Compare, contrast, report on doodle artists

Ralph Steadman

The picture above, is an example of Ralph Steadmans work, it is a peace called: crap crazy. Ralph Steadman is a doodle artist that works mostly in monochrome, unlike the other two artists who use colour in their works however he has used the occasional colour in his works and some peaces are in colour. Quite a few of the pictures are comical and cartoony as is Laura Mcafferty’s, but Peter Clark looks more like it has been created in Adobe Photoshop.  Ralph has worked for the Alice in wonderland, doing illustrations for the book. I like his work, as I think that some of them look quite comical. I think that some of his work suits Alice in wonderland, as it is very imaginative as is the story of Alice in wonderland.

Peter Clark 

Peter Clark is an artist from South Africa. Peter has created the image above from different strands of materials, the picture is called: Java. He does not draw the image unlike the other two artists who draw their pictures; and he does not use any programs on the computer, like the other two artists who again don’t use any digital programs.  Unlike the others he is also a writer and a poet.  I like the work of Peter Clark because the mixed media he has used, it makes his work look bright and colourful and therefore more attractive. I think his work is different and well placed together. 

Laura Mcafferty 

Laura Mcafferty is a British artist who lives in Nottingham. The above work, is one of hers, it is called: Tokyo Taxi   .Her works are based on different environments; she tries to involve hummer, warmth and sensitivity, Ralph Steadmans involve different environments: like deserts, however Peter Clark does not. She created his peaces by hand as does both the other artists. I don’t really like her work as much as the others, as I don’t think that there as comical or as creative as the other artists.  However her work is still good as there is quite a bit of detail in them. 

Robert Carter

Robert Carter was born in Albans, in England, he moved to America when he was 2 years old. He creates realistic and surreal portrait like works, combining portraits with visual and conceptual problem solving. He currently lives in Baden, Ontario, Canada. He works as a freelance illustrator; he works with acrylic paint and griffin oils. 

Robert has won many awards for his illustrations in the past, some of which are: Altpick Awards Annual, Communication Arts Awards Annual, society of illustrators Awards, Luerzer’s 200 best illustrators worldwide. He has worked for a variety of different characters which include:

American Airlines

Boy's Life magazine

Canadian Business magazine

Harvard Business Review

LA Times

Penguin Publishing

Scholastic Inc

Washington Post

Robert Carter graduated from Sheridan collage of art, he did the design’s illustration program in 2002. He works in his home, he paints in his basement and he designs using graphics and computers in his office. Roberts’ biggest influence is Norman Rockwell, his paintings has always inspired him. His ideas come from near enough anything, movies, music, pictures…

I think Robert Carters’  work is unique and special, it looks like a lot of his work has been designed on the computer, but you can see some elements of oil painting in some of his work. I think that his illustrations are very clever as he manipulates images like the Shakespeare one he done, I thought it was quite funny. I think he uses a wide range of colours and most of his work is often colourful.

Sam Bevington

Sam Bevington is a 26 year old illustrator, he lives in London. He studied and graduated at UWE in Bristol, when he graduated Sam was awarded the class of    honours in 2009. Since Sam graduated he has been working for a wide range of clients. He is most influenced in the urban environment and the graphic design of the year’s 1930’s to 1950’s. He specialises in poster design and custom typography. He likes to print posters in his screen printing studio that he has at home, he likes the concept of hand painted and printed designs for signs like DIY signs.

He was encouraged to draw and be creative at home due to his father being a graphic designer. He was inspired by skateboard designs, consort posters and graphite when he was younger, he likes the simple designs for posters, images and slogans from the 1940’s and the 1950’s. to get his ideas into shape he experiments with colour first.

I like Sam Bevingtons’ poster Designs because the range of typography he has used to create them with. I think they are quite colourful and not too busy, which does not distract you form the meaning of the posters, some of the posters designs are too busy and therefore I can get distracted, the ones that don’t look busy are the ones that look the best, sometimes he uses large scale images and typography to fill the space of the poster which is quite effective.

Andrew Beckett

Andrew Beckett is an illustrator that has worked for publishing and advertising companies like CO-Ops carbon foot print campaign. And he designs children’s books, like the book by Eva Berberich called Der Kater Der Nicht Reden Wollte (The cat who wanted to speak not).

 Andrew heightens the realism of his work by tampering with the colour, shade and texture of his work; to do this Beckett edits his work using a programme called Adobe Photoshop. He works with water colour paints, and acrylic paints; he paints on Arches hot-press water colour paper.

Beckett has created several pieces of work,involving          natural wild life which has been featured in a number of eminent national exhibitions. Andrew began illustration design as he thought it was a good way to challenge his artistic skills and a good career. Andrew studied the Scientific & Natural History Illustration course at Blackpool and Fylde College.

