Barcelona

Heres some of the work I produced for the Barcelona project.

I took inspiration from the part in the short story were it talks about rebeling.

and how the people of Barcelona would spray paint things on walls and cars.

I produced two other peices for this brief, unfortunatly my scanner isnt the greatest and is making the colour in them look all wishy washy.

Gillian Blease

Gillian Blease Studied at MMU where she completed a foundation course, she then went on to do a Fine art course at Newcastle. she was hugely influenced by Terry frost. she became interested in symbolism when she went to London, she traveled to japan where she became more and more interested in shape design.

she worked at ATME when she returned by to England although she didn't enjoy it very much. she found it hard to be creative. She went on to build up a strong portfolio of which she got jobs from.

At a later date she produced work for the food section in the Guardian, she then got a weekly job.

In her spare time she draws patterns and now works for a card company.

Damian Gascoigne

Damian Gascoigne is an Illustrator / Filmmaker who has been working for 25 years. He loves to observe and he will use anything around him as inspiration [people, animals, interesting marks and drawings] He is constantly taking photographs of his influences. A large amount of his inspirations to his work comes from his surrounding. He See's himself as a 'bit of a snoop' as if he's senses something interesting around he will creep around to experience it and then maybe go on to use it in is illustration.

I myself would not work in the same way as Damian Gascoigne as I'm not particularly interested in making moving images, however I do think we have have the same way of taking influence as I also love to observe those around me.

Tal Rosner

Tal Rosner is an Artist / Filmmaker. After completing his degree, he went on to design posters, after three years he moved on to moving image were he felt he had more possibilities.

Hes presented his work across the world from Disney hall in Los Angeles, Royal festival Hall and Channel 4 sequence 'skins' [British youth drama] of which he designed logo's tittles, bumpers and more and he went on to win a BAFTA award for.

'I designed a mischievous, speedy collage of characters and unpredictable features of Bristol, the city where the plot is set. Each of the 9 episodes’ title sequence received a different ending, highlighting the particular character or characters to be the focus of that episode. '

Otto

I asked Otto a few questions,[ unfortunately I cant post it all on here. ]

Is there any artists or illustrators you are particularly interested in
 
or influenced by? Who is you favourite?
 
What other influences do you have, cultural or social?
 
Not so many illustrators, my favourite ones where Andrej Klimovski, 
 
Paul Cox (the french one), Jeffrey Fisher, Luba Lukova, and older 
 
ones like Gerd Arntz, Cieslevisz, and then way back the russian ones 
 
Rodchenko, Mayakovski, Klutsis,...
 
But more so I like to look at baroque painting, especially italian. 
 
With more modern influences I look mainly at film art, French 
 
nouvelle vague, Japanese and European movies, basically independent 
 
film makers. Culturally I'm not really fixed, as I don't have any 
 
artistic family background. But I usually follow the guideline of 
 
form following function.

Under the bridge

I was given the short story clled 'Under the bridge' to read. The brief stated we had to produce two final images. I started to look at bridges and finding one that would fit with the theme of the story. I then decided to stencil the bridge to give the final image an urban look. First I used spray paint on my stencil, the images i was left with was a little fuzzy so I tried stenciling using an air brush. I went on to reverse the bridge picture. The story is quite dark so I wanted the viewer to read the image as being a night time scene. There is also a river in the story which shows in the image because the blue bridge looks like a water reflection. 

The other image I produced was of a playground setting of which I was influenced by Aude Van Ryn. The image represents a scene in the story. I used a metaphor the writer used as part of my imagery. 

Benjamin Lande

I e-mailed Benjamin Lande with afew questions and heres what he had to say... and another thing, want that whitechappel t shirt, going to see them live at the end of this month.

How did you go about starting your career after you BFA in illustration?

I did work for free for a few years while working various part time jobs. Once I had a decent portfolio I began charging bands for artwork until it became a full time job.


Is there any illustrators you are particularly interested or influenced by? Who is you favourite?

80's skateboard artists like Pushead and Jim Phillips really paved the way for crude, bright, obnoxious artwork I am interested in. Right now I am really into Alex Pardee's work. I read that you are interested in horror movies, old skateboards, 80's action figures.


What other influences do you have?

I've studied an insane amount of art history, so the classical influence is always going to be there. The darker and weirder stuff is definitely the dominate influence and inspiration though.


You've produced work for a lot of bands, how did you get into that?

I've always been obsessed with punk and metal music and the interesting artwork involved. Naturally I began to do it for fun and after years of building contacts it became a full time job. The internet and myspace have spawned thousands of bands and made the world a smaller place so I owe a lot of credit to that too.


The characters used in some of your work are very unique, how do you come up with them?

A lot of times I will just start with a nose or an eye. I also like mixing different parts of animals that I find interesting. I dont do a lot of sketching. I like to jump right in and see where the piece goes.


And finally Do you have any advice to give to me for when I graduate?

Figure out what the perfect outlet for your work is. It may take years to get off the ground, but if you network and do something unique with your art people will notice.