Author: lindamayoux

  • Evan Turk

    Evan Turk is an illustrator, animator, and designer working in New York City. He specializes in travel illustration, on-location event reportage, cultural children’s books, and concept illustration for video games, animation, and advertising. His illustration are very colourful and dramatic. Much of his work is in pastel on coloured paper. Other work is very experimental…

  • Saul Steinberg

    Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian American cartoonist and illustrator. He described himself as “a writer who draws”. He works mostly in pen, often a single black line, to produce complex witty commentary on absurdities of life. In some of his illustrations he also incorporates black and white collaged elements and objects like thumbprints. He…

  • George Butler

    George Butler specialises in travel and current affairs, particularly about war and migration linked to activism. His drawings, done in situ are in pen, ink and watercolour. Important as much for what he leaves out and implies as what is actually shown.https://www.georgebutler.org

  • Olivier Kugler

    Olivier Kugler produces graphic documentary with very detailed final drawing and text, often about war and migration.http://www.olivierkugler.com Process “He uses his ears and eyes – plus a camera, digital voice recorder, sketchbook, pencil, scanner and laptop – to document stories of exile, displacement and the complex reality of refugees’ lives“ “When he carries out interviews,…

  • Cold War Steve

    Political satire collage Cold War Steve is the nom de plume of Christopher Spencer, a British collage artist and satirist. He is the creator of the Twitter feed @Coldwar_Steve. His work typically depicts a grim, dystopian location in England populated by British media figures, celebrities, and politicians, usually with EastEnders actor Steve McFadden (in character as Phil Mitchell) looking on in disgust.[1] His work has been described as having…

  • Nick Hayes

  • Emmanuel Guibert

    Emmanuel Guibert is an innovative French comic artist, who works in styles varying for hyperrealistic to Clear Line. Born in Paris, Guibert briefly attended art school, and did his first professional work in the storyboard and illustration field. He made his comics debut in 1992 with ‘Brune’, a painted comic story about the rise of…

  • Sketchbook Inspiration

    The below are only a small selection of sources of inspiration that I will cover in detail on this blog in connection with my SYP work. I have done a lot more reading and thinking than I have had time to present here. David Shrigley David Hockney James Victore Sketchbook Inspiration The below are only…

  • Procreate

    Procreate is probably the most used painting app – developed in 2013, with significant upgrade as Procreate 4 for iOS11 in late 2017. It is the programme I have used most throughout this course. Its key features include: fully customisable brushes with pressure and tilt sensitivity, including possibility to completely create one’s own brushes. Procreate…

  • Scratchboard

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