"Innovative Visual Interpretation of Musical Pieces"/ Illustration Studio Practise [2nd Sem]

Coldplay Put On A Puppet Show For “Technicolor” Video

I think its a brilliant idea to promote artists and to create something entirely new and innovative by making little puppets that represent the band. You create a closer relationship with your fans and meanwhile promote gigs, events, clothing's, songs etc. In my opinion it's just a fun, amusing way of looking at how these little puppets move and perform on stage and at the same time get informed about the band.

My first idea of this new project I'm doing about "interpreting visually" a number of songs of a chosen band, was to actually create my own puppet version of the band that would perform  while the song is played. 

Their cover "A rush of blood to the head" has inspiring illustrations that I could easily visualise as a moving motion image.

I love the idea of combining Text and Image. This is one of the new Grammy promotional illustrations, which is made up of titles of songs that inspired the band. Since I wanted to create something related to a specific song, I thought about words of the song appeared on the screen while the song is being played; the words would gradually create the facial characteristics of the bands members. Each word would be more or less highlighted according to the peach or the emphasis of the song.

With that technique I could not only create faces, but surrounding and instruments as well; I could apply movement, light, speed, or even create an entirely new story line based on text.

This reminds me of a videoclip about a storyline I found on youtube. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJyJIxiktPs&feature=player_embedded

GRAHAM SMITH - ILLUSTRATION 

 
This illustrator caught my eye for his pen and ink technique. He manages to make portraits of celebrities in a unique style that reveals more personal characteristics of that character. I've considered this technique for the visual representation of the band I'm doing. Further more I could apply some movement and animation to the drawing.

Here's Graham's link
http://inkdrawing.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

Some other editorial illustrations that I found interesting as moving images for the song.

 

http://www.rafalito.com/illustration_set3.html

* Some of James Fish's work that I find quite interesting and challenging:
http://fishlab.com/art

* A truly amazing young illustrator who's work impresses me in both technical and conceptual scale. Eugene Plotnikov. 
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/blogs-mainmenu-63/135-mini-interviews/2673-eugene-plotnikov-mini-interview

* Another great illustrator, William Emmert, who's work I find unusually interresting
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/blogs-mainmenu-63/135-mini-interviews/1966-william-emmert-a-mini-interview

An inspiring work, done by a freelancer artist called Christopher Wright for the cover of Foals album "Antidotes".

Check both websites for more illustrations http://imacsonline.com/post/558300793/foals-antidotes
http://blogmodart.rebelmobile.de/blog/modartnews/2008/12/interview_with_christopher_wri.html

Inspiring Work

Work by different artists that and inspire my work and which I admire for the technicality and originality.

 Brett Ruder is such a great artist.

Narrative Illustration: The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

This is the story of a murder narrated by the actual murderer. I illustrated the characters and the setting of the story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Poe.

I tried to capture the mood of the story based on the narrators point of view, which in this case is the murderer. I wanted to capture feelings of madness, horror and obsession. 

                                                                        'Obsession'

To accomplish this, I used Photoshop, collage, photographs and edited, repeated and rescaled them to create the pace of the events. I’ve experimented with different colours, textures and sizes to emphasize and amplify the parts of the text I’ve considered most important.

The 'victim'.

The 'murderer'.

Printmaking

Bits and parts of my printmaking work. Love both the process and the result. Handmade prints have always been my favourite ones and printmaking is the best way to bring out the best qualities of each of the materials. 

The project was about antiques and artefacts and I thought some red and yellow colour would give that dusty, rusty feeling.

There are some of the samples I've done for my printmaking project on animal transformation. I wanted to create a sort of quirky feeling of a bird transformation into a human, or maybe almost one, and also gaining some of the human characteristics of grumpiness and stiffness.