Source: www.veronicalawlor.com
Veronica Lawlor's 'reporter' style of visual journalism of the Oculus, for a client. I have used her influence and also Greg Betza's for my Menu exercise.
Note: use of watercolour on some elements. Very precise use, not as bled out as Greg Betza's. Gives a professional finish.
Cleaned up digitally?
My tutor suggested I look at Evan Turk's images. Smudging pastel for intense colour as with my Say Hello for Assignment 1. My further experimentation with oil pastels after Evan Turks work references in Part 4: Visual Distortion.
Evan Turk's travel images - South African portraits
Source: www.evanturk.com [Accessed 4 June 2016]
Recommended: Laura Carlin below: Source www.itsnicethat.com [Accessed 12 June 2016].
Fascinating childlike drawing, with figures that show varying degrees of emotion within minimal amount of line. Note for Part 5: Exercise - character development.
Mary Fedden suggested by my tutor below: These link back to Part 4: Exercise - visual distortion, the subject matter of cats so closely resembles my exercise.
Note application of patterns, playful content, flattened objects, most importantly to learn from: added elements within the compositions ie. vase, bird, flower, crockery for compositional interest not only for the sake of pattern. Visual distortion grants freedom. Remember this technique to loosen and speed up technique sometimes.
Source: www.tate.org.uk [Accessed April 2016]
Exploring a few illustrators my tutor has suggested
Harriet Russell - Book cover style is instantly recognisable, seen in bookshops worldwide, very digitally enhanced. This is the exact effect I was going for with my book jacket exercise and had perhaps remembered this illustrator from other book covers. Loose, original typography, varied weighting, colour and angles that depict playful interest.
- uses many typefaces at once and stylised drawings. Shall develop my book cover further based on typograhical ideas from this.
Original source: www.harrietrussell.co.uk [Accessed January 2016]
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| Using photographic elements in illustration. Why has this not occurred to me? See me sketchbook sample of ice-cream in a glass bowl collage. |
Jill Calder - extremely experimental, how did she do this? So much of each image seems juxtaposed, cropped, and in an unidentifiable medium. Good to remember for experimentation as I seem to lean very much on my black pen! (colour kokis, wax resist?, collage, and thinking out of the box)
Source: www.centralillustration.com [Accessed January 2016]
Evan Turk - unafraid and unrestrained use of colour. Reminds me of my first attempt experimenting with oil pastels in the greeting card in Say Hello in Assignment 1.
Source: www.evanturk.com [Accessed January 2016]
Steve Simpson - original, zany and intuitive - this inspires me to take drawings in a completely different direction contentwise. Don't have his technical skill but I can identify with his humour in the content and explorative drawing.
Source: www.40fakes.com [Accessed January 2016]
Playful typography
Playful subject matter - try this in further assignments, particularly when it comes to caricatures.
Veronica Lawlor - illustrator
Source: www.veronicalawlor.com
(also a studio 1482 collaborator)
[Accessed May 2016]
Fine liner and colour. Very similar to Greg Betza. Try addings splotches of colour to my own work and see if it works.
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| Pastel, cutouts, bold colour - unafraid of experimenting, try this even if it doesn't work. |
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| Beautiful textured detail in red and fruit baskets on display |
Source: www.studio1482.com
[Accessed 11 March 2015]
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| Summertime by Greg Betza - colour is applied thickly with the tool on its side. Quick markings. Maybe apply this to TR |
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| Pencil crayon, gouache and fine liner. Quickly rendered. Applied in my sketchbook. Suggestions of colour, that depicts temperature, speed, emotion... |
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| Structured lines with organic shapes, lots of circles, balanced and experimental colouring of ice-cream and hands tells a visual story. Try this in my sketchbook. Add colour. |
Expressive use of line that's honest and looks easily laboured, and the use of colour conveys meaning through non-verbal communication. Water colour intense and everything is a 'suggestion' without perfection.
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| Seafood |
Danny Gregory - illustrator -
Source: www.vimeo.com
[Accessed: 24 Feb 2015]
Danny's comment on 'losing inspiration': "Above all, I don’t panic, I don’t despair. Inspiration is not a constant, that’s its nature. It must be wooed and cultivated. So I look at other peoples’ work, visit museums, and relax. Then I just start drawing. If the results suck, I try again. I know I can draw, I know I will again, and that’s all there is to it."
His pictures have lots of distortion going on and descriptive line in different media which changes all the time and gives energy. That's a beautiful cup of tea. Dimensions are flattened.
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| Art before breakfast |
When I think of what inspires me to draw in my sketch book: day to day things are interesting, but probably nature and the ocean above everything else. Who knows where a mountain path will lead and how many creatures could you find in an oak tree?
