Lawrence Zeegan

Lawrence Zeegen's lecture was mostly about him as an artist his past, present and his own personal advice, like to be yourself, be creative, be afraid challenge yourself, try new things and many other ways to go about, look for opportunists

Lawrence Zeegen lecture is about is past, where he studied at Master’s Degree level at the Royal College of Art, which he knew he was interested in music, but didn't know what he wanted to study, Zeegen also gave an inside of Heart an agency he started, but left to teach and create an illustration and graphic design course in Brighton.

Lawrence Zeegen also showed books he had written about illustration, where he created a number of different books to do with illustration, which he also gave inside details into the process of creating books, where he revealed publishes won't allow people to design their own book covers and title the book.

In the lecture Zeegen gave his own personal views about illustration, where he believes illustration is what we all have a connection with, where Zeegen gives his details about his early illustration connections with illustration, linking it with children cartoons and book he used to watch and read as a small child, which spurred him on. 

During the lecture Zeegen shows how he believes each decade had a different effect on illustration during those era's, 1960s an era of utopian idealism, 1970s a decade of discontent, 1980s the designer decade, 1990's the digital dawn, 2000's a new wave, in which Zeegen showed different illustration pieces of work, which were produced during those era's.

Lawrence Zeegen's lecture was good in giving advice, be proactive, make your own luck, keep on keeping on, the lecturer showed ways in which he took risks in leaving agencies and creating an illustration and graphic design course, which in term lead Lawrence Zeegen to become the only professor in illustration in the country.  

 

 



 

Martin Robson

 

Martin Robson's lecture was about his work the meaning behind his work, why he choose to use government figures to produce funny bad looking cartoons of them, in a way so he could attack people who were more powerful than him, who he believes are mad and think that there gods and show them they are no better than the average man.

 

Martin Robson in his lecture give his own personal view where he does not see himself as an illustrator, but as a journalist who uses marriage of text and image to create funny drawings of Politicians, who he hates, but loves to draw them, where the whole point of these illustrations is to try and destroy there images, where they have to pretend to laugh about the illustrations.

 

In the lecture Robson shows his view about the history of cartoons, where he compared the idea of how Micky Mouse was just three black circles and Disney made a huge success from it and the world saw that, Robson also compares the idea of goofy with Anubis God of the dead, where Goofy has a dogs head on a human body similar to Anubis.

 

Martin Robson mainly talked about his own work, where he showed his drawings/ cartoons of Politicians, which he tried to make them look funny/ stupid, Nick Clegg in his cartoons was drawn as Pinocchio where Robson used the idea of how Clegg wanted to be a real Politician like Pinocchio wanted to be a real boy, Robson also gives a inside view into how Hitler was in league with the cartoonist, with his facial hair, where it could easily be drawn and cartoonist could easy draw it around the world.

 

Martin Robson also expressed his own personal views of Government officials, where he mostly talked about Tony Blair, which he showed a lot of his work to do with the subject matter of Blair, he showed a two clip animation of Blair licking George Bush's ass, where the tongue is moving towards Bush's ass.

 

        Robson's lecture was good in showing how you can keep working with the same subject matter/ style of drawing for the same figure and keep coming up with new ideas in how to use those illustrations, with theme colour and position.      

 

 

Nobrow lecture

Nobrow's lecture was about Nobrow the book publishing, print making company, which included it's history and present, the lecturers own history, in which how he came to be apart of the brand, the lecture shows their way of working and there work, the lecturer gives advice on getting out there in the art world.

 

The lecturer talks about his own history, where he studied in Central ST Martins, in which he started his working career in TV advertisement and wanted to work in a different medium a change in career, the lecturer also shows how technology has helped to bring down the need for print, which he believes is only useful in till the battery dies and how he states prints don't need battery's and that prints can be kept for as long as you have a use for them because they won't break like technology.

 

The lecturer shows how Norbow likes to work, where they like to work on different themes for each different magazine they produce and how they work with different illustrators to work on different images, where they allow the illustrators to work on what they choose as long as they stick to the theme, also how they like to link both the colour and theme together to show the meaning of the magazines, the lecture also shows there methods in manufacturing there work, where they print ten thousand copies of there books rather than one thousand because the printing cost for each book would decrease.

