Music art/ gig posters/ merch research

Artists such as Melvyn Grant, Tim Bradstreet, David Patchett, Mark Wilkinson and Hugh Syme have contributed to Iron Maidens covers but it is the legendary Derek Riggs that is responsible for their best work.

There's no doubt about it - Iron Maiden have had the most consistently brilliant album covers in rock history.

I have chosen Iron maiden as they artwork has always been they in my life and the fact that Eddie is as big as the band itself they have done something very right with they merch.

http://www.planetrock.com/photos/the-art-of-iron-maiden-670062/

www.Gigposters.com

Found this book whilst browsing in a big named book shop in Leeds centre. I really liked it as it had up to date artist and gig posters that are familiar to me. Unfortunately I was told the shop was not a library so had to put the book back. Going to see on Monday if it's in the library at uni if not ask if they can get it in as I feel it will make a very good book for artist and reference materials.

www.mexicanchocolatedesign.com/
Gig posters

www.drewmillward.com/

Drew millward is responsible for one of my all time gig posters it was done for my favorite band the mighty GALLOWS he has also done another favorite of mine and for another band i'm a big fan of Parkway drive. I feel that these poster not only look amazing they are a great way for a band to promote themselves and attract more fans. I know this to be true as this is how i discovered Parkway Drive after seeing some art work for them i went home and looked them up and have loved they music since that day.

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I feel that gig poster or a advertisement for a band can be a lot more then just that show  or that album and i feel that the on line presence of a group could be even more enhanced if the techniques are brought uptodate. What im trying to say is posters like these could be brought to life to get even more attention if say you was to design the poster then work with a animator to bring the poster to life, its a area i'm very keen to explore and see if it could be done effectively.

• Will they work effectively of social media
• Will bands be interested in this
• Could I do this on my own or will I need assistance 
• Has it been done yet

Here is a selection of poster from one of my favorite bands Slipknot and the fact i went to see them play last night it had to be done. They have always used dark artwork to promote they shows, i think its down to getting the attention of the viewer and they have striking controversial (if you're easily offended) be drawings  artwork which grabs your attention.

Music art/ gig posters/ merch research

Artists such as Melvyn Grant, Tim Bradstreet, David Patchett, Mark Wilkinson and Hugh Syme have contributed to Iron Maidens covers but it is the legendary Derek Riggs that is responsible for their best work.

There's no doubt about it - Iron Maiden have had the most consistently brilliant album covers in rock history.

I have chosen Iron maiden as they artwork has always been they in my life and the fact that Eddie is as big as the band itself they have done something very right with they merch.

http://www.planetrock.com/photos/the-art-of-iron-maiden-670062/

www.Gigposters.com

Found this book whilst browsing in a big named book shop in Leeds centre. I really liked it as it had up to date artist and gig posters that are familiar to me. Unfortunately I was told the shop was not a library so had to put the book back. Going to see on Monday if it's in the library at uni if not ask if they can get it in as I feel it will make a very good book for artist and reference materials.

www.mexicanchocolatedesign.com/
Gig posters




I have added a selection of poster from one of my favorite bands Slipknot and the fact i went to see them play last night it had to be done. They have always used dark artwork to promote they shows, i think its down to getting the attention of the viewer and they have striking controversial (if you're easily offended) be drawings  artwork which grabs your attention.

www.drewmillward.com/

Drew millward is responsible for one of my all time gig posters it was done for my favorite band the mighty GALLOWS he has also done another favorite of mine and for another band i'm a big fan of Parkway drive. I feel that these poster not only look amazing they are a great way for a band to promote themselves and attract more fans. I know this to be true as this is how i discovered Parkway Drive after seeing some art work for them i went home and looked them up and have loved they music since that day.

Add caption

I feel that gig poster or a advertisement for a band can be a lot more then just that show  or that album and i feel that the on line presence of a group could be even more enhanced if the techniques are brought uptodate. What im trying to say is posters like these could be brought to life to get even more attention if say you was to design the poster then work with a animator to bring the poster to life, its a area i'm very keen to explore and see if it could be done effectively.

• Will they work effectively of social media
• Will bands be interested in this
• Could I do this on my own or will I need assistance 
• Has it been done yet

Illustration Friday HAT

HAT


Here the word hat was given as this week's word and the ideas were endless, but I was coming up with ideas for another brief when I drew a sea bird on its way to work with its morning coffee on its beak. And would you know it he ended up wearing a red hat so that was this weeks done without even knowing it. So once I had decided to use the drawing i did the usual and scanned it in to Photoshop where the levels were changed and colour was added. I again added noise to the sea as it gave the effect that it was full of sea looking colours. Then adding a gradient fill to the sky to try get the image to appear to be set  at sunrise as they do say the early bird catches the worm haha the bird is a worm farmer from here on out.

