Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Essay #1: Technique and Materials.
Introduction
In this essay I will identify 3 artists and review them, talking about the techniques and materials they use to create their art pieces but firstly to talk about the subject matter and what my opinion of the work is. The work and artists I have chosen have been selected from the Lecture Jamie's influences on his blog.
Chris Thornley
The first artist I will be talking about is Chris Thornley or better known as "Raid71".
The artwork I've looked at would be:
I feel this work is a design sense is superb in quality. The artist has obviously use Photoshop on the imagery and Adobe inDesign with the text. The colour scheme of the art work shows a grunge cornered outside while the darkness on the colours give the center piece more attention and bring the lips out more. The lips on the other hand are downgraded on levels of shadows. They seem to be showing the light and shade in levels with the teeth remain the same. I feel this brings more of a design effect to the piece and shows the artists attention to detail without making it over noised or distorted. The artwork is a cover piece for a book titled "Super Girl" While all you get from the image work is that lip being bitten in a seductive way. While this gives the reader interest it does not give anything of the story away. The materials used in this art piece would be a stock photo of the lips and maybe a texture stock photo for the corners.
In his Latest work shown below:
He pays respect to the late steve jobs, who recently passed away. I find this art piece very striking and relatable. As the apple logo has been redsigned to show the bite mark replaced witch steve job's head. Obviously having the text simplistic in appearance and leaving the whole piece to show attention and commiseration to Mr Jobs. The technique in this artwork is very simple, the apple is cut by using steve jobs head and making a insertion into the apple with a marque tool in photoshop. Once having the head cut, changing to the apple layer and making the cut. The materials are very simple an Apple logo and a picture of steve jobs.
The final piece below:
This is an editorial piece named "epilipse" and is probably one of the most interesting pieces from the artist. The subject matter is that of a woman with no eyes, though her hair has alien elements drawn in. I suspect that Adobe Illustrator has been used for this work. The techniques to creating work of this kind are little more complex than the works above. Obviously a stock photo of the woman would be needed to work off of. The woman is drawn roughly on the shades of her picture. With lines showing the shaded areas, while her hair seems to go up into the artwork and the scratched into her hair, it shows alien features like a saucer, an alien face and an eye. Drawing these would have been easier then to transfer them to Illustrator. Materialistic wise I think if that has been drawn first, simply drawing with an graphics pen would be the wiser thing to do. To add to a plain black and white drawing circles in the colours of red, blue and green have been put into the background. While the background colour itself is a very creamy colour which gives the vintage feel. I think that this whole piece in general is very vintage and 60's look to the work.
Jack Kirby
The second artist I have chosen to look at is Jack Kirby, an american comic book artist whose work is seen everyday in very famous comic book art.
The first piece I will be looking at is a comic book cover of the Avengers #4 from 1964:
The 2nd piece from jack kirby:
This is another comic book cover for the Bombast #1 from 1993.
As you can see the differences in quality from the 1st piece, there is a lot more attention to detail when it comes to character drawing. While a lot more work would go into creating something like this, I imagine the techniques remain the same. The increase in detail and colours wouldn't be because the artist became more skillfull but technology in printing increased and made the amount of colours per inch increase. While this piece shows the character throwing some sort of missile. The technique to draw this i would imagine would require more measure and symmetrical tools to make the work seem more professional and more realistic. The background is hard to describe as it seems a very dirty, splatter and grunge feeling. The colours are a dirty orange, a dark woods green with some black and some line shading around the end of the artwork.
Robert E. McGinnis
Robert McGinnis is an american Illustrator whose work is infamously famous and has worked on over 1200 paper covers and over 40 Movie posters.
The 1st art piece I will look at is the famous James Bond Film poster:
I find comparing this to the other artists, I'm amazing at the artwork. This is more sort of my work where I would be able to draw/design like this. The work shows the film Bond film: Diamonds are forever and is famous as it had to be re-worked due to the artists misplacing of the diamonds. The critics and viewers described the placement of the diamonds to be in a rude form. While the artwork was never in question. The piece shows a lot of detail including features from the film, explosions and bond with his lady friends. The techniques to draw and create something like would be a lot of planning and stages. The film feature on screens in 1971 and back then there wasnt that much technology to help artists in their work. Using imagery of the helicopters to draw and get the whole composition and flow of the art work.
