Artist Research
Nico Di Mattia
I have been a really big fan of Nico Di Mattia ever since I started digital art very much like his (year and a half ago). He was one of the people who really inspired me to start digital art after watching a few of his speed paintings on YouTube. I was so fascinated by the whole drawn a computer thing and how real they looked and really wanted to give it a try. I really like Nico’s work for how real he makes his artworks look and the whole fact that he records the process and uploads it onto YouTube. The picture he has used is from transformers and is of the actress Megan Fox.
There is the hyperlink to the video of nico drawing this image, I really do like the way he records his drawings for people to see his technique and also aid people for the progression of their work.
I think Nico gets a lot of his realism through things like the shadows and how detailed the lighting is. I like in this image how he made the background blurred so that the drawing stands out more, and also make it look like a photo with depth of field. I think the way he has textured the skirt is really nice and makes it look really real, and the same with the skin, he has made it look soft while the colour fits the image perfectly. Also the texture on the car to make it look old and banged up is done very well. But I think the most detail comes from the hair in this painting, it is so detailed that he has done every strand and put in different colours and lighting to make it look really real.
Adolfo Correa
I picked this artist because I really liked how he could just take an ordinary image and just transform into something completely different, maybe from a not so good photo into something that is just truly interesting. Even though he is a young student to graphic design he shows some amazing talent into his work. He almost brings his images to life by over doing the colour and things he puts into it.
What the artist has done is taken a photo of rocks on a beach/shore and photo manipulated things into the original image like, planets, light beams, stars and over the top colour.
I think the use of colour in this image is really clever and draws you into the image and make you look around to see what is happening. I really like the whole idea of the planets in the sky, it makes a sense this is from another world/ galaxy. I also like how some of the rocks are different colours too, maybe reflections? Or just generally different colours. I think the light beams give a really nice effect; I think it gives it a happy sort of feeling to the image, or maybe peaceful. I like how the light source coming out of the cliff is multi coloured, I think it makes the image a whole lot brighter, interesting and makes you look more into it.
I think the fact that the cliff with the ricks is on one side of the image and the sea the other, also the sea has all most of the colour and everything is happening in the sea or in the sky like all the light beams, and the colour. It makes the sea look more interesting compared to the rocks, makes the image more alive.
David Fuhrer
I chose David fuhrer because I think his work is really clever and interesting, I like his vision of what might be happening out in space because space is so undiscovered, he shows his view of what it ‘could’ look like. In this image there is a lot going on, you’ve got the countries with long roads looking like motorways, the things flying around in space, the explosion coming out of the planet on one side, and a lighter side on the other. This could suggest a good and evil side, or a something to do with the climate or poverty, or with wealth.
The things flying around in space look like bits of rubbish, maybe suggesting how people have polluted the world, or the world has eventually ran out of space for rubbish and now started putting it into space.
I think the city in the top right of the image is really cool; it looks sort of like a funfair. I think the darkness around the image then a little lighter towards the planet makes you focus more on the planet itself. I think this image really makes you focus on what is going on in each of the countries, it makes you look around the whole image to try and discover what everything is.
I think the roads all over the countries could be suggesting that eventually be no countryside left on the out planet and that everything will be taken over by concrete and buildings. I think you could back this up by looking at South America, this is generally quite a poor country compared to North America, and in this image it is showing that it is covered in roads. Overall I think this image is trying to show us what we’re doing to our planet and trying to make us realise that.
Miss-Valence
In this image you can see I man sitting in a chair at the end of a pathway surrounded by floating mountains and a jungle sort of look. I think the path way is a really good idea because when you first look at the image it makes your eye gradually move up to the man sitting on the chair. Also the rocks on the side of the image look sort of like pillars which blocks your view slightly but makes you focus more on the man sitting in the middle of the image which is I think is a very good way of drawing you eye into this picture. Then when you get to then man you see him looking up to the side of him at the floating mountains. This shows that his is thinking about something because people tend to look away or stare at random things when they think.
I think what this image is trying to show is the man dreaming or maybe imagining things in his mind, maybe everything you can see is what is going on in his head. The mountains look like the floating mountains from the film ‘Avatar’. I think the chair and bench that the man is sitting by could be showing that he is sat in his bedroom, or somewhere, and is daydreaming or thinking about something and everything that is going on around him is what he is thinking about. I think the clouds give a nice depth to the image, making it feel really high up in the sky there is this really relaxing place to be, almost like a heaven.
I think this is a very good way to show someone’s imagination and what someone could be thinking.
The concept our ideas have to be based around is 'I demand'. Revolutionart magazine have said that they want the image we are creating has to be:
- High quality image, 300 Dpi, RGB, JPG
-No self promotion or spam
- just send artworks as requested, other sizes cant be accepted
- The use of our logo in our art is welcome, but not mandatory.
revolutionart's covers tend to be very basic, with basic colours. they dont like to go into to much detail, block colours, stencil look.
there title of the magazine is always the same font just in different places around the page each time.
There covers are much a vecter drawing style with block colour's
Revolution Art Research
Mindmap of ideas for magazine
Thumbnail Sketches
Here is my thumbnail sketches I've done for my project using photoshop.
Chosen Idea
This is my chosen idea. This is because I came up with the idea of a painting on a street wall in a banksy style, the painting is of a soldier that has painted a piece sign. My original idea was that it was going to be someone painting the piece symbol, but whether it would be someone poor or a soldier, something like that, but I chose the soldier in the end because soldiers are always fighting, whether it would be for there country and for piece or not. There wasn't any specific tools i really used to do this, it was mostly layers and the free transform tool to arrange everything into place.
Inspiration Images
Source Images
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The people I presented to liked my ideas for my work and suggested that:
The soldier needed to be more faded,
Maybe have a sign in the image, to make it more realistic,
Make it more real,
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