A 3 minute presentation on its own is fine. But then give us
the strict specification of 10, 18 second slides and we all react like it would
have been less daunting had the presentations been an hour long.
But after bringing myself back down to earth it is still
only 3 minutes. Which is nothing right?
Getting Started
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I had recently come across an artist called Simon Stalenhag
and really loved his work. So with the excitement of having found this new
artist still fresh, I decided to use this presentation to briefly try and
explain why I like his work.
Marek Okon is another Artist I keep going back to for inspiration.
So I thought I would include him as well.
Art Direction (Re alliteration of Power Point Presentation)
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Marek Okon is a massively skilled and successful artist and
has worked on many triple A titles. He generally does promotional material, but
has worked as concept artist for Crisis.
Shrapnel
This piece is called
Shrapnel and was the cover for the third issue of a comic called
Shrapnel:Aristeia Rising Published by Radical Comics.
This Piece uses a varying
level of detail to draw you to the focal point of the image, which is her face.
Surrounding forms are relatively out of focus, and painterly in texture. This
technique is interesting because this is how our eyes work in real life. If you
hold your arms out in front of you with your thumbs up and together, the space
the tip of your thumbs takes up in your field of view is all that is in focus
at anyone point in time. But yet you can briefly look out over a vast seen and
understand it. This is because our brains fill in the gaps and assumes what is
there.
When you initially look at this
picture your eyes go straight to her face, and your peripheries see the rest of
the figure and assume it’s all there and to a similar level of detail.
Colour & Mood
If you look at the colours
on their own, they are fresh, clean and peaceful. Which is odd when you take
into account the content of the image. It’s the aftermath of an epic close
quarter battle, with the bodies and gore to go with it.
But if you take into account
her body language, then the colours have real significance. Now we understand this character is drained,
the battle has been horrific; this has been a real gritty and tragic confrontation.
Looking further into
the use of Colour
Colour has also been used
to draw your eye to the focal point and then around the image.
In the image above I have
exaggerated the colours. Here you can see that the whole piece is basically two
colours, which envelope the whole piece. Then a third contrasting colour has
been thrown in to draw your attention. This primarily sits behind her head, and
then with the blood splatter your attention is drawn down the image.
Why I like Mareks Work
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In a lot of Mareks work
his characters express fear; they appear vulnerable and therefor human. They
are normal people like you or me that have gotten stuck in an extraordinary situation.
They don’t appear to be
supper human heroes, who love to kill, love a battle and think nothing of
saving the world.
A World within an
Image
Mareks Images contain a
huge amount of narrative. Within a single frame there will be many questions
which you will want to answer, thus drawing you in and making you interested in
the world he has created.
Why is this woman being
chased?
By who? What? Why?
Is that a new born baby? It
appears to still have the wrist tag?
Where is she?
Is that some kind of
nuclear/bio hazard type container?
Simon Stalenhag –
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This is the image I
chose, by this artist. I love this scene. We have all stood in a car park like
this before; this image is nostalgic. But yet this is a future
concept. There are large flying freighter type craft in the distance.
All of Simon’s work has
this quality, they are all believable, relatable, somewhat nostalgic and yet
contain element that aren’t of this world.
Believable Future
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I think he manages this
by creating a scene we can perceive to exist within our world. He includes objects
and characters which we can relate to in real life, like the cars and the
everyday characters. He understands that
in the future normal people will be normal people, an old barn will still be an
old barn and that future tech will itself become old tech.
Colour
Here again I have exaggerated
the colour and found that Simon has used the same technique as Marek did for Shrapnel.
Here the image again is
made up primarily of two colours, with a third colour frown in to draw attention.
Here it is the pink in the bottom right, drawing you into the scene of the two
girls and the car. The pink is then doted across the top of the Freighters to
draw you off and into the distance.
Tone
Tone here has generally
been used in the traditional lights are further away fashion. If you look at
the image where I have removed all of the detail, you will find this generally
works. But there is a discrepancy; the right side of the car park is actually
extremely light. But this is also an area of high detail, and it’s highly textured,
this helps further bring this area closer.
http://www.simonstalenhag.se/
http://www.okonart.com/#portfolio&illustrations&83
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