WHY CHANGE THE STYLE?
- Realised in producing this illustration
- Just very unhappy with everything I was creating; felt like I had stagnated
- Nothing seemed to look how I anticipated in my head, decided to look for more sources of inspiration and widen my horizons
EXPERIMENTING
- Wanted to play around in different artist styles to see if it inspired anything different in the way I draw
- Tried different shapes for facial features, completely out of comfort zone
- Landed on Maripaz Villar as main inspiration as style that I enjoyed; simple and cartoony but still a sense of elegance to it
MARIPAZ VILLAR
- Maripaz Villar
- Spanish visual artist and cartoonist
- Wrote and illustrated webtoon Miss Abbott and the doctor
- Entire webtoon is in sketches and lines, in greyscale, very charming and unique
- Simple style, yet sketchy aspect allows it to still have a decent amount of detail
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| Another example from Miss Abbott and the doctor |
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| Good example of how Villar uses mark making in the sketchy style, and how the facial expressions are not boring, but are done in a simple style |
EXPLORATION
- Started to experiment with simple gesture drawings and profiles
- Getting self used to drawing in a style similar to that of Villar's
- Did not want to directly copy their style, therefore did not use any of their work as reference - simply remembered how I drew the facial features before and tried to implement them into the gestural drawings
- Couldn't quite pin down what I was doing, was falling back into over-complicating
- Main aim was to ensure I kept the style simplified as this would be using the style for my animation later on
- Tried just practicing the eyes as that was where I would tend to start complicating it and adding unnecessary detail
- Drew faces using photos in my own camera roll as reference due to them being unique and also very expressive
- Highlighted those which I thought conveyed Billy the Kid best
- Also establishing what his hair would look like without his hat; helped me get a sense of his character
MEDIUM
- Wanted to lean into fluidity of my usual style
- Tried ink and brush pen, was okay but rushed
- Felt like I needed to move away from ink as I used it a lot in previous semester
- Tried markers and an almost lineless style
- Did not enjoy
- Some quick warm-up sketches using Line of Action
- Brush pen
- Coloured pencil
- Brush pen and graphite
- Bad drawing day, solid drawing not there
- Facial anatomy very off
- Don't know what happened with the top one, it doesn't even look human, but that was alcohol markers (on paper that was not suitable for alcohol markers)
- Stopped sketching biro one as I realised I was going back to my comfort-zone style-wise
- Simple front-facing portrait in coloured pencil and pen to simplify style again
- Started to loosen up and get more comfortable
- Tried watercolour pencils that actually do work
- Very fun! Nice way to get some fluid colour coverage but remain in a sketchy, pencil-y style
- Tried mixing it with brush pen, biro, and both
- Favourite was with all 3 mediums, made bigger illustration
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| Side profile of Billy the Kid in watercolour pencil, biro, and brush pen |
- Wanted to try glass dip pens
- So bad
- Such a thin line, does not hold any ink, scratchy on the page
- Do feel fancy while using it though
- Considered glass dip pen for character project or colour story project
- Did not make it into either because of being so unfriendly to use
- Wanted to find a dip pen with more fluidity to mimic the style of Charlie Mackesy's illustrations from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- Chose to try and normal ink dip pen
- Did enjoy using dip pen!
- Lot more fluid
- Same as a calligraphy fountain pen in that there is an angular element, depending on angle and pressure on the page; don't like that
- Closest I got to what I wanted at that point but not exactly what I had in mind
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| More experimentation with dip pen - seems, in illustration, to be made for small illustrations and not necessarily bigger works, as the ink does not go very far |
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