week 9

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Who is your favorite expert ?

Mark Riddick produces art for bands, these often vary from CD cover art to shirt design, the clients (bands) are of a heavy, hardcore nature so the imagery he uses in the illustrations would be aimed at the bands target audience, Riddick’s art is specifically created for a modern heavy metal audience, the imagery captures aspects of the music,
his art is very gory, unholy, and often depict death with a modern composition and style . He has a good ability to capture detail while also an understanding in producing visual pleasing art consistently, his work has a vast amount of detail and imagination. While being compared to other metal/rock artists such as Derek Riggs who created the iconic imagery of iron maiden, his work offers a more modern style and composition
His work would be considered offensive to some people but when you keep in mind who he illustrates for it wouldn’t affect the target audience and they would more possible to like find that sort of thing visually.
Recently i have found that mark Riddick’s art has inspired me more than any other artist, I find the style he works in and the imagery in his illustrations very aesthetic pleasing . his work is similar in ways to mine but i have found myself using his work as inspiration. So i would say my personal favourite expert is mark Riddick.

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WEEK 7

Managing a creative a creative environment
Managing a crative environment is important for a illustrator, it is the place were most of the work is created so it shud be practical, comfortable and inspiring. The place should suit the person’s needs as an illustrator, for example for someone who mainly produces digital art then there personal creative environment would have at least one computer and additional components i.e. scanners, printers compared to traditional print makers who would work in a studio. My personal environment is simple it is created for my illustrative style but it is not to distinguished and professional as I’m still developing my style and skills and don’t need specific equipment as i have access to the university’s facility’s.
Comparing my creative environment to that of mel Milton, a charater ceveolper for Disney, His work space is more developed and professional, it is easy to see how some one how works in that can be inspired to create art, and just looking at the image above u can see what sort of work he would produces and how he would create it.

http://www.abductit.com/files/best_week/mel-milton-animator-workspace.jpg