Research: Visual

Hi

After working out a rough visual style and way of working for this project that suited my needs i’ve begun to look into the work with which it shares some context. I want to briefly put up here some visual references of a few artists to show the current direction of this research. I will follow up later with more in depth analysis of their work as well as that of others that this path of research leads  me towards. I have struggled at first to find work tackling it’s subject in exactly the same way as mine but by breaking it down into smaller elements; character, backgrounds, production etc the search is becoming a little more fruitful.

The largest visual influence on me so far has been the work of Asaf Hanuka. His most famous work to date is the illustration for Waltz with Bashir which although having a very clean pallete and line art to it’s character manages to feel very real when combined with backgrounds that appear rotoscoped. Some of his other art work also manages a combination of the real and drawn, as shown by the image of the baby below.

Ryo Tomo is an artist I recently stumbled upon, his small sketches capture little moments and feeling in time almost in a nostalgically detached manner. Quite often he will use simple characters on slightly altered photo backgrounds to nice effect, below are two small examples.

I am proposing to create my backgrounds out of photographic montage and digital painting processes. As I am yet to find work in this exact area that works along the same lines as I am intending I broke it down looked just at the photo montage part. Peter Kennard is a british artist who worked a great deal with photo montage and mixed media to create work with a specific message, often, within a human form. Below are two examples of this.

The last artist I want to look at for now is Motoda Hisaharu. My story is set in a post apocolyptic world and although this section doesn’t massively deal with that aesthetic there will be elements of the degradation in the environments. Motoda’s work mostly deals with the possible future architectural degredation of Tokyo and although drawn his images having a very real and mundane feel to them