Monday 26 November 2012
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Visual culture essay notes & ideas
American high school culture & films that embrace this theme:
American Beauty
Thirteen
Donnie Darko
Elephant
Welcome to the Dollhouse
American Beauty
Thirteen
Donnie Darko
Elephant
Welcome to the Dollhouse
identity, friendships, relationships, values, morals, social dynamics, materialism, self perception, hedonism
Sunday 14 October 2012
Refined list of 3 practioners
Luke Dixon
Luke Dixon is a young English illustrator who graduated from Northumbria University with a degree in Fine Art. He has been obsessed with drawing from a very young age and would rush home from school to draw, even extending his canvas to on his parents walls. He says his fascination with art "comes from the enjoyment and excitement of that clean piece of paper, and knowing you're about to get stuck into another piece of artwork".
Luke tends to do many rough sketches in his sketchbook before copying them lightly onto his paper. He then lines everything up, and then, when satisfied with the result, he inks in the final piece. Although he says he is beginning to use the computer more often to manipulate images, he prefers to leave many of his drawings as they are.
He says he has never struggled for ideas and has always had a slightly mangled perspective on things. When he realised that drawing would become his career his ideas combined with his inspiration and gradually developed into his current work. He describes the the Impressionist movement as "amazing" and says a huge influence on him and his work was Tristan Manco's book, 'Stencil Graffiti'. Another significant influence to Luke is Egon Schiele.
At present he is working on composing and creating his own illustration book, which will consist of a drawing that he does everyday for a year. He is also currently undertaking a T-shirt design project.
Luke's work is available to buy on his website shop, http://www.thebearhug.com/ and he prices his work from about £100 up to £300, although his smaller prints and T-shirts are around £15 - £35.
Jack Hudson
Jack Hudson is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Salamanca, Spain. He describes his style as colourful, playful and rich in textures. His illustrations are dominated by human figures in various surrealist yet everyday situations, giving him a vast range of topics that enrich his signature style. His use of colour and texture and the latent ideas in the strokes bestow his illustrations with a positive feel, a sense of proximity, peacefulness and fantasy all at the same time.
Jack says his inspirations vary, "Sometimes if I have a new project on I'll spend hours creating folders of inspiration taken from the Internet which I can reference when I create new work. On the other hand, inspiration can often come when you least expect it, whether you're taking a walk through the park or people watching. I feel most inspired when I am away from my studio and out the house."
His artistic influences comprise of Charley Harper and David Hockney, highlighting their work aesthetic and hard working ethic.
Jack usually works with the same materials: pencil, black Indian ink, gouache and a folder of scanned textures to work with digitally.
Jack sells his work through the shop on his website: http://www.jack-hudson.com/ and his price range varies from £30 - £45.
Phillipp Zurmöhle
Phillip Zurmöhle is a German freelance graphic designer and illustrator who also works at Adidas creating apparel graphics. He studied at the University of Hiroshima, Japan.
He defines his style as "simple, excessive and dark". His work is situated somewhere between realism and abstraction. He has produced digital works representing distant worlds, however his most dominant work consists of many brilliantly realistic illustrations of humanised animals with small touches of colour to provide contrast.
Phillipp is inspired by hip hop. Joseph Beuys and his friends. Recently he has been impressed by the Graffuturism movement, in which graffiti artists take a more abstract, innovative direction. He also mentions Mr Jago, one of his long-time favourite artists, whose artworks still trigger his imagination.
Phillipp sells his work as prints, stretched canvases, and on stationary cards, iPhone cases, tote bags, hoodies and T-shirts. His work and merchandise can be bought here, http://society6.com/phillennium/prints, and the prices range from £15 to £95.
Luke Dixon is a young English illustrator who graduated from Northumbria University with a degree in Fine Art. He has been obsessed with drawing from a very young age and would rush home from school to draw, even extending his canvas to on his parents walls. He says his fascination with art "comes from the enjoyment and excitement of that clean piece of paper, and knowing you're about to get stuck into another piece of artwork".
Luke tends to do many rough sketches in his sketchbook before copying them lightly onto his paper. He then lines everything up, and then, when satisfied with the result, he inks in the final piece. Although he says he is beginning to use the computer more often to manipulate images, he prefers to leave many of his drawings as they are.
He says he has never struggled for ideas and has always had a slightly mangled perspective on things. When he realised that drawing would become his career his ideas combined with his inspiration and gradually developed into his current work. He describes the the Impressionist movement as "amazing" and says a huge influence on him and his work was Tristan Manco's book, 'Stencil Graffiti'. Another significant influence to Luke is Egon Schiele.
At present he is working on composing and creating his own illustration book, which will consist of a drawing that he does everyday for a year. He is also currently undertaking a T-shirt design project.
