I wasn't really that excited about coming up with visual metaphors, but Ben showed me Tom Gauld and reassured me I could focus on comics for the first brief!
- Lo-fi short comic strips with a focus on narrative, character and humour, which are three things that are important to me in my work.
- He uses a limited, muted colour palette, making the images simple (and perfect for editorial) so as not to detract from the main focuses of the image: the narrative and humour.
- His process is very simple - it looks like it's drawn with a fine-liner or possibly digital, and doesn't involve a complex use of composition or line, but incorporates mark-making to add depth.
- The subtle humour and simple images work perfectly for editorial because they don't take too much figuring out, like visual metaphors, but add a bit of entertainment to an otherwise possibly boring article.
Scott Garrett
- This artist has a more similar style to me - still quite simply drawn characters, but with more complexity than Gauld, giving the images a bit more depth and the potential to tell more of a story with other subjects of the image, like the background.
- He also uses a limited colour palette sometimes, which helps to convey a mood and not distract too much from the text of the article it is supporting.
- His production process is clearly digital, but from the composition of some of his images, I can tell he's used roughs to figure out the placement of certain objects or expressions for example.
From looking at these artists (and a few others from the presentation/Heart agency), I think the direction I want to take brief 1 in is to do comics. I know I want to make comics and graphic novels in the future, and i think the best way to start specialising is to do just that!
So for the editorial images we create I'll focus on funny little comics!
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