Thursday, 13 November 2014

Anime, Comics and Gaming Society Competition

As I am a member of the Anime, Comics and Gaming society I as allowed to be part of a fan art competition they were running for a Halloween event. We were allowed to submit any form of fan art we liked and it had no conditions for what medium we should use or what form of fan art. For this I submitted this drawing of a character poster for the character Death from the Darksiders comics and game series. Unfortunately, since I gave the leaders my sketchbook and on the other page was a drawing of Minnie Mouse I did for a friend, when they showed the drawing around during the event some of the members thought my entry was the other drawing so I came last in the competition. This experience taught me some valuable lessons when it came to handing in art for the competition by making sure the drawing is separate from the rest of my illustrations.

My design for the competition

Monday, 10 November 2014

Proposal

Through this time I plan to extend my knowledge of the business world within illustration and to find new techniques and areas to improve the techniques I already use. In the future I hope to get into an business where I can focus on creating my own characters, their backstories and morphing humans with something else, on a regular occasions animal and if I could choose which business I would choose a comic book industry that is fun and would let me express my creativity. When I look at the artists I would like to interview I will look at ones that have worked for major comic companies and also create a lot of anthropomorphic characters.

An artist who has inspired me for a long time and has helped me decide my art style today is Chris Riddell who is the political illustrator for the Observer who also works with Children's books as well. I love the design of the creatures he can create and his amazing detail to his characters, yet he mostly work on monochromatic pieces if it is not for the newspaper: I will be contacting him through his website

Chris Riddell: http://www.chrisriddell.co.uk/contacts-links/

An artist that works in the comic book industry that I am inspired by is Juanjo Guarnido who is the illustrator for the graphic novel series Blacksad. I love how he can show the characters' expressions and make them resemble the animal counterpart they are addressed as so well. I also really like the gritty colour scheme of the artwork since it makes the novel seem more like film noir-esque. I will be contacting him over facebook.

Juanjo Guarnido: https://www.facebook.com/juanjo.guarnido.artist/timeline

Through my hobby of Magic the Gathering I have been introduced to another artist who I now inspired by named Peter Morhbacher who is an independent illustrator who has done some freelance work for the card game but is now mostly focusing on his own project called Angelarium. I will be contacting him through his website.

Peter Morhbacher: http://www.vandalhigh.com/about-me/

Through my other hobby of reading Marvel and DC comics I was introduced to another artist called Jim Lee whose work i adore the most out of both of the companies. I will try and contact him through his deviantart

Jim Lee: http://jimlee00.deviantart.com/



With companies I would like to work for, Vertigo Comics is one. They are a comic book publisher that are an imprint under the main DC comic book publisher, they have created one of my favourite comics of recent times Fables. The company that would be my dream job would be Marvel comics since I fan of nearly most of their work and a giant fan of some of their artists' styles.