Personal And Professional Practice: Illustrators/ People of interest

Adrian Tomine - New York drawings

I find Tomine's work influencial because of his drawng style; it is very simplistic yet the scenes have a lot going on within them. This is something that I find myself doing within my own work and this influences me when working with digital devices such as Illustrator and Photoshop. I like his colour palette which is subtle and this is the kind of style I feel I am working towards.

Arline Oberman

Really nice line drawings with ink, which reminds me to strip down my drawings and simplify my lines.

Colman Andrews - the taste of America

I like how quite simple media is used to create a really nice bold finished piece packed with tone and almost looks life-like.

Joe Simpson - Across America drawing's and oil paintings

I think these are absolutely amazing. He travelled around America collecting sketches of streets and tourist places and then later turned them into oil paintings which is so clever. The oil paintings are like a photograph! And I recognize some of the places from being in New York. I don't think I would ever be able to paint to this standard but even the drawings alone are fantastic. I really like the line quality of them.

Mario Zucca - Dad and Taunus 1969

His work I find really nice just because of the attention to line. Each image made up of tiny little lines to create shadow and tone - but even what is nice in this piece is the street light and the buildings in the background. No straight lines, I like how they are not correct. I find myself drawing similar to this as well. Also again like the subtle colours used here.

Matt Dorfman - Book layout designs

When looking into book design and bookbinding I was trying to find illustrators that encorporate interesting layouts and Matt Dorfman was one that interested me.

Tamsin Nagel

Really delicate line drawings, lovely colour and I even like the encorporation of text, and the style of the text against these lovely drawings.

Tom Hovey - The great british bake off

I like the detail within these drawings yet theyre stylistic, and the choice of colour used.

Chris Wane

Similar to Adrian Tomine I like the digital techniques used, however Wane's has more dynamic, with selective use of tone, and interesting perspective.

David Foldvari

What I like about these pieces I think the most is the selective use of colour. Monotone pieces with a splash of colour for text or thoughts - they're really humorous and have a lot of character to them. I think as drawings they are beautiful as well really delicate lines against some bold sketchy ones - well thought out. They also work as illustrations well because they reflect on society and politics.

Lizzie Stewart

I really like the use of line within this piece and how detailed it is as well as the composition.

Christine Berry

I like how Christine has took everyday simple objects and made art pieces out of them this particularly influenced me when I was looking at boomboxes for visual language.

Sarah Maycock

I love the quality of the brush strokes here in order to create shape - hardly any thin lines used, and yet immediately know that it is a bear. Really nice texture and fluidity.

Jonathan Ashworth - Lino cuts

I find it fascinating how Ashworth has made these drawings through lino cuts; something that I don't think I would have the patience to do and planning to think of all the different levels that it entails in order to create tone

Nigel Peake

I think these drawings best replicate my kind of style and this is how I would draw if I was approaching these buildings/objects. I like the use of ink for the text as well this has influenced me when thinking about my book design.

Moebius

I liked the composition of this piece and the strong lines when creating the characters. I would like to have the confidence to draw with a single line when creating the human figure - I tend to be quite sketchy because I am not so confident with getting the form spot on.

Laura Callaghan

I love these drawings because there is no tone involved, and the focus is the quality of the line, selectively capturing what Is most important to be portrayed. However I do wish she would use better media to colour.

Mikkel Sommer

Tina Berning

David Hockney

Lucinda Rogers

I absolutely love this work because although it is not proportionally correct it captures the atmosphere so well - especially the New York piece with selective colours. It seems Lucinda uses a technique that I have used previously to apply strokes of colour and then draw on top of those. I really like this technique and is something I am going to work on further to produce more professional outcomes such as these.

Noma Bar

Influenced me when looking at shape - using objects to create emotions and facial expressions.

Luke Best

Jillian Tamaki

Jenny Bowers

Edward Bawden

Ryo Takemasa

Miroslav Sasek

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (not an illustrator but still)

I love the idea of taking something and transforming it into something completely opposite. Duchamp took a urinal and called it a fountain which is genius because who says it is a urinal? Who decides it's purpose? If we could wash our hands in it then why not? It is ironic and it is art because we would never dream of washing our hands in a urinal.

Mr Bingo