Book of Drawings ( Artist Alex Fuentes )

Alex Fuentes is a self taught artist / illustrator who is heavily influenced by work medias such as graffiti and comic books. He is stationed in Los Angeles. He is well known for his wide use of medias, some of the medias he uses are markers, pens, inks, digital and a long list more of them, but no matter what he illustrates he always keeps his own style and rhythm in each piece of work that he creates and he trys to push he style more over to the comic book genre.


This is my favorite illustration that he has produced, the things that makes me enjoy this illustration so much is because number 1 it has used the iconic movie pose from the film "King Kong" and i think that this helps the main image stand out among the rest of the piece, number 2 he has added his own style of horror to the iconic creature by giving it 6 giant arms and has illustrated bats flying around the peak of the creature just like bats do in a tall building in a horror film, number 3 i like how he has digital created it with how each line is in proportion and as crisp the main imagine and how he has used alot of block color in the piece can only be achieved digitally and even with the use of all the dark colors it stills pops out like a sore thumb.

Satire

Satire is a type of literature that preaches abuse, ridicule and all problems within the world but they revealed and expressed these problems by using the elements such as sarcasm and humour. the most common ways satire is expressed is through illustration, and I believe the reason this is because with illustration you can create a witty character to represent the topic and give off a hole world of sarcasm, humour and irony within the problem that the illustrator is focusing on.

In fact satire isn't even meant to be funny its meant to represent problems in politics religion and other serious topics to a less intelligent audience and im not saying this to be harsh but i am saying this because the people in the upper class of society would understand problems with just words but people in a lower class of society wouldn't be to largely interested in just words so this is how magazines and newspapers use illustrations to grab peoples attention and make people aware of the problems in society.

Here are some artists who use satire through illustration.

Morten Morland.
Here Morten has done a illustration of the grim reaper throwing swine flu like they are cricket balls while their is a cricket player about to bat the swine flu away and this picture uses satire from the quote "BATTING AGAINST SWINE FLU ..." , and from this quote he has created this image. You can see that he has used the grim reaper as the pitcher because he resembles death and he is throwing a deadly disease at you and he has illustrated a batter in cricket to whack the swine flu away from him and this shows that the cricketer is taking a stand against swine flu.


Peter Brookes.

 Here peter has illustrated 6 politicians and for 5 of them he has put a quote from them greatest speachs and it shows why they were such great monarchs of their time and for the sixth politician he has illustrated a confused David Cameron with the quote "ER", and to me this shows that not only has not given people of this generation insperation and hope he also is confused with him self and hasnt done anything for his country.
I like how peter has given the other illustrations of the politicians a detailed masculine look to them and then he has illustrated David Cameron almost like a rosey cheeked child that looks like it has done something wrong by how his hand is over his mouth.

Proffessional Studies ( The Pitch - Linocut )

Lino cut 

Lino cut can also be called Linoleum cut. Lino cutting is were you get a sheet of linoleum and you engrave a design into the linoleum and doing this makes lino cutting and woodcut similar in aspects.

Printing process

When you have engraved your design into the piece of linoleum you then roll printing ink over the top of the linoleum, you need to make sure that their are no bumps on the roller when you apply the ink to the linoleum, once you have applied the ink to the linoleum you then need to place a piece of paper on top of the design and then apply high amounts of pressure on top of the paper and then lift the paper up from the linoleum and if you have done everything correctly you should have a bold image of your design on this piece of paper.

Here is one of my favorite linoleum cut designers.

Stanley Donwood

Products that use linoleum cuts.

These linoleum cuts were created by the talents of Kazuno Kohara.

Kazuno Kohara used linoleum cut to create all illustrations in the book called Ghosts in the House!,
and how she has used linoleum cuts works well with the element of child friendly with its big bold shapes to create the characters and items in the childrens book.