Illustration

Quarter 1
HISTORY OF
Module
2 ILLUSTRATION

T E C H N I C A L VO C A T I O N A L L I V E L I H O O D
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on History of Illustration!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on History of Illustration!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

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at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

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application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Traceback the history of Illustration;
2. Explain the importance of gaining past illustration exercises for self-
improvement;
3. Create your prehistoric themed illustration.

PRETEST

1. Where can you find the earliest evidence of illustration?

a. Museum b. Printing Press c. Caves d. Pottery
2. Where did the first woodblock printing develop for printed text and illustration?
a. Africa b. Bulgaria c. China d. Europe
3. The following are Filipino artists except:
a. Amorsolo c. Juan Luna
b. Felix Ressurecion Hidalgo d. Leonardo Da Vinci
4. This is a type of illustration that uses bold and varying colors in creating a
biblical printout, it is known to be expensive and can’t be used for mass
reproduction.
a. woodblock print c. Batok
b. illuminated manuscript d. painting
5. It is the earliest recorded form of illustration in the Philippines that can be found
in the pottery culture
a. batok b. pintados c. manunggul jar d. cave paints

RECAP

TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct, and FALSE if it tells
otherwise.
____________1. A person who practices or works in the drawing is called draftsman
or draughtsman or an illustrator.
____________2. An illustrator creates compositions using elements such as images
and typography or a combination of both.
____________3. An illustrator’s basic medium is manual artwork.
____________4. A person who has achieved a qualification in illustration NCII is
competent to be a cartoonist.
____________5. Scribing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of
drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.
 LESSON
HISTORY OF ILLUSTRATION

In the art world, illustration has been thought of as less important than
graphic styles and fine arts.
Today, however, due to the expansion of graphic novels, video game
industries, magazine illustrations, and other publications, illustration has turned
into a valued art form, capable of participating in the global market.
Long before cameras were invented, early men find ways to express their ideas
with the help of graphical representations.
Early illustrations can be found in caves or
stonewalls, that shows their way of living and
customs. One good example is the Magura Cave in
Bulgaria, where the images show silhouettes of
women, males hunting and dancing. Earlier cave
drawings show their livelihood, that is why you will
notice that these illustrations’ subjects are mostly
livestock like cattle or bison, horses, etc. and their
hunting activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira#/
But the oldest cave illustration is the
media/File:AltamiraBison.jpg Altamira Bison, found near the historic town of
Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, and dated
around 36,000 years ago.
Despite these early illustrations in the
paleolithic times, it is still unknown as of today the
real meaning behind these paintings. We can't
exactly trace back the history of printed colored
illustrations – the descendants of today’s but one
thing is for sure, that illustration is closely related
to the industrial processes of printing and
publishing. True to its origin illustration—in the
sense of illumination or enlightenment. To give
illumination to text and ideas into a visual concept.

Brizard, Marie. Cave paintings, Magura Cave

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariebrizard/4387489763/
in/photostream/

Art researches trace

illustration from the East Asian
paintings, specifically the Chinese
because of the invention of the
printing machine with the use of
carved woodblocks, to mass-produce The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang Dynasty China,
illustrated materials for mass The world’s earliest dated printed book, AD 868
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing#/media/File:Jingangji
ng.jpg
consumption. It may not be as fast as the European printing press, but it is clear
that printing developed in Asia several centuries before Europe.

Another popular woodblock

Illustration originated in Japan in the
1600s was known as Ukiyo-e, an
illustration style with expressive lines,
vivid color, and subtle tones, all from
the ink-brushed woodblock printing
technique. Hokusai's “ The Great
Wave of Kanazawa” is famous at this
time.

