Steven Wilson is an Illustrator who lives and works in Brighton, UK. Originally from North London Steven fell in love with Brighton whilst studying on the renowned Illustration course there. He has a particular passion for working on album covers as he enjoys their permanent nature. "I like the idea that with an album sleeve the artwork is forever associated with that album and so you are creating a little piece of history." Steve Wilson was an artist that I looked at for As-A2 project and was one of my favourites from my summer Pinterest boards. He was also one of the three artist I created an inspired piece for, were I took the Louis Vuitton LV logo and manipulated it into a steve wilson inspired piece in the style of Wilson's Stussy logo design with the paint dripping effect. When first looking at Steve Wilson's work It reminded me a lot of summer and paint because of how he uses bright colour palettes and abstract rounded shapes to create paint dripping effects. During the as-a2 project the first work I saw of Wilson was his typography work which I really loved because of how fun, colourful and unique it was. Recently I have just started to look at his vector image portraits which reminded a lot of miles Donavan's work however I feel Steve Wilson's work is much more crisp and neater than miles Donavan's but really love how Miles Donavan includes paint slats to add much more urban graffiti style to his work.
Miles Donavan
Miles Donovan is an illustrator and graphic design who is a member of peepshow collective. His work has been used internationally for editorial and advertising clients including The New York Times, Creative Review, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Telegraph, TIME, Wired and Qantas. You can find Donovan's illustrations in the books 'Illusive', 'The Fundamentals of Illustration', 'Pen and Mouse' and 'Illustration Play'. With Peepshow Donovan also worked on designs such as, art direction and animation projects for BBC, Nike, Channel Four, Philips, Toyota, Redbee Media, Diesel and The Victoria & Albert Museum. I feel that these vector portraits have been created in photoshop and illustrator because of the vibrant colours and smooth lines that have been used to created different tones on the peoples faces. Most of these portraits in this portfolio are of celebrities such as Rihanna, Lethal Bizzle, Kate Middleton and others. Miles donavon focuses a colour tones to use on faces for different light and dark areas on faces and clothing to show emotion and action in the artwork. Donavon uses a small colour pallet including around 3 tones of Blue, yellows, pinks, reds and green. I really like how Donavon gives an urban feel to the work by adding paint splats and spray paint affects on, around or behind the portraits.
Ewa Mosa
Ewa Mos is a illustrator, graphic design and photographer from copenhagen and has created many different funky and unique photo manipulation pieces of art work for clients such as: Adidas, design wars, fused magazine, don't panic and many more. When looking through Ewa Mos's website I was really quite amazed by how funky and unique her pieces of work are because of how she creates simple high quality digital illustrations. Even though some of these illustrations are simple, the use of vector software has really made these illustrations stand out because the high quality lines and colour along with the high quality photograph. I found this piece below really cool and creative because of how Mos has really made her model make a facial pose so that Mos could fully incorporate the illustration into the photograph. I really like how Mos has create her illustrative squid character follow the lines of the models face and also even look like it is going through the models nose and out the eye. I feel that the more the illustration merges with the photo the less flat and plain the piece of artwork looks. Lighting is also a factor that Mos has taken in to hand because she has use toning and shadow throughout the illustration and create the light and shadows look similar to the ones on the models face. The use of toning has also really made the illustration look much more 3d and less flat on the photo.
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