Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research illustration ideas and techniques
- Support professional practice by expanding own knowledge of historical and contemporary illustration practice
- Research ways that other artists have used different illustration techniques
- Investigate how particular illustration techniques work to achieve different technical effects
- Evaluate the relationships between illustration techniques and ideas
- Adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Select illustration techniques for refinement
- Consolidate illustration technique to professional level
- Establish and follow safe work practices for selected techniques
- Develop increasing confidence and skill through practice and experimentation
- Proactively identify and resolve technical problems in illustration projects based on developing expertise
- Challenge and test ideas, and allow new and unpredictable ideas to emerge
- Evolve ideas and other professional skills through ongoing experimentation with technique
- Develop own ways of working with techniques to create individual style
- Create a coherent body of illustration work that shows command of selected illustration techniques
- Evaluate own illustration technique
- Evaluate development of own technique with others and seek feedback
- Seek and participate in conversations that challenge and explore different concepts and approaches
- Reflect on the particular ways that experimentation with different techniques has informed own artwork
- Identify ways in which technique may be further developed as part of a professional practice and build ideas into future work