Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Illustration style...

Having a style is something that I've worried about (relatively
speaking) from time to time - or more to the point, the lack of one.
I seem to have several depending on what I feel like doing. One of the reasons I got fed up doing comic book illustrations was because I couldn't happily maintain the same style without wishing I was doing something else... maybe that just raises discipline issues, I don't know...
Anyway, I worry less about it now because I enjoy working in different ways from job to job and I enjoy so many other illustrators styles that I'd hate to be lumbered with just one outlet or another...
So, to 'illustrate' the point i've attached two illustrations. I don't think either represent a style that i've featured on here before although I have plenty of illustrations that do reflect this style. Both have been around for a few years but both have been dug out recently because the two leaflets they grace the covers of have been revised.
On the face of it the two schemes are quite similar but I approached the illustrations slightly differently... at least that's how it seems to me, maybe you see them differently?

1 comment:

industri studios said...

I dig the ability to have strong variety - it's something I struggle with myself, so admire in others...

Also - forgot to mention sooner - I've done it again for my self-portrait at my OWN blog...
http://industri-studios.blogspot.com/2008/11/sigh-trying-again_09.html