Zine fair at Travelling Man Newcastle

I heard about a zine fair that was held on the 3rd of may, It was pretty local and sounded good from the advertisement. the fair was at Travelling Man comic shop in Newcastle, It was really small and friendly but worth going to. The illustrators that were there are Kristyna Baczynski, Gareth Brookes, Andrew Waugh, Jack Fallows and Paper jam collective. I had a look round their stalls and had a  chat to some of them. The illustrators were selling their Prints, Zines, Post cards and other various things with their illustrations on. They were also doing live drawings where they would draw anything for you. I got two A5 drawings from Kristyna Baczynski (i will put them on a later blog post.) I had seen her zines before and i think the illustrations she creates are so cute, she was really nice to chat too as well so that was really nice. Overall it was a good little event. Below i have put a few of my favourite illustrations from the illustrators at the event. 

Kristyna Baczynski

Gareth Brookes

Andrew Waugh

Jack Fallows

Artist research: Onasup

Onasup is a digital illustrator and graphic designer from South Korea He creates these bright eye catching images. I love all of the colours and shapes that he uses to create the pictures. The thing i like most about his images is how the animals have so much character in their faces yet they are still abstract. Below are some of my favourite pieces of his. 

Digital manipulation: First image

I started off my digital manipulation project by scanning in an image that i had already sketched to use as a template. I decided to use this drawing of Emma sat at her desk because i liked the composition of it and I thought that it would look good if I improved it. I used my original drawing as a guide so i started off with the rough sketch.

I then began digitally drawing in the head and earphones using the wacom tablet. I decided to go with an all grey colour scheme as i had never really done this before and i wanted to try it out.  In the  pictures below i turned the guide image off so the lines are clearer to see.

I then continued to draw the body and chair  using different shades of grey.

I then drew in the table and blocked in the posters in the background. to create the shapes of the posters i used the square tool to create a perfect square i then just painted the squares the colours that i wanted them. 

Below is my first final image.

I am happy with how the image turned out but i think that it is a bit boring so for my next image i think i will develop this image using more colours and textures. 

Reportage artist research: Dominick Santise

As I continued with my research I found an artist named Dominick Santise. I likedhis drawings because they arent perfect but they still tell a story and set the mood of what is happening in the image. I really liked his drawing of the white house the bold black lines and the leafless trees give it a bit of an eery feel buti like that about it. One of his other images caught my eye and the reason I like this image is because you can really feel the motion in the image with the way he has smudged the lines to make the flags look likey they are being shuck by the people.