Week 8-Illustration

On our first day in illustration we did some drawing techniques to help us get warmed up for the week. We did these in our sketchbooks and also on sugar paper and cartridge. We used media like felt pens and charcoal as well as ordinary graphite. We drew natural objects such as shells and pine cones but we also added some shoes into it after a while.
We used lots of techniques, such as only looking at the object, drawing with our eyes closed and feeling the object and also only using one line.

On the second day we started some work that would start of the project for the week. We started by drawing stuffed birds in our sketchbooks, again using lots of different techniques, like we had the day before. We moved around and drew three different birds all together, but we then chose one bird that we would work from for the rest of the day. We then had to draw that bird by working on the floor and using long sticks to control our media. I found this quite difficult and struggled to get anything good out of it, but my last couple of drawings were kind of okay. We did 4 drawings all in all.

We then made a model of the bird we had drawn, using newspaper and 2 of the drawings we didnt want to keep, so we used collage to make the bird look as much like the stuffed bird as possible. I found it difficult to get this started but once i got the shape done it got a lot easier, i just wish we had more time to do this so i could have got it finished before we moved onto the next step.

On the third and final day we created drawings from the model we had made the day before. We created images using lots of mixed media, such as collage, masking tape, ink, emulsion, chalk and graphite. We created 4 images on this day and i am proud of them all, but i think one could be improved a lot.

I really liked this week and it has definitely been my favourite week after fashion. I really liked it because even though it was similar to textiles, with all the drawing, i felt like i created better work and for some reason i enjoyed it more. It has also taught me how to use mixed media together a lot more and i think i will definitely use this again in the future.

Illustrators

Julie Morstad

I liked the work  by Julie Morstad because it is quite simple but still very eyecatching and interesting. I liked the top image because the object the girl is carrying looks like it should be a carrot or something like that but the artist has changed it up and made the shape look more like a diamond and also made it more girly by making them pink, so the picture all together is more girly and is changed completely.
I liked the second image because the children are on stilts and they are normally small next to everyone else, but this creates something different. It is also interesting because it is not very often, especially now, that you see groups of children wandering around on wooden stilts.
I really liked Julie Morstads style because it reminds me of illustrations from childrens books and i think this is what appealed to me.

Tom Schamp

As soon as i saw this work by Tom Schamp i was attracted to it straight away. This is because it is so busy and has a lot in it and i think you could look at it a number of times and still find something different in it that you havent seen before. I like how he must have spent so much time on this to make it look the way it does and evern though there are so many little bits in it, it all works together to create a really good piece of work. I also like how the bulidings and things arent exactly normal, for example in the bottom image their are giant cats and then a building with a womans face on, which you wouldnt see in real life and to me, this just makes it even more interesting.

Stina Wirsen

I liked this artists work because it is varied in what she does and i have proven that just in two images. The top image isvery fashion based and that is the area i love, so i would obviously be attracted to that. I then chose the second image because i think it is kind of cute, while still being interesting to look at. I like how the little monster creatures she has drawn all seem to link together but a lot of them have different expressions, some are angry and some are smiling and happy. I think by looking through her work you wouldnt think that it was all done by the same artist and this is what i like.

Anne-Lise Boutin

I liked this artists work because she uses a limited colour pallette but still has very effective outcomes. The top image really appealed to me because she has used complementary colours on a white background and even though a lot of the shapes are connected you can still see where they stop and start when you look properly and i think this works really well. I then liked the second image because it coud tell a story for some people and i like it when art work does this.

Cristian Turdera

This work appealed to me because it looks really worked into and looks 3D, where as a lot of the previous work i have seen and chosen for this post have been 2D and flat. I liked this because it is not what i normally think illustration to be so it is a change from the norm. The top picture is flatter than the bottom but it still looks a little more 3D than usual. I also liked them because they are very child like and although i am 18 i still like images like this.

Annie Wilkinson

This artists work appealed to me because i think they look like fairy tale images, but are a different take from the normal, traditional fairy tale images, which look very classical. The one word i can think to describe the images is 'floaty' even though there is nothing floating...
I also liked the images because they are simple compared to other work and there are exaggerated things on there. For example on the top image it is the flowers and on the second it is the girls hair. I think this adds to the image and makes it look more fun and appealing.

Sara Fanelli

I liked this piece of work by Sara Fanelli because the different kinds of typography make it very appealing and some of the colours, especially the red and the pink, are eye catching against the neutral background. I also like how the image is framed by a series of blue lines, because to me this is different from what you would see in a frame shop but i can still see the image hanging on a wall just the way it is now.
The other thing that appealed to me is that all the colours could be linked together quite well, e.g. the red, blue and white could be linked together by things like the union jack or american flag, but then the pink is just there on the end and sticks out and doesnt really link to the other colours, which makes you wonder why it stands out more than the rest. 

I also like this image because it is different from any other Orange advert i have seen. To me, orange adverts normally just consist of lots of black and orange but this one is really colourful while not being complicated, which i also think adds to the effect. I also think this could be quite inspirational to some people, by saying that a phone call doesn't have to be something boring, it can be something good that could change a persons life.