Minimal or cluttered? Structured or flowing? Simple or detailed drawings? Aaaaagh.
What things do I like? What ways do other people do things? What do they say? I'm going to look at things to try and spur me on.
Joost Stokhof (his drawings can be found here)
Dutch illustrator who I really really like. It's the perfect balance of drawings that resemble the objects they are, but are expressive and have character. They are often accompanied by small bits of text which brings in a 'diary' sort of feeling? A kind of vague narrative.
Makiko Kudo
I've admired her paintings for a while now. I like the atmosphere and floating feeling that her artwork has. They look very intricate and detailed however up-close, you can see areas where paint has ran and dripped.
They are very dreamy and introspective and have an emotional quality somehow? This is what I like about them, as well as her depictions of the landscapes and small figures and how they aren't super realistic or accurate.
(From an interview) Q: How do you get this stuff out? A: I connect what I see and what I feel using imagination and emotions like dreams
Dutch illustrator who I really really like. It's the perfect balance of drawings that resemble the objects they are, but are expressive and have character. They are often accompanied by small bits of text which brings in a 'diary' sort of feeling? A kind of vague narrative.
Makiko Kudo
I've admired her paintings for a while now. I like the atmosphere and floating feeling that her artwork has. They look very intricate and detailed however up-close, you can see areas where paint has ran and dripped.
They are very dreamy and introspective and have an emotional quality somehow? This is what I like about them, as well as her depictions of the landscapes and small figures and how they aren't super realistic or accurate.
(From an interview) Q: How do you get this stuff out? A: I connect what I see and what I feel using imagination and emotions like dreams
Salvation Mountain by Leonard Knight
I'd seen this before, but learned more about it when I watched a Jarvis Cocker documentary on outsider art. What I really like about the mountain is that it was made by someone who had no artistic training, and who wanted to make it for the sake of it.
In the documentary Leonard was very humble and sweet and it really struck a chord with me as he just did this because it made him happy. I suppose I'm talking about this because I worry a lot about my drawings and work and bad feelings take all of the joy out of making for me.
When talking about his thought process for making, Leonard said
"the less I know about it, the better it turns out a lot of the time" "...and when I really think that I wanna do something my way, it falls flatter than a pancake"
I'd seen this before, but learned more about it when I watched a Jarvis Cocker documentary on outsider art. What I really like about the mountain is that it was made by someone who had no artistic training, and who wanted to make it for the sake of it.
In the documentary Leonard was very humble and sweet and it really struck a chord with me as he just did this because it made him happy. I suppose I'm talking about this because I worry a lot about my drawings and work and bad feelings take all of the joy out of making for me.
When talking about his thought process for making, Leonard said
"the less I know about it, the better it turns out a lot of the time" "...and when I really think that I wanna do something my way, it falls flatter than a pancake"
Leonard and Jarvis opening some fresh paint
I plan to discuss this more in my presentation, but it feeds into my own experiences with working and approaching projects. I found Leonard to be quite inspirational and I wish I could harness his way of thinking.
I plan to discuss this more in my presentation, but it feeds into my own experiences with working and approaching projects. I found Leonard to be quite inspirational and I wish I could harness his way of thinking.
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