Marcos Chin has recently done a lot of illustration for independent publishing collective Black Hill Press. It was a collaboration between Chin and Kevin Staniec from BHP on a series of book covers for one of there series of books.
I was once again impressed by Marcos's use of line, colour and texture within his pieces. His coloured line looks great along side a mixture of varied textures and colours.
I have and will continue to take inspiration from him when doing my narrative illustration brief.
This is my second digital drawing of my main character Mark Renton.
With this piece I experimented with with different types of line, using different brush strokes on photoshop. I experimented with line colour, background colour and tone with ( I think ) a very relaxed attitude towards the outcome of my actions.
I took inspiration from Marcos Chin for this piece, I have researched him before for the digital manipulation unit and have further researched him since.
I think I will use a similar image for my wrap around.
I thought I'd try out drawing my first character digitally to see how it looked compared to my hand drawn images.
I Think the benefits of doing it this way out-weigh the hand drawn versions.
I like the line quality I can achieve with the different brush strokes on photoshop, the colours are much more definite and smooth and I can more easily achieve the look im going for this way.
Here are a few character development sheets for the film 'Frozen' by Disney.
I thought some of the other people on the course might find it useful to see how professional artists use initial sketches and how they work to the artists advantage.
I myself have found it very useful and have used similar techniques during my own character development for 'Trainspotting'.
Jamie Hewlett is an English comic book designer, illustrator and designer. He is best known for being the co-creator of popular comic tank girl and also as the co-creator of the amazing anti-band Gorillaz.
He is one of my long time favourite artists!
I love the attitude he manages to get in his pieces, the somewhat non-existent culture that exists only within his art work is in my opinion, extremely cool.
I discovered Jamie Hewlett when I was about 10 years old when I first listened to the Gorillaz first album ( Gorillaz). The video's for the songs filled a visual void for me at the time, It felt right watching them, he got it right.
His work is reminiscent of Japanese manga style work, mixed with very western cartoon influences and also comic book style art work.
I love how his characters have such strong personalities that are shown with very simple features.
The world his Gorillaz characters live in and the things that happen around them is quite magical.
I thought of Jamie Hewlett when starting work on 'Trainspotting' by Irvine Welsh.
His characters style is normally quite scruffy, cool and bohemian with a care free attitude.. much like the characters in 'Trainspotting'.
I will take inspiration from Jamie hewlett during my character development.
For this brief we have been asked to choose a book from a list given by our tutors.
There was so many excellent books to choose from, I had a hard time deciding which one I'd like to illustrate.
I narrowed my decision down to three books, H.P Lovecraft's Necronomicon, The Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting.
I would of had a lot of fun drawing from the other two books, but I decided to go with Trainspotting.
Although for me this will be a harder challenge than the other books, I instantly got a picture in my head of how I would like it too look.. and I feel that if I achieve this said 'look', I will be one step closer to realising my desired illustrative voice.
I bought the book whilst enjoying a weekend away with my girlfriend in York and started reading it right away... ( it's a pain to read as it's written in a Scottish accent).
At the moment, as I read through the book I am taking note of the narrative peaks I feel are suitable and enjoyable to illustrate and sticking a postit note on those pages with brief descriptions.
This will help me to easily refer back to desired pieces of narrative once I have finished reading the book.
