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Honors Art: illustration assignment Business Card As an Honors Art II or Honors Art III student, you will be completing a long term assignment outside of class. You will be illustrating a children’s book authored by another Sun Valley student.

The first portion of this assignment is to create a business card to advertise yourself as a children’s book illustrator. The quality of your business card will, in large part, dictate the quality of the book you are chosen to illustrate. In creating a business card, your job is to sell your skills and to present your artwork in a specific style that you are comfortable working in. Your business card should accomplish the following:

· represent your artistic skills · introduce you in a clean, professional way as a freelance illustrator · convey appropriate contact information

The first thing you will need to do is research business card format. You cannot introduce yourself to a potential client in a clean, professional way if you don’t meet acceptable standards. Format guidelines would include size, orientation, and information included. Once you know the format, your job is to create a business card for yourself. My requirements for you:

1. Your card must include something hand drawn by you. This could be a new image or something old that you photograph and insert as a jpeg into a digital file. 2. Your name must be clear with the word “illustrator” incorporated somehow 3. You must create a fake website name with an accompanying email address. None of your real personal information should be included on this business card 4. All text must be done on a computer

Since your text must be done on a computer, you have two major options. You could type your text, print out your card, then add your hand drawn artwork onto the printout. OR you could draw an image, scan or photograph it, then insert it as a jpeg into a digital file. This means your final product might be a physical business card or a digital file. If your finished work is a digital file, you are responsible for emailing that file to me by your due date.

Your card is due to me on Thursday January 14. No late work is accepted. The Creative Writing class will be reviewing your business cards and submitting requests for your illustrations.