MARY KATE MCDEVITT
"For aspiring illustrators, students, or anyone who loves to draw, this workbook helps to build up drawing skills, confidence, and an attention-grabbing portfolio...[Includes] 12 step-by-step assignments to illustrate commercially compelling products--like a greeting card, product packaging, a magazine editorial, and more"--Amazon.com.
This hands-on workbook helps aspiring illustrators and anyone who loves to draw build up their drawing skills, confidence, and portfolio all at once. Illustrator extraordinaire Mary Kate McDevitt brings her years of industry expertise to guidance on all the basics of illustration-including tools and materials, how to develop an illustration from concept to final, finding a personal style-and exercises as practical as they are fun. She offers warm-ups to get loose, practice drills that strengthen through repetition, challenges for getting out of the comfort zone, and 12 real-world illustration assignments that make for a commercially-compelling portfolio - like a greeting card, a book cover, product packaging, a magazine editorial, and more - all with tons of encouragement and inspiring prompts through every step of the process.
