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  • My Own Artwork
    • Drawings and Designs of the Marvel Characters >
      • Iron Man
      • Superman
      • Spider-man
      • The Wolverine
      • Wonder Woman
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    • Welcome to Witchcraft and Wizardry >
      • Which house are you?.... >
        • House Gryffindor
        • House Slytherin
        • House Hufflepuff
        • House Ravenclaw
      • Wand Shop
      • Dragons from All Over the World! >
        • Chinese Fireball Dragon
        • Ukraine Ironbelly Dragon
    • Poster Design >
      • Poster Design 1
      • Name day
      • Kendal Calling
      • Welcome to the 1970s'
      • Eddie "The Iron Maiden"
      • JJ Crossfield's
    • Christmas 2022 >
      • The Magic Railway
      • Baywatch
      • Netball
    • Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures >
      • Spinosaurus
      • Tyrannosaurus Rex
      • Indominus Rex
      • Megalodon
      • All of the Dinosaurs and other Creatures
    • Mythical Creatures, Monsters and Characters, etc... >
      • Dragons
    • Self-Portraits >
      • Damian's Children
      • James Crossfield
    • Tattoo Designs >
      • Tattoo Design for Ed
      • Tattoo Design for Hannah
      • Tattoo Designs for Calvert
    • Animals >
      • Pink-footed Geese
      • Raven
      • Cats
      • Snakes
    • Colouring Books >
      • Love Colouring Animals
      • Dinosaur Adult Colouring Book
      • Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland, Colouring Book
      • A Game of Thrones- Colouring Book
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      • Project 1: Record/CD Cover
      • Project 2: Typography Part 1
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      • Project 3: Gag Band Design
      • Project 1: Book Cover Designs
      • Project 2: Article Design
      • Project 3: 3D Movie Design
      • Project 4: One - Minute Animation
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      • Project 1: Eden Brewery Can Designs
      • Project 2: Image and Type
      • Project 3: Penguin Book Cover Designs
      • Project 1: Once Upon a Time... >
        • Book 1 - The Spider - man
        • Book 1 - The Green Goblin
        • Book 2 - The Fantastic Four
        • Book 2 - The Doctor Doom
        • Book 3 - The Wolverine
        • Book 3 - The Sabretooth
        • Book 4 - The Hulk
        • Book 4 - The Abomination
        • Book 5 - The Daredevil
        • Book 5 - The Kingpin
      • Project 2 - Let's go for a Stroll >
        • First Article Design
        • Final Article Design
      • Reassessment Project
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      • Wood - Making
      • Metal - Making
      • Print - Making
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Year 3

Year 3- (October 5th, 2020) Subject Research: Dinosaurs
In the start of the first project, for the Eden River Brewery Co. I did some researching and creating my favourite subject since I was a kid. The subject was about... the Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles they first appeared 240 million years ago, and through a hundred million years, they've changed in all different shapes and sizes, evolving different many species from the Trassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous period, till 65 million years ago, the Dinosaurs became extinct by a giant asteroid that crashed into the earth at the gulf-of-Mexico. All that's left of the Dinosaurs are their bones, fossilised till the first bones were discovered in the early 19th Century and have become popular in books and movies like Jurassic Park.
Websites:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-are-dinosaurs.html
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/name/name-az-all.html
I thought of creating can designs of Dinosaurs would be fun to do. When I was at secondary school in year 8 I was asked to create an a drink or food item and decided to create a drink idea called, Dino - cola. But sadly that's was not what I was asked to create in the task, so I needed to rethink of what else I'd create for the project.

Year 3- (October 13th, 2020) History Research: Hadrian's Wall, Pennine Way, Cumbria Coastal Way and Yorkshire Dales
Websites:
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​hadrianswallcountry.co.uk
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​www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/pennine-way/
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​www.yorkshire-dales.com
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​www.visitcumbria.com/wc/the-cumbria-coastal-way/
​During the first project, I had to change the subject from Dinosaurs to something else. I've decided to research four places I've been in England that is also based upon the project. The subjects are the Hadrian's Wall, Pennine Way, Cumbria Coastal Way and Yorkshire Dales.

