Everday Sketchbooks: Research - Artist's Sketchbooks 1 continued

 Continuing from the first 3 artist I researched another three:

Mogu Takahashi

Mogus is a Japanese artist whose art is beautiful, there’s a lot of bold colours and the blobby paintings/drawings, she does brings a sense of nostalgia. In the best way they remind me of children’s drawings, there’s a sense of youthful freedom where the images aren’t perfect, and the proportions aren’t accurate. Looking through her instagram she posts many more drawing and paints as well as some sketches sometimes using sketchbooks and also sketchbooking on walks.

These are screenshots from one of  her many ‘daily doodles’ sketchbook series. They are full with these random vividly coloured things. Its like she’s just put whatever she wants on the page no worry about mistakes.

 https://vimeo.com/103114537 - Daily doodles flip through of sketchbook...

I think her work is good for inspiring people to be creative good or not. There isn’t a lot of technicality and perfectionism its all just quirky fun. I love when art is simple but effective, it's good to loosen up with your art especially when experiencing things like creative block or being too hard on yourself when making mistakes. I think I may use her techniques and explore more with colours giving myself a bit more space to make mistakes and be random.

references:

https://www.yukfun.co.uk/illustration-we-love/mogu-takahashi/- A blog about her

 YUK FUN. (2016). Illustration We Love: Mogu Takahashi. [online] Available at: https://www.yukfun.co.uk/illustration-we-love/mogu-takahashi/ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2022].

https://www.instagram.com/mogutakahashi/- Instagram page

 https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkw1OZIg_i/   one of her Mini sketchbook.

 

David Hockney

 Background/fact-

David is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

Using a range of mediums and methods looking on his website there is such a mixture of styles and techniques. He has a collection of sketchbook entries, he has sketchbooks documenting trips and places. I took some screenshots as an example of the random styles, there’s abstract, sketches, full environments in his sketchbook called ‘Iceland 2002’

I like the black and red together and how he leaves some pages blank, it’s like he wasn’t focused on filling the pages just to sketch what he sees or felt.

Some of his drawings aren’t always finished or there’s a bit of detail mixed with simple shapes and lines with this dog lying on the shape of a couch or bed. There isn’t much mistakes I see in his work but he may not have disclosed if there was any or not because there’s such a varied amount of styles, techniques its interesting.

Even though he is well known for his pop art I like the traditional elements of his work like this painting which I love. The colours are so vivid and there’s a touch of abstract with the warped road and houses. I think looking at his sketchbooks the fact some are them aren't finished and there isn’t fully filled pages is quite relatable, not every page needs to be full and intense.

references:

https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/sketchbooks - website 

 www.hockney.com. (n.d.). Sketchbooks : Works | David Hockney. [online] Available at: https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/sketchbooks [Accessed 11 Mar. 2022].

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293 - info

Tate (2018). David Hockney born 1937 | Tate. [online] Tate. Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293.

 

Danny Gregory

 Background/fact -

Danny Gregory is the internationally best-selling author of a dozen books on art and creativity. He is the founder of Sketchbook Skool with tens of thousands of students worldwide. It is an online art school designed to bring artists back to their creativity. Taught by the world’s best illustrators, artists, and educators, Sketchbook Skool encourages its global community of over 50,000 students to draw in a sketchbook, regardless of skill level.

Danny is an Illustrator that documents the 'beauty that surrounds him'.  I love the way he uses both pages of a sketchbook for one big picture. He incorporates fine liner pens to his paintings and coloured images and they complement each other well. I think they stand out cause the colour is enhanced by the black lines.

 

His Instagram page has a lot more mixed media, there is a lot more digital art then on his website, it’s good to see the style digitalised it doesn’t really take away from the style. He mentions on his website that he’s done many journals over the years which I would love to look through but unfortunately, it’s not all there. He appears to be an artist who draws and paints almost everything, from people to environments to dogs and he doesn’t always follow one style or colour palate.

 

Being the founder of sketchbook skool it's good that he is introducing his own love for art and creativity to other artist so they too can find the enjoyment of keeping sketchbooks and learn new ways of making art, taking away the fear or frustration you may have when trying to build a sketchbook.