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Starting Your Ink and Watercolor Illustration Planning 

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Starting Your Ink and Watercolor Illustration Planning 

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For some students, deciding on an idea can be the starting point of something spectacular–they find a topic that they are passionate about, they begin creating immediately, and they develop the concept or story part of their artwork almost effortlessly. For others, however, making a final decision brings their work to a screeching halt. They cannot find enough angles or approaches to the topic that interest them, they struggle to engage, and procrastination becomes worse than ever. For those students, this list can be used to start the preliminary process of creative thought, conceptual development, and brainstorming. It is never too early to begin the process of its development.

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This is a good place to get you started.  Select a theme that interests you from below:

Interactions

1. Cliques and Social Groups

2. Accidents or Chance Encounters

3. People’s Interaction with Music

4. A Family Through Any Number of Years

5. Encountering a New Person, Place, or Experience

6. The Clash of Two Enemies

7. How We Avoid Encounters We Do Not Want

8. How People Meet, Talk, and Act Online

9. A Party (Kid’s Birthday, Retirement, Weekend House Party, etc.)

10. When Different Cultures Come Into Contact

11. Between Human and Animal

Technical Concerns

1. Light and Shadow

2. Reflections on a Variety of Surfaces

3. Folds and Fabrics with Pattern

4. Creating Depth through Use of Line

5. Illustrating one scene or part of a well known folktale.

6. Hands at Work.

7. A landscape in a specific region or season.

8. Objects in Motion.

9. Positive and Negative Space

10. Closeups that Show Texture

11. Water and Refraction

Combinations and Juxtapositions

1. Plants and Organic Material with Buildings

2. Transportation Through Natural Areas

3. Urban v. Rural Life

4. Technology with Old/Antique/Vintage Items

5. Size Distortions that Equalize or Enhance Everyday Objects

6. Indigenous People in Modern Life

7. Uniting Against an Enemy

8. Twins and Their Lives

9. Animals and the Food They Become

10. Instruments and People Playing Them

11. Personal objects (belonging to one person) placed in a still life.

Society and Human Interaction

1. Society’s Greatest Advances Come at What Cost?

2. Costumes and Clothing from Different Parts of the World

3. Settings and Costumes from Various Time Periods

4. Consumers and Consuming

5. Dichotomy Between Rich and Poor

6. Avoiding Bad Choices

7. Beauty in an Impoverished Environment

8. Lifestyles of the Homeless

9. Social Issues

10. Work Based on Crime

11. Document Your Community

Environment and Human Effects

1. Using Nature as a Basis for Design

2. Architecture and its Surrounding Environment

3. Landscapes Over the Course of Multiple Years

4. Fences and the Divisions they Create

5. Site Specific Artworks

6. Nature Taking Over a Decrepit City or Abandoned Buildings

7. Impermanence/Ephemerality

8. How Can a Solitary Figure Alter an Environment?

9. The Destruction of Natural Disasters

10. Flowers as a Representation of Human Emotion

11. Development Encroaching on Habitats

Journeys

1. The Journey of an Animal (Salmon Swimming Upstream, Birds Flying South, etc.)

2. The Slow Disintegration of an Object or Group of Objects

3. From Young to Old

4. Through the Seasons of the Year

5. The Evolution of an Illness

6. Metamorphosis

7. Working Through Fears, Pain, or Illness

8. Life Cycles

9. Time Travel

10. The Life of an Athlete, Musician on Tour, Circus Performer

11. Documentation of a Road Trip

Feelings or Emotions

1. Abandonment

2. Kindness

3. Anxiety

4. Depression

5. Phobias and Fears

6. Trust

7. Humiliation

8. Joy

9. Repulsion

10. Courage

11. Empathy

People’s Unique Qualities

1. What Will People Do to Be Different?

2. What Lengths Will People Go To in Order to Be Extraordinary?

3. Idiosyncrasies of Peers as Captured in Portraits

4. Fashion Choices and Accessories

5. Tattoos

6. Portraits Focused on Hair

7. Showing the Work that Goes Into Developing Talent

8. Goals and Future Plans

9. Habits

10. Unusual Life Experiences

11. Images of Beauty Throughout the World

Single Object or Single Events that Represent Something More

1. Masks

2. Shoes

3. Childhood Toys

4. Biographies Through Personal Effects

5. A Wedding

6. Sporting Events

7. Souvenirs from a Family Vacation

8. The Best Meal You’ve Ever Eaten

9. First Paycheck

10. A Cherished Pet

11. A Move Across the Country

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STEP 2 - Use mind mapping to help come up with original ideas and stories for your illustration theme.  Use Google to enhance your search for reference images and ideas as you build your illustration mind map!  Build on at least 3 ideas from the illustration theme you choose.

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STEP 2 - Use mind mapping to help come up with original ideas and stories for your illustration theme.  Use Google to enhance your search for reference images and ideas as you build your illustration mind map!  Build on at least 3 ideas from the illustration theme you choose.

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http://mindmapfree.com/

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STEP 3 - Save images, text, and anything that helps you define key parts of your illustration.  Ask WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY if you are having trouble finding more references.

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STEP 3 - Save images, text, and anything that helps you define key parts of your illustration.  Ask WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY if you are having trouble finding more references.

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STEP 4 - Assemble mind map and at least 6 images into a padlet or Google Doc to print.  See Ms. Baron when you are ready to print.

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STEP 4 - Assemble mind map and at least 6 images into a padlet or Google Doc to print.  See Ms. Baron when you are ready to print.