Artist research: March 2015

Laurie Greasley

http://dwdesign.tumblr.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/DW-Design/124409704274214

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/moments-lost
also included in this collaborative project is : Laurie Greasley. (http://nexusroku.tumblr.com)

Kilian Eng AKA DW Design was born 1982 in Stockholm Sweden where he still lives and works.
In 2010 Kilian Eng graduated from Konstfack, University of Arts Craft & Design in Stockholm from the master group in storytelling, graphic design & Illustration.

Lucinda rogers

http://www.lucindarogers.co.uk

http://www.heartagency.com/artist/LucindaRogers/gallery/1

Lucinda Rogers works directly from life using ink, crayon and watercolour on paper. She has been drawing New York since her first visit in 1988.

Lucinda Rogers studied at Central Saint Martins and Edinburgh College of Art and started working as an illustrator soon afterwards, often being commissioned to draw on location.

Her own work centres on a long-running series of drawings of New York and London, documenting out-of-sight as well as familiar scenes. She also focuses on areas where the built environment and ways of life are in a state of change particularly in East London, where she lives.

Working on coloured paper gives the mid tone and creates a different atmosphere - the red here can be associated with the speedy taxi or hot tempers that arise in traffic. It could also signify evening as red is a dark tone, and the highlighted lamps and street signs appear to be illuminated.

The contrasting bold and thin lines add depth to this near symmetrical picture. The weight is in the middle and we focus on the tall tower. The mass at the bottom, full of people and movement is where our eyes are lead to.

The weight and focus is not differentiated between moving objects ,such as people and cars, and buildings. It gives continuity to the image.

from her sketchbook

from her sketchbook of NY

she’s illustrated book covers and articles for numerous newspapers.

Laura Carlin

Laura lives and works in London. She graduated from Buckinghamshire University and the Royal College of Art, where she received a Masters and won the Quentin Blake Award.

During her MA she was also awarded the Uniqlo Fashion Illustration Award, which enabled her to travel to Shanghai and Tokyo.

Laura currently works in an advisory role with the development of Quentin Blake's House of Illustration. She is also a regular visiting lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/illustration-laura-carlin-updates

http://www.heartagency.com/artist/LauraCarlin/gallery/1

http://www.thenewcraftsmen.com/maker/laura-carlin/ Ceramics

Here, there’s a multitude of textures and a juxtaposition between the text in size and colour. The theme of red and blue make it bold and engaging.

The book has good contrast of full and simple pages. It contains multimedia, in photos and 3d objects (as from the matchbox house above).

'Taking the reader on an extraordinary visual journey through her imaginative world, award-winning illustrator, Laura Carlin, inspires children to look, draw and make – first from life, and then from the imagination through sharing her own personal thought-processes and drawing techniques.'

'Using the narrative of a day – from getting up in the morning, to going to bed at night – Laura shows children how she records every day things and events on paper, and then improves them through her wild and witty imagination – helping children form a visual manifesto of their own world, and enthusing them to find enjoyment and entertainment in drawing and creating with the most everyday objects. '

The typography of the shops are attractive as they’re not graphical and streamlined but conveys the different fonts used on high street signs.

£1,000+ !!!! wowzers.

This connects me to my Antwerpian animals.

A use of colouring pencils creates fur and hair.

my antwerpian animals that echo Lauras tile mural

The darker tones in this give an impression of fading light or shaded areas from the tall buildings. The detail in bricks and features ties in with the texture of the paint. We are lead from the left to right through the pale path, seeing the small people and cars and rolling their journey out to the bottom right.

Really like this composition and use of textures from the pencil.

I like the use of colours and textures used in this comic - a soft brown is used for lines and a sketchy feel has been kept, which i prefer over traditional mass produced comics such as Marvel.