useful illustrators

ian wright,
megan whitmarsh- hand embroidery
lisa solomon
vicky scott
richard saja
steven harrington
aj fosik
peter callesen

Alice in wonderland work.
For this project i am question "what is wonderland?" and how people interpret it.  so far i have experiemented with the idea that wonderland can be any where. lewis carrol says its down a rabbit hole, i say its hidden in a can of beans. i like the idea of having wonderland and reality closely linked and sort of merging into one. at the moment i am creating advertisments of peoples wonderlands and what wonderland means to them. i have decided to take on two clients (nigel and beckie) and illustrate their wonderland, though fabric, 3d matterials and digital work.

nigel told me that his idea of wonderland is a quite place ( near the sea or forrests ect) some where, where he can be by himself, more of a state of mind really. so i have decced to look into the sea and the sea bed, as really there is no quiter place than down there.
these are my first experiments for nigels wonderland.

I made this scene out of sand, pieces od moss and rocks. the figure is suppose to be standing up, but that didn't work too well. however still just a tester. once i get this image of photoshop, i will tidy is up and make it look like its under the sea. the figure is't self is made out of plasticine, it was hard to create such a small figure, however i needed it that size to make everything look in proportion.

 

this is my favourite one, because i think it looks the most realistic. i collected some interesting shells last year, and this was one of the large ones. i like the texture on this one an the fact that the shell s sort of erroded. it was easier this time to make the figure sit down as well. plus it could be and underground cave that nigel lives in \( in his mind of course)

These were some smaller shells that i placed him on. i quite like it as an image. just anthother try out really

anish kapoop and william pye

This is a sculpture made by William Pye. his inspiration for this piece came from an adjustable stove pipe joint. he talks about the simplicity of the pipe joint and his fascination of how the circular parts work in harmony.  his sculpture was made in 3 parts, covered in a think layer of stainless steel.motors in the sculpture created a cycle of frozen and moving relationships. the mirrored surface disguises the rotating circles. i looked into this piece of art as i to want to experiment with mirrors/mirrored surfaces. at the start of this project i looked into animation, when the sculpture moves, you could say that is a type of animation in its self. i thought this piece was an interesting one.

this video is about anish kapoors work and how it is made. it shows you some of the makets he makes and his sketches that he does on the walls of his studio. some  of the models for his work are made out of polystyrene and imitate the same idea of using stone. this one does not feature his mirror sculptures.

talks about his mirrored piece that is placed in South Downs. The piece is called cea curve. the man talks about the piece being quite disorientating, is it a new form of landscape painting? the sheer size, simplicity and beauty of it. how is manipulates the image. its a constant present.Another piece called sky mirror, people are fascinated by the change of the sculpture. the sky changes and so does the sculpture. could be seen as animation? how the sculpture merges with the landscape, yet is a piece in its own right.

http://www.williampye.com/work/vannpaviljong

Sculpture porject
This project is linked with the metamorphosis. i started off looking at robert breer as he did animation and flip books.website about breer that i found useful
so i started thinking about flip books, its stock motion that changes something or makies it seem like its moving, this could be linked to metamorphosis, which is change.

this is a robert beer peice. its sort of like a a manual flip book on the wall. the veiwer just glides their fingers across to see the animation.

so i wanted to do something like a flip book. i did some research in to them. i found someone who instead of used paper, did their drawings on balloons, lined them up and then poped them.

balloon flip book

game concept art

i made my zoetrope! the pictures i designed where inspired by the painting of actaeons death by titian. in this painting dianna the god turns actaeon into a stag , he then gets killed by his own hound dogs. for my zoetrope, i made six cells which i then repeated. i drew a human head morphing into a stags head. i was quite pleased with my draws and the fact my zoetrope works. it was quite confussing to make though.