Tuesday 15 September 2009

Not easy picking out just 10 images..

1) This is Vicissitudes, part of the world's first underwater sculpture park, created by Jaison de Caires Taylor, who graduated from Camberwell College of Arts. I saw it in the Courrier International in 12th grade, just after I'd heard about UAL, back then I had no clue about the different colleges. It might seem odd as I'm doing illustration, but this is the piece that made me chose Camberwell (for foundation, so I thought I'd include it. http://www.underwatersculpture.com


2) A drawing of Miyamoto Musashi by Takehiko Inoue for Vagabond, a manga based on the book Musashi by Eiji oshikawa. Vagabond is the best ever in this category, in my opinion.
This one is a good example to show how Inoue mixes styles in his work, mainly: classic inking pen, china ink with paintbrush, and
watercolour. I love it.


3) Sadly I couldn't find the name of this Smirnoff ad's creator, but I'm uploading it anyways because I find it brilliant, and it mimics the surrealism of René Magritte, one of my favourite painters.
More pictures of this smirnoff campaign on: http://liveinternet.ru/users/give_me_all_that_i_want/post72284469/


4) Jet lag by Elvis Swift, I really like the concept. He blends calligraphy and illustration beautifully. Text and image sometimes don't cooperate and I really need to work on picking fonts and doing the whole digital thing, I like handwriting a lot more. I found Swift's sofa advert in Steven Heller and Miro Ilic's Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, great book, and since I've recentely become quite interested in calligraphy and such I looked him up.
Source: http://www.joaniebrep.com/swift_bio.html


5) Urso by Platinium FMD. Came across it on behance.net. I don't know what it is about bears that fascinates me. I love the personality portrayed by this picture, and how the pose looks just like one you'd find in children's books.


6) It was silent in the woods by Kareena Zerefos. I really like how the text and image work on this one, and the little colour note gives it a completely different feel, keeping the elements used to a minimum.


7) Crystal Palace by Carsten Peter. From an article in the National Geographic about a cavern of crystal giants in Mexico. It's on Earth, can you believe it? Magic.

8) Colour on Friday by Tomi Ungerer, one of my favourite illustrators. I really love his work, from his children's books to his advertisment posters to his political cartoons, he's always humourous and efficient. I didn't put any political cartoon or newspaper illustration in these 10 images but they're also part of my interests, thought I'd mention it, but maybe I'm not getting the point of this 10 image thing..?


9) "Mum told me that her friend Yvette was really great" by Alain Le Saux. A word for great in French is "chouette" which also means owl. He wrote and illustrated a lot of books about a kid who takes the meaning of (French) expressions literally, I love them. This also kind of acts as a reminder: English is not my first language... bear with me.


10) Au Bureau (At the Office) by Christelle Mekdjiah, a French illustrator who works with pâte fimo (some kind of modelling clay that you cook? can't find the name in english). The composition, colour and material she uses make her illustration look really alive and vibrant, I'd like to try pâte fimo sometime too.