Hadrian's Wall

The Hadrian's Wall, also known as the Roman Wall, Pict's Wall was a former defensive fortification during the time of the romans, it began in 122 AD in the reign of emperor Hadrian. The Hadrian's Wall ran from the banks of River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, this allowed the Romans to protect the Roman Empire by keeping their lands into some distance from the north, into the northern lands of Ancient Britons, including the Picts. Each stone is made out of stone wall, there were two mile castles with two turrets in between, each one is set about every five Roman miles, from north to south the wall was formed into a military. The distance in the wall is 90 miles long.

Cumbria Coastal Way

The Cumbria Coastal Way is a long-distance footpath allowing people to travel from Cumbria's southern border to the north of the English-Scottish border. It follows some interesting scenery such as the red sandstone cliffs of St. Bees. The footpath passes through the following of locations from North to South:
  • Silverdale
  • Arnside
  • Grange-over-Sands
  • Greenodds
  • Ulverston
  • Barrow-in-Furness
  • Askam-in-Furness
  • Kirkby-in-Furness
  • Broughton-in-Furness
  • Millom
  • Ravenglass
  • Seascale
  • St. Bees
  • St. Bees Head
  • Whiteheaven
  • Workington
  • Maryport
  • Allonby
  • Mawbray
  • Beckfoot
  • Silloth
  • Abbeytown
  • Burgh by Sands
  • Carlisle

Pennine Way and Yorkshire Dales

The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section of Scotland. Trail stretches to 283 miles from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland National Park and ends at Kirk Yetholm just inside the Scottish Border. The trail runs along a pennine hills, sometimes called the "backbone of England," although it's not the longest trail in the United Kingdom, but it is known to be "one of Britain's best known and toughest trails. The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in Yorkshire Dales National Park was first created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising the Vale of York westward to the hilltops of the Pennine watershed. In Riddlesdale, Dentdale, and Gardale, the area extends westwards across the watershed, but most of the valleys drain eastwards to the Vale of York, into the Ouse and the Humber. The extensive limestone cave system is a major area for caving in the UK and numerous walking through trails run through the hills and dales. I've been to these places with my Dad and my brother, David when I was 12, 13 and 15 years. The Hadrian's Wall I did in a week, part of the Cumbria Coastal Way in a day and the Pennine Way nearly two weeks. They were tough walks to do, but in the end it made me think of what I've achieved at a young age.

This is what I choose to create can designs for the Eden River Brewery Co.

Year 3- (October 24th, 2020) Artist Research: Alfred Wainwright
Website:
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​www.thelakedistrict.org/historical-figures/alfred-wainwright/
​During the first project in my third year, my tutor Dwayne has suggested about researching an artist that is based on what the subject, I'm using for the Eden River Brewery Co. The artist I've researched is Alfred Wainwright. Alfred Wainwright (Born: 17th January, 1907 - Died: 20th January, 1991) was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. He has created a lot of his artwork of, views, paths and landscapes of the Lake District and Northern England. His artwork has been done either by drawing pen, quill pen and ink or by printing (etching, possibly). All the views and landscapes, of the Lake District and Northern England that Alfred Wainwright has done in his artwork have been placed into his guidebooks, so when people go for some long walks, and looking at a map of the path they're taking there would be a drawing from what he's done. This helps showing people going the right way. In these guidebooks there is no colour in most of them, but it does show a lot of thin/thick lines that've been done by either hatching or cross-hatching, creating tone and shading in these drawings. For the rest of his artwork that'd have colour been done in canvas paint. Looking at the artwork, Alfred Wainwright has made something similar to what I would do with my own artwork. With my practice I'm hoping to do better than his.

Year 3- (November 12th, 2020) Book Research: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal and The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace
In the second project, I've been researching the books I've chosen to create my own book cover for Penguin company. The books I researched were: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal and The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace.
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal

The book Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, is novel written by Meera Syal, it was later adapted into a BBC tv miniseries.

The book is about "friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural incongruities. By turn spicy, hilarious and sad." It unfolds the ties that a young woman to the roots. The friendship is of Tania, Sunita and Chila, a strong friendship since childhood, making the book showing both heart-warming and heart-breaking at the same time with all three women.

"It disturbed me profoundly to see evidence of how much we can achieve, laced with our ability to destroy ourselves. It made me want to look at life and the lives of my friends, all of whom were going through seismic changes in our belief systems relationships," said Meera Syal.

The book is based around India and British Culture.

