John Abbot Nez (50's Style Illustrator)

John Abbot Nez, is a children's illustrator, who creates pieces that resemble the 1950's style of children's illustration for books and print. He interestingly tries to combine the 1950's retro style, with a digital style. He often looks at what he calls 'amazing' artists of the 1950's, whose style of work seems to fit in the modern era.

I place a quote from his site below, that I want to detail word for word, as it is a very interesting point in my opinion, that he gives.

"I was looking through magazines from the 1950's and found some amazing samples of Alice and Martin Provensen's illustration work from the 1950's.  It still looks very contemporary.  Maybe that's because 1950's design seems so similar to our own decade... or maybe it's just a timeless classic.  Of course they didn't get to use digital tools to embellish their amazing designs, but I guess their work will last the ages."

The fact that he claims 1950's illustrations are similar to illustrations styles in this era, raises a good point. Since hearing this, I have realised this too, the amount of similarities you can see between these two different eras are striking. I will show this below, with examples to back my argument up.

(1950's children's illustration)
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/a2/37/1a/a2371a91a3209d3373fdd524ad3a7243.jpg < image reference at this link.



(2010 children's illustration)
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/11/04/best-2-slide.jpg < image reference at this link.

As you can see in these comparison images blow, the top one is from the 50's, and the bottom one is from the 2010 era. These two images are very similar, in terms of style, and technique. You can see obvious similarities in such things as the rosy cheeks, the colour and the simple textures.

His art style is based on a pen brush line, that is drawn onto textured watercolour paper. He tries to make his colours bright and bold, which are staples in the 1950's illustration themed style. He then combines traditional with the digital format, and adds texture and pattern on adobe photoshop.

http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/JohnNez/id=1504/slideshow/pag=11/ < image reference at this link.

Here is an example of John's illustrations. In this case, of two cats. This shows his 50's influenced artwork style, and how he uses texture, colour and lines to do this well.

For his work he uses the following software packages of photoshop, Indesign, Acrobat, Illustrator and GoLive, and with a mac pro desktop computer and a wacom tablet, a digital camera, two desktop cinema displays for a wide canvas when drawing. These types of equipment seem to be standard for each illustrator that I research, most of this equipment also accounts for my own personal ventures as an artist.

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http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/JohnNez/id=1504/portfolio/ < a link to where I got the information on him, and also a link to his online portfolio.





Thomas.

Development Trial #1 (Graphite pencil & Watercolour)

For this development trial, I spent a bit extra time on creating an example, of what I would be doing for my book of illustrations project.

'S for snake', is the general idea behind this illustration.

The piece needs a little bit of extra refinement, so that it copies better under a scanner, however I am quite pleased with how the image turned out.

I will add some colour using watercolour mainly.

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Update: Colour added through using fine, weak watercolours. (Image below)

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Update 2: Added a bolder line, around the snake's body, using a fineliner.

Update 3: Added some chalk pastel shading, but regret doing so, as the chalk 'ruined' the shading contrast. however, since it is all part of my development, I suppose I learn from my mistakes.

Thomas.

Old Children's Books/illustration Examples

In my house, while searching for some old fashioned books that might contain depictions of old children's style illustrations, I found a few old children's books dating between the 1950's, and the 1960's.

In these books, the illustrations both inside and out, match the images from the research that I did on an earlier blog post, on children's illustration for the 1950's.

> Link here: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1545632777560021951#editor/target=post;postID=8659642854686731477;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=3;src=postname

I will be particularly focusing on the illustration of animals, for this unit.

Book: Wagon Train, front cover, Author: Maurice Templar, Illustrated by R. Wilson

Book: My Favourite Story Book, front cover, Author: ?, Publisher: Treasure House Books

These two books both depict perfect examples of 'vintage' children's book illustration. I would like to address the images below, which is a zoomed section of the second image, that I added above.

In this image, it shows how certain animals were sketched, (in this case what appears to be a dog puppy) in a style adapted for children. Note the very colourful style, and the black bold lines.

All black and white styled images above are from the book entitled, My Favourite Story Book, which was published by Treasure Hour Books.

The images above are old illustrations in black and white form. They are all from the same book, which I referenced above. I really love this style of sketching, and I could look into allowing my work to reflect this, for this book of drawings. It is a combination of cartoon/realistic themes, which I adore. I would like to bring some colour into my pieces though however.

