What is an Illustration Where can you see

What is an Illustration? Where can you see an illustration? • What series of books is this from? • Who is this Character? • What can you learn about the character from this illustration?

Aims Key Word Illustration To learn how to create an illustration We are going to be looking at the Illustrator Quentin Blake To broaden our knowledge of the process illustrators take to create an image. We are going to use an extract of a Roald Dahl story to create our own interpretation of a character.

Key Word Illustration Quentin Blake This is Quentin Blake he is an Illustrator, you may have seen his illustrations if you have read a Roald Dahl Book He often starts his drawings by reading the story then using his imagination drawing his image of the characters in quick lines with ink. After he has drawn his lines he then adds watercolour to add in the details This is all done very quickly.

Quentin Blake used the story to imagine and then draw the characters Key Word Illustrations

Image Table On your paper pick out the key words and features that describe Mr Twit and underline them What kinds of images do they make you think of? Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes, and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes. Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these things. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit, and now at the age of sixty he was a bigger twit than ever. The hair on Mr Twit’s face didn’t grow smooth and matted as it does on most hairy-faced men. It grew in spikes that stuck out straight like the bristles of a nailbrush. And how often did Mr Twit wash this nailbrushy face of his? The answer is NEVER, not even on Sundays. if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a mouldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes, and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes. Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these things. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit, and now at the age of sixty he was a bigger twit than ever. The hair on Mr Twit’s face didn’t grow smooth and matted as it does on most hairy-faced men. It grew in spikes that stuck out straight like the bristles of a nailbrush. And how often did Mr Twit wash this nail-brushy face of his? The answer is NEVER, not even on Sundays. if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a mouldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

Now using the words you have underlined (and the picture references on the other side of the paper) create your own Illustration of the Mr Twit Character. Challenge: Add your own objects to his beard and hair. We will compare your Mr Twit to Quentin Blake’s illustration at the end of the lesson. Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes, and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes. Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these things. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit, and now at the age of sixty he was a bigger twit than ever. The hair on Mr Twit’s face didn’t grow smooth and matted as it does on most hairyfaced men. It grew in spikes that stuck out straight like the bristles of a nailbrush. And how often did Mr Twit wash this nail-brushy face of his? The answer is NEVER, not even on Sundays. If you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a mouldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

The Twits This is Quentin Blakes interpretation of Mr & Mrs Twit! Does your Mr Twit look similar? Key Word Illustration

Extract Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes, and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes. Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these things. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit, and now at the age of sixty he was a bigger twit than ever. The hair on Mr Twit’s face didn’t grow smooth and matted as it does on most hairy-faced men. It grew in spikes that stuck out straight like the bristles of a nailbrush. And how often did Mr Twit wash this nailbrushy face of his? The answer is NEVER, not even on Sundays. if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a mouldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

Key Word Illustration Quiz!! Which Artist have we been looking at? What type of art does he make? How does he create his images?