Guidelines in Artworks

and Illustrations
Jason O. Villena
Creative Arts Specialist II
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:

The placement of
illustrations should
be carefully planned.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:
They must maintain definition, when printed in black and
white or color. Black ink lines should be solid and uniformly
black in all parts of a line. Colored illustrations should be
set in grayscale or desaturated.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:
Illustrations should be original, simple clear, free of
clutter, and suitably proportioned, right perspective,
not microscopic.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:
Illustrations should be appropriate for the learner’s
age and grade level.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:
For lower grade levels, bigger images are prefered to
smaller ones. Learners at these levels are highly visual
in their absoprtion of knowledge.
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Illustrations should adhere to DepEd’s social content
guidelines.
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Preferably illustrations
are not boxed or
framed. If frames are
necessary, make sure
these are consistent in
thickness, which one
(1) point black solid
line.
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If the focus or important part of the illustration is not
clearly determined, there’s a need to use callouts to
emphasize it.
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Illustrations should
be placed near the
text to which they
refer to help
learners draw the
right interpretation
about them.
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All units of measure and the scale used in the
drawing must be specified.
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The subject of an artwork should be illustrated facing toward
the gutter of a page. The horizon line should not divide an
illustration into two, it should be placed either closer to the
sky or the landscape.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:

Inject motion into a page

by using illustrations,
especially when an
activity is described on
the page. The use of
visual material has proven
to be more effective than
just the use of text
description.
 Line art may be prepared in two ways:

Illustrations of a process
involving separate steps
or actions should have at
least as many individual
pictures or frames.
 Artwork Specifications
 Downloaded from the internet should be avoided because
they are low in resolution. They may look good on a screen
but not in print. They may also be copyrighted.
 Artwork Specifications
 Avoid screen captures or framed grabs from video
tape or disk, newspaper or magazine clippings. These
generally yield poor results.
 Artwork Specifications
 Photocopies (except of black on white line drawings)
laser copies, or printouts of scans should be avoided.
The rescanning and printing process will magnify all
the “faults”, often producing a ripply moire pattern and
poor contrast.
 Artwork Specifications
 Dont overuse or recycle an image or illustration.
 Properly crop an image or illustration. “Dont amputate
an image especially if its an illustration of a person”.
 Artwork Specifications

 Dont contextualized
illustrations from the
masters manuscript.
(ex. Maranao, Maguin-
danao etc.)
 Artwork Specifications

 Maintain consistency of
the style of illustrations
throughout the whole
book.
Artwork Specifications
 Secure permission from
the copyright holder of the
graphic materials used in the
manuscripts. Local pictures
and artworks should be
cleared and validated by the
community(DepEd Order
No. 51, s. 2014 Guidelines
on the Conduct of Activities
and Use of Materials Involving
Aspects of Indigenous People
Culture).
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Thank You!
 Copyright Notice
Artwork Specifications

• Many of the images and texts used in this

presentation were taken from the internet.

• All rights to these images are held by their

respective owners and creators.

• These images were used only for purposes of

giving examples and instruction and must not
be disseminated beyond the intended audience.