Class Work & Additional Research:
ARTIST RESEARCH:
Andy Warhol
I went to the Andy Warhol Exhibit in Bond Street, London that showcased his works on large canvasses. Within his works, I was intrigued with the particular style he used in some of his larger works of logos and movie poster designs.
I’ve noticed that Warhol mainly uses the 3 primary colours collectively within his works to emanate the order of commerce (which is a prominent topic within his art). If not, he uses bright complimentary colour combinations in a Black or white space to make the colours pop out against it. I loved how the line-art and the colours are a little offset, thus created this mass manufactured printing look to the work. As supposed to coloring in a clean line perfectly, I initially thought of recreating this , but seeing that my background isn’t as simple as Warhol’s I’m planning to keep this idea in the back of my mind until my next elective.
I do however, I really like the colour choice he use within the butterfly – since I’m drawn to more unnatural shades of purples and pinks. It was a darker rich tone of the CYMK, with white outlines to make the form stand out vividly. I implement the whites on Gilbert’s shirt, and used a similar palette of purples and tawny.
Shuvinai Ashoona – “When I draw”
This was another exhibition I went to in “The Perimeter”, London, of an Inuit artist capturing the lifestyle of the Artic Community. I visited this exhibit because I was interested in their stone printed works. I really liked how simple the art style was in portraying a lifestyle that is exclusive to snowy areas – and creates a different look into how we see their life. The use of pattern in the bear’s fur as well as the funky curvy shapes creates a fun and friendly character design.
Creature Comforts:
Creature Comforts is a British Stop motion animation using plasticine puppets to showcase real interviews with people. It’s meant to show a comedic duality between animal and human, and how the lines and struggles blur in different context. I was inspired by this when I reversed the fear of spiders into spiders’ fears of birds. (it was the fear of humans at first, but I changed it midway since at the time, I thought a bird would be funnier.)
Researching what spiders are scared of:
Picture from the website:
Spiders are scared of spider wasps, and bigger animals like birds, toads, lizards and monkeys. I would’ve picked spider wasps but I felt that not everyone would get the meaning within 15 seconds, let alone know what a spider wasp is. Therefore I chose a bird since they are very fast and scary (?)
https://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/facts09.htm#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20spider’s%20worst,and%20an%20egg%20into%20it.
Brain Eno’s Oblique Strategies:
Not building a wall but making a brick – Brian Eno
https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
I used one of his cards as a way to help myself develop an idea of the narrative in my animation. It made me slowly start to think of each foundation that built up my animation.
Concept Artists
Beatrice Blue
Beatrice blue creates children’s illustration books and has this unique art style using wavy lines and bright shiny colours. There’s use of shading and brightness that immerses the characters into the setting. Most of her line art is blocked in with a colour, whereas this one, it has wavy line art. I really liked the textures she uses in her works and might be inspired by bits of it during my animation process.