Quotes
  • "Only tiny kindness, but the ones that counted, the million little mercies we take for granted, the mundane gestures that keep us, tentatively, together."
  • "...smoke, spattered with grey-black debris, coming faster and thicker, eager to escape the brick maw and billow across the unbroken sky."
  • "Go on...go!" Tania said, exhilarated, raising her arms above her, scattering the sparrows from the trees, who fluttered through the grey snow and beyond it, singing their journey as they flew."
  • "there are two kinds of people in the world: 1. Those who realise you are unbelievably amazing. 2. Those who are going to realise you are unbelievably amazing.
  • "A magical mosaic of friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural incongruities. By turns spicy, hilarious and sad, it unfolds the ties that bind young women to their East End Punjabi roots even as they had west for trendy career, cafe bars and sexual freedom."
  • "Not even snowfall could make Leyton look lovely."
  • "neighbours had gathered at windows and doorways, the children giggling behind bunched fingers, their stone-slab kingdoms warily, in case bhanga-ing in bullock-freezing weather was infectious."
  • "She is as sweet as the blossom outside my window, and just as virginal."
  • "She doesn't need to prance around thongs and halter necks, her beauty is beautiful because it's hidden and it will be mine."
  • "Fear of becoming my father, he'd smiled at the stone as he tramped through new fallen leaves, recalling his parents' amazed as he'd confirmed his choice of bride."
  • "A Punjabi girl."
  • "No man will ever want that one, the plump darkie with the shy stammer."
  • "She wanted to celebrate."
  • "she was mummified in red and gold silk."
  • "She's looking a bit rough today, thought Chila, with an unexpected tinge of pleasure."
  • "You see, how nicely she walks behind him? She will follow his lead in life. That is good."
  • "where does the journey end, huh?"
  • "why her life wasn't following the ordained patterns for a woman of her age."
  • "Tania checked her watch, angry at herself for hoping that the wedding might be running to schedule."
  • "Indian Time."
  • "Memories of family picnics, outings to relatives' homes, rare but treasured cinema visits."
  • "willing the familiar words to take her back in time."
  • "an empty seat at the back of the hall,"
  • "Come here, Nikki," Sunita whispered, pulling her daughter close to her and moving her sleeping son to the other arm, plumply snoozing in his rabbit-eared Baby-Gro."
  • "a little girl at her mother's knee wanting to be scarlet princess whose beauty lights fire."
  • "her joy like a trophy."
  • "he had a god-given duty to put on a good show."
  • "She was happy."
  • "whisper something into the ear,"
  • "eighteen rows of smiling, satisfied guests and reached the platform in a wave of good will and joy."
  • "Alright! Let's hear it for Chila and Deepak! All right!"
  • Tania still sat like one with them, crossed legs, shoes off, unknotting herself in a way that suggested, despite her protections, that part of her still respond to them like home."
  • "Tania choked on her cigarette, giggling out fumes from her nose."
  • "Tut tut! Bad Indian woman,"
  • "standing in a pool of sunlight that had brazenly, unexpected spilled through the dirty single window."
  • "They saw her beauty in full blown,"
  • "You can't arrange a marriage and then expect to find perfection."
  • "how choosey can you be a thirty-four?"
  • "Me in the kitchen with my man."
  • "The best advice my mum ever gave me was not to expect too much."
  • "Learned how to tread that fine line between tramp and tease, flirting just enough to make the boys feel flattered, but not too much,"
  • "the broadway of little India, every corner held memories of a conquest,"
The Uninhabitable Earth

The book The Uninhabitable Earth, was written by David Wallace-Wells of life and consequences of global warming, this book was inspired by New York magazines article "The Uninhabitable Earth" (2017). It is about the possibilities for the earth's future across a spectrum of future temperature ranges, it argues the effects of climate change will have catastrophic impacts. Multiple sphere: rising sea levels, extreme heat events, extinctions, disease outbreaks, fires, drought and increased geopolitical conflicts, among others.

Such changes can still be salvaged with proper political and scientific willpower over the coming years this is what Wallace-Wells suggested.

