Today I stuck with a 3D 2D work and completely lost my mind. But this evening I want to present the last artist, which is one of my influence on this project. It will be Rebecca Green an illustrator and painter working in children's publishing.
She is a so interesting artist, I literally spend 1,5 hour on her website -> click
I admire how she analyze the proccess of making an illustration. The work which she is well known, she found in herself not a long time ago. It took her a long time to become a book illustrator.
I have scrolled through her blog posts for a while. Where I find out how she explains materials and projects. Her blog is based on her already six years journey in her artistic path. The biggest change in her style I noticed since she posted in 2015 the explanation of how she wants to make art for herself. It was like a pinch! ''His talk focused on making work that YOU want to make. Not what everyone wants you to make. Not what everyone thinks you should be making. Because I will tell you - it's easy to get boxed in and feel a tremendous amount of expectation and pressure. But we cannot be put in boxes and we certainly cannot put ourselves in a box.'' (Green, 2015) She involved the many textures; not only paints, and brand new character likeness.
Rebecca encourages me to use different tools. She uses mostly acrylic gouache, coloured pencils and water-soluble crayons (which I need to explore!).
This is a precious and pointed sight of making art. In my case, still, I am not sure which way I will choose. Not only me, but Rebecca also admit that she is constantly frustrated by the creative process. I struggling with the same point in my project. That is why I look for more inspirations and still working on sketching traditional elements of Native American's life.
The biggest problem I found with character features. I always avoid placing any character in my illustration. The reason is, that I do not have a style for creating someone's features. The biggest fear is settled in my creative process and I can't change it. What if? - Especially now, when I should create one of the most important projects in this term. I cannot make something which I will regret later. I mean, still the character drawing. Which I am sure, it will change even in the next few months.
Characters are important in children books, they are eye-catching, without them there will not be a full story.
I know, that I should look into other illustrators work, catch the interesting points and be inspired. However, I can be stuck on that point. I can't only search for perfect, well-made works and doing nothing with that. I think that I am sometimes too amazed at someone's art. I will look into that person, such as Rebecca Green, and of course, try to take something from her art. But according to the introduction, it will not be my art and my line. I feel strange when I copy someone's work. Only to try how this character will match with mine. It is not me, but a doll with big eyes. There is not an emotion which I can fill either.
I need to work more on character likeness. It could be an enjoyable journey, even though I do not have time to evaluate the possibilities.
Maybe again, I am impatient, even when I am aware that this process will take some time...
Anyway, I will create some more sketches and boards.
Until tomorrow,
(Whoops, today)
Luiza
References:
Green, R., 2015. The Death of Magic. — Rebecca Green. [online] Rebecca Green. Available at: <http://myblankpaper.com/blog/2015/11/20/the-death-of-magic> [Accessed 13 February 2021].
As artist research goes, this doesn't say very much about what you found out about her or what she does. How has she influenced your project and how will that inspiration help to improve what you are doing?
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