Research - Crystal Castles advert

After doing some research into the band ihave chosen for my video-jocky project i found out that One of Crystal Castles songs was used in an award winning advert for Toshiba high definaition rage. Ironic how this video is really bad quality.

15 Illustrators

Grzegorz Domaradzki

I think Domaradzki is my favourite out of all the Illustrators i have researched. I love every piece of work of his i have seen, they just fascinate me. I just wish i could draw half as good as he does. I really like the piece shown above because it looks like it has just been drawn but still manages to look perfect. I know he hasn't just drew these he has also scanned in and improved them on photoshop. There will be a few layers to this as well, the outline and shading of the face will be on one layer, the colours on another, the text another, block colours another and background another, each placed together in the correct place will make an outcome as good as this.

I think he is aiming this towards anyone who is confused about their future, mainly students. I think he is trying to get across the point of being yourself, and putyting that into your work. the phrase "Create What You Are" is written twice on this image, the obvious is in the black circle and it is said all over the picture "create" is writen with the hair, "what" is written across the neck, "you" is part of the neck/hand area and you is at the very bottom, it is like subliminal messages.

Matthew Richardson

Unlike Grzegorz Domaradzki, Matthew Richardson hasn't drawn any of these images his self, i would assume anyway. This piece is called "Albertine Diaries (Financial Times)", you can sort of see that it has somthing to do with the financial world. I think it shows this fromt he buildings in the back ground and the dark clouds with objects falling out of the sky with the two people looking upwards worried.

Steven Harrington

I think Steven harrington created every part of this image his self. I think he did the pink bits first, he possibly used a circle template and put the paint on the edges of the car and blew the pain off in the places he wanted, then waited for that to dry, put a smaller circle template in the middle again and repeted the same thing and used a banans to print its shape as the mouth and then used a finger print and a "world" as the eyes.

Barton Damer

This is artwork for the band "wolfmothers" upcoming tour, i think that tour has ended now. it won 1st place in a digital arts award sponsored by things such as the computer arts magazine.

To do think i think alot of techniques are used. I think a little bit of photography, alot of drawing and deffinatly alot of photoshoping. And many many layers. This obviously wants you to think you have to go to see wolfmother on this tour, it makes it look as if it is going to be a cannot miss gig. And it is obviously aimed towards wolfmother fans and to hopefuy grab the attention of someone who is unnawear of who they are.

Yasmine Putri

Yasmine created this by painting it first and scanning it in to enhance it. Im not quite sure who this is aimed towards, ill take a risk and say chinese people because of the dragon in the background and the fact that it looks like a chinese celebration.

Robi Joeleht

This was created byt drawing first and then enhanced on photoshop, photoshop has added the shiny metal effect and all the buts and bolts to link in with what it is actually saying "never trust a robot". IM not sure if this even has a targeted audience, i think it appeals to anyone.

Jessica Walsh

This was drawn very precistly before scanning on to the computer to edit in photoshop. There is alot of graphical techniques involved in this, and it shows. It is very structured and preciste in mesurement. I actually cant work out what it says so i am really stuck to who its target audience is.

Peter root

On Peter Roots website it explains he drew this on graphics paper then digitalised it on photoshop. He has some other drawings like this on his website that i have linked above. I really like this because i thought i was the only person who did silly drawings on lined paper, but his are obviously better and have more time put into them then mine. It looks to me like the place in the pictureis like an airport or trainstation or somthing along those lines. I like how the people are all in colour but everything else is plain, i think this represents what it is like at place like theses, the surroundings are dull but all the people are colourfull, theyre going to be there on thair way on holiday, for work or to visit someone special, i think the colours represent their stories.

Matthew Hollings

I think for this it looks like he has edited over an image or maybe hes just really good at drawing and did it by hand first. It is clear he has used a wide variety of tools and brushes to get this to look how it has. The man in the image is Pharell Williams, he is a "rap/hip-hop" singer in a bad called N.E.R.D, infact thats why i chose this images cause i love N.E.R.D, anyway, the image i think fits in with Pharell really well because of how he is in music and all that goes with it and i think he is trying to communicate that to the viewers.

Ben Thomas

I was looking through a Computer Arts magazine the other day and came across Ben Thomas a few times but i diddnt take much notice because i was looking for somthing else. This looks like Photography and alot of photoshop work to me, putting each sperate bit onto different layers.