I will try to find more books, if I can soon, and if I do I will update this blog.

Thomas.

Barbara Firth (Children's Book Illustrator)

Barbara Firth (multi award winning illustrator for the 'little bear' series), was a children's book illustrator, who developed sketches for her clients. She claims on her page, that she has been drawing plants and animals from a very young age. After her education at school, she enrolled herself on an fashion and pattern course, at the London college of fashion. She has worked with Vogue magazine, and here she produced illustrations for such things as step by steps.

Years later, she became a freelance illustrator, and after she began working for the book company, Walker Books, she was able to illustrate in the field she was most interested in, this was natural history. This brought her a lot of joy, and she enjoyed drawing such illustrations as bears.

Her first book, in her series of Big and Little bear books, was called 'Can't You Sleep Little Bear?' and she went to the zoo often for research, sketching the anatomy and movement of live bears, in order to create her images. This type of research is great, for an illustrator to do.

Her form is very much so on the cartoon side, but with some realistic elements in there, and that's why I am including her. Her work is not like some of the cartoon/realistic artists that I researched, however it has its resemblances. It seems to (in my opinion) be exactly between the two genres. There are simple colours and textures, but with a realistic anatomy.

http://www.imagesofdelight.com/view_illustration.php?id=953 < image reference at this link.

The image above is made using watercolours and pencils, and is from the book, 'Well done, Little bear'. and was published in 1999 by Walker Books Ltd.

http://www.imagesofdelight.com/view_illustration.php?id=976 < image reference at this link.

The main reasons as to why I decided to produce research on her, is because she 1) Draws animals,

2) Has produced work for children's books, 3) Uses a cartoon like style, with a hint of realism, 4) Also adopts a 50's like style in her images, which I really like.

I can also tie this research into my professional studies blogposts, as I have been researching the themes of  children's book illustrators.

Sadly, Barbara died early on in 2013.

I will use her as part of my inspiration, for making my book, and it's illustrations. I like the effect of using watercolour paint, so I think I will try doing so. Also, I love her simple, yet interesting minimalist cartoon/realistic style of drawing. I will take some influence from Barbara Firth, for my final illustrations.

Thomas.

Cartoon Style Trial #3

For my third cartoon style trial, I decided to include a previously developed piece, that I made using photoshop. For this piece, I focused on one element to the anatomy of an animal, in this case the head. To spend more time on refining the line art, I am happy with my refinement of the lines.

I tried here to experiment with an expression, as It's something that I find difficult. I created this image using thick, bold lines, and this particular piece took about 30 minutes to create.

For my next cartoon style trial, I will move on from sketching canines, and I will move to rodents.




Thomas.

1950's Children's Illustration

1950's children's book illustration, is today viewed as a vintage form of drawing. The illustrations from this era, are usually colourful, with very observable shapes, and lines.

The three images below, are examples of 1950's children's book illustration.

http://www.northernstarart.com/detail.php?product=8240 <  image reference at this link.

This image above, which is uncredited, shows illustrations that are simplistic in terms of style, with an outline. Note on the chicken, the simple feather details, are just lines. This resembles a few of my final pieces, like this one for example (*see image at bottom of page, marked with an asterisk)

http://blog.ismoyo.com/2010/01/hippety-hop-around-block.html < image reference at this link.

 http://payload108.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/4460372/04-brzechwa_dzieciom_5.jpg < Image reference at this link.

I believe that going down the hybrid route of 50's illustration, coupled with my own style, will be most beneficial to me, as my work already holds a resemblance to this genre. It features a combination between realistic styled artwork, and cartoon styled artwork. It is also an art genre that interest me, and I think it would tie in with my idea well.
The second image is the one which I want to highlight most out of the examples, as animals is where my illustrative focus will be.

http://image0-rubylane.s3.amazonaws.com/shops/toinetterl/book920.1L.jpg?45 < image reference at this link.

The image above depicts a flat style of artwork, these animal illustrations are more cartoon like. I am aiming to go between cartoon and realistic.

I have a few old children's books that my dad gave to me, and they are around the 50's era. I will take a few photos and upload them below this text, and talk about the style and the colour used.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trywhistlingthis/sets/72157606025064570/ < this link contains a vast amount of children's illustrations from this era.

