Sheffield Zine Fest

Ryan Humphrey's autograph in a collaborative zine about Miley Cyrus which I contributed the following illustration to:

Has made me interested about the possibility of making my own zines, particularly collaborative ones.

Makoto Aida

Makoto Aida's Harakiri Schoolgirls are kinda cool. Here's another version of it that was also used as album art for a Laurel Halo album:

"In Harakiri School Girls Aida did not want to simply fetishize uniform-wearing girls or create a modern version of traditional bijinga (pictures of beautiful women). Instead he created an homage to the brutal works of ukiyo-e artist Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) and the painter Ekin (1812-1876), both known for their ghastly and grotesque work showing decapitations, stabbings and dramatic scenes of death. "In order to escape the eroticism of the nude, or more explicitly the genitals," says Aida, "I depicted blood and internal organs." And girls in school uniforms. Killing themselves. Smiling."

hmm the lines and colours are nice

STUDY TASK 6 - 'What is illustration For?' - Part 2

• What is Illustration?
• What is Illustration for? What is it's function?
• Where do you find illustration? In what context does it exist?
• Who are the specific audiences for illustration?

• What is Illustration/What is it's function?

A means of illuminating, making clear, (diagrams, medical illustration):

To promote (a show, gig, movie, etc.) Jeff Kleinsmith:

Tell a story (sequential, comics, manga, etc) Hitoshi Ashinano:

Expand on something else (editorial, etc) Roman Muradov:

• Where do you find illustration? In what context does it exist?

Websites (secret garden party festival website):

Zines (My Miley collaborative zine by Ryan Humphreys):

Media packaging (Chicago Service EP record sleeve) some guy called Christopher Keys apparently:

Collectives (Puck):

http://www.puckcollective.co.uk/

Vector illustration

Character

Muller-Wegner: Illustration duo. This character done in such a way to make it look 3D through clever use of gradients.

Dr. Ponce: Really nice use of shape and limited colour palette. 

Tim McDonagh: Really intricate linework combined with flat block colours makes this work stand out

Stephen Cheetham: Characters dressed in fabrics produced by a company called Stib19. Good and interesting use of mixing scanned textures with vectors

Sequential

Publishing

Editorial

Stuart Holmes: Good use of a single gradient among other bits of flat colour

Malika Favre: Cover illustration for Fabric that also makes similar use of gradients as Holmes' illustration, but combining the shading with gradient also makes the image nice.

Another Example: Really interesting use of shape to create tone which I've personally never encountered before.

Jan Kallwejt: Limited colour palette and complimentary use of colours.

Thomas Danthony: More intricate use of colour/gradient and details to create more depth.

Packaging

Promotion

Chris Ede: Promotional web image for Ford. Complex designs, but use of minimal colours makes the images aesthetically pleasing.

Andrew Lyons: Selective use of texture to differentiate between different surfaces in the shapes. For a dinosaur-theme show at a gallery in Amsterdam

Jeffrey Bowman: Nice use of line and shape, though both could potentially work independent of each other

Lotta Nieminem: Promo image for Volkswagen. Slight use of texture to give more traditional feel to otherwise very typical vector imagery.

Koichi Fujii: I'm not sure what exactly this image is for but I like the mixed use of vector shapes and hand drawn type.

http://www.illustrationweb.com/styles/vector