Luke's work is available to buy on his website shop, http://www.thebearhug.com/ and he prices his work from about £100 up to £300, although his smaller prints and T-shirts are around £15 - £35.
Jack Hudson
Jack Hudson is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Salamanca, Spain. He describes his style as colourful, playful and rich in textures. His illustrations are dominated by human figures in various surrealist yet everyday situations, giving him a vast range of topics that enrich his signature style. His use of colour and texture and the latent ideas in the strokes bestow his illustrations with a positive feel, a sense of proximity, peacefulness and fantasy all at the same time.
Jack says his inspirations vary, "Sometimes if I have a new project on I'll spend hours creating folders of inspiration taken from the Internet which I can reference when I create new work. On the other hand, inspiration can often come when you least expect it, whether you're taking a walk through the park or people watching. I feel most inspired when I am away from my studio and out the house."
His artistic influences comprise of Charley Harper and David Hockney, highlighting their work aesthetic and hard working ethic.
Jack usually works with the same materials: pencil, black Indian ink, gouache and a folder of scanned textures to work with digitally.
Jack sells his work through the shop on his website: http://www.jack-hudson.com/ and his price range varies from £30 - £45.
Phillipp Zurmöhle
Phillip Zurmöhle is a German freelance graphic designer and illustrator who also works at Adidas creating apparel graphics. He studied at the University of Hiroshima, Japan.
He defines his style as "simple, excessive and dark". His work is situated somewhere between realism and abstraction. He has produced digital works representing distant worlds, however his most dominant work consists of many brilliantly realistic illustrations of humanised animals with small touches of colour to provide contrast.
Phillipp is inspired by hip hop. Joseph Beuys and his friends. Recently he has been impressed by the Graffuturism movement, in which graffiti artists take a more abstract, innovative direction. He also mentions Mr Jago, one of his long-time favourite artists, whose artworks still trigger his imagination.
Phillipp sells his work as prints, stretched canvases, and on stationary cards, iPhone cases, tote bags, hoodies and T-shirts. His work and merchandise can be bought here, http://society6.com/phillennium/prints, and the prices range from £15 to £95.
Keywords from 30 practioners
Urban
Graffiti
Narrative
Vintage
Digital media
Inks
Collage
Animals
Playful
Simple
Colourful
Typography
Surreal
Retro
Watercolour
Suggested practioners from group based on keywords:
Simon Schubert
Sua Yoo
Helen Chadwick
Here Gallery field notes
Visit to the 'Here Gallery'
I found it to be a very friendly, relaxed, intimate gallery. The interior is tastefully decorated, with a sofa to sit and read the books on sale, fairy lights, wooden floorboards and a cosy feel to it. The gallery itself is in the basement and is a private and intimate space, with clean white walls and a chair. There is no one to monitor you and I feel this means you can feel relaxed and truly enjoy
30 contemporary practioners
Anna Emilia Laitinen: Illustrator, works in watercolour and has had a lot of work published in magazines.
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Diana Sudyka: Illustrator & Print-maker from USA, paints animals using watercolour
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Carl Wiens: Illustrator & Animator, uses collage and digital media
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Curt Merlo: Digital: Illustrator using digital media to create a retro style
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
'Beastman' (Brad): Designer, artist, illustrator & photographer from Sydney, creates digital work and prints. His creations are beasts with symmetrical patterns
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Javier: Illustrator who works in 3D with paper which he folds out to become a paper sculpture. He then paints with ink on top so his paper creations come to life..
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Luke Dixon: Illustrator who studied fine art at Northumbria University, he has a slight graffiti style, he draws then alters the images digitally
- Source: http://www.dukelixon.co.uk/
Luke Ramsay: Illustrator from Canada, he draws freehand with pen then enhances digitally after scanning images
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Merijn Hos: Illustrator & artist based in the Netherlands. Media used is pencil, paint and digital. He has a very colouful style and is inspired by 60's art
- Source: http://merijnhos.com/
Mikel Jass: Graphic designer based in Barcelona who uses digital collage technique
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Mr Bingo: British Illustrator with hand drawn humour, he infuses comedy with illustrations. He quotes, "makes people laugh with his art". He draws by hand, paints and then scanned to mix digitally
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Randy Mora: Columbian Illustrator, his style is surreal and quite mad. He creates collages with a retro style involving anatomy
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Zutto: Russian illustrator, surreal and colourful art, draws freehand and then digitally alters the images
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Óscar Llorens: Graphic designer & illustrator from Madrid, works in pencil then uses digital media
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Philipp Zurmöhle: Freelance graphic designer from Germany, his work is digital and represents distant worlds expressing, 'cold colours'
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Ricardo Cavolo: Illustrator based in Madrid, common themes in his work includes mermaids, sailors and folk tales. He uses paint, print and also digital media
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Roya Hamburger: Digital designer from Holland, very colourful digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Sergio Membrillas: Fine artists & illustrators collective based in Valencia, they use drawn and digital media and their style is "vintage"
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Skwak: Illustrator from France. His work is bizarre and includes distorted characters. He works with paint and digital media. His style is urban
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Jack Hudson: Illustrator & graphic designer based in Salamanca in Spain, uses paint and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Jean Jullien: French illustrator living in London. His work is digital eclectic pop-art style with typography heavily present.
