28.11.13 - Artist Research

Hello There

Just thought i would pop in another link to the Pinterest page where I've been keeping all my artist research.
Im a bit unsure if its going to get lost in the sea of post but oh well one more wouldn't hurt!

http://www.pinterest.com/hazydayss/ba7/
ARTSIT RESEARCH PAGE

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21.11.13 - Poetry Books on the Market

In a effort to research more into what my target audience might be looking into, i decided to take a look into the best selling poetry book list for 2013.

Love and misadventure - Lang Leav

This was 7th in the amazon list, losing first place to a range of… eerrmm dog poetry, which i didn't really even feel like including.

I will be honest, this is not my taste, in poetry or in illustrations.

I find the illustrations manga like and dated and not in a good way and the poetry a bit dull.

If this is an example of whats on the market, I'm glad its my competition.

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

shel silverstein

This piece, by Shel Silverstien, i understand a lot more. Even though whenever i see a black and white illustration i immediately want to colour it in, this has thought to it.

I can see humour and composite have been taken into account along with the story line of the poem its been integrated with.

Its still quite far away from what i would have as my target audience though.

The Odyssey

Homer

This, would be as close as i could get to what my target audience would be reading.

And sadly, these books have absolutely no illustrations, they are 100% completely text based. 

I think this actually works out great for me as I'm looking into something extremely visual without any real visuals. I genuinely feel like i could fill a gap on the market.

Syliva Plath

Ariel

Sylvia Plath is a well know and widely collection poet who's work I've seen get a lot of press reguraly and is constantly in print with different versions being made all the time.

This particular version of a short story i found was extremely different to all the others and stood out to me with its hand made feeling.

These illustrated poems i found on the faber website. Faber is the publishing house who published "tales from ovid" the book i have been looking into in this whole project.

These are the first development i have found where the artwork is getting as much respect as the text.

Beautiful colours, still very graphic feeling though, not yet to find a drawing, visual balance.

This book cover was also found on the Faber and Faber website.

I thought it would be productive to look into other book covers the writer of tales of Ovid has had.

There seems to be an overwhelming theme of prints going on today….

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12.11.13 - Pattern Ideas

11.11.13 - Artist Study: Ashely G

11.11.13 - Isabelle Vandenabeele

Hello again.
When having my quick chat with Glyn, we also spoke about Isabelle Vandenabeele work with text and image being put together to make the most of the images
Isabelles works is a great way of showing how to give the text and image the best of both worlds, and giving the image the greatest impact on the page.
I think now, i need to go away and work a lot more on the actual images and techniques i use and the process of mark making before i come back to putting them together in some sort of page layouts.
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11.11.13 - Mark Herrald

Hello again.

After having a quick chat with Glyn this morning, we spoke about the layout designs that i had put together on Photoshop
We both agreed on that there is far to much text being put in these images and that i need to concentrate a lot more of my time on the actual development of the images
We also spoke about the fact that i should continue my process of pattern and mark making on all features that i wish to put in the interior illustrations as thats where my ideas were becoming most productive.
While we spoke, glyn showed me some work produced by Mark Herrald
These bird cards show print and pattern making to show the colours and plumage of the birds and how to get across the textures of the birds feathers.
This seems like a really fun route to go down and i look forward to making even more patterns to work from.
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08.11.13 - Overlapping Images: Ben Howard Album Artwork.

Hello again.
Its friday and i have only about 20% of my list crossed off with things i was supposed to do this week so today is going to be a busy day!

I thought i would start off the day by showing this image i came across yesterday while walking home.
I had my shuffle on this popped up.
I've done some research and the illustration is by Owen Tozer, who seems to do all of Ben Howards artwork and merchandise.
Im not particularly drawn to anything else in his work, but this image worked for me.
I have been using the Photoshop layers alot in my work recently but have been trying to use it in a way that doesnt look like its been done on purpose.
When i saw this it occurred` to me that i should use them to my advantage rather then trying to hide the fact its been done on a software.

