Artist Research
Project 1:
Paul Heaston
I found Paul Heaston's drawings of rooms very interesting. The way he captures everything he can see, including his hands and sketchbook along with all four walls, ceiling, and the floor is spectacular. His drawings look quite distorted as they're not architectural drawings, however they work extremely well.
Project 3
CJ Hendry
CJ Hendry's extremely realistic renderings of everyday objects and designer labels inspired my idea for project 3. Her medium of choice is coloured pencil, which she layers multiple times to build up realistic textures and colours.
Project 4
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's soup cans inspired my digital drawing of a shoes for project 4.
Self-negotiated project artist research
Hope Gangloff
I came across Hope's work when viewing an online exhibition of her painting of Julie Packard. I love Hope's coloured drawings of everyday scenes. They are very chaotic with lots going on in the background and a lot of detail. I like how she draws the faces in black and white and everything is extremely colourful, this allows the faces not to blend into the noisy backgrounds. It looks like she uses coloured biro pens and fine liners mainly, giving her drawings a sketchy feel.
Alvin Chong
Alvin creates digital drawings on an iPad using the apple pencil. At first glance I didn’t think his drawings were digital, as his use of brush and pencil effects give off the feel of a traditional drawing. Alvin has inspired my digital work, especially the use of a grey background to create more dramatic white highlights on the face. I love his sketch of the four men in suits, it's very simple yet effective, the way he has added splodges of grey to add tone in a messy way is great.
Josh Hernandez
I really like josh’s charcoal portraits. He inspired my charcoal sketches of self-portraits and group portraits. I love how sketchy his work is, his use of charcoal gives the movement and fluidity of the drawing. The way he uses dark, dramatic tones to hint at facial features is very effective.
Ian Murphy
Ian murphy’s work inspired my fine liner and water self-portrait sketch. I came across his work on Pinterest and loved the effect he creates from simply adding water to his fine liner renderings. By adding water I was able to create some deep, dramatic tones, which weren’t achievable with fine liner alone.
Julie Catherine
Julie creates huge drawings on paper using a range of mediums, including charcoal, ink, and water. She has inspired my messy charcoal sketches, in particular the long drawing of three people sitting on the sofa. I love her process and technique. Her drawings have so much movement, similar to Josh Hernandez’s work.