Illustration

I  wanted to explore digital storage solutions rather than boxes and cases, this gives me a more varied area to investigate.

Bernie Reid

Bernie Reid is a photographer and illustrator who combines both of her disciplines in this piece.

This image was created from a black and white photograph, the background has marks on which help give the figure shape. Without these marks the lady would blend into the background.

The mood of the illustration is somewhat risqué, but I believe that the figure has been captured in a tasteful way. The piece has a slightly gritty feel due to the marks being blurred slightly out of focus.

The composition is balanced and set in portrait, the focal point I feel is the face this is because the rest of the piece is slightly more subdued.

The vantage point is level to the lady, resulting her not appearing powerful or vulnerable unlike many portraits. Being a stencil we do not see any colour, just black and white, resulting in the piece being extremely high contrast.

Illustration

To create this image I took inspiration from Jonathan Allardyce.

I liked his use of flat colours and a variety of line thicknesses

Central composition and level vantage point are classic for a portrait image

No background to draw attention away from foreground

To make my illustration unique I decided to do a self portrait rather than a celebrity

I wanted to get a dark moody feel across with this piece, with extremely high contrasting tones

The black background helps with the underlying mood of the image

Portraying shiny electrical equipment in a black and gray sketchy way is contrary to how we perceive these objects, this is the reason I chose to have a grainy look over the whole iPod

I took inspiration from Amy Reid to create this image, her use of grainy strokes and moody colours were relative to what i was trying to display

Jonathan Allardyce

Jonathan Allardyce is an illustrator who uses digital illustration in most of his work. He uses largely flat, bold colours and a variety of lines in his work.

Use of flat colours

Representational of objects

Illustrations finished in a pop-art style reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein

Generally works with recognizable people and objects

Creates depth by using shadows and highlights