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Welcome Shirlyn!

(This section is for my Design Trend and Issues Final Assignment.)

Full Name:Rino Ratno B Radja Abdul Rani Atjeh
Current School:Temasek Polytechnic
Admin No.:0606342D
DOB:29/March/1989
Class: T02
Subject: Design Trends and Issues
Email:sp_brotherhood@hotmail.com

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Research on artist:

Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood is an internationally acclaimed, commercial illustrator, concept designer and comic book artist. He lives with his wife, his two sons and three cats in Perth, Australia.
Ashley has been a professional illustrator for fifteen years and has worked for most major publishing and entertainment companies.

Clients include: Dreamworks, Warner Bros, Sony, Konami, Vivendi International, Random House, Marvel Comics and Todd McFarlane Productions.

Ashley’s work has appeared in books, movies, magazines, comics, television and video games. He is a three-time Spectrum Award winner and a two-time Communication Arts award winner.
His art is published worldwide on a regular basis and he has contributed to both joint and solo fine art exhibitions.
Art books include, Uno Fanta, Dos Fanta, Tres Fanta and the compilation work Grande Fanta. His Popbot editions are also available in several formats and multiple languages.
Sideshow Toys, Medicom Toys have made toys based on Ashley's work.

His style contains a mixture of both elements of Expressionism and Pop Art. He is now working on his graphic novel called Popbot which is currently popular in the market.
I chose him as I can see in his artwork that his style involves mixing Pop Art, Art Nouveau and also a little of his creative original touch.
Some of his works involves comic styled artwork, colourful fonts and curvy and uneven lines of the feminine figure. These proves that his work is connected in both Pop Art and Art Nouveau.
His works also involves psychedelic posters which is similar to those of the Pop Art style.
His works is also similar to the artwork of Yvette Guilbert, an Art Nouveau Artist whose artwork was taken as an example on the reading materials on the ole-bb website.


Images were taken from:
http://www.ashleywoodartist.com

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Rationale:

My artwork is titled “Bloodlust” I did my image with some influence on of the artist style, Ashley Wood. Basically I used my own characters from my portfolio in order to keep my original style. In order to portray my influence of the artist, I decided to colour it according to the artist style. I try my best to keep some colours bright and the lines curvy to keep a close style to pop art and art Nouveau making the image relevant to the subject. This is further supported by my graffiti on the middle left. I chose the title since my characters and image itself shows action and killings. My main character which is called Crimson, is an overgrown assassin rat born in a war torn country in the mere future. This image pictures her slaying dozens of her enemies.

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Original style:

My Style

I believe in proportion as I prefer realistic drawing rather than surrealism. Therefore my drawings are based on American style and not Manga.
I prefer to illustrate dark figures and also sexy and cheerful ones thus my theme is very vague most of the time.
I love drawing figures especially women and when I draw fantasy figures, I prefer to make it as realistic as possible by doing research and drawing things that are possible and not too much towards the dreamscape,
although, I do let myself to be carried away with my wild imagination sometimes.
I love to mix both the old and new, like for example, a knight carrying a shotgun or fast food restaurant in a castle! My artwork is mostly influenced by war violence, feminine figures, graffities and fictional characters.
I get my inspiration, mostly from movies, games, figurines, cartoons, comics, graphic novels and basically anything that captures my attention all around me.

I prefer drawing more to colouring and I enjoy doing concept art the most.





Images taken from, Rino's portfolio.

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