ITAP - RVJ

ITAP - RVJ

The RVJ (visual reflective diary is a key componant to an illustrator's creative journey, it should catalogue visual ideas from rough sketches to a dream you had the night before on a new idea.

It basically reflects who you are, your personality and art style, a pinnacle life sorce, we are told to take it everywhere we go. Some find this a burden to carry around and worry about annotation but it pays off we should know we've all been in that dilemma probably throughout college. Not only does it help with idea developing but increases your drawing skills and you kind of become proud of yourself when reaching the end of pages in a sketchbook. 

Illustration

Fusion

My illustration project was based on Fusion, the merging of 2 things put together, here my play on fusion was to render this cyborg in wires, a SI-FI approach as I'm in a robot/wires stage in my designs. More of a digital style approach towards H.R Giger.
The original design was done by I think either Stephen Crowe or Greg Broadmore, don't hold me on that one for Eva one of my favourite anime's, I used the image as a template then added colour, effects, wires and background. 

Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee is inspired by horror films and graffiti, his artwork embodies amusement, his surreal, sinister illustrations are colourful and bursts with vibrant colours in parts of his painting, compared to a H.R Giger piece illustration where the colours are a dull, dense tone. He has also made front cover art for bands like The Used and In Flames. His use of line is amazing, he uses tentacles like a phase and moves on to something new and uses organic shapes but rarely uses blood and guts in his work, he shows that form by using the burst of colours flying out of the limbs  showing a happy side in a dark euphoria. 

ITAP - Tone Of Voice & Legibility

Tone Of Voice & legibility 

The tone of voice is important as it wouldn't be appropriate if I used a small soft typeface to describe the word shout, using bold thick typefaces to express the work shout would be more suitable and appropriate to express that word.  

Here is an example of the word thin, this is a legible typeface as it's petite and thin.

It's important in the newspapers to have bold striking words, mainly headlines that grab your attention, is what ideally the intention is, to grab your eye.

Here is an example of a poster design for the latest batman film the audience is for teens, adults, comic and DC fans, the image tells the story, the writing is there but separated  at both ends to concentrate on the main image, it's clever as we can all decipher it's the joker from just the use of colour and the red bat that resembles the joker's lipstick aswell as the iconic batman symbol. The white spotlight on the wall and 2 circles which resemble the eyes forms the joker's face, this for me is legible, the typeface is bold and strong, using the white and hiding it in the black makes it stand out. The overall design was digitally made as its easily manipulated, painting it would give a different vibe. 

ITAP - How Do Illustrators Gain Inspiration?/ What Is The Significance Of Practice?

How Do Illustrators Gain Inspiration?

Like most artists, we gain our inspiration through other artists styles of work and by going out taking photos doing quick sketches, a series of events that happen and are noted down, political, environmental, everything can give us inspiration just depends where and how you look at it. Artists have there own style of working and progresses through looking at other artists styles, inspired by there work can you only go and experiment for yourself and develop an art style.

 What Is The Significance Of Practice?

By understanding the various practices of illustration we are able to advance and progress in development and practice and find new ways of creating ART, wherever in techniques or new learning materials, this opens a new pathway.

Chet Zar

A series of paintings that I find totally amazing and inspirational by Chet Zar a surrealist fine art painter that has a modern twist crashing into a classical approach. His paintings are very sinister looking, beautiful and scary, darkly humorous, his paintings are portrayed in a portrait style. 

ZOMBIES ARE COMING!!!

My mini photography project, the brief was to take a picture of something in Birmingham that's either past or formal personal to me, well I'm a zombie film fanatic and every-time I used to walk underneath this walkway I used to think zombies would run out from the end and chase me. I edited the photo on Photoshop changing the tone, contrast and gave the image a pale green/blue lens which makes the shot more gloomy , post apocalyptic. 

ITAP - Notions Of Originality

ITAP - Notions Of Originality 

As they say, nothing is original. The art community especially, to fathom what is original and what is not, people label there mark, tag, trade I.e copyright to prove that there painting or illustration is there very own, wrong, past paintings or illustrations opens up a delegation for or leading up towards another greater artist. this is my theory. Nothing is original, we are influenced by other artists and take a part of there work, reconstruct it for our own satisfaction, not necessarily plagiarism depending on the process used, for example; if I was influenced by one of H.R Giger's paintings for his textured detail and his blue and grey tones to create a character illustration, I personally would take that element then reconstruct the fundamental aspects for my own style. Simply copying his work then stating it as your own is Plagiarism, creating a similar scenario using different materials and ending up with a similar outcome with your own thought process behind it is not plagiarism but more of a tribute, the thought process for an artist is probably the only original form that stands between them and the concept.