After all of the mini-projects we have completed within this module, the last is 'The Book of Drawings'.
In this we must create a book totally and wholly envisioned by ourselves of 6 pages (excluding any written content if any and the cover pages), and it should be a culmination of all our work so far.
To do this successfully I will have to research hand book-binding and making and I will have to thoroughly contemplate which drawings and sketches I will use to compose the final copy. It will probably help if I create a few quick mock-ups and try a few different kinds of binding to allow me to make the best decision regarding the way the book should be formatted, and I will have to explore the options I have regarding the printing of the pages and the layout and style of any text I may choose to include.
Other factors will be important here too, such as the size of the book (it should be big enough to allow details to be clear) and the material I will use for both the book jacket and the pages. Will it be a paperback or a hardcover book? How will I make that decision? These are just a couple of the questions I will have to consider while undertaking this project.
My first port of call will be researching existing handmade books by other illustrators in the industry and methods of hand making books. After I will consider the content and then the medium and any text I will include.
Monday, 25 November 2013
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
michele bedigian
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
Michele Bedigian is a reportage artist I like because her sketches are done in a variety of mediums from pen to wax and watercolour.
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
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| image credit to www.michelebedigian.com |
RESEARCH ONLY- ALL IMAGES CREDIT TO WWW.MICHELEBEDIGIAN.COM
olivier kugler
Olivier Kugler has done many, many reportage illustrations for many different clients, including French reportage magazine 'XII', the Guardian and New York Magazine.
Like a lot of other reportage artists his illustrations are mainly line drawings, however what makes his style unique is that he leaves a lot of spaces between the lines, letting the brain fill in the gaps.
The thing I like the most about his work is his way of drawing faces and expressions- when he draws them with other little views of the mouth or face alongside the 'real' one, it looks almost holographic to me and I think it's a really cool way of drawing a range of expressions.
Joybeans is also good at capturing facial expressions, although in a different style to this work. I like reportage that focuses on people because I myself enjoy drawing people and looking at other artist's ways of drawing expressions can help me develop my own.
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
Like a lot of other reportage artists his illustrations are mainly line drawings, however what makes his style unique is that he leaves a lot of spaces between the lines, letting the brain fill in the gaps.
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
Joybeans is also good at capturing facial expressions, although in a different style to this work. I like reportage that focuses on people because I myself enjoy drawing people and looking at other artist's ways of drawing expressions can help me develop my own.
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
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| image credit to www.olivierkugler.com |
RESEARCH ONLY- ALL IMAGE CREDITS TO WWW.OLIVIERKUGLER.COM
Lucinda Rogers
Lucinda Rogers is a reportage artist focusing on city illustrations, with New York and London being her subjects.
The above drawings of London I think have captured the essence of the city well, helped by the way she uses flashes of colour in them and different tones of paper.
However, although the London illustrations are good, it's the New York ones that really stand out for me.
Again she has used different tones of paper which accentuate the hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps. In the taxi illustration the red paper looks awesome with the ink and fineliner marks and stands out to me as an exceptional piece of work. This also relates to my work in that I tried using paper with different washes on them whilst doing my reportage and really liked the result I got.
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
Lucinda works with ink, watercolour and fineliner. I like her reportage
illustrations because they almost remind me of architectural blueprints-
there's a lot of good draughtmanship in her work and this is one of the qualities I especially like of her work.
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
The above drawings of London I think have captured the essence of the city well, helped by the way she uses flashes of colour in them and different tones of paper.
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
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| image credit to www.lucindarogers.co.uk |
However, although the London illustrations are good, it's the New York ones that really stand out for me.
Again she has used different tones of paper which accentuate the hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps. In the taxi illustration the red paper looks awesome with the ink and fineliner marks and stands out to me as an exceptional piece of work. This also relates to my work in that I tried using paper with different washes on them whilst doing my reportage and really liked the result I got.
RESEARCH ONLY- ALL IMAGE CREDITS TO www.lucindarogers.co.uk
missmessymess
Another deviantartist, missmessymess has an eclectic collection of works, ranging from digital illustrations to reportage done in pencil and other works in acrylic on boards.
