People and Place part 3: Research - Creating your own version of reality 3.4

 For this task I looked through a lot of artists skecthbooks on http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks

I looked at as many as I could and there were to many to choose from to analyse or focus on that I liked the best. I did manage to do a few and also found some of my own.

 My favourites form the site:

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-seriesseb-cazes

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-danielle-kroll

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-john-garcia

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-john-hendrix

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-lauren-tamaki

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-mia-christopher

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/isaac-tobins-sketchbooks

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/sketchbooks/sketchbook-series-meg-hunt

Some that I found: 

https://www.instagram.com/isledari/

https://www.instagram.com/pau.tremouilles/

 https://www.instagram.com/dinabrodsky/

https://www.instagram.com/suzanneallarddesign/

 Seb Cazer 

Seb Cazer is the first artist, I like his work because his sketchbook is full of weird cartoons as well has pen scribble realistic drawings of buildings which is relatable too my own style. It also looks like he does blind contour drawings as a technique to go with these caricature which I also like to do. His style is unique, the use of wobbly lines keeps it light-hearted and fluid. He uses coloured pencil, watercolour, pen. His drawings themselves don’t look like they take so long they seem continuous lines which is usually sone quickly. On one of the building sketches, the detail fades out and it’s a nice contrast; maybe it is a way of showing motion.

 

Danielle Krolls

Danielle Krolls work Is very stylised, in these pages she has used watercolour as well as felt tip pens. There is no major line work in her drawings and its very pattern focused as well as colourful. I like that there’s no outlines around things there is just a focus on the patterns and shapes themselves. T hey kind of look like vintage illustrations especially the on with the plates and cutlery. The shapes aren’t perfect which I like. It looks like her work takes a bit of time, there’s no visible sketching or guidelines to follow and she uses the page as the white parts of the image. Her sketchbook isn’t so much observation based but the use of different medias provides a purpose. The patterns are layered, and typography is explored a little giving the letters character. Most of the pages are finished or the design doesn’t fill the whole page.

 

 Isaac Tobin

Isaac Tobin, his sketchbook is one of my favourites because of the interactive parts he’s added to the pages. I really like this method of presenting art it makes it a lot more exciting, and you experience something when you flip through the pages not knowing what’s on the next page. His method seems to involve a lot of collage and layering as well as papercraft in this sketchbook, the mediums being watercolour, pen, ink, and pencil. There’s a rustic feel to the book with the warm brown, yellow, orange-y tones with some white, grey, and black linework throughout. It looks like some of his drawings have been done in the space of a few minutes and then there’s geometrical shapes which probably required a lot more effort. The collage element may communicate where or what the page is about such as the dunkindonuts paper with a possible observational drawing of the people. Where there is empty spaces, it is either filled with some mark making, layers, and interactive pop up or a stained page.

 

Laura Tamaki

Laura Tamaki, Laura uses watercolour, pen and in these pictures red and blue biro. I love the mix of medias on each page, particularly the blue and red biro it’s just looks cool, and you can tell that it’s took a bit of time to get the fine details. She leaves some of the drawings unfinished but only to show how the drawing would carry on. The pen and watercolour type illustrations are simple and effective and its quite a versatile set of pictures. Even with the lack of context for most you can kind of guess can see what’s being communicated with the odd sentence or facial expression. There’s a lot of empty space on the pages but it really works. A simple drawing dotted about the page is unpredictable and the compositions are always different.

 

 

My own artists In addition to all of these artists I have also found my own few artists who use a sketchbook.

 Dina Brodsky

Dina Brodsky uses watercolour, ink, and fine liners. Her use of a sketchbook is really unique; the pages are so busy and pretty. Her focus seems to be nature, birds, trees and sometimes people. She definitely takes a while on each page cause they’re so delicate and there’s usually a lot of wording underneath the wash to colour the page. Her drawings are most of the time observational and she brings vibrancy to the scene. The style is that not all the page is taken up by the illustration there are parts left for the writing, its like its reading a fairy-tale book with magical scenes and aged pages. The stylisation I think brings to life seemly ordinary scenes with the colour pallets intricate and subtle writing all over the page and the detail in the illustrations/paintings.

 

 

 Suzanne Allard

Suzanne Allard mainly uses gouache but also crayons, pencil, acrylics. Her style is very floral and abstract, there’s a lot of bright colours and it very pattern based. Suzanne’s work on some pages look like they’re done quickly and the others with more detail like the flowers probably take longer as they aren’t as random. It doesn’t look like there isn’t much editing there is no pencil lines or obvious mistakes its just pure colour like there wasn’t much of a plan she just experiments on each page. There aren’t obvious unfinished parts of these pages either because it’s an abstract style there isn’t any specific ends or beginning of a picture. I think the images when done slowly can have a slightly different effect, being fast and experimental opens new avenues to explore and you can play with the shapes, colours, lines, and those experiments often result in better drawings when you want to take your time on a page. The style looks like a fun way of creating, there’s freedom in her sketchbooks and a lot of playing around with mediums and mixing them too, they show the process in away with the variations of designs on each page.

 

 

 Sofia Moores

Sofia Moores work is very stylised, the illustrations are like a comic book or graphic novel-esc. I love the detail and environments she creates it literally like reading a comic book or watching a film. Her sketchbooks have a lot more completed pages within depth scenarios. Its such an intense use of media too, there is watercolour, pen, pencil, crayon, fine liner. Most of the images I’ve seen are either full finished or fade our a little towards the end of the pages like you’re seeing a memory or looking into a story. I see both sketching and completed illustrations and she uses words and a bit of humour like the one below about things she may need to explore more like perspective. It helps give a sense of the process behind her creations. I think the sketches present the quicker thoughts and experiments that the artist is feeling at a certain moment in comparison to the finished pieces which just show a final thought something most likely edited beforehand.

 Some other pictures of the otehr artists work:

John Hendrix

John Garcia

Mia Christopher

Meg Hunt

Pau Tremouilles

These other artists I wanted to include their work because it so different, theres traditional, cartoon, watercolour, portratis and sketches and each has their own cool style.