Book of Drawings Module Artist Views Pt 2

(I quickly moved on from characters to animals, so the rest of my studies were looking at artists of animal themed pieces)

Elicia Edijanto

An illustrator based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their pieces are extremely simple yet effective - using ink and water to create a vast amount of shading and tone, the atmosphere to their pieces is almost gloomy; however, the narrative behind each piece detracts from that mood and makes it more naive. It is this weird contrast to the feeling in each of their images that drew me to this artist, one of my favourite so far.

( Behance )

Marcus Reed

A graphic designer/illustrator based in London, UK. It is his "animal alphabet" series that I will be looking at - extremely minimalistic with block colours and little shading, he used animals of corresponding names (i.e. F for Fox) to create an alphabet using their images. It worked very well as a series and a theme, which is something I struggled with during my development, so I received great help from looking at this work and theorizing my own response and theme to it.

( Behance )