Digital illustrators

Bijou Karman

Bijou Karman is a digital illustrator and editorial illustrator. She is an artist based in Los Angeles. To start with Karman paints with acrylic gouache on paper and then uses procreate on an iPad to create the illustrations digitally. She sometimes even mixes painting by hand by digital work as she can the combine them both together by using photoshop. Karman surrounds her figures in intense pairings of pattern and detail and a lot of black colours. There are no fades of colour to the next colour for example you wouldn’t see yellow to orange to red in her work. Karman would simply put yellow next to red with solid lines of each colour with no fade. I think that this makes the image look bold and more defined. I also feel like it gives the image a pop art effect as it changes colour.

This image is my favourite pieces of hers. I like the use of tones on the cactus type figures in the background as it cartoons a three-dimensional image. I also like how the tones is divided by white spots which blend the colours together. I would take inspiration from her work to put the colours and simple shapes together to produce a background.

Orla Kiely

Orla Kiely qualified as a textile designer at the National College of Design in Dublin.  After she qualified, she moved to New York and worked as a wall paper and fabric designer before moving to London to study for her masters at the Royal College of Art.  She takes her inspiration from nature, flowers, leaves and animals.  She likes colour of nature, greens, grey and brown and contrasts them with orange and yellow.  She starts with her design on pen and paper and transfers it through a scanner onto a computer where she develops the design further.  Karman surrounds her figures in intense pairings of pattern and detail and a lot of black colours.

 

Personally, I think that Kiely’s work isn’t that appealing due to its simple patterns. Although saying that, it also gives me pointers to put within my work. I think that having this type of pattern within a silhouette would look very effective and make the image come together as one in a full design.

Rosanna Webster

Rosanna Webster is an illustration graduate that explores creative experimentation in her body of work. Webster starts off with getting her inspiration with photography and collage them together as if it was a mood board so that she can put out all her ideas in front of her. She then goes back and forth to ideas and re thinks which images go together and what colours schemes work. After this she uses a pen and paper to start to draw her designs out. Which then is scannable to import to the computer where the designs can be edited and added to digitally.

I love Webster`s work, I like the colours used and how she has kept the natural tones of the model’s skin then has filled in where pieces of garments should give been with pictures of nature from the ground.

Acne Studios

Packaging- All shopping bags, merchandising and stationer is covered in pink. The brand is wanted to be recognized by their bags so colour is highly important so people are drawn to it. Although, may having thought that pink is a feminine colour, males and other genders in 2013 were happy to normally carry the bags. As at this point the brand was big and well known. This demonstrates that I can be as wacky as I want with my designs and the better the colour the more eye catching it is.