 

The lecture does show how they like to keep adult and children themed books separate and how they like illustrators to work in pure colour, the lecture also shows there ways of marketing, where the lecturer talked about which country's the company where big in like France and China.

 

The lecturer did give good advice on how to get yourself out there, spend a bit of money, look at yourself and let people know what your work is about, the lecture was interesting with the way of how Norbow worked the style of work and there use of colour.      

 

 

 

Paul Gravett's lecture

Paul Gravett's lecture was about comics, where Paul Gravett talked about how comics have changed over the years, with women creating their own brands through different art fields and how after the second world war, American comic books linked to adult subject matters.

 

The lecturer also gave an inside to how comics affected children over the years, where if children where caught or teachers found out they liked comics they would pressure children into burning there comics by there teachers in America during periods in the 20th century, because people believed the medium was to powerful for children to read.

 

The lecture included different ways of working with comics, which included showing different ways of presenting characters in comic strips, colouring one character orange and another blue, Gravett also showed how you could showed different characters through text, where you can have different styles, sizes and coloured pieces of text for different individual characters, this also included the use of speech bubbles which can connect two characters together to show that there in love.

 

Paul Gravett also showed different techniques of how you can show time and movement through the change of comic strips, where he showed three different strips from the same comic, where the strips all show the moon in different positions in the night sky, which represents how time and movement changes with each comic strip and how the story in comics advance with each strip.

 

Paul Gravett gives his own personal views on how the subject of comics, he believes comics have not really advanced or evolved, with theme, drawing and text styles like other art fields, but he does believe the comic medium will never die and gives an inside on how video gaming company's use comic artists for gaming.

 

Overall Paul Gravett's lecture was very interesting in the way of how comics have changed over the years, also gives good advice and shows how their is so many different ways of working with comics, as he believe the rules are still being invented, his advice shows how you should think about the story you wish to product, where you shouldn't rush and choose a subject matter that interests you.     

 

 

 

Truth and Fantasy painting

Here is a water colour painting I produced about the theme of combining truth and fantasy together, I decided to create an image of a man accepting his fate, with a fire demon symbolising the devil, coming for him bringing the fires of hell with it into the world.   

 

 This painting connects both truth and fantasy because the man represents truth, where he accepts his true fate and welcomes it and because the man is based around an image of a man I found standing in the same pose.

 

. The firer demon brings truth and fantasy into the actuation because the firer demon from Hell a place, where some people believe and don't believe exists, where some people believe mostly religious people believe the devil is the south of all evil, where evil beings are sent and others believe Heaven and Hell is nothing but a fantasy, that does not exist, also the firer demon is based around a devil like figure in a animation, where in the real world it does not exist, but the man does. 

 

    With the firer in the background I painted it based around the same image from, which I drew the devil , where the figures head is surrounded by different coloured flames.  

 

I do like the painting because I produced a better image than I expected, I believe the different colours used for the flames work well together with the different tones used, but next time I need to paint the yellow sections of the painting darker.  

 

 

 

 

painting over old drawing

 

This is a painting I did in water colour, where I found an old drawing of an trainer I did from three years ago, which I traced over recreating the image on another piece of paper and painted over the drawing in black, blue and white water colour paint, therefore recreating the image. 

 

I found the painting interesting, on how it changed the look of the image giving I feel giving the drawing more life a better effect.in the way it looks. I like the painting because I believe the three colours used have been used to good effect, in identifying the different section of the trainer like the lace and the Nike trick, but next time I need to make sure some of the paint does not overlap some of the lines and I need to have more control over what I'm painting over.  

 

This image is of the original drawing the one I traced over.

 

Three destroyed paintings

 

Here are three famous paintings I've chosen the paint over with acrylic, where I want to destroy paintings which people enjoyed and would see as master pieces and ruin them, completely changing the theme of the paintings of the paintings, if it was about figures, environments or even there backgrounds. 

