MW82

Im fishing around to see if I can find any visual approaches that can get me excited about tackling the bonsai tree care kit brief I am writing at the moment.

This is the work of Designer/ Illustrator MW82.

The illustrations are quite textured and remind me a little of The little friends of print making. I think a similar approach could be good for What Im thinking about doing for my bonsai tree project. The textural, brown paper feel is more organic than on otherwise a white background. Organic is definately something I want to convey in this particular project.

Digitally rendering concept art

I have been looking at digital rendering because I think it could come in handy for illustration, probably using it to this extent but broadening knowledge of techniques is always good because it can feed into other things.

Matthew Skiff

Yes, another illustrator using great colour separation techniques, but I keep cooming across really good ones!
This is Matthew Skiff, Its more Comic book style, I particularly like the VAGUE t shirt he's done just because of its anti culture message, great stuff.

Also Some work on skateboards, I know its not painted, so i presume its lithography? Im not sure how you print on wood like that..

Drew Willard, Website and some art

This is The home page of Drew Willard, Quite simple its pretty obvious what the site is about from the off. This could be an approach I take in the Making of my own website, I think this could be effective for my intents and purposes. Indexhibit would probably be able to cater this look and function for me. Alternatively just designing a blog style simple layout on dreamweaver would probably work just as well.

Some of drew's work. Again the emphasis is on skillfull line work with effective use of colour, probably suitable for screen printing. These are all visual approaches that Im really buzzing off at the moment.

GODMACHINE!

This is the art of godmachine.

Godmachine produces amazingly detailed illustration mostly for bands and clothing companies such as disturbia clothing. I think the secret to his impressive impact his illustration creates is his methods of colour separation merged with his illustrative talent. Most of his screen prints use 3 to 4 bold colours which make for a really eye catching and bright effect. A brief I have written has these techniques in mind.

The grey and black print of the beast is a one colour print, I put that up to show how much detail goes purely into the linework.

two words.

holy heck.

Disturbia clothing

Disturbia clothing is an online store which have been "melting brains and breaking hearts since 2003". Really, really impressive illustration on the shirts by a host of different artists, all of which I think put submissions into the designer violence zine i was talking about in the previous post.

The detail and thought that goes into the colour separations for screen printing on these t shirts is really impressive and is something I have been contemplating and thinking about how to do effectively recently. I will post up some of my illustration I have been doing over the summer as soon as I have a scanner available.

I think this shows that there is a context for the type of illustration that I have been working myself up to be able to do well over this summer. Looking at things like the disturbia clothing website is helping me to actualise my ideas properly i think. Its also helping me to spend too much money onawesome t shirts...

Designer Violence - Submission based Zine

Open publication - Free publishing - More zine



I came across this zine Whilst looking at a link form the disturbia clothing website, (which I'll post up next) Its a pretty grim subject matter and blows open a great excuse to draw disgusting stuff, but also its a great oppertunity to have work showcased! The theme for the next zine is smut, I'm going to do a submission just to see if it gets in there. Still unsure about how to get hold of a copy of DV, but I spose I'll figure that out.

Heres their website:  http://designerviolence.org/main
Wicked stuff!