I have chosen two artists that have influenced a piece of my work.
They are Frank Miller and Roy Lichtenstein. Frank miller is a comic book
artist/writer who is most famous for his sin city stories. He has led a very
long and successful career working on popular books such as Batman, Daredevil
and 300, his talents stretch far into the industry being credited as a writer, colorist,
finisher, penciled and inker.
His Film Noir style of art and gritty tales broke new ground in comics,
His Sin City books are a perfect examples because the content was for the
mature reader. Comics are usually about heroes in costumes saving the world but
in sin city, his world was full of lies, cheats and anti heroes. His work has
even been turned into cinema and its success just shows how much of an
accomplished artist he is.
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| Extract From Frank Millers SinCity |
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For my foundation final piece I created a comic book that was partly
influenced by franks style. It was a story with two half's and two styles. One
half was in the style of film noir. I tried to achieve a dark gritty look using
a dull colour pallet. I also tried to achieve the same gritty language that you
would find in his books. I studied many of his panels to understand how to use
angles to add drama and impact. What I did discover, is how difficult comic
books are to create.
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| Extract From A Thirst For Inspiration David Ward |
The second out of
the two is a well-known pop artist that goes by the name of Roy Lichtenstein.
He was born in New York City in 1923 and took a interest in comics at a early
age. Later he would go on to study fine art and had also worked as a industrial
designer.
More importantly he was apart of the pop art movement with other
artists like Andy Warhol who brought art to the masses, he blurred the line
between High and low art. His early interest in comics had clearly had an
impact on his because all of his work was in a comic book style.
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| Roy Lichtenstein Whaam |
The second half of my comic book was more to Lichtenstein's style,
Use of bright colour was one of those things but it was his use of metaphor
that Inspired me to try include in my story. I liked his work so much I
included it in my comic, you can see it all around the walls in the bar.
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| Extract From A Thirst For Inspiration David Ward |
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| Extract From A Thirst For Inspiration David Ward |
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