Ian Wright (the artist) reworks his portrait artwork to create unique effects, which is interesting, and, if i had more time, i would like to have followed in his footsteps. Here are a couple of examples of his work:
Showing posts with label Illustrator Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illustrator Research. Show all posts
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Vanessa Dell
Vanessa Dell is a portrait artist/illustrator whose work influences me because of her warm, simple portraits that come across in a naive manor. Below are a couple of examples of the quality of her work:
To keep from annoying the copyright police, she works from photos in conjunction with other photos, basically piecing them together using different sources.
Saturday, 19 January 2013
Guinness Advertising
Having searched for helpful portrait images that would possibly help me in gathering a style, i came across this Guinness Advertising book, from which i have made sketches relating to almost every early featuring artist that worked on the advertising scheme. My favorite to draw from was J Gilroy, the most influential and famous Guinness artist. Again, simple and yet effective.
Eric Ravilious
I have chosen to look at Eric because, having come across his work, i think that it captures what i am trying to achieve in my own practice; simple and effective.
Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver.
Having stumbled across Eric's work, i have managed to pick out certain illustrations that i think would benefit me and my work.
The two illustrations above are fascinating portraits, something i know i could never achieve in this project and the time scale left, but it would be nice perhaps to work with colouring pencil?...
Extremely simple lines with a bit of depth... that's all.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Varoom Inspiration
As i was looking through the most recent Varoom paper today, i came across some very inspirational pieces of art work. The first is by Pia Bramley who focused on awkward drawings of uncomfortable moments in life.
The following pencil work is by Thea Brine featuring the riff raff of the general public.
And the final illustration is by Aleksei Bordusov "AEC" on an old wall done with acrylic and sprays..
I have labelled these works as 'inspirational' because of their simplicity and effectiveness, something every illustrator strives to produce:
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Augusto Costhanzo
Slightly different from my other influences previously listed, buut i think it would be good for me to show a bit of diverse art within this subject area to what i am used to seeing. Augusto works in a caricature sense, but digitally, perhaps one day this might be me, depending on the outcome of this project.
Augusto Costhanzo was born in December 1969 in the city of Buenos Aires , where currently still lives. He's drawn throughout his whole life and the website above is the result of 20 years of work and experimentation.
Music, films, literature, arts… and their performers, are the subjects that inspire Augustio, and they’re recurrent in his work.
Humor plays an important part too in his work, it’s the main star of the discreet universe he finds himself in, and the one he chooses to shine as his own.
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” Francis Bacon
Contact:
Phone: +54 9 11 4946 6109
e-mail: info@costhanzo.com
Represented Internationally by: http://www.agoodson.com
Jorn Kaspuhl
Much like Ken Taylor, Jorn Kaspuhl produces simple yet effective images using block colour and line tones. He is someone that i have found useful to look at further because of his portraits.
jörn kaspuhl graduated from the department of design at the university of applied sciences in hamburg in 2008. since then he gained widely experience in working as a freelance illustrator for several international agencys, magazines, publishers, musicians and fashion-labels.
jörn kaspuhl graduated from the department of design at the university of applied sciences in hamburg in 2008. since then he gained widely experience in working as a freelance illustrator for several international agencys, magazines, publishers, musicians and fashion-labels.
The main focus in his illustrations lays in the hand made drawing. out of bold and clear lines he expresses his ideas with ink and pen by shaping each image out like a woodcut. with regard to content many pictures have a closeness to animals and nature elements itself. interwoven organic forms and patterns catch his interest as well as the simplest shape of things.
jörn kaspuhl lives and works in hamburg, germany.
contact:
jörn kaspuhl illustration
jörn kaspuhl
martin-luther-straße 8
20459 hamburg
phone +491797062075
mail
mail@kaspuhl.com
Gary Kroman
Gary influences me in his portrait production because it captures an unusual light on the subject. For example, below is a skeleton playing a guitar...
Gary Kroman was born in New York City. He began working independently as a freelance illustrator in 1972. Gary illustrated extensively for ad agencies and magazines. In 1973 he met up with the people at Relix magazine and started illustrating for the magazine. Inspired by Rick Griffin, Kelly and Mouse and most of the San Francisco comic and poster artists of the late sixties and early seventies he created volumes of posters, magazine covers, album cover art and tee shirts. His posters, most notably the 100 Grateful Dead songs, Sunshine Daydream, Summer of Love 20th year anniversary and Dead Serenade are licensed and sold to various companies in many categories and are still traded and sold all over the world to this day.