*This image above details my own use, of using simple lines to indicate detail. I took this influence from existing 1950's illustration styles.

Thomas.

Realistic Style Trial #2

This post, features my second draft realistic illustration, for this unit. This drawing is based on a pheasant.

As you can see, the realistic image tends to contain more detail than the cartoon style, so therefore it takes longer to produce than cartoon work. However, it is a very good style to work with, and I believe that the realistic route is a better one to go down.

Thomas.

Alphabet Example

http://www.prekfurniture.com/images/_products/prekfurniture/5512.jpg < image reference at this link.

This image offers a great example of the type of illustration work that I will be undertaking for this unit, which is the last one in module one.

The image above is an example in a highly cartoon-like form, and also is aimed at a specific audience, which is children. The basic idea is displayed here despite its cartoon format, where the animals wrap in to the shapes of an individual letter.

This image is also similar to an illustration that I sketched earlier, to display my example of what exactly I'd be doing.

I will be researching more into children's illustration types over the next few days, and I will also be looking into 1950's children's illustration too.

Will keep you posted, on my blog as usual.




Thomas.

Direction Path

For my illustrative idea, in which I create a book of drawings, either A-Z, or just some select letters, I have decided to choose to attempt a hybrid of realistic/cartoon style of drawing, similar to the 1950's style of children's illustration, as I feel it could work more, as I am stronger with the realistic form, than the cartoon form, however I enjoy working with the cartoon form more.

My draft, to show what I mean visually. this is just a tester piece, so the real final will be much more refined, realistic and will include colour.

I would love to try sketching in graphite, and maybe add colour through photoshop, watercolours, or even through print techniques. (The latter two options may fit in better, with a traditional theme)

Over the next few days, I will experimenting with using various tools, to create a development plan, of how I will create them, and how they will fit in my book of drawings.


Thomas.

Book Plan Ideas.

I have found a theme, that I may wish to apply to the book I have in mind. This idea involves the following...

The A-Z of Animals.

The list 'could' go in this order, however this is just an example of what I could do.

A- Axolotl
B- Bear
C- Catfish
D- Dog
E- Elephant
F- Fish

However I will not tie myself to picking an animal, that begins with the letter I will be sketching. I want the freedom to do what's best for me.

I will be taking on the task of drawing the first 6 letters from the english alphabet, and using animal form to create the shapes of each individual letter. I would like to aim it toward the children's market, so this means that the entire book design, layout, and the style of drawing that I use must all fall in line with the theme of children's illustration. I may incorporate the theme of 1950's children's illustration, and mix it with my own unique style.

I will display a simple example below, that I have created.

The letter 'D' with a dog wrapped around it.

This illustration is just a draft, so a final piece would be far more refined. This is just to give an idea of what I will be doing for this book project.




Thomas.

Cartoon Style Trial #2

For my second style trial, I again decided to sketch another canine, in the style of the cartoon genre.

It involved first sketching out a wolf on paper, then scanning the image into photoshop, where I went around the image with a thinner brush, than I normally use. I then filled the shapes in with simple colours, and tried my hand at some simple texture this time, as you can see on the wolf's body. 

The piece over all took around just over an hour to develop. I am very pleased with my trial image, however, I am not too fond of the line art, as compared to other artists like griffsnuff, it is messy. This is something that I need more practise in.

I had fun creating this piece. But I need to develop more realistic trials, in order to pick which theme I would like to go with. I would like to refine my line art, as well as my full body anatomy.

Thomas.

Helen Wilson (Realistic)

http://www.helenwilsonanimalart.co.uk/

Helen Wilson is an animal artist/photographer, who's love and passion for animals, art and photography, all came together for her to create commissions for clients. She works with a wide range of materials and tools, such as pastel and graphite pencils. She creates her pet portraits from photographic reference, in order to get the most precise visualisation for her drawings. Its good to use reference photos, when you cant be in a situation where the subject that you are sketching, isn't available. Another good point of reference is, that the subject is still, and you can take as long as you want, working on the piece.

http://www.helenwilsonanimalart.com/animal-artist-and-photograopher-helen-wilson/animal-artist-and-photograopher-helen-wilson-commissions < image above, reference at this link.

