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Lewis Boughen

Lewis Boughen

Welcome to my site

  • Key Steps In Illustration
    • Assignments
      • Assignment 1
        • Assignment 1: Say hello
      • Assignment 2
        • Assignment 2: Point of sale display
      • Assignment 3
        • Assignment 3: A Poster
      • Assignment 4
        • Assignment 4: Magazine Illustration
      • Assignment 5
        • Assignment 5: Seven Days
    • Coursework
      • Part 1
        • Exercise 1: The History of Illustration
          • Edward Ardizzonne
            • Edward Ardizzone: Analysis of his water colour style
            • Edward Ardizzone: Exploring the hatching technique
            • Edward Ardizzone
            • Edward Ardizzone: Final Piece
          • Drew Struzan
            • Drew Struzan: Understanding his techniques and style
            • Drew Struzan: A more detailed approach
            • Drew Struzan: Final Piece
            • Drew Struzan
        • Exercise 2: Getting the Gist
          • Simian rescue robot
      • Part 2
        • Exercise 1: Writing a brief
        • Exercise 2: Spider Diagrams
        • Exercise 3: Turning Words into Pictures
        • Exercise 4: Making a moodboard
        • Exercise 5: Using Reference
        • Exercise 6: Mark Making
        • Exercise 7: Exploring Drawing & Painting
        • Exercise 8: Creative thinking and problem solving
          • Brief 1: Good Food Magazine
          • Brief 2: Radio Times Article
        • Exercise 9: An Objective Drawing
        • Exercise 10: A Subjective Drawing
        • Exercise 11: Using Black & White
        • Exercise 12: Choosing Content
        • Exercise 13: Visual Metaphors
      • Part 3
        • Exercise 1: Illustrating visual space
        • Exercise 2: Reading an image
        • Exercise 3: Image Development
        • Exercise 4: Abstract illustration
        • Exercise 5: Giving Instructions
        • Exercise 6: Viewpoint
        • Exercise 7: Client Visuals
        • Exercise 8: Making a Mock Up
      • Part 4
        • Exercise 1: Identifying tools and materials
        • Exercise 2: Museum Posters
        • Exercise 3: A Children’s Book Cover
        • Exercise 4: A Menu Card
        • Exercise 5: A Tattoo
        • Exercise 6: Visual Distortion
        • Exercise 7: Character Development
      • Part 5
        • Exercise 1: Your Own Work
        • Exercise 2: Editorial Illustration
        • Exercise 3: Travel Guides
        • Exercise 4: Text & Image
        • Exercise 5: Packaging
        • Exercise 6: Working for Children
        • Exercise 7: Educational Strip
  • Drawing-1: Drawing Skills
    • Part One: Form & Gesture
      • Exercise 1: Temporary Drawings
      • Project 1: Feeling & Expression
        • Exercise 1: Experimenting with expressive lines and marks
        • Exercise 2: Experimenting with texture
      • Assignment 1
      • Project 2: Basic Shapes & Fundamental Form
        • Exercise 1: Groups of objects
        • Exercise 2: Observing shadow and using blocks of tone
        • Exercise 3: creating shadow using lines and marks
        • Exercise 4: Shadows and reflected light
    • Part Two: Intimacy
      • Project 1: composition
        • composition notes
        • Exercise 1: Detail & Tone
      • Project 2: Detailed observation of natural objects
      • Project 3: Still life
        • Exercise 1: Still life using line
        • Exercise 2: Observing shadow and using blocks of tone
        • Exercise 3: creating shadow using lines and marks
        • Assignment 1
        • Exercise 2: Composition – an interior
        • Exercise 3: Material Differences
    • Part three : Expanse
      • Project 1: Trees
        • Exercise 1: Sketching individual trees
        • Exercise 2: Larger observational study of an individual tree
        • Exercise 3: Study of several trees
      • Project 2: Landscapes
        • Research point: Landscapes
        • Exercise 1: Cloud formation and tone
        • Exercise 2: Sketchbook walk
        • Exercise 3: 360° studies
      • Project 3 Composition
        • Exercise 1: Developing your studies
        • Exercise 2: Foreground, middle ground, background
