informative piece on Dr. Dobell’s magnificent hair restorer I decided to create a label and simulate what a bottle of hair restorer may have looked like.
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Master?
This is my comment-able illustration. Commenting on the woman’s role in the home during the late victorian/ early edwardian eras.
My inspiration came from photographs and postcards from these eras which I have been collecting over the past year. The quote at the bottom is from the ‘The good wife’s guide’.
During this last year I have been developing my skills in photoshop. Therefore I decided to combine my traditional drawing skills with my new digital ones.
A good wife’s guide to making a house a home
This is my decorative piece for the functions of illustration unit. It is a book cover for a house wives book of knowledge. My inspiration came from a book I bought for this project called ‘Household Wrinkles’ which has cures and suggestions for everything from weak ankles to baldness.
The cover is fabric and I printed the design on with an etching plate I made out of zinc. Another love of mine is old book covers. I have made quite a few books this year now so I decided to use my skills and created a good wife’s guide.
Etching is another skill I have learned whilst at university and it is becoming one of my favorite techniques to display my work.
Again I used my collection of old photographs as reference.
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For my current project at university we could research into anything we wanted as long as we produced an informative, decorative and comment-able illustration.
This is my informative piece. I created this label to inform the reader on how to use the lotion. The inspiration came from my book called ‘Household Wrinkles’ by Mrs De Salis which I bought for the project. It contained a number of remedies for curing hair loss.
I have been collecting photographs from the late victorian/ early edwardian eras over the past year and therefore thought it was time to use them. I selected a few to use as my reference material for this unit.
