Tartelin

Stephane Tartelin is another designer that uses a lot of line drawings and (very) muted pallettes...But is also someone who has crossed many boundaries with their art, producing illustrations, animations and 3d graphic work...

His use of line I find very interesting..Almost confused, just enough to suggest more to the character...never misplaced. The way he works with form, distorting and warping his creations is something I find easy to admire.
The range of work displayed on his site is so broad that you really should look for yourself..Truly someone who does not feel compelled to work within too many boundaries.

Sam webber

Her is a piece by Sam Webber I particularly like... Ethereal, very moody sort of fantastical. The expresion on the characters' face tells the story.

The major points for me are the looseness of line, the informal way they mix on the page. These muted pallettes keep cropping up; pretty washy.

More on jeremy

Was looking again at Jeremy Forsons' work. Trying to decide what it was that drew me in...I always admire good draftsmanship.
I suppose I like the comicky style to the line art as well as maybe the slightly macabre subject matter. I also find it interesting to see how he mixes in various textures and text, reminiscent of Dave Mckean...

O.K .....So, you asked...

This work by Yoku Shimizu is amazing . There is so much going on. Great use of patterns and texture without becoming confused and a lovely flow to the composition with all the elements given just enough space to breathe whilst retaining that nice sense of proportion.

I always seem to prefer things like album/book covers, sometimes posters...they usually have more time lavished on them and look better for it....After all, you can't force art, can you.

Sam Webber....Stephane Tartelin..Yuko Shimizu and more

don't ask me, just look....

Sam Webber

Stephane Tartelin

Yuko Shimizu

Jeremy Forson

visual language (cont.)

This image (left) by Lawrence Zeegen contains metonyms for the inventor through the devices of the wheel and the light-bulb relating to perhaps the most famous of inventions



This image by Chris Moore found in The directory of Illustrators Originals, contains the image of Big Ben a widely accepted synecdoche for London but also (especially in the context of the image ) for civilization (remember Planet of the Apes?).

Visual Language...The art of rhetoric

Over the next few days we are looking at visual language as related to terms (from the Greek) that usually relate to literary ideas; methods of communicating an idea.

(left)a metaphor for Brand Analysis the image is by Mick Brownfield published in AOI. images 28

Texas Rex and the Zombie Hunters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXLVUjC-CzY

This link is to our completed animation from the first few months of this year at uni in the 'moving image' elective subject classes. We learnt a few new pieces of software, namely adobe after effects and some new tricks with photoshop.
We thought it turned out pretty well, I was pleased with the way everything came together and thought we met our goals well.

Most of the scenery was made by Natalie (who i need to add on here somewhere , she is awesome and worked really hard on this). And Chris Madden (who I also need to add) worked on developing a lot of the ideas and concepts with us, then he and myself designed the characters to be used.

We all took differnet sections of the film to create and set off. The first 35 seconds or so are what I created with the pan across the deserted town and the character intro text and although a little infuriating at times they have worked quite well.
All in all we worked well as a team and it was an enjoyable experience.

link to my deviant art account

I am trying to use my Deviant art profile to raise my profile and also gain constructive critcism from the community. http://spungle.deviantart.com/

Gillian Blease

We have an upcoming lecture by the practicing illustrator Gillian Blease. If you like bold graphic uncomplicated imagery, then this should be up your street.... http://www.gillianblease.co.uk/main.html

Link to juxtapoz

Here's a link to another interesting site for creatives.

link to itsnicethat....because it is

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

Jon Sullivan

Here is another artist I find inspirational, he began using traditional media and has moved on to employing digital methods...See if you can spot the difference!..

He does some nice break downs of his work to dispel some of the mystery and give some hints on how the pieces are achieved..http://www.jonsullivanart.com/SM%20HOMEPAGE%201.htm

link to cg society

If anyone is wondering where I get my inspiration, or how far they might be able to push the computer generated imagery type side of things, here is a site I usually find my way to when I'm browsing arty type stuff on my own...http://www.cgsociety.org/

The site contains lots of tutorial and mad award winning stuff...Beware, it is mostly created using advanced software but the quality is astounding and I find the endeavors of the artists involved a real source of inspiration.

Figure works

Here's couple of things I came up with in class this week.
For anyone who is interested, we took elements from different influences we liked and kind of threw them all in the mixing pot..
My influences included eduardo Paolozzi and Push Pin studios, and also regency fashion.

I always like to throw different media together and see what I can achieve with the them.

Achieving a unity means getting the most out of the software and being inventive and making use out of things that might at first seem useless (and probably end up in the waste paper basket anyway eventually). I like to get some elements of my own hand in there though of course and I enjoy the mix of using my own feel for shape and composition with the ephemera that goes in to my things.

Hope you enjoy them.