So this weeks word is done using a sea bird and coffee.

This has the hat and abit of the beak already coloured asi did this with a pen before scanning it in.

Group Brief WWF

Joe and I  from BA  illustration ,

Isla and Joal From BA graphics.

We have chosen to do the brief for the WWF. 

http://www.wwf.org.uk/ - WWF official web site. 

http://www.dandad.org/en/new-blood-wwf-brief/ - the breief from DandDA web site. 

So we have had a few meeting to decide how we could best tackle this brief. IN the end we have decided we are going to try and design a series of coffee cups with animal characters. This will also be done with the use of a hash tag linked to each character and the customer will have to show they loyalty with they chosen animal. When they share they purchase on line and use the correct hash tag they will be rewarded with a points scheme. Also we need to come up with a welcome pack for members and information about the scheme and how it works. 

Things that need to be drawn.

Designs for coffee cup,

Welcome/information pack,

Text lettering (make it stand out. 

A selection of different designs on coffee cups.

ANIMALS FROM WWF WEBSITE WE DECIDED TO USE ON OUR CUP DESIGNS. 

Sloth - Saul

Turtle - Taylor

Penguin - Pam

Whale - Wonder

Samlon - Sam

Rhino - rafieci ??? (look up spelling on name)

We gave the animals names so that is the name you hash tag, this gives it a more friendly edge. 

We are going to work with the hash tag #wakeup then the animals name. This works both for a morning coffee and waking up and also to wake up to the fact that these animals need our attention and help to survive excitation .


Whales

I need to come up with a drawing for a whale so looked up which whale is endangered it turns out theur are quite a few.

Endangered big fish

northern right whale 500-1,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN) southern right whale 3,000 endangered (ESA); vulunerable (IUCN) bowhead whale 8,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN) blue whale 10,000-14,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN) fin whale 120,000-150,000 endangered (ESA); vulnerable (IUCN) sei whale 50,000 endangered (ESA) humpback whale 10,000+ endangered (ESA, IUCN) sperm whale 200,000 endangered (ESA) vaquita a few hundred endangered (ESA) baiji about 300 endangered (ESA, IUCN) Indus susu 500 endangered (ESA, IUCN) Ganges susu unknown vulnerable (IUCN) boto unknown; thought to be declining vulnerable (IUCN)
So i started to draw up some whale designs to be out on our coffee cups. Using images for google i looked up which whale would make a intreasting image. So first is the bowhead whale, I chose to use this whale as it looks like it has a sad i need coffee face.  Also i drew a fish based around a common carp but this is just to get my head into drawing fish, as i have drawn a few fish iv caught and feel comfortable drawing them and Humphead Wrasse are not too different  shape,  as next up is a Humphead Wrasse.  On this image i used the paint brush with a soft edge to it and altering the opacity of the colour i built up some colours to get some depth to thr image. Im most pleased with how it looks like you are looking through the water before you get to the wale, almost a misty cover over the whale drawing. Whilst playing around with scanning this image in i discovered when changing the brightness and contrast brought the texture of the paper up and puting this in the image gave a great feel to the water. I experimented with gradient bucket in the fines and on the scales to see if this helped to get less flat feel to the image. I fell with a bit more playing around with the feature i will start to get more comfortable using it with more positive results. If i can recreated these effects on to my Humphead Wrasse illustration i'm going to now draw i feel the results could be more interesting then it i just use flat colour. A few attempts at lazy penguins. Added some colour in photoshop tried out some gradients  but these will need tweaking. I on the top and bottom beast i have just filled it from its back to its beak to see if a different angle would work. This is a humphead wrasse fish its the endangered one the wwf protect and its a beauty Also on the bottom of this image is the colour palette we have tried to work to but i added a darker blue and have only just realised. So it was decieded in our last group meeting that after all this learning how to use colour the images would be best done in black and white which at first i was happy with until I started them again in black and white and the time started flying by and i started to panic. This has taken me much more time then i thought and as a result im going tom have to star t rushing my illustrations to get them finished. So far i have managed to get some of the images finished but due to communication issues within our group not that anyone is blame for this just we have not been very talkative and this has had a massive effect on knowing if what i'm doing is going to work on our project. Here are the images i have done so far I have used lots of dots to build up some depth in the images and its a method im working with more and more, yes its time consuming but i am liking how its starting to give my images some depth and detail. Here is some mock ups of my drawings on some take away coffee cups.

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY Mystery

FRIDAY 4th FEB 2016

MYSTERY


I wanted to do a mythical beast.
Also i wanted to do my own interpretation of said beast.
I choose Bigfoot as i haven't drawn a foot in a long time, i wanted to draw a big hairy foot with  a face and arms in a darkly lit scene.