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Jonny Wan: British graphic designer, uses digital imagery and collage
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Khuan & Ktron: Belgian illustrative collective that uses a 'simple' style which consists of hand drawn art and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Denis Carrier: French graphic designer. His work is narrative and is a combination drawn and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Ekta: Swedish illustrator, her work is very colourful, washy and urban. She uses inks and digital media.
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Gavin Potenza: American illustrator who uses paints, inks, prints and digital media. His work is playful and colourful
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Marc Smith: Illustrator whose work consists of hand drawn, digital, prints and collage.
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Tavis Coburn: Toronto based illustrator inspired by 1940's comic book art. His work is a combination of editorial and digital
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Paul Blow: British Illustrator who uses digital media. His work is mostly editorial and heavily featured in 'The Guardian'. People, animals, ships, interiors and exteriors of houses are present in his work.
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Diana Sudyka: Illustrator & Print-maker from USA, paints animals using watercolour
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Carl Wiens: Illustrator & Animator, uses collage and digital media
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Curt Merlo: Digital: Illustrator using digital media to create a retro style
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
'Beastman' (Brad): Designer, artist, illustrator & photographer from Sydney, creates digital work and prints. His creations are beasts with symmetrical patterns
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Javier: Illustrator who works in 3D with paper which he folds out to become a paper sculpture. He then paints with ink on top so his paper creations come to life..
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Luke Dixon: Illustrator who studied fine art at Northumbria University, he has a slight graffiti style, he draws then alters the images digitally
- Source: http://www.dukelixon.co.uk/
Luke Ramsay: Illustrator from Canada, he draws freehand with pen then enhances digitally after scanning images
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Merijn Hos: Illustrator & artist based in the Netherlands. Media used is pencil, paint and digital. He has a very colouful style and is inspired by 60's art
- Source: http://merijnhos.com/
Mikel Jass: Graphic designer based in Barcelona who uses digital collage technique
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Mr Bingo: British Illustrator with hand drawn humour, he infuses comedy with illustrations. He quotes, "makes people laugh with his art". He draws by hand, paints and then scanned to mix digitally
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Randy Mora: Columbian Illustrator, his style is surreal and quite mad. He creates collages with a retro style involving anatomy
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Zutto: Russian illustrator, surreal and colourful art, draws freehand and then digitally alters the images
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Óscar Llorens: Graphic designer & illustrator from Madrid, works in pencil then uses digital media
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Philipp Zurmöhle: Freelance graphic designer from Germany, his work is digital and represents distant worlds expressing, 'cold colours'
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Ricardo Cavolo: Illustrator based in Madrid, common themes in his work includes mermaids, sailors and folk tales. He uses paint, print and also digital media
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Roya Hamburger: Digital designer from Holland, very colourful digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Sergio Membrillas: Fine artists & illustrators collective based in Valencia, they use drawn and digital media and their style is "vintage"
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Skwak: Illustrator from France. His work is bizarre and includes distorted characters. He works with paint and digital media. His style is urban
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Will Scobie: Brighton based illustrator & designer who uses digital imagery. His style is urban and he uses pen strokes and digital imagery
- Source: http://www.willscobie.co.uk/Jack Hudson: Illustrator & graphic designer based in Salamanca in Spain, uses paint and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Jean Jullien: French illustrator living in London. His work is digital eclectic pop-art style with typography heavily present.
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Jonny Wan: British graphic designer, uses digital imagery and collage
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Khuan & Ktron: Belgian illustrative collective that uses a 'simple' style which consists of hand drawn art and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Denis Carrier: French graphic designer. His work is narrative and is a combination drawn and digital imagery
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Ekta: Swedish illustrator, her work is very colourful, washy and urban. She uses inks and digital media.
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Gavin Potenza: American illustrator who uses paints, inks, prints and digital media. His work is playful and colourful
- Source: Behind Illustrators
Marc Smith: Illustrator whose work consists of hand drawn, digital, prints and collage.
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Tavis Coburn: Toronto based illustrator inspired by 1940's comic book art. His work is a combination of editorial and digital
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
Paul Blow: British Illustrator who uses digital media. His work is mostly editorial and heavily featured in 'The Guardian'. People, animals, ships, interiors and exteriors of houses are present in his work.
- Source: Illustrators Unlimited
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