Wednesday 24 November 2010

Berlin




Berlin zoo was the best zoo i have ever seen in my life. I had never seen half the animals they had before like a panda called bau bau, a silverback gorrilla, black jaguars, polar bears and ardvarks! this is a video of Sheba the lion. Seeing such a beautiful yet powerful animal so close was more inspiring to me than looking at any art gallery it was incredible.

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Berlin Oranienburger
















Wow this place was incredible! I have never seen an exhibition like this it was right up my street. metal sculptures made of metal scraps old screws and springs seeing this exhibition made me want to get all my junk out again. after seeing this exhibition i felt so inspired i knew that when i got home i wanted to make the characters for the new competition brief the james and the giant peach.

Monday 22 November 2010

Berlin










Dennis Mcnett Interview

Dennis Mcnett is a very inspirational 3d/2d artist he was very kind to write back his responses were very useful to me

Hello,

Here are the responses to your questions.
How do you keep your working style current and upcoming with the constantly changing fashions and demands of today?

I focus on my own concerns and interests, usually that's what makes the work strong and have its own flavor. I'm not concerned about trends.

Have you ever faced difficulty in finding your own distinctive working style and how did you resolve this?

I've never had trouble with that. Again, I focus on my own concerns and the work has its own flavor.

How do you get out of being stuck with drawers block?

I just draw what I'm really excited about; for example, I was watching planet earth this one time and got really excited about snow leopards after seeing one vault down the side of a cliff after a goat. When I was in art school, it was sometimes paralyzing to have to explain every single thing that I was drawing or wanted to make work about. Later I found it was important to just do what I was excited about and felt passionate about, and to not worry so much about having to explain it. By doing that, I would at times figure out why I was excited about something or how it related to larger body of work or a larger idea.

Which other artists / illustrators, do you admire ?

Richard Mock, Pusshead, Bill Fick, Sean Starwars, Tom Huck.

Is the computer an important tool in the composition of your work or just necessary?

Absolutely not, I never use a computer to compose my artwork.

What materials do you use?

What materials don't I use!


How do you manage your time when given an illustration brief to work on?

I don't do a lot of comission illustration work; usually when I'm doing illustrations for board graphics or shirt graphics its at my own pace, or I just stay in the studio until I get it done.

What advice would you give to someone who is trying to get established in the design industry?

To accept the fact that you have to put your time in. To devote as much time to your studio practice as possible. This is compared to practicing Kung-Fu. If you practice Kung-Fu everyday, you can whoop ass. If you don't, you're going to get your ass whooped. Its also important to show your work wherever and whenever possible, because you never know what that's going to turn into.

Good luck with your paper.
Best, Dennis McNett

Thursday 11 November 2010

material lady




I printed my old lady which i designed onto material and then i have sewn around the edges and stuffed her with cotton wool to make her look 3d.

shoebox auction





The shoe box auction happened March 2010. It was a unique auction and exhibition of "shoebox art' by leading artists for the support of kid company's work with vulnerable children. Each artist created a room from their childhood inside a shoebox. I included this in my research for my new project because i like the niave format of creating a scene in a shoe box it is basicaly a creative primitive form of a set design it reminds me of my childhood when i used to spend hours making rooms in a shoebox using materials i could find from around the house.
The 1st box is Grayson Perrys.
The 2nd is Damien Hirst
The 3rd being Chapman Brothers