I haven't got around to getting my drawings started for "Proserpina" poem yet, but i really want to use this effect in some way for that interior illustration.

So yes, i hope you will see a lot more blog post today.
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05.11.13 - Female Figure Studies

After my one to one session with Glynn on friday we spoke about making my figure more feminine for the representation of Juno.

After spending most my time this week working on getting information for my 1000 draft of my research report, I've come across these pieces while researching and they really stood out to me.

Im planning on doing a whole separate post on finding Gauguin while going this project, but the outline used in this top painting (named"the woman in waves") is a stylised version of the female form that i can appreciate.

Now, you have to understand, for the first break-in project i had to draw ALOT of female figures so i think subconsciously when it came to drawing a female for this project, i tried to draw the furthest thing away from what i had done previously.

The last two pieces i found while researching are strikingly similar.

The 2nd from last s a spread from issue 7 of NoBrow depicting men and women doing loads of weird and nasty things, but in very calming surroundings with cool and laid back colours

The last painting is by Felix Vallotton and i found when researching into symbolism. I really enjoy the figures at the front of the painting, they almost seem like they've been drawn by a different person from the ones at the back of the painting.

Use of simple lines to get across the basic nature of the difference in a female form is a big deal to me and i try to keep things as basic  on that level as possible because it gives me more control.

Anyway, i'll update you with some more feminine figure drawings for Juno later in the week.

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1.11.13 Artist Study: Laura Slater

Hello again.
Laura slater is a printmaker who is currently putting her focus towards home decor but first started with initial prints.
Her use of line and pattern is something i really enjoy both in my work (and in my home!)

After speaking with Glynn about making my marks bolder and using different brush sizes, things like this really set off inspiration of what my work could adapt like.

I love the use of the blue, i think this is where it works its best with the pattern making laura is producing.
This is less of an artist study, more of a visual thing i really wanted to share today.

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30.10.13 - "Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre"

Well these just put everything on this blog to shame don't they.

Now you're going to have excuse that i have such a minimal ammout of information about these designers as everything i can find on them, is in french.

"Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre - We are Amelie Charroin and Marie Colin-Madan, born in 1984. Since 2009, we offer collections of square of silk manufactured in France."
I found this quote on the website that sums up their influences:

"Our images are inspirated by history of painting, architecture, traditional patterns of silkscreened square of silk, but our first influences are more contemporary, our own lives, our daily lives. Nature that we are fantasizing, blogs we are following, movies, music, videos."

But look at these colours! What a gorgeous mix of creamy shades.

These abstract scarf patterns look like trendy album covers to me, i was just browsing online and saw these and had to put them in the blog.

The use of strange perspective points and surrealism feel of some of the settings really gets my mind working. Lovely stuff.

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21.10.13 - Aleksandra Waliszewska

Alexsandra is a polish graphic artist currently working in Warsaw. Her narrative gothic painterly style evokes a unsettling, eerie feel to the viewer, as if this is a snapshot of a much longer darker story.

I always try and find quotes from the artist that sum up why they might be relevant to my research. Here is a quote from an interview i found:

"I see a really strong sense of sublimated storytelling in your work, as if some of your drawings catch a ‘frame’, an insightful glimpse out of a longer, more complex narrative. Is that the case? Do you too see it as a bit of larger picture? Are you familiar with the work of Raymond Pettibon at all?

I'm more interested in depicting states of emotion. Narratives tend to arise by themselves, they kind of evolve by their own will. I know several works by Raymond Pettibon. When I was a teenager I made a hand-done copy of his Sonic Youth cover on a friend’s t-shirt."

Her use of storytelling in her paintings is so explicit. Its a lot more direct than i could ever imagine to be but i had to include her in my research for yet again evoking a mood and response out of me when viewing them.

The gloomy, murky colors give off so much description without even focusing on the actual scene thats being depicted. I think if you were to crop out the actual figures and main points that get across the narrative, you would still have an amazing sense of what was going on.

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