Everday Sketchbooks: Research - Artist's Sketchbooks 1
Research Task 1:1 Artists’ sketchbooks
These are some artists I picked to research, I think I have found a nice mixture of both traditional and a more modern style of art. Rather than choosing all off the list I researched some on my own to see if I could find artists that maybe aren't as well-known but are just as talented and that I can maybe relate to a bit more. I do love finding artists that wow me with their work, some of the illustrators I found and follow actually inspire me to want to create. Some of them really evoked different feelings and were quite atmospheric.
Ronald Searle
Bit of background/fact-
He was a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. He served in World War II, during which time, he was captured as a prisoner of war by Japanese forces. After his liberation in late 1945, Searle began producing literature and drawings detailing his harrowing experience of captivity and torture.
I like the sketchiness of his drawings, they’re not precise and perfect there’s a lot of fluidity and unusual shapes. I like the use of minimal colours too; he uses just enough to not overpower the images and somehow brings them even more to life. He did a lot of lithographs in his time which I had heard of the word but never knew what It meant, (Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface.) I like the style and colour of paper this is done on it gives a vintage style with the off-white background and darker lines.
I also had a look at his sketches during his time being a prisoner of war and they are really interesting and graphic, it’s like he's actual pictures of everything around him, even though these were most likely quickish sketches and even though the features of faces were simple the expressions are so telling.
There are so many drawings that I really enjoyed; I like the traditional style it gives the art such authenticity. In relation to using a sketchbook the composition of the drawings even if they weren't highly detailed always fits the page in a good way.
references:
http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/ - His website
Ronaldsearle.co.uk. (2011). Ronald Searle Art Work - Lithographs and original drawings and paintings by Ronald Searle. [online] Available at: http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/ [Accessed 14 Nov. 2019].
Ronaldsearle.co.uk. (2011). Ronald Searle Art Work - Lithographs and original drawings and paintings by Ronald Searle. [online] Available at: http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/ [Accessed 14 Nov. 2019].
Ronaldsearle.co.uk. (2011). Ronald Searle Art Work - Lithographs and original drawings and paintings by Ronald Searle. [online] Available at: http://www.ronaldsearle.co.uk/ [Accessed 14 Nov. 2019].
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ronald-searle/ - Info about him
Artnet.com. (2011). Ronald Searle. [online] Available at: http://www.artnet.com/artists/ronald-searle/.
His other work like this one this is an example of the darkness in the art it’s so weird and confusing and it kind of makes you feel a bit disgusted and sad for the character
Another intense piece of art. Leaves you quite confused but intrigued.
Vincent Bal
Bit of background/fact-
He is a belgian illustrator, filmmaker who is also a creator of shadowology in which he captures shadows of everyday objects and illustrates the shapes of them into things and characters. His illuatrations are usually done in black pen and the contours of the shadows are used to create these pictures. There isn't enough evidence of a sketchbook but from his instagram page it is a portfolio and I feel it counts as a digital sketchbook.
https://www.innovatordiaries.com/film-maker-illustrator-shadowologist-vincent-bal/
admin (n.d.). Film Maker, Illustrator and Shadowologist, Vincent Bal | Innovator Diaries. [online] Available at: https://www.innovatordiaries.com/film-maker-illustrator-shadowologist-vincent-bal/ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2022].
I found this interesting interview of how he got into this line of work; what his childhood was like, him studying physics, mathematics, and filmmaking. He describes the times he first started using shadows to create illustrations and how he now does them for a living.
His work is so creative I love the clean aesthetic of his whole Instagram page. The nice white backgrounds with the black pen and then the objects he uses that offer a bit of colour, listening to that interview his thought process behind creating these shadow images is the equivalent of experimenting ideas in a sketchbook, he finds these objects and puts them in different positions until something clicks and an illustration appears out of nothing.
I think he is an artist I can learn from, it’s a new method of creating that I will definitely try use it in my own work. The work he has put on the internet is a lot of his finished work no mistakes I can't find but listening to the interview he tells you how it’s not as easy as it seems, there’s a lot of trial and error and a need to remain relaxed to not overthink when trying to develop each shadow drawing.
I love how some objects create environments like these above, the colours they produce are lovely.
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