Research of 3 artists

SIXEART or Sergio Hidalgo Parades is a contemporary artist from Barcelona. He developed from graffiti and from this, he moved on to do sculpture & studio painting in a surrealist, childlike style.

His use of colour is off the scale as he uses lots of bold colours and draws using lines and shapes. I think his artworks are brilliant, I particularly like the contemporary ones such as the second and forth pictures shown below.

Blu is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who keeps his real identity concealed. He was born in Italy and has been active in street graffiti since 1999. He is renowned all around the world. He uses surrealist tradition and is highly controversial. Some of his artworks have been censored in the USA because of that. Blu is a painter in the landscape, urban or industrial areas. He is skillful use of the digital media and his main theme of artworks is distortion of human figures in massive proportions. I think that his artwork are good and so is his use of more colours. my eye is drawn to the art and the colour all in the same time.                           

Banksy is a pseudonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

These are examples of artwork by Banksy. his artworks comprise of dark humour and stencilling. It has been featured on walls, streets, and bridges of cities throughout the world. He has been inspired by artists, musicians using 3D with Massive Attack band as his main inspiration. His colour range  is a select few, mainly black and white with bold colours such as red and blue. I think that his artworks are good but can be more colourful.

Evaluation of the Juice Squad

Evaluation

I have been appointed by a smoothie company called the Urban Juicer, the plan was to create card mascots called the Juice Squad.  The idea is that these mascots would appeal to young children in order to promote a healthy lifestyle and expand customers in the future.

1.             Before I started, I had a look at three artists; Banksy, Blu and Sixeart and their artworks. Some of their ideas inspired me to create the colours and shapes for my own designs. My main inspiration was the artworks done by Sixeart because he uses a range of patterns, bold colours, and uses simplicity in arranging the layouts of his artworks – which is what I set out to provide.

2.             The design blueprints were quite simple though there was difficulty with the fruit types and the names of the mascots. I came up with 11 designs.

3.             The design on the computer-using Illustrator was tricky to start with but then I did fathom it out.

4.             I came up with one of the designs from my prototypes.  I had to combine fruit with music.  I thought of the song artist Adele and then thought of a fruit that matches and Apple fitted the bill so it was to be named Apple Adele. This aims to appeal to promote fruit that they might sell with Apple being a fruit and Adele is a musician so it promotes music (that young people might like) at the same time.

5.             I printed it out, cut it out and stuck it all together. My mascot “Apple Adele” is done, made and ready for action.  My card mascot has the green colour of apple but I made it look human-like. It has hair that looks like apple leave patterns in order to achieve a vibrant and positive promotion of healthy living, which is what the company commissioning this wants and demands.

Overall, I was pleased with my efforts and I’ve looked at similar items on the market, my designs would make a fine edition to this market.  

Digital Art

I think this has been created using Illustrator. Most like a drawing that has been scanned or a image taken and traced on paper and then scanned into the computer. Alternatively, the image could have been put in Illustrartor and image trace used.
The tools used is that the drawing was formatted with lines as paths and then the objects in these line were used to colour the art in.
This digital art is abstract because you need to look at it for some time in order to identify what it is.
I do like this artwork because it has some Art Deco look about it. Below is an example.

top artwork done by Melissa Casey/Portsmouth.

I think this has been created using Photoshop because it comprises of mainly images in a mixed arrangement.
The tools used in this artwork are a lot but i can identify brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, colour overlays, liquify, that and so much more besides.
This digital art is a photomontage because you can see loads of images but you can read them easily because you can see a mini, a London Bus, a British phone box, RAF symbol and the man in a striped suit and bowler hat.
I like this artwork because there lots of colours and images on it that can live up to whatever purpose this was designed for.

artwork done by Tim Marrs.

The first artwork is used to make a Art Deco form of a existing building, whereas the second is used to promote a product of some sort. The second has all that is British and because of that, it has a montage of things that are typically associated with British culture.

I do like the Abstract artworks because they are more imaginative than the Photomontages.
Below are artworks that are considered Abstract.

Pablo Picasso

Bruce Gray

Pablo Picasso

And below this is some artworks that would be considered Photomontages

Andy Warhole

Andy Warhole

David Hockney

I Love Dust

I Love Dust are graphic designers based in Portsmouth where they have a multi-disciplinary studio. Their customers include Virgin, Coca Cola, Nike and Red Bull (example shown below)

This is a good example because the colour is limited but it reflects the Red Bull theme with the blue graphics on a silver background. It's very comical with are drawn, not photographic that are used. There is very little text but its keeping with the theme of Red Bull since it uses the logo with the san-serif font.

The layout of it is just right.

I think it was hand drawn on a piece of paper, scanned  and then edited using computer editing software (Illustrator maybe).

It looks like a successful venture and so therefore, i wouldn't  recommend any changes be made.

What i like about these ones on the left is that;
1. both are abstracted images
2. both have a vast aray of colours, mostly bold and bright
3. the top one is made of lines and very pop art
4. the bottom one is made more of shapes
5. both presentations are good because they are light and dark
6. the bottom one is more of a 3D image
The top one was, again, hand drawn on a piece of paper, scanned  and then edited using computer editing software (Illustrator maybe).

The bottom one is  more computer based.

both of them depicted sunglasses and both look successful if used for advertising purposes for sunglasses company like Ray Bans.