I do love her style, and I love how she uses a lot of greyscale in her work. She claims that she specialises in drawing contemporary drawings in black and white, as you can find her quote here at her site > (http://www.helenwilsonanimalart.com/animal-artist-and-photograopher-helen-wilson/animal-artist-and-photograopher-helen-wilson-commissions)

Because I love working in graphite, and also using a black and white colour scheme, this artist and style appeals to me, if I were to go along the path of creating a book full of realistic sketches, this is most likely the route that I will go down.

(http://www.helenwilsonanimalart.com/animal-art-original-artwork) >
The link above is an example of other styles she does beside simply using graphite. In this link you can see some of her colour pieces, which also look stunning in my opinion.

http://www.helenwilsonanimalart.com/animal-artist-and-photograopher-helen-wilson/animal-artist-and-photograoher-helen-wilson-Animal%20Photography > The link to the left, showcases her animal photography, which I love her techniques.


Thomas.

Realistic Style Trial #1

For my first realistic style trial piece, I will be sketching my hamster, using a 2H pencil. It is a generally light shaded pencil, but I will go over darker parts with a mix of pencil types and shades.

This is my first trial of a realistic animal in this unit, so I will update this blog with photos as I go.

Sketching of hamster using 2H pencil.

Filling in the fur shading.

The finished image, after adding some shading, and some detail on the hands and face.

I really do enjoy creating realistic style artwork, however I tend to enjoy it more when I am only using graphite. This is a personal preference, so comparing to the cartoon form, I am comfortable creating that theme in a few mediums, including digital.

This could just be a comfort zone thing, so its good to venture out of that loop, however at the minute, with researching a few cartoon and realistic form artists, I have yet to make my mind up. Additional research will aid in my decision.

Louise Hunter (Cartoon)

For the second cartoon style artist that I wish to research, I chose to research my girlfriend, since she creates the type of cartoon styled artwork that I am looking into. As well as the fact, that naturally I know a lot about her work processes, and how she works, as I have seen her work on images in person. I will however research her in a professional way, like the other illustrators that I have used in my research.

Louise Hunter. Born in Durham, England, lives locally, and she creates pieces in a style that I personally love, which is the cartoon-like form. Her style is slightly similar to griffsnuff's (Tina Alfredsen) but she tends to use much thinner lines, and focuses on the expressions more, than griffsnuff in my opinion only. I believe griffsnuff is one of her favourite artists, who she takes some inspiration from, from her characters.

I love how she uses colour, and couples it with an image that resembles the 3D form, but with a lot of 2D-like elements in it. She uses Adobe Photoshop 6, with a wacom intuos tablet, to create her digital artwork. She uses a few layers per piece, and can work to finish an image in a matter of hours/days.

She has been drawing from a very young age, and her style only improved as the digital age arrived. She uses an iMac to produce her work, which I'm aware that Mac's are deemed industry standard.

http://purplecrystaldragon.deviantart.com/art/dragon-396881712

Naturally she has a passion for animals, and coupling this with her artistic style, she has brought the two elements together. Apart from the canines she draws, she also sketches fictional beings, such as dragons, and she does so usually with biro pens. I like the biro technique, as it shows that pen can be a great tool to draw with, and you can shade with a pen, if you know how to. (See above)

http://purplecrystaldragon.deviantart.com/art/loka-autumn-413778575 < image reference at this link.

This image above, displays her shading techniques.

http://purplecrystaldragon.deviantart.com/art/leaves-399355126 < image reference at this link.

This image showcases her expressions, and use of wallpaper.



http://purplecrystaldragon.deviantart.com/gallery/ < a link to her online gallery





Thomas.

Colin Bogle (Realistic)

http://www.collinbogle.com/artist.html < image reference at this link.

Colin Bogle, is an realistic/print artist, who creates prints of animals, and nature. He works from his home in Seattle, where he grew up. From an early age, he has said that he has 'been fascinated with the intricate beauty of nature ' by nature. Maybe the beautiful city of Seattle inspired him, and gave way for his creativity. He doesn't have a formal art education, however he had a very highly talented artist/teacher, who was his father. He taught him a wide range of artistic techniques, such as painting, glasswork, drawing and pottery. His father himself, is a famous American artist.

