Critical Analysis In depth Analysis and Artist Research
Karine Faou Karine Faou, Is a graphic illustrator whose work was brought to my attention after learning a variety of new techniques whilst studying an a similar graphic designer Andy Potts. I was particularly drawn to this piece by illustrator Karine due to the composition, range of techniques and limited colour scheme. I feel this illustrator could add new ideas to project of bullying and make my outcome a stronger design. I chose to look at the work of Karine Faou because I wanted to study an illustrator that would help me to create a contemporary feel to my poster designs as well as someone who would help me to create strong compositions by putting together a range of ideas and images. I like the way she combines bold contemporary colours with black and white figures. As mentioned above, She uses a limited range of colour and balances her compositions effectively. This first image has an allegorical feel to it as if the image relates to a story or real situation. This sort of technique could help me with my outcomes and improve the outcomes already produced in my coursework.
Karine Faou uses a wide variety of different media in her work combining shapes, and photography, as well as motion effects and opacity layers. Her compositions are effective because although they seem randomly placed at times the images are balanced dividing the design into thirds or quarters by the placement of dominant images or colour areas. The use of limited colours helps to guide your eye around the page and hold the design together. Patterns or less important information are used in the background to give the design depth as well as a strong use of scale to make some images more dominant. Although quite sparingly used every colour block ,I think this is a technique of composition that would improve my designs.
Karine Faou Faou’s work can link to an earlier time period and their are suggestions and a sense of history in her designs. The photos used in the image feel as though they may be taken from the 1940’s and 50’s due to the style of the clothes. Stylistically the work may have been influences by artists working at this time such as Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. This movement in society was known as the pop artistic movement, I think Karine’s work has the stylistic influences of today's contempory secular society. Karine Faou is an illustrator who by the nature of her work constantly uses brushes to add to the ideas in her work. Because she is often producing images to be used alongside editorial type stories they frequently have a link to events that are happening currently in the news or reflecting a specific social or political standpoint.
Karine Faou I
choose this Karine Faou design because I liked the limited colour scheme, and simplicity. I think this will be something I could incorporate into my designs and outcomes in my project about beat bullying as they concept and meaning could be that the birds are representing closure and becoming free from bullying
In this Karine Faou design, my eye was drawn to the contrasting figure at the for front of the design, and how again the even though its slightly more complex, the simplicity is kept within the design. I think the prominent figure is something which i will use in one of my poster outcome designs or experiments as it works well with the rest of the design. This was one of my favourite Karine Faou designs I had come across, I think the simplicity, and use of colour and type face work well. She has made full use of the canvas in and around the design and this has a huge impact on how the design works.
Artist : Eva Tatcheva
Artist: Eva Tatcheva
Similarly to Michelle Thompson another graphic designer, EvaTatcheva studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. She is the illustrator of Angela Carter's Sea Cat and Dragon King. She is also the illustrator of Witch Zelda's Birthday Cake: A Wild and Wicked Pop-Up, Pull-The-Tab Book. I chose to look at the work of Eva Tatcheva because I wanted to study an illustrator slightly different to Karine Faou, that would help me to create a contemporary feel to my poster designs as well as someone who would help me to create strong compositions by putting together a range of ideas and images. I like the way she combines bold contemporary colours which have a slight opacity, which gives the design a different edge. I prefer the way Eva uses colour in her figures, and I feel this looks better personally then how Karine Faou sometimes used solid colours for her prominent figures, to compromise in my designs I will use both Karine Faou, and Eva Tatcheva’s techniques to create my poster outcomes.
Eva Tatcheva
I choose this Eva Tatcheva design because i was drawn by the unique border around the outcome, as it was unusual to how I work with my canvas. The use of imagery, and limited colour scheme and are inviting, and suggest environmental atmospheres, due to the colours chosen. I could use not only the concept of a limited colour scheme, but the concept and ideas of what colours means, and what colours represent, and what message I am trying to portray in my posters.
I choose this design because their is allot going on in the picture, with the primary photography, and I felt this was an idea I may want to explore in my project, as instead of displaying one figure I could have a prominent image, and other designs/photographs of what bullying can do. This gives a design a different approach and a different way to portray your ideas without using typography.
Typography I personally in order for my information to be displayed effectively and for the correct information to be given, it needs to be displayed on my poster designs. So I decided to look at some typography I had yet to look at, and came across a range of designs to the right hand side. I particularly think that the black and white ones with the prominent figures work better than just a typography based design with no images or photography, and I may possibly try create my typography within my figures.