Tips, Styles and Artists

To help me determine the kind of style that Richard wanted for the postcards, he sent me some links to various blogs and imagery that he thought would be useful.


http://owlsinatree.blogspot.com/2007/07/eric-chase-anderson.html


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q3duCa82-9k/TCDyOS2SL9I/AAAAAAAACXE/QVsuag-yBTA/s1600/eric2.jpg

Eric Chase Anderson works with a drafting pen, ink and gouache paint. These materials work well in his images, making them more realistic, with more dimensions to them due to the tonal range that the paint can achieve. They have real depth.

http://pinktentacle.com/images/11/kaiju_film_3.jpg

Richard also suggested looking at the concept art for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'.

The images below have been painted by Chris Appelhans.

Then, there was the children's book, 'The Last Polar Bears'.

This book was written and illustrated by Harry Horse and is defined, detailed, colourful and the drawings are soft, but dominant. Richard liked the attention to detail in the spread below and said that I should try and incorporate aspects like that within my illustrations.