For my postcard brief i have been trying to sum up a news story or headline in one image. This is the job of an editorial illustrator, who has to sum up the point of a whole story or current event in one image.
i think I will make my postcards so they are intended to be for the guardian newspaper. The Guardian has an editorial cartoonist called Steve Bell. Im not really interested in cartoons as such but I enjoy, and am very interested in the process of interpreting text into image. Although my images won't be cartoons, and will be a lot simpler than these type of illustrations, it is useful to look at these because they use visual metaphors and existing thnigs that people already know and can make connections to. They communicate very quickly because of this. Some editorial/political cartoonists take the middle ground but some project their viewpoint through their images, by using humour or emotion in some way. I considered trying to communicate my view rather than just what the newspaper said, but i have decided to just interpret the story literally. I might take this project further by doing something more based on my opinions at a later date.
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