I first drew this on card using Isograph pens and ink, i wanted it to look like the beast was hairy like bigfoot the mystical beast. Using my pen at different angles and swooping it in the direction of the hair gave the image some depth? . After i scanned it in at 300dpi as i wanted to keep the detail i was tempted to scan it in at a high resolution but i thought the file size may be a issue later on when submitting. I had to scan it in in two halfs as i drew it at a3, then connected them back together in photoshop. I changed the levels to give me a nice black outline and white fill area to work on. Adding flat colour using this paint brush, then in the trees and on the grass i added some noise to give it a textured feel, a gradient was used in the sky. then the whole image got flattened and i again used the levels to dull the whole image down and make it feel like it was in the dark woods. 

Study Task- 1 Research

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Most of the artist i Have selected for this task i have because if the quality of line they use and the fact that this rout of illustrators do work that I'm very interested in visually and would like to develop my own practise like these guys work. 


www.sneaky studios.com

TONY GRAYSTONE

Tony Graystone also known as SneakyStudios is an British Artist, currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. After a fling at fancy pants art school in Newcastle, Tony put down his pens and spent a few years exploring the earth and developing a career in the print industry. In 2010 he quit the rat race and had a crack at drawing for a living, and to this day is still (just about) holding on in there.

With a history of creating witty pop-culture themed graphics and a timeless hand drawn aesthetic, Tony has consistently pushed his skills, balancing digital art making off against a more traditional method, pen on paper. Regarding theme, its safe to say Tony has found his unique happy place somewhere between Science and Spirituality.

http://www.alexpardee.com/

ALEX PARDEE
Alex Pardee is a freelance artist, apparel designer, and comics creator writer.
ZERO FRIENDS collective. 


GODMACHINE

http://godmachinedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Illustrator



Longfox

Both the artist in this collective are brilliant and what they do is a few different disaplins like tattooing, murals and apparel design.

Barbie Lowenberg

Ian Sellar

www.zerofriends.com

This is my favorite collective of them all, unfortunately they have recently they will stop been a collective but i still feel they are a example of a fantasticness. 

Alex Pardee

Dave Correia

Responsive RSI Apparel

So one of my favorite clothing companies has put out a new competition looking for new talent to join their collective of amazing illustrators/artist. This has got me very excited as i feel i will be able to explore my dark side and try my hand at the kind of art i love most.

So i can only submit one design for the final design but im going to try come up with at least 5 designs to choses from and to make this my substance brief.

The brief they have put out is completely open in terms of designs and content.

Here is the page that I will become part of if by some miracle I win,

http://rsiapparel.co.uk/artist/

TONY GRAYSTONE

http://www.sneakystudios.com/

Ideas and Development 

I feel that this is my chance to go skull crazy and draw lots of different versions of the skulls i draw, also going to try out some more ideas with adding other elements to in and around them. 

Isograph Pen in sketchbook, then just changed the levels in photoshop to get the white whiter and the blacks blacker.

So I have finished a design that i am happ y to submit for the competition, I had to play around with a t shirt template and but my design on it. I just downloaded ne from google and pasted my design on the top of it. 

Here is another design i dad as always its a black print on a white t shirt. 

Here i have used the same design but used it on the back of the shirt in large oversized print style, I have added some colour to this to see how it would look. I really like how by adding some red to the text it makes it stand out a lot more but its not over powering. The skull been done in gray which would be nice, but it would have to done using waterbased printing inks for me as i really don't like how Plastisol inks look and make you sweat loads under the printed area.  Also over time plastisol inks crack and contract on the t shirt whereas water based inks just live happily with the fabric and just fade a little over time. 

Process

 Work with photshop and hand drawn image

Drawn on different paper then the layers stacked in photoshop to create finished image. 

Dip pen and ink with different nips to get the style of lettering for the band logo.

Had to change file size and format to get design to submit, too large file size.

DPI was set at 400 turned back to 300 DPI,

Canvas size was massive so halfed it too made file size a lot smaller for submission. 

SOme feed back i got from the guy at RSI 

Hey Sam,

How are you? Yeh of course, as we said, we can only give our own feedback, which always remember is 1 persons opinion. I think the piece is well on the way, your using dot work well and it seems your beginning to use it in the right amount - some people can over do it stipple everything. I think the crossbones are the bit that need a bit more resolving but that is something that more drawing will solve in no time. Like you say, the winner nailed it, but i can’t believe that with practice you won’t be killing it in the near future.

Hope that helps

Not here to put anyone down only give you constructive criticism - always and i stress this….YOU ENTERED. I struggle with people that don’t try but expect to be great, all the artists you and i admire have worked thousands of hours to get where they are. It isn’t just boom I’m great

Speak soon

Rob