Aude

Jessie Ford ^

I looked at Aude Van Ryn during my 'Under the bridge' brief.

I found looking at the layouts helped me a lot. I used these images in my Critical Studies presentation. the first image above inspired my park setting I produced for the brief.

The white boxes reminded me of a hopscotch.

another person I looked at and used in my presentation is Jessie Ford. Her work reminds me a lot of Aud Van Ryn [The figure and scenes are very similar] but she works mainly with print.

I used this image as it remind me of a park and as I was producing a park setting I needed inspiration on how other illustrators would put a park scene together. 

http://www.heartagency.com/html/aude_Frameset.html

Otto

Otto has been working as a freelance illustrator since 1991 and mainly works with clients in editorial but also advertising and book publishing. He likes to produce a choice of roughs before deciding on a final artwork, he says a piece can take between up to 3 hours  or several weeks. He talked to us about how advertisements in newspapers can take attention of his illustrations and he showed us some of his books and told us the stories behind the pictures. He had been using an old coloured photocopier to get the effects he wanted at the time.

He was born in Germany but studied graphic design in Bristol and illustration and screen printing MA in London. he takes a lot of his inspiration from German and Polish posters, film posters, sci fi and horror. I really like his style of working and his illustrations are really outstanding. His website is really good and displays all his illustration work, past and present.

http://www.ottoillustration.com/

Tracy Kendall

A lot of Tracy Kendall’s work is very organic she uses things like feathers, leafs and plants and she often will take inspiration from things such as paving stones or book stacks, of which she has gone on to produce work from. One of her most famous prints is her knife and forks wallpaper. From then she went on to printing on lampshades too. she says her wallpapers are just strating points and are often element already in the room and covey a strong design concept. one which interacts with an interiors identity, but without dominating it. 

She explained in the lecture that she rarely uses colour and will often use text. She talked about her fascination with her sister’s handwriting and how it was used on a wallpaper using stitch as apposed to printing. She has produced a lot of work using sequins of which she took inspiration from a 1920 dress. Another wallpaper design by her I really like is covered in real jigsaw pieces, which I have used as one of my example pictures.

she says her wallpapers probably looks so different because she is not trying to mass produce anything. this is a point I agree with.  This is a strong point as no one wants the same wallpaper and her designs are so unique.

Her hand produced graphic range started in 1996 with a large scale design intended at first for her own kitchen, after this she designed a floral. Both designs were spotted by Isla Crawford in the same year. Isla Crawford featured the prints in 'English Elle Decoration Magazine' more and more magazine started to feature her work and people began to order them. she has been selling her graphic designs ever since

danna tartt

This is my version of Donna Tartts book 'The Secret History.'
I am happy with the outcome but if I had to re do it I would probably take a diffrent aproach, as aposed to link between the elements of crime and education. I think the white paper shirt looks interesting and I like the way the paper has scaned in and looks 3D, shadows have fallen the same places they would do if it were a real shirt that someone was wearing, without me having to play around on photoshop too much.

underfoot

Heres some of the work I produced for the underfoot brief. I did not submit the yellow worms with the green line but i thought it worked realy well. I enjoyed this brief and I am realy happy with the final outcome. The insect idea was broad so it was easy enough to come up with concepts.

acacia

Benjamin Lande designs and illustrates CD album layouts posters and T shirts and has a strong interest in horror which mirrors in his work. I really like his artwork for The acacia strain album.

This work I couldn't find on the web so I just scanned it in. Check out my contact report with him, it really helped me out.

Hokusai

Hokusai is most famous for the 'great wave' but i enjoy lots of his other work to like his sketches and woodblock prints of warriors and strange demons.

I bought his book 'Hukusai-first manga master' it really helped me out for one my critical studies essays.

He lived between 1760 and 1849 he was an excellent observer and extraordinary painter and woodblock printer. he was the first Japanese artist to become well known in the west. Hes had a massive impacted on American and European art, culture and design.