The rise of Christianity

imparted a different spirit and aim to
painting style, which paved the way in By After Katsushika Hokusai - Own work, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2646210
the development of illustrations in the middle ages, one way is by producing
illustrations with bold use of varying
color known as the Illuminated
Manuscript. Although this illustration
is hand-painted individually its purpose
to convert ideas and concepts into
drawings had served its purpose.
What’s captivating with this
kind of illustration is the use of gold,
but from a religious perspective, “the
diverse colors wherewith the book
illustrated, not unworthily represent
the multiple grace of heavenly
wisdom. But because of its complex
and frequently costly process, it was Opening from the “Hours of Catherine of Cleves” c 1440
By Meester van Catharina van Kleef - The Morgan Library
usually reserved for special books: & Museum, Public Domain,
an altar Bible for example. That is https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3997
509
why it cannot be reproduced for
mass consumption.
It was in the Renaissance
period, roughly the 14th through
the mid-17th century spurted the The Revelation of
St. John: 12. The
art of Illustration. Paintings in this Sea Monster and
the Beast with the
era reflect the revolution of Lamb’s Horn
Di Albrecht Dürer -
astronomy and geography, the Web Gallery of
Reformation, and the invention of Art: Immagine Info
about artwork,
the printing press. It is a period Pubblico dominio,
https://commons.wi
where artists are enticed to create kimedia.org/w/inde
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artwork using woodcut 51
illustrations to reach more people
 to see their art. The printing press works
similarly as the Chinese woodblock but can print
Da Vinci’s Mona multiple pages in text and illustration. One
Lisa
prominent name in this field is Albrecht Durer,
With original colors
approximation
who created remarkable print illustrations with
By Dianelos - Own biblical themes. Through these illustrated
work, CC BY-SA
4.0, manuscripts, people began to understand the
https://commons.w
ikimedia.org/w/ind contents of the prints, even though a lot of people
ex.php?curid=7095
during that time can’t read.

In Italy, artists such as Paulo Uccello, Fra

Angelico, Piero Della Francesca Andrea Mantegna,
Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci,
The Scream Michelangelo Buonarotti and Raphael took the
By Edvard
Munch - painting to a higher level using perspective,
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blio.org/wm/p
human anatomy, and proportions
aint/auth/mu
nch/munch.sc Moving on to the 19 Century, where Neo-
ream.jpg,
Public Domain, classicism, History painting, Romanticism
Impressionism, Post-impressionism, and
symbolism spurted when artists became liberated
from the demands of their patronage to only depict
religion, mythology, portraiture or history. In this
era, artists like Edvard Munch and Vincent van
Gogh began to express more of themselves in their
Starry Night
work.
By Vincent van
Gogh -
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Cultural
century John Leech, George Cruikshank, Charles
Institute, zoom Dickens’ illustrator Hablot Knight Browne, and a
level maximum,
Public Domain, French named Honore Daumier, contributed to
https://common
s.wikimedia.org both satirical and serious publications. Because
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at this time there was a great demand for
caricature showing social mores, types, and
classes, that leans to political comedy. The British
humorous magazine Punch was most influential in
the 1840s through the 1850s that coined the term
“cartoon” to describe humorous illustration.In the
Philippines, our art history is the combination of
Manunggul Jar
By Philip Maise - many cultural influences, with strong Western
Own work, CC
BY-SA 3.0, roots. The earliest illustration designs can be traced
https://commons.
wikimedia.org/w/i
back to the acclaimed Manunggul Jar, it is when
ndex.php?curid=3 pottery was practiced throughout the country. More
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illustration pieces of evidence can also be found in
the tattoo tradition (Batok) of the Filipinos or as
referred to as Pintados.
 During the 17th century Filipinos created
paintings using European traditions for
religious purposes. Between the 19th and the
20th-century painting and illustration were a
Pintados
mixture of religious, political, and landscape https://en.wi
kipedia.org/w
artworks. Some prominent names in Filipino iki/Boxer_Co
dex#/media/
arts are Juan Luna, Felix Ressureccion Hidalgo, File:Visayans
and Fernando Amorsolo. _1.png

We also have our fair share when it

comes to cartoon illustrations, especially in
comics, or better know as Komiks. While the
first cartoons may be traced to Jose Rizal’s
illustration of the fable “Si Pagong at si
Matsing” the spread of Komiks popularity arise
during the early 20th Century. It was in the
1920s when Liwayway magazine began running
comic strip under the direction of Romualdo
Ramos and Tony Velasquez, such as the still-
running comics Mga Kabalbalan ni Kenkoy.
Although originally inspired by American
comics, Filipino literature such as komedya
and Philippine mythology was mixed with this
genre, such as Kulafu and Og (Tarzan), Darna
(Captain Marvel and Wonder woman). On the By Jose Rizal - Mga Akda ni Rizal (Works of
other hand, we also have more traditional Rizal) at e-learning of the National Historical
folklore comics like Dyesebel. Commission of the Philippines. File, Public
Domain,
The popularity of Philippine comics https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p
hp?curid=43979479
today has long been dwindled due to
multimedia competition. Today, comic artists
had begun producing a manga like comics inspired by
Japanese animation and manga.

