STUDY TASK 3 - 'What is illustration ?' - Part 2

Function: All these illustrations have a specific function of what to do.

Stina Persson - fashion illustration for Louis Vuitton

Henri Privat-Livemont - advert for absinthe 

Chris Bayley - editorial for article on the band Rokysopp

Unknown artist - war propaganda

Katsuya Terada - promo art for the video game "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past"

Audience: These pieces of work have a specific audience in mind

Shintaro Kago - Mature manga artist

Dr Seuss - Children's book writer/illustrator

Mai 68 poster - Calling to students to protest

Mikkel Sommer - "Obsolete"aimed at a mature audience

Norman Lindsay - cover of "Oz" magazine no. 33 aimed at the counter culture subculture of 1960s

Process: The processes behind these illustrations/illustrators interest me and/or is a way that I work/would like to work.

Alex Rodriguez - Scanned in pencil drawing and adjusted to create really strong lines before colouring digitally

Nicolas Delort - Using both ink and scratchboard to create finely detailed line drawings.

Ryan Tippery - lightly pencilled sketch with fineliner over it. This is pretty much how I work most of the time

Ian Francis - messy painting with fineliner and pen over the top to define figures

Yoji Shinkawa - Brush pen with digital colouring

Aesthetic: These illustrations/illustrators have visual aesthetics that appeal/inspire me

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: I love the simple line work of Lautrec's work and soft colours. His posters have a very fluid and loose feel to them

Jules Cheret - Cheret's work has a similar quality to them, though his lines are more angular. This doesn't detract from the fluidity of the image however.

J.C. Leyendecker - I think Leyendecker's work is just as worthy of epitomizing early 20th century illustration as Rockwell. Leyendecker's work seems to be a bit more stylized which I really like.

Haydn Symons - I think Symons' use of colour here is great and harmonious, and its application has given it a very matte finish which I assume was achieved with gouache.

Ryan Humphrey - Humphrey's work is loose and somewhat naive, but what I find great is the amount of control and deliberation behind each pencil stroke in regards to subtle changes in tone

Julian Landini - Controlled pen work with every stroke being deliberate as with Humphrey. There's no real "scribbling"

Context: These illustrations work specifically due to their context

Sam Nielson - Commercial editorial illustration. I think this has a very toon-like style to it that is sometimes seen in concept art for animations. I feel that the style is very accessible to all ages.

Anonymous poster online - Standalone illustration (as far as I'm aware). I think this image makes good use of frame and composition to enhance the image and action.

Peter Hoffman - sketches to promote a duty-free store in airports in Spanish airports. I feel like these sketches are very dynamic despite the cleanliness of the line work- perhaps due to the extreme angles and tilted view

William Wallace Denslow - Book illustration for The Wizard of Oz. Denslow's varied mark making is used to good effect to define all the different surfaces in the image and describe all the materials in the image.

Paula Bonet - This wall illustration is nice because of how it is drawn with the same looseness as a smaller scale sketch such as the messy yet intricately shaded leaves