He currently lives in  Ansdell ( which is the only place that is named after an artist in the UK). He works mostly at home on the first floor of his house. Andrew Becketts’ biggest inspiration is the students he teaches.

I think his works are impressive, very artistic and some very realistic like the cooperatives’ campaign for the carbon footprint, he designed a giant footprint in different landscapes. My favourite one was the one in the middle of the sea. In the books that he designs, the pictures are seem more realistic as he has paid great attention to detail.

vector graphics

Vector graphics are a path with a start and an end between the start and end with other points between them which can be curves and angles. A path can be a line, square a triangle or any curvy shape. Vector graphics can be used for simple or complex drawings. because v

 Vector graphics are not made of dots, unlike raster graphics; so when it is stretched it, it is not going to become pixulated, because vector graphics don’t lose their image quality, it can be blown up to fit a large scaled area like a billboard, or it can be shrunk down to fit on a small scale area like a business card.

Programmes that can be used to create vector graphics are Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Macromedia Flash and ACD Canvas.

Vector graphics can be used for three dimensional looking animations, games design, advertising, artworks; they can be used in lazar light shows, using lasers and mirrors to direct beams of light to form images.

to day i watched a music french music video called "coen la tour de pise" that showed a lot of typeogrophy. the way the music video was set out was clever as the words show on the video wher matching to the lyrics in the song. the words where clearly tkaen by hand and probebly edited to make different word from others. the type that was shown was every day type we see like sighns above the shops and flashing neon lights ant night. when there was a instramental solo the picturse of type stoped a nd a neon picture of a guitare going up and down came on screen the the lirics picked up again as did the type.

Robert McGinnis

Robert McGinnis is an American artist and illustrator, who specifies in film posters and book covers. He was born in 1926, in Wyoming Ohio. He currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 McGinnis has done posters for some major movies, including movies like: Breakfast at Tiffanys, Barbarella, several different James bond movie posters and he has done posters for Matt Helm.

McGinnis became an apprentice at Walt Disney studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University. he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 wich led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing. And then he began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers including Edward S. Aarons, Erle Stanley Gardner, Richard S. Prather, and the Michael Shayne and Carter Brown series.

McGinnis later did artwork for Ladies' Home Journal, Women's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, TIME, Argosy, Guideposts, and The Saturday Evening Post. He  was main title designer for The Hallelujah Trail.

McGinnis's attention to detail was such that when he was assigned to do the artwork for Arabesque he requested Sophia Loren's tiger stripe dress is sent for him for a model to wear so he could get the right appearance.

Since 2004, McGinnis has created cover illustrations for the Hard Case Crime paperback series.

He is a member of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. McGinnis is the subject of a documentary film, Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer, by Paul Jilbert

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby born August 28, 1917,  died February 6, 1994 he was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. He drew various comic strips under different pen names, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1941, Kirby and writer Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics.

He contributed to a number of publishers, including Archie Comics and DC Comics, but ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. In the 1960s, Kirby co-created many of Marvel Comics' major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk.

Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle, During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance.

After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics, Simon and Kirby created the patriotic superhero Captain America in late 1940. Simon cut a deal with Goodman that gave him and Kirby 15 percent of the profits from the feature as well as salaried positions as the company's editor and art director, respectively. The first issue of Captain America Comics.

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Klaus Voorman

Klaus Voormann was born in 29 April 1938 he is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio, including their worldwide hit "Da Da Da". As a musician, Voormann is best known for being the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, and for performing as a session musician on many recordings, including some by former members of the Beatles.

His association with the Beatles dated back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John  Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy. Following the band's split, rumours circulated of the formation of a group named The Ladders, consisting of Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Voormann. This failed to materialise, outside of all four Ladders performing on the Ringo Starr track "I'm the Greatest", although Voormann did play on albums by Starr, Lennon and Harrison, and was for a time a member of the Plastic Ono Band. In the 1990s, he designed the artwork for the Beatles Anthology albums.

                                                                                                                     

Klaus got a job at an ad agency in London and was working there for about five months when he received a call from a friend, asking him if he wanted to play in a band. Klaus packed his bag and three days later he was back in Hamburg playing bass on stage! This was the beginning of Klaus’s musical career. This first band Klaus was a member of, Paddy, Klaus & Gibson, played in Germany at the Star Clubs. Later they went to England where they were booked at the Pickwick Club in London, a place frequented by high profile people.

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compare.

Robert Ginnis and Jack Kirby both work with colour, Klaus Voormann works in mono crome. Roberts work is more realistic and figeuritive  where as Jack Kirbys' work is more imaganative, Klaus Voormanns' work is a mixture of both as he has done album covers for the bee gees and othere musical groups which are more realistic, and he has been known to do comic strips which are more imaganative. Jack works mostly for magazine covers, Robert works more with movie posters, and Klaus works for musical groups creating there covers for there albums. they all work for major and popular employers like DC comics, James Bond, Bee Gees.