Maeza Nr. 3 | Oktober 2015
Magazine & Blog about Illustration and Art
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The colour and the accent
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Editor and Illustrator Mark Jordanovic-Lewis Jelena Jordanovic-Lewis
Reference link-list: Agócs Írisz: http.artistamuvek.blogspot.com/ Aurelie Blard –Quintard: http://aurelieblardquintard.ultrabook.com/ Michelle Hiraishi: http://michellehiraishi.tumblr.com/ Fonts from http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Folktale byJake Luedecke
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Content When we set down to discuss the topics for this issue, it was quickly clear that we want to talk about our experience of developing our style and creating interesting characters. It is after all a running topic for books and comic illustrators. We focus in this issue on how we can learn from experienced artists by just redoing their pictures and see the difference between our and their skills. When we then started collecting material, we had far more than expected and wanted to compile as much as possible in this issue. We hope that you enjoy our selection. Yours
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Reference and Editors
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Transform your style Get inspired by famous artist. Learn from them and let them influence your style
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The colour and the accent Experiment with one colour to understand the mood they create
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Extra Character Cheat Sheet
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Transform your style learn and get inspired I try to transform my style through an analytical appraoch. You can likewise learn and get inspired by artists you like . Reproducing, understanding the differences and evolving through own experimentations is my method .
Bear with each a different feature accentuated:
To learn something new, I
pand the variety of bodies
cute
look at differences; I like to
and faces, for animals and
plays with the features.
understand what makes a
humans I needed a new per-
drawing of an artist I really
spective on its nature.
like so wonderful.
I studied the
children’s
This time I focused on the
illustrations of Agócs Írisz,
lining of characters. To ex-
who gives her characters a
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humerous touch and
I tried to
reproduce the
cariature style and made these bears here.
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Bear has his little baby nephey from the northpol for a visit. Babysitting can be really a tough
After the little warm up, I
Then I moved on recreating
of recrating my old stuff, so I
figured I really like the round
one of my old drawing with
tried it with the animals from
bear and made a little story
fox and bear (bottom).
this water colour painting
around him (top).
I really got into the mood Before
After
Tip If you are working with illustrations for kids, you can e.g. search through Agency pages and their artist's galleries to get inspiration.
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From manga style bean bags to lovely hamster bear and mouse fox
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showing a birthday party in
the lower, new one, I focused
to change my teens and kids
the forest (top). In the upper
on
to not having the same round
painting I focused more on
animals. In the case of
the colour technique, but in
humans and faces, I wanted
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creating
caricature
face.
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Humans
could
have a bit more of a rough and deformed appearace to be funnier. I looked again at Agócs Írisz, and at Aurelie Blard –Quintard. I tried this sleepy boy and his baby brother, but I couldn‘t think of a way to invent an odd shape. The key was a tutorial video on making digital line art: draw complete lines from your shoulder, with a swing. I was always avoiding swift movements, in the fear of losing control over my pencil and messing up the picture, but the results proved me wrong.
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teenagers
A kid, looking kind of like harry
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Experimenting with one colour to create a mood or an atmosphear is my approach to see what works best . The coolest tutorial I found about colour maps is the „turtle colour“ on deviant art!
There was this really cute picture by Michelle Hiraishi that caught my attention. I reproduced it here to see how this blue colour works (left). I love how she created depth through size and
Blog | colour theory
lightness of the grass and I did the same. I added some bunnies and fire flies., and coloured the girl differently to accentuate her. As part of the exercise, I reconstructed a picture with similar features
(right) with a hilly beach and the girl looking at the sunset. Replacing the fireflies with birds at the horizon. It‘s fun to limit your colour set and gives you space to explore colour relationships.
Character Cheat Sheets
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