Nicolas Galkowski

Nicolas Galkowski is a french illustrator, i first found his work in a nobrow book. I love the use of subtle colours, every piece has an overarching colour scheme, and normally he uses a contrasting colour to the scheme which i think really helps to bring out the whole image and give it good balance. His characters always look like they have a lot of thought behind them with lots of detail in the design and expresion, he also draws noses similar to me.

Emmanuelle Walker

Emmanuelle Walker is an animator and illustrator based in London, he has been working as a freelancer since 2004. He has worked for The Walt Disney Company, Samsung, Orange, XBox, and many more companies.
What i love about his work is how clean it looks, with defined solid shapes, and beautiful colours. His work doesn't have outlines, which is a style that i adore, and will definitely try to take on, so that my work doesn't become too cartoony. The only thing that i dont like about Emmanuelles work is how stylised the faces are, as i've seen it so much.

Zack Soto

Zack Soto is an illustrator and comic book artist that lives in Portland, Oregon. He publishes Study Group Comic Books. I love the style and line of his work, one of my favourite styles of illustration is when they used coloured hand drawn line, i really think that it adds a personal edge to the work, and really makes it their own. The colours of his work look very twilight. Zack Soto obviously knows a lot about complimentary colours.

Andrew Waugh

Andrew Waugh is a Scottish illustrator and cartoonist, based in the North East of England.
He has a Masters degree in Illustration & Design and has been freelancing since 2009.
He has done work for NoBrow, BBC, Mustard and NARC, as well as many others. He also does his own work. what i love about his work is the simplicity ow line and shapes, as well as the colour schemes that he uses, which all com together to look as though he creates his pieces from cut out pieces of coloured card. I would really like to have this sort of style come across in my work with the use of simple colours, his work is also very humorous which i love in illustrations.

People and Characters; Collaborative Exhibition

In November we were to do a collaborative exhibition in the folio gallery, I was in a group with Jamie Keane, Matti Walker, and Liam Broderick, the brief was to produce five prints, or drawings. This whole corner was our space, and we produced a lot of work, we created reels of acetate prints to stick on the wall to create a scape of Hartlepool, we then worked in to it with pens to populate the town, on the right side is the town, and on the left is the harbour filled with boats, this represents the two sides of Hartlepool, I also drew and painted the huge Banjo player above the town filling the air with music, this is to show Hartlepool's "distinct" culture, we used tons of our earlier sketches to fill up the very corner, i really feel that these helper to tie the whole show together and to the theme of People and Characters of Hartlepool

The Full Show

Populating the town

Working on the Hartlepool scape

Sticking up the Building prints

book of drawing Braindump

For my book, i'd like to do a qwerky, stylistic, book of doodles and illustrations, very simple ones. I will be looking at works such as the "NOBROW" books

as i want my book to be humorous in a way, I will also be looking at Cyanide&Happiness comics as they are short and concise, rather than being longwinded, i should also look at newspaper comics, like that of Peanuts and Garfield.

Transferable Skills

Here I will be exploring where the skills that i gain can lead me, other than the creative industry.

• Computer Skills
• Communication Skills
• Promotion
• Time management
• Design Skills
• Working in Groups
• Scale Drawing
• Research

These Skills can help me into various jobs that require people skills, and design, such as product design.

I would even be able to further my education in to an MA masters.

Kerby Rosanes

Kerby Rosanes is an SEO specialist/Graphic Designer, who does these illustrations on the side as commissions, he works primarily in paper, ink and pencil. What i love about his works are how free flowing and expansive they feel, its as though his creativity is flowing like ink across the page. I really appreciate the intricate details, and the quality of line, it makes it look so clean, and easy to understand.

Nicholas Di Genova

Nicholas Di Genova was born in 1981. He lives and works in Toronto Canada. All of Nicholas' works are animal crossovers just like the ones that we have been creating, most of these are very interesting in many different ways, but all share a comon theme of being slightly mis-proportionate, my favourite thing about his work other than the creativity of the creatures, is the style, it is extremely unique, it looks as though it was first a hand rendered line drawing that was coloured digitally, which is quite similar to how i work, i think this artist was perfect to come across at this stage.

Jaume Montserrat

http://jaumemontserrat.com/emptyland/

Jaume Montserrat is an illustrator from Barcelona, Spain. he has a very distinct style, that is easily recognisable from other illustrators. Throughout his Emptyland project all of the animals were drawn as though they were created from ribbon, but still alive, it looked like he'd skinned the animal which gave the whole project a somewhat macabre feeling.