En filantrop måste ha långa armar – Ett undersökande arbete om att illustrera svåra ord

Abstract

A philanthropist needs long arms - An investigation on how to illustrate difficult words The feeling of not understanding all the words that I read made me initiate the project of investigating the capacity of drawn images to increase the understanding of difficult words. I’ve been working with my own personal understanding and skills in illustration. My aim was to reflect on the function, composition and manner of my illustrations. I wanted the images to be clear enough to explain and function as a help for memorizing the words but also open enough to give them a new dimension. One of my conclutions is that my way of changing the original shape of a body in my drawings, by giving it new functions such as longer arms, helps me to explain the words clearer and deeper. The other conclutions are that in order to illustrate the words I need to make them more concrete and to communicate a feeling in the images I need to have the feeling inside of me when I draw.