Alex Pardee

http://eyesuckink.com/

This is an artist im always very fond of,  a major influence for me.  Alex Pardee is an alternative illustrator, producing work for magazines, bands and also producing work for a group called zerofriends.

Alex's work can easily be separated into two sections. His personal work and his commercial work are although similar, at the same time different from each other. his personal work tends to hold a lot more expression in colour and movement whereas his commercial work tends to have much more restrictions placed upon it. That is not to say that his commercial work is not as good as his work but is merley different in colour styling.

 Pardee's work is very organic in nature and extremely imaginative, some would say his work can be a little disturbing at times but i find it to be more interesting.  Rather than looking at his work and instantly understanding it, the unusual images force you to stop and look at what is going on.

David Choe

http://www.davidchoe.com/

Another video of David Choe, (as seen here) this one is less about his story and more  about his early work. nice video, sort and too the point.

Duncan Jago and Will Barras

http://willbarras.com/

http://www.mrjago.com/

http://www.scrawlcollective.co.uk/

Will Barras and Duncan Jago are both friends and artists, they both discovered they had talent around the same time as shown in this video. Although they have worked closly together, especially though the Scrawl collective for some time, they both have very different styles.

Will Barras Grew up in Halesowen, near Birmingham. he is highly influenced by comics and spent most of his life drawing cars. this was mostly due to his dads influence. Will now draws figures and vehicles. Generally his scenes are very fluid and full of movement. He tends to use a whole range of different media to complete his briefs. He has some interesting animations as well.

Duncan Jago is a much different artist altogether. He mostly draws disgruntled looking bio mechanoids. these are highly influenced by artists such as Futura 2000 and Japanese manga art. he was also influenced by the hip hop movement when he was young. He is not an illegal painter but often gets jobs to paint various walls. His work can can take many forms and sometimes becomes very abstract. His lines are extremely impressive and rates him as a very influential artist in my eyes.

Both artists deserve a place in anyone's archives.

Mike Perry

Jim Stoten and Mike Perry For Dwell Magazine from Michael Perry on Vimeo.

http://www.mikeperrystudio.com

Mike Perry is personally one of my favourite illustrators, his style has elements of naivety to it and can feel very raw, yet there is a very clean feel to it by means of colour and finish. This is portrayed by how he uses his hand drawn wobbly lines and spruces them up digitally. Every piece he produces holds his fingerprint.


I purchased one of his books named "Hand Job", this contains a collection of hand drawn typography from many artists such as: Kindra Murphy, Holly Hopkinson, Luke Ramsey, Stefan Marx and many more. What makes this book appealing is that all of the artists have very different styles, giving you different perceptions on typography. I have constantly used this book for inspiration with hand drawing my fonts, it contains everything in it you could ask for. It is quite a large book at 256 pages and amazingly cheap for it's size (currenlty £14.39 on amazon, time of post).

Mike Perry is another top artist I would highly recommend to anyone delving into illustration and his book is brilliant for hand drawn typography.

Amose

http://amose.free.fr/

Amose is a french graphic artist who works in his home town of Lille. He is a member of the Mercourocrom Collective along with Spher, Erone, Nada and Spear. Together they work on graffiti, illustration, screen prints and graphic design.

Amose's work takes on many forms from walls to canvas and even digital work and can be easily recognised due to his unusual human forms. small heads with tiny beady eyes and unusual perspectives. his faces seem confused and remorseful, with a feeling of loneliness. His bodies are imposing and strong and almost robotic in design yet have a very human feel to them.

 

This is an artist I find to be very inspiring, his work unique in style and has something for everyone to appreciate, with much more than what is here.

I always advise Amose to any alternative illustrator.

Milton Glaser

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.

Milton Glaser one of the famous illustrators known for his work for Push Pin Studios, talks about drawing.

I never really thought about it until but Milton brings up some interesting points, for starters, the idea that you don't really concentrate on what ever it is your looking at until you draw it. this is extremely true and i do believe changes the way you look at things once you have drawn them. For example if you was to draw a simple chair it no longer becomes a simple chair to the artist as your start to understand the process it has gone though to come to this point. You see the joints, you understand how it was put together, you begin to think about its texture and what it is made of. from that point onwards it is no longer a simple chair it is an object on a journey and you understand it more.

Another point made by Milton is that in order to draw expressively  you must first lean to draw accurately. this is a process i have gone through and whilst i was young i could never understand why i couldn't draw expressively, but once i began to take lessons on drawing accurately the rest all fell into place and now it comes extremely naturally. I have found this to be an interesting talk that has held some interesting thought processes to it.