Artist Research

Simone Legno

An Italian artist who works with Tokidoki.
Tokidoki is a art brand created by Simone Legno which involves Japanese inspired lifestyle cartoon work, it has created products that use the style of art and created characters like Carina, Ciao Ciao and Grannaple Lengo has loved Japan for a long time which gave him inspiration to his art.

Ann Morgan

The artist has drawn a 3D image of dustbins being rocketed into the air with probably Photoshop, the text on the right that hates the government are given a connection to the dustbins saying that the politicians ect are garbage and should be chucked away.

The dustbins appear to be 3D vector based drawing with an applied texture of a metallic sheet over the exterior of the outlines; each dustbin also has lighting and shadow on at related angles so there would have been the use of using spotlights on the surface. Artist’s main techniques here would be using Photoshop’s 3D features to produce the 3D effect on the bins.

There is a radioactive symbol placed on the side of each bin to show meaning that the Politicians are dangerous and toxic, the text mentions “appropriate warning symbols” which is referring to that symbol on the dustbins, one thing that’s notable is that the symbols appears to have just been flat placed onto the side, the sides are round so the sticker doesn’t look right on the bin.

The dustbins are being rocketed into the air with fire blasting out from its rears; the flames appear to have been created with strokes of the paint brush with the colours yellow and red, made brighter and then blurred out a bit to create a soft shooting flame.

The text has been written in a black grainy style making it look like ash, ash is seen as wastage to the planet which go with what the text talks about. The characters on most of the words are at different heights which makes it look bouncy when looked at from a distance.

The background is the Earth’s sky which is particularly cloudy symbolizing the waste done by global warming; the artist appears to have used gradients to make the soft fades with different tones of blue and white.

 John Rixon

The artist has created an image of three faces each with a different style and colour, there are also different items within the images such as a plant, some text and colour strokes, every item seems to be on separate layers each with their opacity under 100% so everything is visible and fades in with each other.

The faces are each of a photograph from an actual human face which has then been digitally manipulated with probably Photoshop.

The face on the left has a deep blue colour; the pixels of each shade have been blended to a single colour making the face look less realistic, the eyes look like the cornea and pupil have been replaced with full moons, the colour of the eyes contrasts a lot with the blue skin so they stand out, the man gives off a cold feeling.

The women’s face in the middle left has been blurred out slightly which softens her face out, her eye’s have been darkened out. The man’s face on the right is similar to the face on the left, this time the artist has made his skin a strong red colour, the eyes and teeth have been selected and placed onto a separate layer so they can be left unmodified, this contrasts with the red skin colour as the teeth and eyes are white, it gives him an aggressive image with the warm red representing rage and anger.

There is some text in the image that blends into the faces and other items, it’s mostly written in green, from what I can make out it appears to be romantic poetic texts as it talks about “hands”, “her” and “bed”, the poetic writing might suggest that there is a love triangle with the three people in the image, and the different styles applied to each one suggests the emotion that each one is feeling.

Pablo Alfieri

 

 The artist has produced a digital image with probably Photoshop of skulls, triangles and diamonds; there is a dark mystical feeling to the image.

The artist has used photo realism by taking a photo of a skull, then used some filters to give it a soft blur at the top, the teeth have been whitened which glows and contrasts to the rest of the skull, The artist have simply put the skull in one layer, then duplicated and flipped to the opposite side of the triangle, the technique of duplicating and flipping makes it easy to make two items look like they are mirrored.

The triangles that gets smaller as each one is rotated anti-clockwise, it creates a spiral effect, each triangle would be in a separate layer, the triangles have a dark background with white dots and mist representing the universe or the galaxy, because each triangle has a different pattern of stars it makes each triangle distinguishable.

Behind the triangles is a sphere that appears to be a moon, a bright shine is touching the side, the black and white colours used makes the images dark and mystical, the triangles could represent a gateway to a different dimension as triangles symbolize that, the green eye in the centre of the triangles stares right at the viewer, the green is the only non- greyscale colour in the image and contrasts with the rest.

There is text of two words each in different styles, the word “Beautiful” is written in bold capitals which is aligned underneath the biggest triangle, it blends in with the light behind it making the text give off a nice glow.
The text “Decay” meaning to rot/die away is written in a gooey dripping green colour, this word and the green eye are both connected which it contrasts and stands out from the rest of the image, and perhaps the eye is a sign of evil that is decaying the universe. The two words together are opposite by one the meaning, and two the image.

Ricardo Ajcivinac

The image here is of a large 3D text “AMOR” which means cupid or god of desire, the artist has uses vibrant reflective colours.

The word AMOR is made as plain, very large, 3D text which stands out from the whole image because of how bold it is, behind the word there different shapes such as hearts, spheres that appear to be floating away from the text, the floating shapes are different colours but mostly red, the red represents love which goes with the meaning behind AMOR.

The artist has placed long vibrant red geometric spikes coming outs from the centre behind the text along with electricity flowing through it, the text’s meaning, the centre where the spikes are is darker and looks like smoke and flames, it makes an explosive effect that emphasises the passion for the meaning of AMOR.

There are two semi donut shapes above the text which shine with vibrant colours to further emphasis the word, the artist used gradients to make the colours blend in nicely so between the red and yellow there is a soft orange blend.

In the background to the right the image is filled with blue and purple clouds, since cupid is an angel who stereotypically is seen in the clouds the use of clouds work well for the theme, the blue clouds in the middle is softer than the purple clouds on the right is considerably more rich and looks intense to the scene.

To the left and above of the background the scene is filled with stars which because of how tight they are placed together it creates a soft colourful mist effect, the colours blue and purple mirror each other on the stars and the clouds, the artist would may have used layer blending to make the colour blend in nicely.

The lighting strikes make the image look powerful by the site of angry thunder strikes; the strike on the left spreads more over the image.