Alice In Wonderland
Looking At Illustrators
30/06/15
Hayao Miyazaki:
Hayao Miyazaki is best known for his work on the Studio Ghibli films such as 'My Neighbour Totoro', 'Spirited Away', 'Howl's Moving Castle' and many others. While he creates characters, I am more interested in the art in the background.
I am drawn to the detail he puts into his artwork and of how ethereal it looks, and also how, even though the style he uses means it isn't realism, it still has an element of realism in it.
Tom J Newell:
Tom Newell specialises in Illustration, and his work is mainly in black and white. It is bold and yet highly detailed even though he uses shapes to create an object rather than drawing the object itself.
I like his work because it focuses on the weird and the imaginative side of things. instead of just going with convention he goes against it. While a lot of my drawings lack imagination as I can only draw what I see in front of me or from an image, which I then adapt, I will use his style as an inspiration.
He Graduated as a conceptual artist and continued to draw in his style, drawing gig posters and things alike. His work is mainly in black and white however some pieces include colour.
Iain Macarthur:
Iain Macarthur is a London based illustrator who works with pens, water colours and pencils and create Surreal pieces of portraits with embellished patterning around them. He graduates from Swindon college in HND Illustrations. In order to get his work some recognition, he began asking companies and art websites if they were interested in his work, while also posting his portfolio on behance.net
His inspiration comes from sitting down and taking in his surroundings, incorporating whatever catches his eye into a sketch.
Mr Gauky:
I like Mr Gauky's work because of his incorporation of pastel colours. I also like his unusual images and strange drawings.
He has been drawing for most of his life, stemming from creating and drawing things from a young age to dropping out of school and working jobs in which he's draw more than work. His friend saw his work and told his to go back to college, which eventually led to uni. He was highly influenced by skateboarding, which opened his eyes to print, and the use of limited colour schemes to create board graphics.
A lot of research leads up to a piece and he find elements that interest him. He doodles until he likes what he has created and then he moves on to the lightbox.
Tim McDonagh:
Tim McDonagh uses a brush an Indian ink to create his pieces which he then colours up digitally. He values detail. He loves to draw grass.
Straight from University he became a freelance illustrator and won the D&AD new blood (D&AD Awards) and was then signed up to the Handsome Frank Illustration Agency. (Handsome Frank Illustration Agency (Hey)). He starts by drawing thumbnails which he then develops into more detailed and bigger version. After any necessary changes have been made, he then draws straight over it in Indian ink and rubs out the remaining pencil lines. The inks are then scanned into a computer and coloured digitally. HIs inspiration comes from the natural world and from decay.
David Bray:
David Bray has been a freelance Illustrator since his graduation from Central St. Martins in 1992. His preferred medium is pen or pencil on paper, however he is willing to experiment with new mark making techniques. Initially he wanted to be a graphics designer, and did a course in Graphics Design at Central St. Martins, however, after knocking on doors for work, he was turned down as a graphics designer but handed an illustration brief. He does rough sketches which he then experiments with until they feel right.
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