I will try and write things that inspire me to draw, as they come to mind. Houses and the people that live in them are interesting. Also the things in them. Especially the kitchen.
Lauren Child: observations - Charlie and Lola, collage. Cutouts and impositions on a simple, well drawn background, built up. Lauren's inspiration is from real life. If somebody captures her imagination, she'll 'draw' on that both literally and figuratively in her drawings. It's a childlike, imaginative place to be and it's quite honest. Very oversimplified. Apply to my exercises when using collage.
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| Lauren Child, Charlie and Lola courtesy BBC Press Office; http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/10/lola_eps.shtml |
http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/info-gouache-hints-&-tips.htm
[aCCESSED 4 NOVEMBER 2014]
GOUACHE (Hints and tips)
GOUACHE (Hints and tips)
'Designers Gouache colours are a range of opaque water colours, so called because they were developed for and continue to be mainly used by designers. Gouache is however also used by fine artists as an opaque water colour , or in combination with Artists™ Water Colour.
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache is accepted today as the finest quality range available, with a wide colour spectrum catering for both designers and fine artists. In addition unsurpassed covering power is achieved by the high level of pigmentation and brilliance of colour from the use of pure pigments. In use, the colours' even flow produces flat washes without streaking.'
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Illustrator Mieke van der Merwe's illustrations and sketchbook doodles: fascinating use of line and different thickness of black pen. This is the most inspiring work I have seen. Each detail is so well placed and each piece tells a visually descriptive story. Looking carefully, many of the architectural details are little rectangular shapes making patterned detail. The toned areas look like they might have been added afterwards. I've applied this to my drawings in my sketchbook specially since I hog a black fine liner pen. Lines and cross hatching describe building facades. I'm influenced not so much by the content (architecture and skylines), but by the endearment of line, tone and the pictures in general.
Each line seems carefully considered for thickness, negative space versus positive space, measured against the whole, and seen for is descriptive quality. So her mind must be computing this as she draws because there isn't a mark on the page that doesn't mean something.
“For
me the process of making the picture is very important.
When I make a mistake I
incorporate it into my picture and even feels it contributes to it."
-Mieke van der Merwe
-Mieke van der Merwe
https://www.behance.net/mieke
          Alice Tait: Adrian Mole series book cover of Red Shoes - with watercolour and gouache and a black fineliner. My tutor says to find a waterproof black pen. That's the trick. Plus enormous skill in watercolour. But I think this can be achieved with gouache. Experiment further inwww.michaelbastillustration.com- Michael Bast food illustrator on brands like Sarah Lee, Gerber baby food etc. Michael Bast illustrates all his food, product and technical drawings in pencil first. You can see his way of thinking which seems less experimental than I thought. His idea is concrete, then he renders his pencil sketch, building it up with computer generated flourishes. I had wondered about this graphic design aspect to illustration and see that drawing from reality is key here, regardless of computer aids.  And then, after the digital aspect:
  Honore Daumier: At the Print Stand. Every face a caricature, expressions tell a story and the angled lighting illuminates the pictures they're looking at. Transforms the scene. When I started my course I felt the need to rush to get 'things done'. Then I started to linger on the exercises and tasks that were not for my tutor. Now I'm a third of the way into the course, and I've forgotten about rushing and it's more enjoyable.   Use of line: definite, descriptive line, very strong, round and organic shapes are quite feminine. February 2012 |  | |||||||||
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 Tony Ross 'I want a Cat' book cover:Coloured pencil and crayons - Colours and direction of strokes, vibrant and strong. Strong textures achieved by mixing and layering colour. Scribbly and delicious. Using this method in my exercises in my sketch book. The non-perfection of it, is the attraction. | | ||
 Tony Ross illustration: Narrow eyes, narrow nose, narrow ears. Even the vertical bed proportions, the stripes on the sheets and the sidetable suggest a plot..using narrowneas to convey a message: sly, conniving. How does one render this digitally... | |||
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October 2011
Hopes and Expectations
I hope to complete a degree.
I drew an ugly face at the Tate Modern when I lived in London years back, it got an honest laugh from the curator there. Remembered the joy of connecting with people through pictures.
I was surrounded by breathtaking British architecture and art, living in the UK, I was inspired to study at the OCA. A fineliner pen goes with me and I've got one for every bag, it's my favourite tool.
