PART 2 of a 2 Part blog for Kingston University, expressing everything of design interest that I discover or want to share. From artists that inspire me to other blogs that I feel are engaging and events I have been to, this will be practically my design diary. Make sure you check out PART 1 of this blog, where it explains about who I am, some facts about me and so forth.

PART 1 HERE [ABOUT ME]

Monday, 21 July 2014

Personal Inspirations - Iain Macarthur.





One of my main inspirations overall is an illustrator called Iain Mcarthur. For a while now I have been following his work and the unique style of illustration he produces, it has that different twist on most things I have seen. He is an english based artist and graduated from Swindon College with a HND in Illustration, he hopes in the future he would possibly go onto to do a BA in Illustration.








His projects can be described as
surreal and extremely diverse in its own way. He uses majority of pencil, watercolours and pigment pens in his work and with these materials, he creates portraits of ordinary people and animals. He creates them in a unusual way by using exaggerated patterns and watercolour effects into the portraits to give a vivid explosion. Almost transforming their faces from something ordinary to something entirely bizarre and jaw-dropping...






I think another reason why I like his work so much is that I would LOVE to draw like this one day being so free and surreal in my work. However, its something that would take a lot of time and practice... and patience. I highly recommend you checking out his website / portfolio where the majority of his work is as its such a wonderful page. Definitely will be keeping an eye on his work and using him for inspiration in the future.





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