The second piece of work is the 1965 poster for Thunderball:
Again another piece with the female body which the artist draws with perfection. The shading and colours of the bodies are close to realistic. The typography of the "LOOK OUT" is ingenious using the infamous 007 label with the word: Look. All techniques to design something like this would be to draw by hand and the artist shows the skill from his hand on this piece. The attention to detail and the colour variation shows a strong vibrant feeling. There is now real materials that would be used other than to draw from a photo or several and make the flow of the composition work.
Conclusion
The conclusion of the essay and research shows 3 artists so greatly skilled in their area of work. In all the art pieces I've shown how much attention detail can be show in the smallest of spaces. How techniques can create backgrounds to emphasize the main feature or drawing at the front of the work. As well as detailing and a lot of colours, the first few artworks show simplistic value yet effective flow and composition. How something with so little detail but with the right flow and colours can an artwork piece become very likeable and to get the reader thinking. As well as thinking the artwork has to sell whatever it is promoting. Clever techniques in the typography of the 007 poster and the word "LOOK" show how effective clever wording and symbolism can be. In the comic book art, it shows the origination and idea behind vector drawing and where we are today with that idealistic artwork.
In this essay I will identify 3 artists and review them, talking about the techniques and materials they use to create their art pieces but firstly to talk about the subject matter and what my opinion of the work is. The work and artists I have chosen have been selected from the Lecture Jamie's influences on his blog.
Chris Thornley
The first artist I will be talking about is Chris Thornley or better known as "Raid71".
The artwork I've looked at would be:
I feel this work is a design sense is superb in quality. The artist has obviously use Photoshop on the imagery and Adobe inDesign with the text. The colour scheme of the art work shows a grunge cornered outside while the darkness on the colours give the center piece more attention and bring the lips out more. The lips on the other hand are downgraded on levels of shadows. They seem to be showing the light and shade in levels with the teeth remain the same. I feel this brings more of a design effect to the piece and shows the artists attention to detail without making it over noised or distorted. The artwork is a cover piece for a book titled "Super Girl" While all you get from the image work is that lip being bitten in a seductive way. While this gives the reader interest it does not give anything of the story away. The materials used in this art piece would be a stock photo of the lips and maybe a texture stock photo for the corners.
In his Latest work shown below:
He pays respect to the late steve jobs, who recently passed away. I find this art piece very striking and relatable. As the apple logo has been redsigned to show the bite mark replaced witch steve job's head. Obviously having the text simplistic in appearance and leaving the whole piece to show attention and commiseration to Mr Jobs. The technique in this artwork is very simple, the apple is cut by using steve jobs head and making a insertion into the apple with a marque tool in photoshop. Once having the head cut, changing to the apple layer and making the cut. The materials are very simple an Apple logo and a picture of steve jobs.
The final piece below:
Jack Kirby
The second artist I have chosen to look at is Jack Kirby, an american comic book artist whose work is seen everyday in very famous comic book art.
The first piece I will be looking at is a comic book cover of the Avengers #4 from 1964:
Straight away as a geek myself I'm amazed at the artwork and the age of it. To think that in 1964 this was the standard of comic book artwork it makes me realise how much hasn't changed. Obviously the subject matter is pretty much what you see is what you get. The Avengers comic book is very famous and the artwork is legendary. There was no technology back in these days for graphic work so this obviously hand drawn. The materials would be graphic pens and colouring. With no stock photo's to work from but drawings, the artist had to be much more imaginative back then and just draw from what they think and see. The technique I would imagine would be stage by stage and then to fianlly add colour. The comic book shows an action frame of all the avengers together charging towards the front of the comic book, this gives a very energetic and action filled picture to readers imagination and shows how interesting the inside would be.
The 2nd piece from jack kirby:
This is another comic book cover for the Bombast #1 from 1993.
As you can see the differences in quality from the 1st piece, there is a lot more attention to detail when it comes to character drawing. While a lot more work would go into creating something like this, I imagine the techniques remain the same. The increase in detail and colours wouldn't be because the artist became more skillfull but technology in printing increased and made the amount of colours per inch increase. While this piece shows the character throwing some sort of missile. The technique to draw this i would imagine would require more measure and symmetrical tools to make the work seem more professional and more realistic. The background is hard to describe as it seems a very dirty, splatter and grunge feeling. The colours are a dirty orange, a dark woods green with some black and some line shading around the end of the artwork.