 

Mona Lisa

Leonardo Da Vinci

New title Mona's true colours

 

 

With the Mona Lisa I wanted to destroy the figure, which people through of beauty and turn her into a mutant so to speak, even changing the background behind her to a dark and dryer background, where the river is running with blood and the dark blue sky, given the painting a dark feel about it. 

 

American Gothic

Grant Wood

New title The American Gothic killers

 

 

For the American Gothic painting I again wanted to destroy a painting, which was light and give it a dark feel towards it, where with the two figures in the painting I have turned them into dark figures and made them look dangerous and have painting the folk red to represent blood from, where they've just stabbed someone most likely killing them. I kept the house as it was apart from the windows because I believe it fits in well with the dark blue sky. 

 

Dalí The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

New title The land which time has no place

 

With Dalí The Persistence of Memory I wanted to keep the watches as they where and change the background/setting they were in, to a more darker, but more natural setting, where technology those not belong completely destroying the idea of the original painting and the idea of the memory of time because environment like this one ha no need for time as long as it's protected.    

Doors of perception drawings

Doors of perception drawings

 

I did four drawings based on parts of the book which I read, where I drew the four drawings based around my theory of what the book was trying to represent, where I drew a drawing of a door opening a pathway into space and of the two drawings of a man, where one of the figures appears to be normal and the other completely strange. I also did two drawings where I transformed what I could see in front of me like my kitchen door opening to a light which represents the next life and of the Shaw in a coffee mug. 

 

The first drawing is a door way to space, where this book links to the idea from William Blake's saying if the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

 

Huxley's book links a lot with this idea of man closing himself up and not see beyond what he truly see's. I believed the best way of showing that was by showing a pathway beyond mother Earth it's self. I choose to draw this kind of door because it appears to have a look of a door that could lead you beyond this world.

 

 I believe the drawing of the door is okay and has been drawn with good detail, but the drawing of the inside of the door is completely rubbish of outer space, and the door has not been draw straight either. 

 

The second drawing is of the same figure drawn twice, where I have draw him from a normal point of view and from an drunken or drugged point of view, where the idea of drugs changing the way people see the world comes into context.

 

I choose to create an image based around this idea because the book Huxley wrote is about drug research, people and drugs and how it changes them, where he choose to put himself toward for experiments and how it can change people's awareness. Therefore this drawing links with this idea of drugs changing people's awareness.

 

 I again believe the drawing is okay, where it shows my intentions of my views of showing what the context was about, but some sections of the facial features could have been draw better in positioning and shape.    

 

The third drawing is of the kitchen door, where it is opening a portal to the after life, where again the same idea accrues of a door opening to infinity as the after life is seen as a eternal life, again I have tried to link this drawing to William Blake's Marriage of heaven and Hell quote. 

 

Again I wanted to focus on the idea of man seeing into infinity, but this time create an image, where I could draw some think ordinary in my own view and transform it into some think special, showing a new way of seeing what can be beyond what man see's. 

 

With the drawing I only coloured the light yellow and left the door blank to show the change in the way I saw the door and where it could lead.    

 

I believe the drawing is good because I believe the drawing shows what I was trying to present as seeing the world differently and representing the idea of man show be looking into infinity, but I should have drawn the 3D nature of the door better.        

 

 

Here is the fourth drawing I did of a coffee mug, where again I got some think ordinary in front of me and tried to present a different way of seeing an ordinary object linking again linking to the idea of  how man can see into infinity, I tried to show this idea by drawing and only colouring the Shaw and sand with bright colours within the coffee mug and colouring the mug in a dull grey colour, where man only chooses to see an ordinary drink, but if they look into infinity they could see how the water in the mug is the same as the water from the eternal Shaw.

 

I wanted to again show a different way of how man can see some think normal transformed into some think unordinary, again only using bright colours to show the different way of how the object has been transformed to showing another way of seeing the world. 

 

I believe the drawing is okay because I believe the drawing presents my intentions for the image, but I believe I should of use a darker tone of grey and drawn the round nature of the cup with more accuracy.