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Set Project: Artist research

Today, as I promised, I want to place here perfect artists which matches with my visualization of my project.

The first, will be a belgian illustrator Anton Van Hertbruggen. He currenly lives in Antverp, born in 1990. He is a young artist with wonderful gift in perceiving the world. Anton running a website click. He has be seen by a top magazines, also published two books. On those books I would like to look today.

The first book from 2012, named Memoires of a Suburban Utopia, in fact is in a leporello form. I like a post with a deep evaluation of this book which I attached here. 

Memoires of a Suburban Utopia, Anton Van Hertbruggen, (2012)

This short, children book has a kind and peacefull perception. Author perfectly understand colour relation, is able to create an atmosphera which people love. 

The second book, published in 2016, is named The Little Dog That Nino Didn't Have, evaluated, it is like a sign of author's maturity in story telling. I admire this book, in terms of visualization and script. The title character is a little boy, who loves animals and the place where he lives. The book showing the other side, where in all of this, he still misses his father. But what he created in his mind, overcome the loss. This is a story which must be read, is beautiful for children, as well as for adults. Like from each story, we can learn something precious.



The Little Dog That Nino Didn't Have, Anton Van Hertbruggen, (2016)

The next artist is Minna Sundberg. Finnish illustrator, very active online. She is running a webcomics, such as: A Redtail's Dream, and Stand Still, Stay Silent. Her artworks are like back to the roots. In the second comic, she connected a Nordic mythology, set 90 years in the future. Here is a link to the website. It is a original idea, which pulls a crowd of people into her world. 
What I would like to reach in my project, it is a scenery behind the story. She uses digital programs to create those strips.
Stand Still. Stay Silent, Minna Sundberg, page 748

In terms of this project, I will look deeper into a single pages. Maybe my idea in story telling will evaluate by the time. Also I do not exclude the change of technique. Her outcomes inspired me to divide my steps of preparing my outcome. Firstly, I will write short scenarios, to be sure which story will be efficent. Then, the sketches, I will make by pencil on the sheet of paper. At final step, I take a pictures in a good quality and insert onto Photoshop.
I realized, that this range of color which I want to gain, could be expanded as a problem. To avoid that, and dissapointed just before "the finish line" I would like to add all colours in digital.

The last artist, which is far more abstractive and convinient in traditional illustration techniques, is an english based Emma Carlisle. Her work is primarily concerned with the landscape from Devon and Cornwall area. She has expressive marks and tool gesture. Also, a magnificent eye for details and significant objects on the landscape. Briefly, she can sum up what she sees, collect it and in short period of time illustrate it. Emma has a sense of colour such good as painters. She can reach the same effect with a few colours. Also the texture of the tool is important in her outcomes. This gives a special accent and originality.

Emma Carlisle, Devon, (2019)

In my series, I will try to vary that textures. Not only a smooth and varnish effect. Even in digital version I can change a tool. Add paint effect with bluring or sharp, charcoal mark.



Resources:

Catherine Campbell. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://myfolklover.typepad.com/the_my_folk_lover_blog/2012/08/memories-of-a-suburban-utopia-this-is-a-most-beautiful-book-created-by-anton-van-hertbruggen-itis-publi.html> [Accessed 22 January 2021].

Cargocollective.com. 2021. Anton - Nino - PAZUZU ILLUSTRATION AGENCY. [online] Available at: <http://cargocollective.com/pazuzu/Anton-Nino> [Accessed 22 January 2021].

Sssscomic.com. 2021. Stand Still. Stay Silent - Webcomic. [online] Available at: <http://sssscomic.com/> [Accessed 22 January 2021].

Takahashi, L. and Takahashi, L., 2021. Emma Carlisle: Drawing As Salvation - Jackson's Art Blog. [online] Jackson's Art Blog. Available at: <https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2019/10/17/emma-carlisle-drawing-as-salvation/> [Accessed 23 January 2021].

Carlisle, E., 2019. Devon. [Pencils on paper].


Comments

  1. Sam Dargan24 January 2021 at 16:17

    You chose well for your initial artist research. There are a lot of contemporary illustrators that you could further research that could help you develop your idea in terms of techniques and approaches to create this series of illustrations. Have a look at Rebekka Dunlap, website here: https://www.rrebekkaa.com/

    You said that the story would develop as you went along - I think it is important that you have an outline before you start working so you don't go down a 'blind alley' and create work that you don't use at the end of the project.

    You have tremendous skill in terms of your drawings - therefore I think creating the drawings by hand and colouring them would be the way to go. You could digitise them towards the end of the project to tidy them up if you wish and perhaps learn a new technique using software as part of your project.

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