Robert E. McGinnis
Robert McGinnis is an american Illustrator whose work is infamously famous and has worked on over 1200 paper covers and over 40 Movie posters.
The 1st art piece I will look at is the famous James Bond Film poster:
I find comparing this to the other artists, I'm amazing at the artwork. This is more sort of my work where I would be able to draw/design like this. The work shows the film Bond film: Diamonds are forever and is famous as it had to be re-worked due to the artists misplacing of the diamonds. The critics and viewers described the placement of the diamonds to be in a rude form. While the artwork was never in question. The piece shows a lot of detail including features from the film, explosions and bond with his lady friends. The techniques to draw and create something like would be a lot of planning and stages. The film feature on screens in 1971 and back then there wasnt that much technology to help artists in their work. Using imagery of the helicopters to draw and get the whole composition and flow of the art work.
The second piece of work is the 1965 poster for Thunderball:
Again another piece with the female body which the artist draws with perfection. The shading and colours of the bodies are close to realistic. The typography of the "LOOK OUT" is ingenious using the infamous 007 label with the word: Look. All techniques to design something like this would be to draw by hand and the artist shows the skill from his hand on this piece. The attention to detail and the colour variation shows a strong vibrant feeling. There is now real materials that would be used other than to draw from a photo or several and make the flow of the composition work.
Conclusion
The conclusion of the essay and research shows 3 artists so greatly skilled in their area of work. In all the art pieces I've shown how much attention detail can be show in the smallest of spaces. How techniques can create backgrounds to emphasize the main feature or drawing at the front of the work. As well as detailing and a lot of colours, the first few artworks show simplistic value yet effective flow and composition. How something with so little detail but with the right flow and colours can an artwork piece become very likeable and to get the reader thinking. As well as thinking the artwork has to sell whatever it is promoting. Clever techniques in the typography of the 007 poster and the word "LOOK" show how effective clever wording and symbolism can be. In the comic book art, it shows the origination and idea behind vector drawing and where we are today with that idealistic artwork.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
4th Review: Colin Elgie
Colin Elgie is an illustrator who specializes in a decorative and graphic style. His arresting images have added panache to numerous book titles, magazines and packaging designs.
His extensive list of past clients includes a host of well-known companies, publishers and household brands.
Colin usually sketches his ideas traditionally to produce roughs, then executes the final artwork on a Mac, using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
The first image is vector drawing of an roman warrior created by Colin. The simple lines and lack of detail give this piece an cartoon/word art sort of feel. Personally seems a very short piece of work. The colours to me a very bleek and the lack of detail in my opinion comes from how thick some of the lines are.
While on the other hand:
This piece is incredible because the colours are so mesmerizing. The 3D values show different ways of transport infront of an city landscape background. The vector work is outstanding, the shading is simplistic yet works with the shapes. It gives the feel as a representation of evolution using transport.
Another great piece of artwork with vectoring:
Here this piece shows how the composition of different colour tones in the work can fit together. The background shows a very sunset/misk night. Yet the shine and reflection of the lighting on the car shows otherwise. The spot on details of the car must have taken some time and patience. The whole image gives the feel of the 50s and drive in movies. I like this the most because of the greater use in detail and colours.
His extensive list of past clients includes a host of well-known companies, publishers and household brands.
Colin usually sketches his ideas traditionally to produce roughs, then executes the final artwork on a Mac, using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
While on the other hand:
This piece is incredible because the colours are so mesmerizing. The 3D values show different ways of transport infront of an city landscape background. The vector work is outstanding, the shading is simplistic yet works with the shapes. It gives the feel as a representation of evolution using transport.
Another great piece of artwork with vectoring:
Here this piece shows how the composition of different colour tones in the work can fit together. The background shows a very sunset/misk night. Yet the shine and reflection of the lighting on the car shows otherwise. The spot on details of the car must have taken some time and patience. The whole image gives the feel of the 50s and drive in movies. I like this the most because of the greater use in detail and colours.
3rd Review: Gail Armstrong
Gail Armstrong is an experienced and professional illustrator specialising in the craft of paper sculpture. Multi award winning illustrator in creating pieces for bilboards, press and illustrations.
In this piece of art, she represents YES and NO:
Featured for the tissue company Kleenex, the picture shows detail on two mirrored pieces, one for the positive YES and the other for the negative NO. The changes in colours and the added shadows give this a 3D effect, the idea behind this is brilliant. Designing all Yes answers that would create tears for example the pregnancy representation is shown in a bird bring the baby sack home. While the negative shows the heart all cold and grey scheme. Cracked and letters split. I feel this is a perfect illustration for the market.