Promotional art work for

Mars Ravelo’s Darna.
Art by Ryan Orosco
By Source, Fair use,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index
 ACTIVITIES

A. Directions: Identify the following terms and locate them in the puzzle.

_____________1. This is the cave where you can find the oldest, cave painting
in the world.

_____________2. They are Visayan people, who practice traditional tattoos

known as batok.

_____________3. The country where the first invention of the printing press
was recorded.

_____________4. He is a National Artist who is considered as one of the most

important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines.

_____________5. This is the usual theme in early civilization illustrations.

B. Pre-Historic Drawing. Draw your second sketch pad entry using Cave drawing
as a theme. You may use the images below to create your concept.

Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA By Maxima20 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19624782
 Rubric in Assessing Performance output

Criteria Percentage Score

Originality and Creativity 40%
Compliance to the theme 40%
Neatness 20%
Remarks:

WRAP-UP

Let’s summarize what you have learned in this module by filling the missing
terms and concepts of the Illustration History.

✓ Early men find ways to express their ideas with the help of graphical
representations through _______________ paintings.
✓ The oldest known cave paintings were found in the _______________ cave in
Spain.
✓ In the modern civilization, the invention of the Chinese printing mechanism
through _______________ blocks pave the way of creating illustrations for mass
consumption.
✓ In the European scene, illustrations progressed through the
_______________, Baroque and Rococo Period.
✓ Before the 19th century, illustrations focus on Biblical contents, mythology,
portraiture, and _______________.
✓ Illustration history in the Philippines were evidenced in the pottery of early
Filipinos known as the Manunggul Jar and the Tattoo traditions called
_______________.
 VALUING

ESSAY: Create a short essay on the importance of learning the history of art and
Illustration and how does studying old illustrations affect an artist’s skills in
conceptualizing ideas in a composition. Use the space provided below:

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

POSTTEST

Fill in the blanks. Complete each statement and write your answer on the
space provided.

1. _______________ illustration is the oldest form of drawing dated back from the cave
walls.

2. The first Filipino comic illustration may be traced back in Jose Rizal’s graphical
representation of the fable entitled __________________.

3. One of the prominent name in woodcut illustration during the Renaissance is

_______________________ who made remarkable print illustrations with biblical
themes.

4. The earliest recorded from of illustration in the Philippines are found in the pottery
culture called ____________________.

5. As a sign of bravery, the pintados fashioned a tattoo called ______________.

 KEY TO CORRECTION

ACTIVITIES
5. C 5. FALSE

A. Word puzzle
4. B 4. TRUE

3. D 3. TRUE

2. C 2. FALSE

1. C 1. TRUE

PRE-TEST RECAP

B. Pre-Historic Drawing.

Refer to the Rubric in activity B

6. Batok 5. batok

5. history 4. Manunggul

4. Renaisance 3. Albrecht Durer

3. Wooden 2. Si pagong at si Matsing

2. Altamira 1. cave

1. Cave POSTTEST

WRAP-UP

References
• “7 Oldest Cave Paintings in The World.” Oldest.org, November 13, 2017.
https://www.oldest.org/artliterature/cave-paintings/.
• “History of Painting.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, June 6, 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_painting.
• Nikolaeva, Bilyana. “Types of Illustration - Styles and Techniques.” GraphicMama
Blog, March 5, 2020. https://graphicmama.com/blog/types-of-illustration/.
• “Illustration,” May 22, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration.
• Tano, Duy. “Filipino Komiks and History.” The Comics Cube!, 2011.
http://www.comicscube.com/2011/08/filipino-komiks-and-history.html.