Tom Lind

Tom Lind is an artist featured on Behance. What caught my eye was the thumbnails of his moleskin sketchbook drawings, because they looked very interesting in terms of the mark making and technical elements of the sketches.

 

In the sketchbook it looks as though he's used a combination of ink and marker pens, doodling across the pages. The drawings have been given a flowing composition across the spreads which is something I really like about these sketches.

He also leaves a lot of white space around the images, but I think this is a good thing in that it emphasises the clean, neat edges of the drawings. A lot of the lines are marked in short, quick strokes, sharp and angular, as seen in the above detail shot of the second spread. Most of his tonal elements come from the cross hatching method, which is something I haven't really experimented with but could definitely try to develop in the future.

These two spreads were from his Bauhaus sketchbook. The sketchbook itsself is almost like any other except the bottom edge is cropped at an angle, giving it an odd overall shape. Again the sketches in these spreads flow across the page, leaving a lot of white space around, again adding to the odd composition. In the first one I really like that he's added a splash of cyan blue because it really draws the eye to that specific focal point and then allowing the eyes to wander over the rest of the image.

The second spread I like because it's very different from the first three spreads presented. Although there are of course similarities, like the page composition and flow of the piece, in this one there are no solid blocks of black ink to contrast with the rest of the work. However because there's so many different images within to look at, I think it works equally well and shows off his technical ability to another level.

The white space left around his work reminds me of my own submission for the Digital Manipulation unit in Module 1. The white space directs your eye right to the main focal point of the image and emphasises the strength of the line and the bright colour used. I also think there's a similarity in the atmosphere of the images- my horse possesses a lot of momentum and impulsion whereas Lind's spreads flow easily along the page, like a cloud across a summer sky.

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