Gail also worked an ECO Program representing the earth as all green with additions that affect this worlds health:
I like this work because its very simple yet effective.
In the next work:
Another very simple piece, yet so effective with its bright colour scheme and depth. The 3D values of the art work strikes out. A very realistic approach compared to other illustrations, saying that the effect of layering the paper works well and shows how simplistic and easy art can be in the right hands.
http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists
In this piece of art, she represents YES and NO:
Featured for the tissue company Kleenex, the picture shows detail on two mirrored pieces, one for the positive YES and the other for the negative NO. The changes in colours and the added shadows give this a 3D effect, the idea behind this is brilliant. Designing all Yes answers that would create tears for example the pregnancy representation is shown in a bird bring the baby sack home. While the negative shows the heart all cold and grey scheme. Cracked and letters split. I feel this is a perfect illustration for the market.
Gail also worked an ECO Program representing the earth as all green with additions that affect this worlds health:
I like this work because its very simple yet effective.
In the next work:
Another very simple piece, yet so effective with its bright colour scheme and depth. The 3D values of the art work strikes out. A very realistic approach compared to other illustrations, saying that the effect of layering the paper works well and shows how simplistic and easy art can be in the right hands.
http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists
2nd Review: James Jean
James Jean, A notorious Taiwanese artist. Famous for the cover work for DC Comics. Other work includes ESPN and Prada. Here is an comic cover for the comic: FABLES. I find this art work very striking. The colour scheme is very... blue. Though the text of the artwork i find very different to the rest of the work yet somehow fits in perfectly. The wolf in the background portrays some of the story and seems to be hand drawn.
Another FABLE book cover, this has to be the best by far i've taken a look at! The skill is amazing and the colour scheme is brilliant!! The attention to detail on a cartoon like sort of illustration is very skillful. I like the lighting how it portrays a busy yet sunny day in the city.
Along side work for comic books james jean has also worked for prada. They chose his illustration "Tokyo in full bloom" to be animated on a building. The picture shows a female figure wearing prada glasses along side of some sort of pastel style multi coloured under water sea bed background.
This is my favourite my james jean, the colours are so varied. The theme "mushroom" fits well with the colour scheme. His way of changing the skin colour too to reflect a sort of light mushroom colour is very clever. The depth of field is also striking, moving from level to level in distance aswell.
Another FABLE book cover, this has to be the best by far i've taken a look at! The skill is amazing and the colour scheme is brilliant!! The attention to detail on a cartoon like sort of illustration is very skillful. I like the lighting how it portrays a busy yet sunny day in the city.
Along side work for comic books james jean has also worked for prada. They chose his illustration "Tokyo in full bloom" to be animated on a building. The picture shows a female figure wearing prada glasses along side of some sort of pastel style multi coloured under water sea bed background.
Some of his latest work featured on his blog:
This is my favourite my james jean, the colours are so varied. The theme "mushroom" fits well with the colour scheme. His way of changing the skin colour too to reflect a sort of light mushroom colour is very clever. The depth of field is also striking, moving from level to level in distance aswell.
1st review: Alex Pardee
Alex Pardee is by far my favourite artist of all time. His illustrations and drawings are out of this world!
In more recent work, Alex Pardee made a poster for the San Fransisco Castro Theatre representing a few of his favourite films directed by Edgar Wright. The image in artistic creativity is out of this world and shows the main shaun of the dead film character having all sorts of illustrations bursting out of his head:
Alex pardee was born in 1976 born in california, he is an illustrator, album work and apparel designer. Alot fo his famous work comes from "The Used" album covers like:
Alex Pardees work has also been for the looked beyond the image and not the disturbing plain sighted representation that most of his work has. Alex pardee not long ago released an image representing WWII and the USA as an eagle with power above the monster Nazi Germany. The image is very shocking but represents and shows the point of power. I think this image wouldn't exactly be right for commercial use but to show people in alex pardee's mind:
Alex pardee as mentioned above has also designed for clothing companies such as Zero Friends. I have a shirt personally. His shirts are like no other, the illustrations on the apparel make people see things they've not seen before or could even imagine in their own minds:
As an illustrator, Apparel designer and general artist. Alex pardee by far surpasses all my expections every time new work is released.
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