He gains inspiration from life, and by exploring the outdoors, or sifting through existing material, such as books or the internet. The part I wish to note, is that he states on his about page (Link here > ) that often his pieces are more about "abstract kind of shapes, like using a random cluster of sunlit snowy branches rather than the animal itself."Through his work, he wishes to "create a feast for the eyes".

He is a photoshop artist, and I am noticing a trend, and correlation between artists, and photoshop. This makes sense however, because photoshop is a popular quality program, and it is the industry standard for the industry. It goes to show that just because you are a traditional based artist (pencil, paints etc) doesn't mean that you are locked out from using photoshop. It is not just a great tool for developing work, but for also refining, and applying the finishing touched to a piece.

http://www.collinbogle.com/wildlife.html < image reference at this link.

How he goes about creating his work, is an interesting process. I detail it below.

After creating an initial sketch to work from, he fills in the basic colours and undertones, and uses watercolours in an airbrush to build up from dark colours, to light. He uses a lot of coloured pencils, and water based pastels (something I could try via a trial), for fine detail such as the animal's fur, he also uses this for fine shading. I love how he uses a variety of mixed media, something again, that I could try in my piece trials. He calls his tools 'extensions of the hand'.

He has exhibited his work in various galleries throughout the USA.

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http://www.collinbogle.com/artist.html < A link to his artist statement.

http://www.collinbogle.com/ < A link to his main page

http://www.collinbogle.com/wildlife.html < a link to his great wildlife print gallery.


Thomas.

Mark Langley (Realistic)

http://www.mark-langley.com/

Mark Langley is a fine artist, who creates highly realistic images of reportage like topics. However, he also creates images of animals, which is why I am expressing interest in him. For an example, some of the animals he draws includes Horses, Sheep and Cows.

He was born in 1973, in the town of Derby. His profile text, that is featured on his website, claims that he has had a passion for using graphite to create very detailed sketches, since he was a small boy, in his 'school days'. His early detailed sketches, were interestingly of railway environments. He has won some competitions for illustration, before graduating. Mark also enjoyed working for 8 years, as a graphic artist. After this he made the decision to concentrate more on his fine artwork.

http://www.mark-langley.com/profile.htm < image reference at this link.

http://www.mark-langley.com/originals.htm < This gallery includes some other animals he sketches (deer for example), including some of his reportage work.
However for this blog, I wish to highlight his animal work only, as it is the topic I decided to choose for this project. However I couldn't go on, without at least saying, that I am fond of his style of reportage too, the way he uses line, and creates images that are so fine to the eye, the pencils strokes blend into each other, creating an almost seamless image, that you could confuse with an actual photograph. He is clearly an artist with pure talent.

So, to now get back to the review of his animal illustrations. His animal illustrations are very fine, and well detailed, a clear contrast to such work by griffsnuff,

http://www.mark-langley.com/prints-animals.htm < image reference to be found at this link.

As you can see in the image above, his style is very classical, compared to girffsnuff's work below, that is very cartoon like, and almost comedic.

http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/art/Negative-plamen-400243401 < image reference to be found at this link.

This clear contrast between the two, is interesting to me, and I will be researching other artists, to help make up my mind, with what particular genre I'd like to try.

Updates soon.

Thomas.

Josh Brill (Cartoon)

Josh Brill is an multi-talented illustrator, from Portland, Oregon (USA), who graduated with a degree in new media design, from Maine college of art. He now professionally balances between fine artwork, and his corporate clients. He also sells some of his work to the general public.

He also runs Lumadessa, a small art label, that focuses on printing, and design products. interestingly, 1% of the profits from Lumadessa, go straight to animal & environmental charities.

For one of his types of artistic themes, he creates animal illustrations. (http://www.lumadessa.com/#common-chimpanzee) < The link to the left, is of chimpanzees, but he also creates artwork of giraffes, and canines. (The latter of which, I note below)

http://www.lumadessa.com/prints/?category=canine < Link to the section, that I go into detail below.

The link above, I wish to highlight, as this link goes straight to his canine gallery. Canines are the animal that I most want to sketch for this unit, however I will be drawing some other animals too, such such as birds and rodents. Seeing that he displays this style of artwork, in this theme, is great for me.

It's interesting to see his unique style, in comparison to my last research focus, which was griffsnuff.

http://www.lumadessa.com/prints/jack-russell-terrier < image reference at this link.

