Proposal Requirements

This should all be in your sketchbook (anything online should be printed and glued in) OR on a Shared Slideshow. This should be lovely and as impressive as the samples below and in the link.

• BRAINSTORM

  • Start by listing 10 ideas in your sketchbook. Even if you know exactly what you want to do think about different ways it could be done.

    • Illustration - Story, Fable, Song. think about Style, POV, Format, Twists?

    • Portrait - angle, style, person/people

    • Landscape - Viewpoint, style, Season, Light

• Artist Inspiration - 2 Artists

  • At LEAST a page in your sketchbook

  • Name of artist & a bit of a bio

  • What do you like about their work/style?

  • Paste image in &/OR do a Sketch of your subject in their style

  • citation for books in order to locate

• Original Subject Matter/Reference

  • This needs to voice an original idea

  • Take your own pictures

• What do you plan to communicate to the viewer?

  • What is MOST important? WHY? How will you convey that?

  • Color Scheme

  • Element of Art

  • Principle of Design

• Medium

  • Could be a medium that you have always wanted to try, one that you would like to get better using, or one that you are confident with

  • At least 1 page in your sketchbook dedicated to color studies with medium(s)

• Detailed Sketchs

  • 6 Thumbnail Composition Plans with Pencil Value

  • 1 Really developed Sketches - Plan dimensions and pin down color scheme

  • You must have a peer critique recorded and responded to in your proposal

This should be so thorough that anyone being handed your sketchbook should be able to complete the piece close to how you imagine it. They should see and understand:

• Brainstorming in your ideas for a project

• Artists that influenced you and HOW they influenced you

• Decisions that you made regarding composition (composition studies)

• Decisions that you made regarding color and/or medium (tests or studies)

• Exactly what size and materials will be used

• All reference imagery & materials should be gathered

• This should be extremely thorough and take up at least 6 sketchbook pages.

Examples of previous

Project of Choice Studies

Revisit a Previous Assignment

Combine two previous Assignments

Create a short Graphic Novel

Photojournalistic Narrative

Painting a Day for 2 weeks

Illustrate a Personal Story

Research Art Movements

Fractured Value with Color

Drawing with Sewing

Investigations in Larger Scale

Site-Specific Work

Make a Zine

Create something for a Contest

Create something as a gift for someone

Look at College Application Requests for specific projects like Parsons or RISD

Check out Ms. Bailey's

PINTEREST

PHOTO IDEAS

for some inspiration ideas