I hope to obtain a stronger ability to see, to experiment and extend my ability specially
improving my use of line. Thinner, thicker, punctuated and characterised by different swirls, strokes and pressure, stronger and more delicate in some places. My eye rushes sometimes to find form and in that I forget about the expression in the line and its delicacy. I would like to harness the process of drawing thereby illustrating a feeling or a thought concisely and elegantly. How do professionals get it so slick and perfect?
November 2011
Anita Jeram's, Two Bad Mice.
Is illustration a bit of artistic cheating? I could draw the fantastic feathered cheeky hoepoe bird outside my window and nobody would be the wiser for its accuracy, if it’s illustrative.
Maybe my sketchbook practice will cancel this worry of mine. Will persevere.
Is illustration a bit of artistic cheating? I could draw the fantastic feathered cheeky hoepoe bird outside my window and nobody would be the wiser for its accuracy, if it’s illustrative.
Maybe my sketchbook practice will cancel this worry of mine. Will persevere.
How many times did Anita Jeram draw her dogs in The Most Obedient Dog in the World (Walker Books) before she got it right? Every line denotes something in the character of her animals. The line on that is the curve in the dog's back suggest he's comfortable eating and not even the cat is able to distract him. Strongest line in the picture?
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I collected these images because they are visually descriptive beyond their visual quality:Tinus Horn - SA Illustrator - poignant features, lovely use of graphite pencil. |
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| Tinus Horn - fewest lines possible, check back to thumbnail sketches |
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Theo Krynauw illustrator - book cover design
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| Jackie Morris - Fatherhood |
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Clive Kirk, SA illustrator - art that speaks for itself - advertising humidifiers to a specific target market through the use of Lord Krisna (users of incense/joss sticks) suggesting a healthy option for babies with the rattles and bottles. Not a word has been said.
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| Catherine Gauche - SA illustrator, illustrating extra grip! Fine lines, computer enhanced, great message. |
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Barry Downward - SA illustrator, advertising the sleek new Mini Cooper convertible - attention on the car, the comfort of a cosy tea in a tearoom is spoiled as urgent attention is placed between this action and then on the car. So clear that the car commands an audience. Messaging through illustration without words.
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David Shrigley
Very naive drawing, not self-conscious, I could learn a thing or two as there is no drive for perfection, childlike markings are the focus. Look particularly at his tattoos. People actually wear these...
http://davidshrigley.com/tattoos/
His typography : basic and hand rendered, I wonder, is this acceptable? He's no Jan Vermeer... but somehow it works. Try this with fine liner in my sketchbooks.
His typography is wound into his designs.
Lauren Childs
Charlie and Lola fame. Lots of collage, textures, reduced use of line and sketches first in detail, rendering final drawings with less detail and use of bigger areas of colour and texture juxtaposed.
Sarah Fanelli
Difficult to connect to her original source of ideas as illustrations are very outlandish. Use of brown midtones and lots of red. Uses typography as part of her design.
Shirley Hughes
Extremely talented illustrator, no short cuts of any kind, all drawings reflect hand rendered skill with realism and natural colours. Beautiful expression in lines.
William Blake
Interesting use of line, colours are limited and subject matter is religious.
Paul Davis!
Admirable. Pen, koki's, anything goes. Doodles, naive, humour, satire and absolutely uninhibited. What a slavish idealist I am, this is someone to watch as there is very little to what he achieves. Uses intellect and conveys this through writing and very basic illustration.Reference notes on various illustrators in response to tutor notes on Assignment 1:
David Shrigley
Very naive drawing, not self-conscious, I could learn a thing or two as there is no drive for perfection, childlike markings are the focus. Look particularly at his tattoos. People actually wear these...
http://davidshrigley.com/tattoos/
His typography : basic and hand rendered, I wonder, is this acceptable? He's no Jan Vermeer... but somehow it works. Try this with fine liner in my sketchbooks.
His typography is wound into his designs.
Lauren Childs
Charlie and Lola fame. Lots of collage, textures, reduced use of line and sketches first in detail, rendering final drawings with less detail and use of bigger areas of colour and texture juxtaposed.
Sarah Fanelli
Difficult to connect to her original source of ideas as illustrations are very outlandish. Use of brown midtones and lots of red. Uses typography as part of her design.
Shirley Hughes
Extremely talented illustrator, no short cuts of any kind, all drawings reflect hand rendered skill with realism and natural colours. Beautiful expression in lines.
William Blake
Interesting use of line, colours are limited and subject matter is religious.
Paul Davis!
Admirable. Pen, koki's, anything goes. Doodles, naive, humour, satire and absolutely uninhibited. What a slavish idealist I am, this is someone to watch as there seems very little input and he still achieves - something. Uses intellect and conveys this through writing and very basic illustration. Sometimes crude, not always fantastic.
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