Gary Kroman was born in New York City. He began working independently as a freelance illustrator in 1972. Gary illustrated extensively for ad agencies and magazines. In 1973 he met up with the people at Relix magazine and started illustrating for the magazine. Inspired by Rick Griffin, Kelly and Mouse and most of the San Francisco comic and poster artists of the late sixties and early seventies he created volumes of posters, magazine covers, album cover art and tee shirts. His posters, most notably the 100 Grateful Dead songs, Sunshine Daydream, Summer of Love 20th year anniversary and Dead Serenade are licensed and sold to various companies in many categories and are still traded and sold all over the world to this day.
Currently Gary works on his own original art and projects for the apparel industry for licensed product and characters he creates on his own.
Ken Taylor
Ken Taylor, much like French, involves himself in detailed work, but, like The Head of State, produces it for the 'print' market in forms of posters etc. I aspire to be like Ken for his effectiveness in image making. Below i have included details about him and his practice along with a couple of helpful interviews.
Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor works primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well known for his striking rock posters. Ken started in Perth Western Australia doing posters and album artwork for local bands. In 2001 He moved to Melbourne and slowly started to create a name for himself within Melbourne’s music scene. In 2006 he went out on his own and started to work full time on music based artwork.
Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor works primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well known for his striking rock posters. Ken started in Perth Western Australia doing posters and album artwork for local bands. In 2001 He moved to Melbourne and slowly started to create a name for himself within Melbourne’s music scene. In 2006 he went out on his own and started to work full time on music based artwork.
Ken has designed posters and album artwork for many Australian bands including You Am I & The Beasts of Bourbon & Crowded House. Internationally he has designed artwork for bands such Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan & The Rolling Stones. Ken has won the Desktop Create Award for Best illustration in both 2007 & 2009 and was a Guest Speaker at the 2009 AGIDEAS design conference and the 2011 Semi – Permanent Creative Conference in both Melbourne and Perth. Ken continues to work with bands both locally and internationally and is represented by Drawing Book.
Interviews:
Richard 'French' Sayer
Richard 'French' Sayer influences me in the detail of his artwork, which also, like The Head of State, extremely good at remaining effective and powerful, but in a different light and for a different audience/market. I enjoy that Richard likes to print onto skateboards and do things that interest him in that way. Below are some details about him along wit a few interviews that i have found useful.
French is a freelance Artist & Illustrator based in Walthamstow, but from the garison town of Aldershot, Hampshire. He graduated from Staffordshire University in 2002 with a degree in Fine Art, after spending a stint of his degree studying at Kansas Univeristy, Lawrence, Kansas USA. Once graduated he worked as Artist in Residence at a Kinross Wolaroi school, Orange, Australia from 2002 – 2003.
French is a freelance Artist & Illustrator based in Walthamstow, but from the garison town of Aldershot, Hampshire. He graduated from Staffordshire University in 2002 with a degree in Fine Art, after spending a stint of his degree studying at Kansas Univeristy, Lawrence, Kansas USA. Once graduated he worked as Artist in Residence at a Kinross Wolaroi school, Orange, Australia from 2002 – 2003.
Since then he has lived in London and worked as a Freelance Artist / Illustrator. A great deal of the illustration he has created has been for the skateboard industry, as well as Music (Heavy Metal mainly) Advertising, Print, Fashion and Publishing. More recently he has been art directing and also curated a number of exhibitions.
French also runs a skateboard company “Witchcraft Hardware”, currently selling in the UK, Europe, Skandonavia, Japan, Canada, Austria and New Zealand, with an international team of riders.