As you can see in the image above, his style is very simplistic, something that I adore, in terms of an artistic style. I love his use of shading, how the colour shades seem to overlap, and how modern his pieces are.

Thomas.

Cartoon Style Trial #1

Here is my first experimental trial, for this trial, I experiment in creating an animal, (in this instance a canine), in a cartoon form. For this sketch, I took inspiration from Griffsnuff.

You can look to my research of her at this link > http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1545632777560021951#editor/target=post;postID=5328898559707993239;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=6;src=postname

I decided to create this tester piece in a digital format, similar to Griffsnuff's, I used thick, bold lines to resemble the style she uses, and to also make the lineart stand out. This is one of my favourite styles to work with.

I sketched a draft image of a wolf out, on a piece of paper, then placed the photo of it into Photoshop CC.

Then filled it in with colour, and some simple cartoon-like shading.

I added some eye brows for basic expression.

Here is my first draft. It resembles a 'cartoon-formed' wolf, and I am pleased with my tester #1.

This is my first try, at a cartoon-like, bold style, in this unit. I will be trying more, as my research goes on.

Thomas.

Book Making Plan

For this unit, I will be making a book, which will contain my sketches. The sketches will be a minimum of 6, so this means the book needs a minimum of six pages. They need to be of a high standard, as this is the book that basically shows me off, as an independent illustrator.

I have made a book before in two different techniques, one using simple string and paper, and the other requiring a needle and thread, to stitch, so because of past attempts I know how I could create a simple one from scratch. I have also made cards too, which is a sort of similar process. (Photo attached of a card that I designed and made, below this text).

This interesting, and detailed Wiki-how article, includes a step by step process, of how to make a book from scratch > http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Homemade-Book
it is very helpful, and I may use it for some reference.

Here is also an interesting youtube link, also going over how to make a simple book. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vNiyexqeU

I may make my own paper, using a pulp, I made this kind of paper in my previous college. I also might sew the pages together, like I did with my last handmade book, which I preferred out of the two.
Over the next few days, I will be researching how I should make my book, and also what style, and materials I will use too.

Another count to take into consideration, is the fontstyle that I will be using for the cover, as I'd like to detail what is in the book. I was thinking maybe a classical style, sort of similar to how I created it the attached image below.

This image is soft on they eyes, and is similar to the font types you see on children's books.

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Update*

The image includes a brief idea for two types of book styles. One is a traditional book, and the other is a fold out book. The first illustration is more book like, however the second illustration, means you can see all the illustrations at the same time, and is a bit more 'quirky'.

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Update: 2**

There was a technique that I heard about today, from some of my classmates, after talking about book binding techniques. This technique is called perfect binding, which is also known as adhesive binding. This style of creating a book, involves utilising an adhesive to hold pages together. Interestingly about 40% of national magazines are made with this binding technique. As a side note, how I got the idea of this method, is an slight example of illustrator collaboration.

http://printwiki.org/Perfect_Binding < link to relevant website.

I will attempt the following techniques: 

• Perfect Binding
• Sewed Book
• Fold Out Book

Thomas.

'Griffsnuff' Tina Alfredsen (Cartoon)

http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/ (Her deviant art page).

"Griffsnuff", otherwise known by her real name of Tina Alfredsen, is a 24 year old Norwegian artist, who creates a lot of cartoon-like images of animals, such as Wolves, dogs, cats, and a variety of other animals. She posts a lot of her work to the digital artist/social networking site, called Deviant Art. She has been on this site for 8 years.

She works as a 2D artist at Krillbite. > http://www.krillbite.com/
Krillbite is a company that consists of video game developers, who develop indie games. The company is based in Hamar, Norway.

http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/art/drawdrawdrawdrawdrawdraw-400535575

http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/art/Negative-plamen-400243401

http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/art/Fall-snuffen-400906004

The images above are just some examples of the work that she creates. As you can see, her style uses bold lines, and vivid colours. I love how smooth her line art is, she really has talent. I do take inspiration from her unique style, the way she creates pieces just ticks all the right boxes with me, and she is one of my favourite digital artists.

Looking extensively at her online gallery, You can see how her work has developed over the span of a few years. I will screenshot a comparison between her early gallery, and her most recent gallery below.

Current Style

Early Style (2005)

Thomas.