Quotes
  • In fact, more than half the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades. Which means we have done as much damage to the fate of the planet and its ability to sustain human life and civilisation since Al Gore published his first book on climate then in all the centuries - all the millennia that came before. The UN established its climate change framework in 1992, advertising scientific consensus unmistakably to the world. This means we have now engineered as much ruin knowingly as we ever managed in ignorance.
  • The last few years of climate disaster may look like about as much as the planet can take. In fact, we are only just entering our new world, one that collapses below us as soon as we set foot in it.
  • "David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realise, and he's right. The Uninhabitable Earth is a timely and provocative work."
  • It is worse, much worse, than you think.
  • The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record.
  • an evolutionary reset, the planet's phylogenetic tree first expanding, then collapsing, at intervals, like a lung: 86 percent of all species dead 450 million years ago; 70 million years later 75 percent; 125 million years later, 96 percent; 50 million years later, 80 percent; 135 million years after that 75 percent again.
  • Unless you are a teenager, you probably read in high school that these extinctions were the results of asteroids.
  • In fact, all but one that killed the Dinosaurs involved climate change produced by greenhouse gas.
  • in the last 800,000 years - perhaps in as long as 15 million years. There were no humans then. The oceans were more than a hundred feet higher.
  • The majority of burning has come since the premiere of Seinfeld.
  • Since the end of World War II, the figure is about 85 percent.
  • the planet brought from seeing stability to the brink of catastrophe in the years between a baptism or bar mitzvah and a funeral.
  • It is also the lifetime of many of the scientists who first raised public alarm about climate change
  • rendered uninhabitable by direct heat, desertification, and flooding.
  • whole regions of Africa, and Australia and the United States, part of South America north of Patagonia, and Asia south of Siberia would be rendered uninhabitable.
  • "don't even think of myself as a nature person. I've lived my whole life in cities, enjoying gadgets built by industrial supply chains I hardly think twice about."
  • "I always thought it was basically good idea to keep streams clean and air clear,"
  • "I always accepted the proposition that there was a trade-off between economic growth and cost to nature."
  • "I'm not about to personally slaughter a cow to eat a hamburger, but I'm also not about to go vegan."
  • "I tend to think when you're at the top of the food chain it's okay to flaunt it because I don't see anything complicated about drawing a moral boundary between us and other animals."
  • talk of extending human-right-like legal protection to chimps, apes and octopuses.
  • I began collecting stories of climate change, many of them terrifying, gripping, uncanny narratives, with even the most small-scale
  • a group of Arctic scientists trapped when melting ice isolated their research centre, on an island populated also by a group of polar bear;
  • a Russian boy killed by anthrax released from a thawing reindeer carcass, which had been trapped in permafrost for many decades.
  • humanity dilating across the planet almost to the point of a full eclipse.
  • Fifteen percent of all human experience throughout history, it's been estimated, belongs to people alive right now, each walking the earth with carbon footprints.
  • flooded cities, crippling droughts and heats waves, a planet battered daily by hurricanes and monsoons we used to call "natural disaster" but will soon normalise.
Websites:
Book- Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Book- The Uninhabitable Earth
This is what I researched, looked and read through both the books, I'll be using to create a book cover in this project.

Year 3- (November 17th, 2020) Artist Research: Lishani De Silva and J. R. R. Tolkien
In this project I've been researching on some artists of what I want to do for a book cover. The artists I've researched is Lishani De Silva and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Websites:
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​www.tolkiensociety.org/author/biography/
Lishani De Silva

Lishani De Silva is a designer, IR junkie, and a GIF enthusiast living in Maryland, she is also a passionate photographer, Studio trained and lover of the Rule of thirds and perspective shooting, "direct yet conceptual. White space is life, design and photography for brands, publications, and people. Raised all over the world, I call home right now in the DMV area." Graduated from the American University with a degree in International Development and regional focus in South and Southeast Asia. "Halfway through my college career I fell in love with Graphic Design."

​Her artwork is done mostly by two colours only and it looks like at some point, they've been done by Lino-printing designs, her artwork was created by graphic design and photography.
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J. R. R. Tolkien, Born: January 3rd 1892 - Died: September 2nd 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist and academic. He is best known as an author for writing the high fantasy work of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, that are now in the movies. For his writing of books, he is also got a talent for artwork and mapmaking too. J. R. R. Tolkien's artwork has been done by drawing and watercolour paint, they're the elements of his creativity from when he began writing fiction. The philologist and author he is, J. R. R. Tolkien was prepared to do illustrations for his middle-earth fantasy books, looking at his artwork, its like some of them have been done by Lino-printing due to the bold in colour, then the tonal colours by watercolours.