These are a range of her digital works. Their use of colour and texture is interesting, and the subjects painted are really strange and quirky and fit her illustrative style perfectly.
I like the simplistic style of the works- it realls works with the colours and textures and ensures that there isn't an overload of visual information in the picture.
Above are a series of reportage illustrations done by her, all based around a pub called '6 million postcards'. I love her way of shading and the toned paper she uses. They give the drawings much more character especially considering that they are pub based and the tones used fit this image. I myself would love to have a toned sketchbook to draw in and would defintely consider making my own- this is partly why I've been colouring my own sketchbook papers with paints and inks.
These are her other traditional works. Most of them are done in acrylic paints on boards. You can see her illustrative style coming through in the way the same kinds of colours are used, although the textures are different to those in her digital works.
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com - the pencil sketch for the below piece |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
I like the simplistic style of the works- it realls works with the colours and textures and ensures that there isn't an overload of visual information in the picture.
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
Above are a series of reportage illustrations done by her, all based around a pub called '6 million postcards'. I love her way of shading and the toned paper she uses. They give the drawings much more character especially considering that they are pub based and the tones used fit this image. I myself would love to have a toned sketchbook to draw in and would defintely consider making my own- this is partly why I've been colouring my own sketchbook papers with paints and inks.
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to missmessymess.deviantart.com |
These are her other traditional works. Most of them are done in acrylic paints on boards. You can see her illustrative style coming through in the way the same kinds of colours are used, although the textures are different to those in her digital works.
RESEARCH ONLY- ALL IMAGES CREDIT TO MISSMESSYMESS.DEVIANTART.COM
joybeans
joybeans from deviantart has produced some pretty intricate line drawing reportage.
I like the splashes of colour in the latter two works, as I think it helps define the focal point properly as well as add some variety into her work.
I think because those two sketches are not as delicately detailed as the former two, the colour helps differentiate the two 'styles' almost.
Although I like her work, and think it has a very cute style, I something like this would not work well for me as I like to draw with long, flowing lines with lots of movement and room to manouver, instead of drawing neatly with lots of straight, short lines.
They have also done some digital paintings and sketches.
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
I think because those two sketches are not as delicately detailed as the former two, the colour helps differentiate the two 'styles' almost.
Although I like her work, and think it has a very cute style, I something like this would not work well for me as I like to draw with long, flowing lines with lots of movement and room to manouver, instead of drawing neatly with lots of straight, short lines.
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
They have also done some digital paintings and sketches.
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to joybeans.deviantart.com |
RESEARCH ONLY- IMAGE CREDITS TO JOYBEANS.DEVIANTART.COM
jack sephton
Jack Sephton has some interesting reportage sketches. Compared to a lot of reportage, they're very dark toned and almost all of buildings within the city.
He uses watercolour in all of these and changes between ink and fineliner pen.
I like the way the images look as though they've been drawn quickly but the attention to detail is still there in the features of the buildings.
He has also produced some illustrations of birds, again using watercolour and fineliner. I like the contrast within the images and think he's very good at using these mediums. He works in a very similar way to myself, in that I like to first sketch, paint and then refine the drawing with fineliners. However his work is more detailed, especially in colours, shading and in the clearly thought out compositions, and this is something I could try to work towards in my own work (Perhaps in the animals project?).
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
He uses watercolour in all of these and changes between ink and fineliner pen.
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
I like the way the images look as though they've been drawn quickly but the attention to detail is still there in the features of the buildings.
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
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| image credit to jacksephton.deviantart.com |
He has also produced some illustrations of birds, again using watercolour and fineliner. I like the contrast within the images and think he's very good at using these mediums. He works in a very similar way to myself, in that I like to first sketch, paint and then refine the drawing with fineliners. However his work is more detailed, especially in colours, shading and in the clearly thought out compositions, and this is something I could try to work towards in my own work (Perhaps in the animals project?).
RESEARCH ONLY- ALL IMAGES CREDIT TO jacksephton.deviantart.com
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