She is an illustrator who I would like to potentially take inspiration from when creating work for my ‘Wizard of Oz themed project. As her work is very textural in style, (as I believe she uses pencil for tonal work, then scans the design in and colours it digitally) I felt if I were to create work in a similar method, I would be able to create work that may appeal more to a younger audience, as they could potentially recognise the textures as mediums they use too.
Another reason that I had chosen this artist, is again, because of the methods and techniques she uses. As I have been playing around with traditional and digital skills in my own illustrations over the holidays, and I have been enjoying the process of doing so, but have felt that my designs have been on the more ‘sketchy’ side, not being up to my usual standard of quality (even though I do love the outcomes), I wanted to take inspiration and learn from Tina Nass’s particular process, to potentially help in creating more refined designs whilst using these techniques.
Like Tina Nass, I believe Nuria Tamarit works in a similar process, creating all of her linework and textural qualities by hand, then colouring the designs digitally. I will be using her work as well as Nass’s for inspiration during my ‘Wizard of Oz’ project, however, I will be taking more inspiration from her characters rather than her textures or methods.
Her characters will typically have a cartoon aesthetic, with exaggerated anatomy, especially in the limbs. From looking at some of her pieces, I would say that she creates a lot of Amazonian type of figures, as they are lengthier in the leg, and thicker proportioned.
When taking inspiration from her work, I will be playing around with my own characters proportions and anatomy, seeing which areas that I can potentially exaggerate as to possibly give the characters more personality, for instance, when creating the cowardly lion, I could give him more of a barreled chest, as he is supposed to be a fighter, and I feel this element would help to suggest that quality.
Audra Auclair is one of my favourite artists, I have mentioned her countless of times in previous projects throughout this course, the art and design course beforehand, and I may have even mentioned her within my secondary school projects. I am in love with her work and proudly own 3 of her prints and the book ‘fragments’ that she had made.
My reason for mentioning her yet again within this course is because I wanted to take inspiration from her inked illustrations, (especially from figure 3 to the left) for my own inktober designs. As I will be creating flower people/pixie type characters, I would like them to be quite delicate and soft in style, so I will try to take inspiration from this specific piece of work, creating my own characters with similar line weights, as I feel the use of fine liners within this piece, has possibly made it even more delicate, as it is less heavy than a brush-tip pen, which she has also used in the past.
Bibliography
A. Auclair. (2018) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/audraauclair/ [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
T. Nass. (2018) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/tinanass.illustration/ [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
N. Tamarit. (2018) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/nuriatamarit/ [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
List of Illustrations
Figure 1 – T. Nass. (08 Oct. 2017) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ_bykbnumO/?taken-by=tinanass.illustration [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
Figure 2 – N. Tamarit. (10 Sep. 2017) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BY3yMX6gcfx/?taken-by=nuriatamarit [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
Figure 3 – A. Auclair. (23 Nov. 2017) Instagram [Online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb2QKFoFHUT/?taken-by=audraauclair [Accessed on 24 Sep. 2018]
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