Contact:
funeralfrench @ yahoo . com
Phone: (0044) 07984697109
Clients:
Advertising:
DDH Advertising
Fingal Advertising
M&C Saatchi
AMV BBDO Advertising
Wieden & Kennedy
Brands:
Olympus Cameras
Casio G-shock
Scion
Wannadoo Broadband
The BBC
ITV
Publishing / Print:
Dazed and Confused
Laurence King Publishing
Nylon Magazine
Plan B Magazine
Clark Magazine
Tank Magazine
Front Magazine
Sidewalk Magazine
Kingpin Magazine
Music / Record Labels:
Modular People Records
Century Media Records
Virgin Music
Forest Records
Crematorium Records
Southern Records
Blackest Rainbow Underground Records
Fashion:
Silas
Uniqlo
Mishka
Sixpack
Carhartt
Volcom
Paul Smith (New Bold)
Beams
Altamont Clothing
2k By Gingham
Suburban Bliss
Footwear Brands:
Vans Footwear
Nike
Emerica Footwear
Pointer Shoes
Fallen Footwear
Adio Footwear
Skateboarding:
Creature Skateboards
Cliché Skateboards
Real Skateboards
Jivaro Wheels
Independent Truck Company
Zero Skateboards
Antiz Skateboards
Heroin Skateboards
Witchcraft Skateboards
Solo Exhibitions:
“Let Us Prey” – Beach London Gallery, London, UK- May 2012
“French” - Ninelives Gallery, Brisbane Australia – January 2012 (print exhibition)
“Oath Of Armageddon” – Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne, Australia – January 2012
“At First Light” – Ninelives Gallery, Brisbane, Australia – August 2010 (joint show with Murdoch Stafford)
“Isolated Magic” – Chapter One Gallery, London – December 2009
“Blood Oath” – Archipeligo Gallery, Sheffield – October 2009
“The Initiation” – Cerasoli Gallery, LA, USA – September 2009 (joint show with Derek Albeck)
“Cursed Scrolls”- Mishka, Brooklyn, USA – July 2009
“Slaughter” – Metal Destroys W+K” – Wieden and Kennedy, Amsterdam, Netherlands – July 2009
“Humour of Initiation” – Vans / 5050 Gallery, Bristol – April 2009
“Made of Rats” – Force of Nature Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark – Feb 2009
“Funeral Fog” – Monster Children Gallery, Australia – December 2008
“Hand of Glory” – Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane, Australia – November 2008
“Lord of Light” – Don’t Come Gallery, Melborne, Australia, – November 2008
“Desolate Delights” – Derek Albeck and French, Berdhouse Gallery, LA, USA – May 2008 (Joint Exhibition)
“High Priestess of the Woods” – Analogue, Edinburgh – January 2008
“French” – Projekts Gallery, Manchester – May 2007
“Funerality” – Monster Children Gallery, Sydney Australia – May 2007
“Conventional Weapons” - KCDC, Brooklyn, New York – February 2007 (Joint Exhibition with Fos)
Group Exhibitions:
“Diversions” – Giant Robot Gallery, Los Angeles USA – March 2012
“Looking Sideways” – Vans Wangl Tangl Exhibition, Switzerland - March 2012
“Rolling Back the Years” – Huck Magazine, London – January 2012
“All the Colours of the Dark” – Awful Nice Gallery, St Louis, USA – March 2011
“Close to a World Below” – The Scion Gallery, Los Angeles, USA – October 2010 (Curator)
“Disorder Disorder” – The Penrith Regional Gallery, Australia – August 2010
“Skull Duggery” – Pure Evil Gallery, London, UK – March 2010
“Scion Installation 6” -Touring Exhibition, LA, Austin, Witchita, Minneapolis, Brooklyn – Jan 2010 – August 2010
“Metal” – Giant Robot Gallery. New York, – November 2009
“Scion Installation 5” – Touring Exhibition, Detroit, MI, Miami, FL, Phoenix, AZ, Minneapolis, MN, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA, USA – December 2008 – August 2009
“Take to the Woods” – Analogue, Edinburgh – December 2007
“We’re Rollin, They’re Hatin” – Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, USA – October 2007
“To the Masses” - Scion Installation, Los Angeles USA – August 2007
“Cherryvale Skateboards” – London – July 2007
“Sixteen X Twelve” - Monsterchildren Gallery, Sydney, Australia – November 2006
“A Thousand Things” – MU Gallery, Eindhoven, – July 2006
“The Rest Is Total Silence” – ATM Gallery, New York – July 2006
“Everyone knows this is Nowhere” - Galleri Loyal, Stockholm,– May 2005
“The Banjo Show” – 88B Gallery, London – April 2005
“Moving Units” - Kingsland Rd, London – August 2004
“Window Show” – Wren Gallery, Sydney, Australia – October – November 2003
“Sneaker Pimps”- Sydney, Tokyo, Berlin, L.A – November 2003 – September 2004
“Artist In Residence Commission” – Kinross Wolaroi School, Sydney, Australia – September 2003
“Exhibition 101” – Sydney, Australia – May 2003
“Skate Art” – Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe – June 2003
“A Surface In Between” - Arthouse, Hoxton, London – May 2003
“Side Effects of Urethane” – Jam Factory, London – November 2001
Education
1st Class BA Hons Fine Art, Staffordshire University, 2002
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