      • Project 4 Perspective
        • Exercise 1: Parallel perspective – an interior view
        • Exercise 2: Angular perspective
        • Exercise 3: Aerial or atmospheric perspective
      • Project 5 Townscapes
        • Exercise 1: Sketchbook of townscape drawings
        • Exercise 2: Study of a townscape using line
        • Exercise 3: A limited palette study
        • Exercise 4: Statues
        • Assignment three
    • Part Four The figure and the head
      • Project 1: Fabric and Form
        • Exercise 1: Drawing fabric using line and tone
        • Exercise 2: Emphasising form with cloth
        • Research point: The changing nude
      • Project 2: Proportion
        • Exercise 1: Quick studies
        • Exercise 2: A longer study
      • Project 3: Form
        • Exercise 1: Basic shapes
        • Exercise 2: Essential Elements
        • Exercise 3: Stance
        • Exercise 4: Energy
      • Project 4: Structure
        • Exercise 1: The structure of the human body
        • Exercise 2: Three figure drawings
        • Research point: The underlying structure of the body
      • Project 5: The moving figure
        • Exercise 1: Single moving figure
        • Exercise 2: Groups of figures
      • Project 6: The Head
        • Exercise 1: Facial features
        • Research Point: About face
        • Exercise 2: Your own head
        • Exercise 3: Portrait from the memory or Imagination.
        • Research point: Self portraits
        • Assignment 4
    • Part five: Personal project & written element
      • Assignment five
  • Graphic Design 1: Core concepts
    • Part One: Getting started
      • Exercise: Picture charades
      • Assignment 1
    • Part Two: Problem Solving
      • Project Working to a Brief
        • Exercise: Working to a brief
      • Project Researching and developing ideas
        • Research Point : Collected Items
        • Exercise: Book cover design
      • Project Visualising your ideas
        • Exercise: Visualising your ideas
      • Project Critiquing your work
        • Research point: How do you approach being self-critical?
        • Exercise: Too much or not enough information
      • Project Finishing your artwork
        • Research point: Software
        • Exercise: Point of sale display
      • Assignment 2
    • Part Three: Visual Language
      • Research point
      • Exercise: A visual diary
      • Exercise: Signs and symbols
      • Exercise: Seeing the light
      • Project: Understanding colour
        • Exercise: Understanding colour
      • Project working with colour
        • Exercise: Abstract cities
      • Project Photomontage and collage
        • Exercise: Photomontage
      • Assignment Three: Colour Me
    • Part Four: Typography
      • Research Point: comic book lettering
      • Project The visual word
        • exercise: playing with words
        • Research point: Magazine typography study
      • Project The anatomy of a typeface
        • Exercise: A typographic jigsaw puzzle
        • Research point: Vernacular typography
      • Project Different typefaces
        • Exercise: If the face fits
      • Project Typesetting
        • Research Point: collecting type
        • Exercise: Lorum Ipsum
      • Project Hierarchy
        • Exercise: Hierarchy
        • Assignment 4 Show Me
    • Part Five Layout
      • Project Magazines & books
        • Exercise: Magazine Pages
        • Research Point : Publishing house & book series styles
        • Exercise:Judging a book by its cover
      • Project Information Graphics
        • Exercise: Giving Information
        • Exercise: Birthday list
      • Project Publicity & Marketing
        • Research Point: Movie Posters
        • Exercise: Poster & Flyer
      • Project Branding
        • Research Point: Logos
        • Exercise: Chance Housing Association
        • Exercise: The French Hen
      • Assignment 5
        • Assignment Five
  • Research & Reflection
    • Exhibitions & Books
    • Notes
  • Illustration 2
    • Responding to a brief
      • Exercise: Draw, draw and draw again
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