Reasearch

Last night in reasearched some insperation for my first assignment creating a poster with the theme underwater, u looked up water edits on google and it came up with many well edited peices which of some caught my attention, there was one with a naked women wearing a dress which aprered to be made from water which i found very clever and would love to try at, another one was a womans face that merged into a bubble effect which was very eye catching , i would like to incorporate these ideas into my final peice. here are a couple of pictures i found.

These are the two photo that i found and liked, there are many others but these are my favorites out of the lot, as you can see there is great detail in these peices and i wish to get the same effect.



Julian Opie

Julian opie was born in 1958 he is a contemporary British artist who uses computerised imagery, he is a former trustee of the Tate gallery. Julian was born in London but was raised in oxford, he did his study in Dragon school in oxford and spent some time in Magdalen college school, once he had completed his studies he became a teacher in the Chelsea college of art. Some of Julian’s projects include Blurs best of album cover which includes a photo of each band member and computerised their faces to look like simple cartoons with dots for eyes this is a very famous album cover and it is just typical of Julian’s work. Also in 2006 during A U2 performance there was an led light show of his shown on stage of the aimless walking man.  The way in which Julian’s work influences me is the way his images have just an amazing look to them yet that are so simple. I have tried many times to do this myself but i haven’t managed to get it to the effect that he does. Also as part of my future i would like to become an album cover designer and that most artists now want something like Julian’s piece which has been digitally made. Also what i like about his work is that its is such a basic representation of the subject hes doing yet u can still tell what it is representing or who it is an image of. From an artistic point of view this image below is very basic n lacks great detail but i feel that evan that it doesnt have any great detail in the means of facial features or tone but it is still obvious who the image is of , hes taken the bare minimal structures of the subjects face and has turned it into a cartooned peice and it works really well.



Simone Legno

Simone is a creative director and co founder of tokidoki Born in Rome simone had been drawing since he was a young child , his mother was a painter, he drew little cartoon doodle and at school his artworks were put up all over his school walls. He carried on this style of drawing into art school, he started advertising his work on the internet and was approached by a company wanting to merchandise his designs now his art work is seen world wide . He now has his own company called tokidoki which is the brand name for his art works and merchandising. The way in which simone influences me is that his art work is so simple yet also known all over the world and it can easily be adapted into album covers and merchandise, another dream for me is to bring out my own clothing brand with my logos and images on it so in that sense i look up to simone as a person I could hopefully become a success like.  Also his art work is quite street wise and modern which I like, and looking at his art work I would love to include something like his work in my peice. From an artistic point of view the image below is very simple representations of little animals and people , he has taken away all human and such form and just replaced it with standerd day shapes like circles and ovals and filled it in with what is mostly primary colours. What i like also is that this style of cartoon can range all threw the ages from lil kids to teenagers, which mean it is a good product for the teenage market which is the main target for artists and companys now.

Dylan Cole

Dylan Cole is a computer graphics artist working on soft ware such as Photoshop and cinema 4D, using a graphics tablet he draws his images straight into the computer digitally, he has created scenery and objects for films like lord of the rings and avatar, most of his art work looks very realistic to the naked eye which makes these films look very believable, Dylan did not go to an art school but did attend a fine arts program at UCLA, his painting can take from 3 days to 3 months depending on the detail and the size of the project at hand, although he created all of his images because he did them for films he does not own rights to his own work which means he can’t sell or distribute it. The reason i think this artist inspires me is because of the amazing detail and fascination I can look into his work, to create my own 3d images would be a massive help in the future with what could be some difficult projects, I feel I have the same passion and patience in my work to create work like his and i hope in the future I can work up to the level that he has in the art work that he can create. From an artistic point of view the image below by dylan is out standing amasing detail what he has managed to do is from nothing create an imaginary scene to the extent that it looks real, what i also like about this is that u can spend ages looking at it looking at all the fine details and bits and bobs. It also interests me that you can creat any sort of world or scenery it can be absolutly anything there are no boundrys to what you can create.

Bert Monroy

Bert Monroy was born and raised in new York he came from quite a poor background but has managed to work his way up to be involved in the advertising industry as well as having his own advertising business. He co-authorised the book, the official adobe Photoshop handbook which was the first handbook created for Photoshop. He was first inspired by digital are when he discovered computers in the form of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, and from that moment on he was inspired into the digital graphics area of art, His art is basically digitally painted images, at a first glance to the untrained eye it appears to be just a standard photo which had been taken but on closer inspection u can see a digital look to his art work the quality that u would see on the latest consol games. The reason i feel Bert influences me is the passion he has for Photoshop and u can see the amount of interest he has by the amount of knowledge he has about it, also because he started his career in the advertising industry which it what i hope to do as well, also owning his own design agency which is also one of my ambitions in life but to be able to create realistic images like him in the future will come in very handy as is similar with Dylan Coles work. From an artistic point of view berts work is very advanced but different from dylan he creat realistic imagry rather than creative, so in a way berts work lacks a bit of creativity but makes up for it in his final outcomes and projects, to make a painted image to look just like a photo is a very good skill and takes months on end to complete, the reason why his work influences me also is that it looks realistic and i want my peice to look realistic asif it was real. Like an underwater world type look or a madifyed image of a human that looks real.