Looking at both the artists' artwork was interesting, because this was something I like to create for the book cover project, using some Lino-printing.

Year 3- (February 1st, 2021) Artist Research: Leonardo da Vinci and Lucinda Rogers
On the start of the first day of the month, I get started with some new research of a couple of artists that I would like to try learn from their artwork and develop their style towards the end of my third year at the University of Cumbria.

The artist I decided to look at is Leonardo da Vinci and Lucinda Rogers.
Websites:
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​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
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​www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/da_vinci_leonardo.shtml
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (14/15th April, 1452 - 2nd May, 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance whose considered to be one of the most talented individuals to have ever lived. While he was fame from his achievements as a painter, he is also been known from his notebooks, which he made drawings and notes on science and invention, these were involved with other subjects including:
  • anatomy
  • astronomy
  • botany
  • cartography
  • painting
  • palaeontology
All of these subjects were shown in a lot of his drawings.

A lot of Leonardo da Vinci drawing have been done mostly by pencil, then with ink and paint showing features of what's inside and outside of the human body and the creating of his inventions. Each drawing is structural, hairline (with the lines sticking horizontally around the subject), hatched, the tone on the drawings shows some shading, dark and light areas (from the subject) and there's not that much colour in any of his drawings. The background from the paper that Leonardo da Vinci shows different coloured texture instead of using like white paper. The texture on them is light-faded red or orange (like looking at a coffee stain on a white sheet), which is also showing how ancient the drawings from the 15th Century.

I've done a few drawings of Leonardo da Vinci before, a long time ago I think it'll be good to do some more drawings of his style for the rest of this year.

Websites:
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​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Rogers
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​www.lucindarogers.co.uk
Lucinda Rogers

Lucinda Rogers is an English artist and illustrator. She works from life in the tradition of the artist as reporter, creating artwork from what environment she's in and records her surroundings from eye to paper which makes them a particular spontaneity. Her artwork captures the details and views of the changing city she lives in, London and others cities she's been to like New York and Marrakech. Lucinda Rogers' artwork is a little similar to the artwork of David Gentleman, shown a lot of light and a little of tonal colours in some parts of the drawings, with mixtures of curved, straight and robust lines around. Showing the scenes of what's happening with a mixture of thick and thin lines of what's in front of her at up-close or at a great distance. The difference is that her artwork is much neater and not that much colour around.

​The materials that Lucinda Rogers used seem to be colouring pens or watercolour paint with drawing pen and ink, not showing any pencil around the artwork.

Year 2 and 3- (February 11th, 2021) Artwork and Artist Research: Charles Keeping, Tom Phillips, Chris Ware, Paul Hogarth, Olivier Kugler and ​Reportage illustration
For making a good start on the projects, after proposing and briefing them, but I still need to do some more research for what I need to do. For example, looking at what kids (like 2 to 5 year olds) want to see and read at a young age instead of seeing what the adults see in the first project. The second project I need to work on getting some images or photos of what Carlisle looks like, when it's busy before coronavirus. I start researching the artists and subjects to help me with the projects.

​Reportage illustration

Reportage illustration is a world where artists aim for journalism objectivity, then pursuing creative agenda in their work. Reportage illustration is a practice of drawing a location in an artists' work, with the intention of capturing some observed  subject. This type of illustration is a Japanese post-war art movement that emerged in the early 1950s to the presence of the American military in Japan.
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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/r/reportage-painting
There is a difference between journalism and reportage. Journalism is centred on reportage reporting on actual people and events. By contrast, journalism is other-directed concerned with other people's views, perspectives and lived realities. These illustrations have been done from a lot of artists around the world telling a story from where they've been, when they create their artwork like a crime scene you watch on t.v.

This is something I'll be trying to learn.

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(Artist) Charles Keeping

Charles Keeping (Born: September 22nd, 1924 - Died: May 16th, 1988) was an English Illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He was the first to come across with his illustrations Rosemary Sutcliff's historic novels for children, and created more than twenty picture books, he has also illustrated the complete artwork of Charles Dickens. Charles Keeping has created his artwork in a mixture of oil and watercoloring paint and with some drawing pen or ink. And the composition in his artwork show the shapes and lines on the objects and characters. The lines show a lot of scribbling and robust around the characters, the same with some of the objects, to show some detail in the artwork then showing any shading. The colours from the use of oil and watercolour paint then shows a lot of thick, tonal and dark sets, then light and bold in each painting that Charles Keeping has created. I've done a little artwork of Charles Keepings art styles last year, couldn't do much with it from the project I was doing but I might do a lot more fo this year.

