Zemni Art and Illustration

Category: Portfolios

  • Matt Madden: Exercises in Style

    99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (2005) is a “seriously playful exploration of the possibilities and potential of comics and storytelling”. The book is based on a simple one-page anecdote which is re-drawn and re-old 99 times in different genres and drawing styles, in the form of homages and parodies, and in formal experiments…

  • 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…

  • Visual depth

    Find places that can exaggerate different viewpoints. Focus on how you visualise depth and what strategies you use. Produce three drawings depicting a room in your house using: one-point two-point three-point perspective isometric projection the room’s own visual logic and deliberately breaking the rules  a flat drawing. By definition these last three drawings will be less observed and…

  • Political Sublime

    Aesthetic. But also links to political purposes around environmental activism, depictions of war versus peace. Longinus Edmund Burke Immanuel Kant Schiller Schopenhauer

  • Time-based narratives

    Time-based narratives include: slide-shows and narrative screen or audio-visual presentations video, animations and slide-shows. on-line interactive experiences An on-line audio-visual piece can be a piece of art in itself – with images carefully sequenced and timed as a narrative with complementary sound effects and/or narration and/or music as part of the art. It can also…

  • Female Gaze?

    “I have had to go to men as sources in my painting because the past has left us so small an inheritance of woman’s painting that had widened life….Before I put a brush to canvas I question, “Is this mine? Is it all intrinsically of myself? Is it influenced by some idea or some photograph of an…

  • Colour theory for illustration

    In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Albers  Interaction of Color 1963 p1 Key colour issues in printmaking Tone is perceived first, then colours (yellow first), and then the image. This means that the…

  • Rebecca Solnit

    Solnit was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother,[3] and in 1966 her family moved to Novato, California, where she grew up. “I was a battered little kid,” she said of her childhood.[4] She skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she…

  •  What is illustration practice?

    Illustration uses drawing and other forms of image-making to bring ideas and information to life. It involves the ability to think about the content and ideas, creatively develop visual ideas, within ones own visual language or ‘voice’. Illustration practice covers a lot of different areas and illustrators fulfil many different roles within them. There are many areas of crossover…

  • Perspective

    Find places that can exaggerate different viewpoints. Focus on how you visualise depth and what strategies you use. Produce three drawings depicting a room in your house using: one-point two-point three-point perspective isometric projection the room’s own visual logic and deliberately breaking the rules  a flat drawing. By definition these last three drawings will be less observed and…