Notta Caflisch

I like the message this one has. It is about global warming, you can tell because, well its obvious, but because of the powerstation and the smoke coming out of it that has animals in it, it is showing that the smoke and damage that the smoke does to it affects the world. I think the simplicity of the photo also shows how easy it is to get ourselves into this mess. I thinkt he techniwue is the same for this as the others, drawn then edited on photoshop.

Victoria Topping

I like this one bcause it was made different to the others, finally!there has been soem scanning of materials and bits of drawing and paintings to create this. they will be layerd too. I think this is aimed to girls, because it is girly obviously and girls tend to like a wider variety of animals then boys, plus all of ther other work is pretty girly so im guessing she aims mainly towards the female side/

Natalie Brokett

After looking at natalies website i noticed she does alot of fashion pieces like the one shown above. I think she probably made it by editing a photograph on photoshop to get all these different effects and textures.

Chris seddon

The image about is an example of Chris' fashion illustrations. He gets the idea for them by drawing them by hand in coloured inks then adds more volume to them on photoshop. I like how this looks as if it oculd have origonaly been a photograph but still looks like a really good drawing. His fashion illustrations are obvioulsy aimed towards the fashion concious or people in or working their way into fashion.

Matthew dent

On matthews website i couldnt fnid any work like this, the work on his website was mainly photography things. I really like how he has drawn this, i like all the little details, there has been alot of time and effort put into this. I dont know who this is aimed towards or what he is trying tp communicate, it could be anything.

Music Genre

For my music genre i have chosen electronic, i wanted to choose electronic because i had the idea of doing a colourful and sparkly video with flashing images to skip to the beat. I am actually doing this song in the video above, i didn't actually know there was a video to it untill just researching then, but it is almost exactly like the idea i already had in mind. I like the idea of the sparkly flashy bits that dance around because they sort of represent the scratchy and high pitched notes of the voice.

Song choices

These are song lyrics from 2 of the songs we were given to choose from, it is between these two. I think i am going to choose Kate Rusby's, Stretched On Your Grave just because i like it a tiny bit more.

P J Harvey - Down By The Water

I lost my heart
Under the bridge
To that little girl
So much to me
And now I'm moan
And now I holler
She'll never know just what I found

That blue-eyed girl
She said no more
That blue-eyed girl
Became blue-eyed whore
Down by the water
I took her hand
Just like my daughter
See her again

Oh help me jesus
Come through the storm
I had to lose her
To do her harm
I heard her holler
I heard her moan
My lovely daughter
I took her home

Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter
Little fish, big fish swimming in the water
Come back here man gimme my daughter

Kate Rusby - Stretched On Your Grave

I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather.

When my family think
That I'm safely in my bed
Oh, from morn until night
I am stretched out at your head
Calling out unto the earth
With tears hot and wild
For the loss of a girl
That I loved as a child.

Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?
Oh, and thanks be to Jesus
We did all that was right
And your maidenhead still
Is your pillar of light.

Oh, the priests and the friars
They approach me in dread
Oh, for I love you still
Oh, my life, and you're dead
I still will be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm

I am stretched on your grave
And I'll lie here forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure they would not sever
My apple tree, my brightness,
It's time we were together
For I smell by the Earth
And I'm worn by the weather.

For my own song i have millions of ideas, i just cant choose, i think i will probably choose one of my favourite songs, Ragoo by kings of leon, jut because i already have a rough idea of what i can do

3D head

Eric Testroete has been working as a 3d artist in the Vancouver game industry for 9 years but has spent most of his career as a character artist.

This piece of work was inspired by video games and then he thought it would be a good thing for halloween.

Heres a link to see more photos and how he did it.

http://testroete.com/index.php?location=head

I found this by accident whilst looking for thing for an art nouveau mood boad, wierd seeing as this has nothing to do wih art nouveau. But anyway, i thought it was a really good idea and id share :)

Power animal - Composite image

We had to blend our faces together with the face of our power animal, well it diddnt have to be our power animal but i chose to stick with mine and did a cat.
Its really not good but its the best i can do.

Power animal - Mask

These are some images taken of me wearing my power animal mask.

We've had to edit 2 of our images with our masks on for part of our project, i have done one so far here it is :)