Research Lawrence Yang

Lawrence Yang uses ink, watercolour and gouache on paper to create this design named 'Bloom'. Click here to view his step my step approach of creating this piece.



His paintings are influenced by traditional Chinese painting and pop surrealism, and are mostly concerned with creating order out of chaos - or vice versa.


This design above has featured as a design as a phone cover for iphone and other gadgets.

Research - Andreas Topfer

In comparsion to Martin Haake's work I like the busyness of Andreas Topfer's work Folgen, I like the layout, the way the skulls link with the weapons at the bottom and the giraffe and footprints that are beside each other.

Research - Martin Haake

Martin Haake's work above is titled 'The Return of the Doodle'. This is Haake's creation of 'accidental scribbling' which was supposidly put together by absent-mindedly doodling while talking on the phone. I would say this would class him as a pastine artist, but due to the nature of the composition and the subjects with his artwork you find it hard to believe he was absent-mindedly working when he put together this art piece. Either way I like his collage, it's quirky and humourous, I like the composition, such as the spaces in between each doodle, and the linking colour palette. It's not too over powering.

Research - Diego Lorenzini

Lorenzini has such an amazing talent, he uses ordinary materials such as a pencil or bic pen to create these quality sketches. Although Lorenzini's work appears to be humoured with juxaposition qualities by combining the almost photo like sketch with the quirky animation he has much pressing issues behind his work. The comic character's are to portray 'real life' image portraits. These were the concept of Lorenzini living in Berlin but not being able to speak German, these matters give Lorenzini as an artist parody qualities.

Critical Studies Brief

Byroglyphics - Shinjuku Bionauts

Russ Mills is the creator is Byroglyphics design, he uses a bic pen because it gives him more milage to express his marks and creates lines of texture, random marks and scribbles and then he scans them in and manipulates them in photoshop, this enables him to draw out the most spontanous possibilties in his work.




Byroglyphics design compared the Harajuku culture.

His admiration of Japanese pop culture his heavily influenced in his work as his work often has women with soft porclien skin that resemble Japanese women who are influenced by the Harajuku effect. He even makes links in the titles for his work such as 'Shinjuku Bionauts'. It's noted that he likes rock music which is reflected through his work as his work is often quite dark with elements of hallucination and distortation, his work is also very expressive which could relate to why he likes the Japanese Pop culture as they are expressive in their own means.






Pollock, Basquiat, Ian Francis, Conor Harrington and Duncan Jago all have a fluid fast way of working, but are very detailed and percise, there are heavy elements of mark makings and distortion, this reflects in Russ Mills work too. The two pieces of work above are Ian Francis and the one below is Russ Mills, you can see a link between the two, the fast lines, hazy distorted colouring, and disillustion in the imagery reflect the influences in the work.
He's also said to be influenced by historical icon Picasso. Picasso's work enloped into the abstact movement heavily, there are strong elements of this in Russ Mills work with work that has humans half morphed into cows and people with no heads at all.

Russ Mills has said he lives in the countryside and is surrounded by cows and horses, this is obviously another major influence as they appear frequently in his work, often distorted.

Photoshop

Sketchbook