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​www.tomphillips.co.uk
(Artist) Tom Philips

Tom Philips (Born: May 25th, 1937) is an English, living in London where he continues to do his artwork as painter and printmaker. The artwork that Tom Philips has made, shows a lot of the subject painted over a page of a book with a few words and sentences left untouched. Seeing his artwork is like telling a short story in each page/picture and like a little map, where a white line goes from one word to the next. This idea may help me, when I go for some walks and runs around Carlisle during coronavirus.

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​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware
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​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Corrigan,_the_Smartest_Kid_on_Earth
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​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Novelty_Library
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art21.org/artist/chris-ware/
Chris Ware

Chris Ware (Born: December 28th, 1967) is an American artist, known for his Acme Novelty Library (1994) and Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000). His work explores the themes of self-isolation, emotional torment and depression. He uses vivid colour palette and realistic, meticulous detail in his work. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style.

The art style that Chris Ware has made, was reflected from cartooning and graphic designing whenever he's creating another comic design. He's being looking for inspiration from the work of other artists like Joseph Cornell and Richard McGuire in his own art style. "I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw", which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being to the way we remember the world. I figured out this way of working by learning and looking at the artists I admired and whom I thought came closest to getting at what seemed to me to be the "essence" of comics, which is a weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic colour underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults; we don't really "see" anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring out how everything all fits together. Unfortunately, as a result, I guess sometimes readers get a chilled or antiseptic sensation from it, which is certainly not intentional, and is something I admit as a failure, but is also something I can't completely change at the moment." The artwork and style that Chris Ware make in his comics, makes the colours light, bright and bold for everybody to see in every picture when someone is reading his comics.

When I'm creating a little introduction story of the superhero and the supervillain for little children, I will need to make the picture bright and clear for them to see.

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Paul Hogarth

Paul Hogarth (Born: October 4th, 1917 - Died: December 27th, 2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He's best known for drawing book covers he prepared for the penguin edition for Graham Greene's books in the 1980s and he's a distant relative to William Hogarth who is also an English painter and printmaker. Learning the artwork from Paul Hogarth will help me get an idea of what I need to do, what creating some books of the superhero and the supervillain for little children. The colours are much brighter and bolder than the last artist I researched. And the shapes and details in every picture of Paul Hogarth's artwork show much less control than I do with my artwork.

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​www.olivierkugler.com
Olivier Kugler

Olivier Kugler (Born: 1970) is a reportage illustrator, he uses his ears, eyes to draw what's in-front of him when walking around the streets of London. He also uses a camera, voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil scanner and laptop, "to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees' lives." The artwork Olivier Kugler has created is a mixture of illustrating and graphic design. When using his sketchbook, pencil and camera he'll sketch out what's in-front of him and then uses scanner and laptop colour the work, like a random cartoon or comic. This was definitely something to try, when I go for walks and runs around Carlisle and for when I working on children's books of superheroes and supervillains.

Looking at these artists and learning a little more about reportage illustration is going to keep me a lot busy, before I could do any ideas and developments from this year.

Year 3- (February 12th, 2021) Artist Research: Martin Sailsbury
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​aru.ac.uk/people/martin-salisbury
In both of my projects in this year, I've started doing some more research on another artist who could help me get some ideas of what I need to do. The artist I looked at is Martin Sailsbury.

Martin Sailsbury (Born: November 26th, 1952) is a lecturer in illustrator and a freelance illustrator. He is also a Professor of Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University. He's trained as an illustrator from art school in the 1970s before working as an artist, illustrator, lecturer and writer. He is the author of a number of books on the practice and theory of illustration, which have been published in numerous languages around the world. The artwork that Martin Sailsbury shows is a lot paint work due the amount of paint brushing's been done in the book covers and pages, and each picture it telling a story than any words telling the story. It's making the every story that Martin Sailsbury has made simple and easy for kids when they are learning to read, at a very young age.

This is something to look over and think about what I need to put, when creating little books about superheroes and supervillain kids want to read.

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