Brief 04 A - 2D Illustration
A lot of artworks aren't really associated with interesting or new concepts to make your mind think, but rather to do with techniques, application, composition and colour. It creates intense scenes and powerful imagery based on very dry concepts. This brief was designed to expand our range of technical ability and come up with a visually pleasing artwork.
Picking from two coloured artists and two black and white artists, we studied their way of using technique to enhance their work, and practising with their type of media. Eventually we applied what we had learnt to our own simple concepts, being "The Chair" and "The Tree", then applying a genre to them from a list. For coloured artists I chose Ken Currie and Leon Spilliaert. Their mysterious and dark mood really spoke to me, and the distinct features like light and dark contrast, feathered edges and creepy looming figures would be perfect for something dramatic, so I chose to do "The Chair" coloured with these two artists. For black and white I chose Bernie Wrightson and Arthur Rackham. The way they include a lot of trees and the way they shade the branches and twigs would be perfect for a disturbing tree, so I did "The Tree" in black and white and chose the genre Psychological Horror.
Picking from two coloured artists and two black and white artists, we studied their way of using technique to enhance their work, and practising with their type of media. Eventually we applied what we had learnt to our own simple concepts, being "The Chair" and "The Tree", then applying a genre to them from a list. For coloured artists I chose Ken Currie and Leon Spilliaert. Their mysterious and dark mood really spoke to me, and the distinct features like light and dark contrast, feathered edges and creepy looming figures would be perfect for something dramatic, so I chose to do "The Chair" coloured with these two artists. For black and white I chose Bernie Wrightson and Arthur Rackham. The way they include a lot of trees and the way they shade the branches and twigs would be perfect for a disturbing tree, so I did "The Tree" in black and white and chose the genre Psychological Horror.
