Essays on Illustrator

The life of Frank Netter

Frank Netter was born in Manhattan on 25 April 1906. He was an American surgeon. However, he is best known for his lifelike, aesthetic medical illustrations. He started his life with a passion for art. He got training as an artist at the Art Students’ League in New York City and the National Academy of Design. By the third decade of his life, he became a successful commercial artists, whose work continuously appeared in different national magazines (Quinnipiac University, qu.edu) including some of the best known publications such as The New York Times and The Saturday Evening Post. His ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Comics are a simple and engaging style of storytelling with the help of images, visual art and words. The images are arranged in a panel and into a sequential narrative. Words might or might not be used and usually, appear in a box or balloons near the images. The essay discusses MAUS graphic novel, its content and visual strategies used by the illustrator to convey the information. It evaluates as to how some specific concepts of comics are employed by the author of MAUS. When one mentions a graphic novel, it conjures images of illustrated books and comics. There ...

If one tries to figure out the first illustrations on the planet, they will be taken back all the way to the cave paintings by ancient men. Illustrations in books surfaced only after the invention of the printing press. Traditionally speaking, illustrations have always been part of books. They should not be looked as mere decoration of the books became of the greater amount of information the reader can derive from those drawings. In the past centuries, examples of illustrations have included books illustrated by copper engraving, woodcuts and wood engraving (Eshragh 9).Diagrams were essential in a mathematical ...

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According to Alexenberg (2008), Islam has a strong culture of aniconism. This is the prohibition of depiction of the supernatural using material objects. The Islamic holy book, the Quran, does not expressly prohibit the depiction of human figures. However, it prohibits idolatry. It is important to note that because of its aniconism culture, it generally considered wrong to depict God, the prophet Muhammad and other prophets using images. Before the Jyllands-Postencontroversy, it was unheard of in popular media of depiction of the prophet Muhammad. Jyllands-Posten is the leading newspaper by circulation in Denmark. Before the newspaper published the story, ...

Today printing technology has advanced to the level of full automation. This is evidence with digital printing technology emerging that is capable of not only producing an entire newspaper but fold it as well. One of the latest developments in printing is the Xeikon 8000 which is capable of producing approximately 8.5 million pages every month. With such capability, it requires a single operator. Dye-sublimation printing is the technology preceded the Xeikon 8000 one. It produced high-quality photo prints, combining three color panels with a clear overcoat to transfer heat to a ribbon and emerged in the mid-1990s. The ...

Does inquiry based learning increase academic student performance for high school Latino/Latin ESOL students?

Introduction Effective content delivery by teachers often requires that they research, adopt and implement the most suited techniques that will be easily understood by most students. Among the most common teaching and methodology techniques is the inquiry based learning which has been found to have tremendous positive impact on students performance regardless of the subject taught. Inquiry based learning is thus defined as a teaching and learning approach in which the learners begin by having a set of questions or scenarios and develop on the same, thereby intuitively establishing findings rather than situations where the instructor presents established facts ...

Before the advent of the computer, artists and artisans alike utilized a complex tool in making their letter forms; the hand. At ten digits, five for each hand, the hand was efficiently the first digital lettering tool, utilized in engravings, carving and in the production of the various letter forms. The hand, while allowing for a few technological flaws and eccentricities, still facilitated the creation of some of the most beautiful lettering forms ever made. The advantages of the hand as a lettering tool underscore the paradox that, with technological advancement, both a loss and profit were incurred. The computer, on the one ...

An architectural illustrator is an architecture profession where the expert is responsible for creating imagery for professional designing that portrays accurate details of an architectural project. The created images are supposed to give the client, owner, committee, public, or a customer the available design ideas. These professionals are hired to bring complex ideas and objects into reality. Through artwork, the artist succeeds to turn small details into visual renderings. This field mainly depends on the plan, design, as well as construction of various structures. The professionals create two-dimensional illustrations that may include animations and images. The professions are usually realistic ...

The Princess and The Crab

This book was written by Pauline Narine and published by the renowned Los Angeles children’s books publisher, Ca. it is an invaluable reading that talks about an African Princess who cries along the river bank because her cruel father the King refuses to allow her to play. She resorts to seek an intervention of a mysterious crab that appears to him in the form of man thus giving her a relief. This book is important to the kids because it uses a lot of relevant stories and illustrations that will appeal more to the learners (Wolf, S., 2010).

Catching Fire

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Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

I am a student taking a major in Visual Communication at this institution. However, I failed in two of my courses which made me receive a dismissal letter. However, I wish to appeal for the revocation of the decision and seek a re-enrolment back to school since I feel the precipitating events for my dismissal were not purely academic. Below are the reasons as to why I got a GPA of 2.0 which led to my dismissal, and an explanation as to how I expect to improve my academic performance.

First of all, I am an international student from Taiwan. I was born and ...

Peter Malone of Bath, England was born on February 21, 1953 and completed his education at the Winchester School of Art and the Coventry School Of Art (“Malone, Peter 1953”). He is married to Helen who is a picture restorer and they have two children.

Malone is a painter and illustrator. He taught painting, drawing, and design at the Bournemouth School of Art in Bournemouth, England. In addition, he worked as a studio assistant to artist Howard Hodgkin (“Malone, Peter 1953”).

It took Malone some time to realize his ambition of becoming an illustrator. Aside from teaching, he painted mostly for his ...