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REFERENCE LIST
Eggleston, B. (2017) How To Make A Living As a Character Designer. [Online Video]. 2 February 2017. Available at:...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 21, 20201 min read


ETHNIC MINORITIES AND GAMING
Gaming is another area where ethnic minorities are underrepresented. In 2016 a game called Mafia 3 would be released. While others...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 18, 20202 min read


REPRESENTATION OF RACE IN ART
I wanted to look deeper into the issue if race in art and the media, and being a black man myself I find it an important issue to talk...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 18, 20202 min read


HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS A CHARACTER DESIGNER
Kinds of Careers You can make a career as a character designer, firstly by working for an employer, with long term work at one company....

Jonathan Whittingham
May 17, 20203 min read


THEORY OF GOOD AND BAD CHARACTER DESIGN
Clarity Good design should involve three key elements, clarity of silhouette, clarity of palette and clarity of exaggeration. These are...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 17, 20204 min read


SHAPE LANGUAGE IN CHARACTER DESIGN
The video from Chelsea Gracei went in depth about how shape language is used to create characters in illustration. She explained that...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 17, 20206 min read


SHAPE LANGUAGE IN ILLUSTRATION
I was reading an article about shape language and how it is used in the illustration sector to convey a certain message. Iryna Korshak...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 16, 20202 min read


THE FIVE STAGES OF PROCESS
The creative process can be broken down into five different stages. These stages are not always linear, there will be times were the...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 15, 20202 min read


THE CREATIVE PROCESS- MINNIE SMALL
Minnie Small is a freelance illustrator who I have followed for years and I started to realise that I have mirrored her creative process...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 15, 20202 min read


THE LANGUAGE OF READING IMAGERY
Christoph Niemann is an ingenious illustrator who uses simple imagery to create his designs. He bases his designs on how the human mind...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 15, 20202 min read


THE CREATIVE PROCESS- BOB PROCTOR
I watched this video by Bob Proctor and it was just so powerful the way he talks about the creative process and I learnt that it can be...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 15, 20203 min read


GAL-DEM (MICHA FRAZER-CARROLL)
Gal-Dem is a magazine publication that talks about issues facing women of colour and life from their perspective. Their aim is to address...

Jonathan Whittingham
Mar 2, 20201 min read


MODELS OF PRACTICE: RICHARD KEARNS
The key aims for this session was to get us to think more about the creative industry and do further research into what it can offer,...

Jonathan Whittingham
Feb 29, 20202 min read


ROBOT FOOD
Steph Oglesby came and did a talk about the company that she works for called Robot Food. Robot Food are a design firm that mainly focus...

Jonathan Whittingham
Feb 17, 20202 min read
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