What a beautiful world

featured in 'illustration' winter 2006 issue 10.

'I want readers to make up their own story and find out what happens to the characters'

Shirley Hughes is very popular illustrator, her work is mainly for childrens books such as her Alfie collections, as seen above.

Mention Shirley Hughes to almost any parent with young children and you trigger the kind of enthusiasm most people leave behind in their childhood.

Hughs success rests just as much on her broad terms of reference, her shrewd perceptions or real life and intellectual, as well as emotional, approach to any subject. Her images not only look good, but they work too; the clothes are real clothes, the characters play with real toys and they seem to have real histories that Hughes wants you to discover.

I enjoyed reading this article as Hughes' work is of what i am generally interested in as a future career. Her books are realistic but made for children. Her work is very eye catching and is generally appealing.

'You have to do what the client and the public want, and then kick it your own way'

The impact of web upon photographic production and dissemination.

'I believe that if you look for good, you'll find good'

Aaron Schumann is an American photographer, lecturer and critic. He is the editor of online magazine: seasawmagazine.com. And in an article i recently read from a magazine 'photoworks' he interveiwed Jason Evans who is a photographer and lecturer in photography at the University College for creative arts in Farnham.

Jason Evans calls himself 'the kind of photographer that likes to take a lot of pictures'.

Jason has his own website http://www.TheDailyNice.com/site.html in my own opinion the website is unique and individual, Jason takes numerous photos but limits his viewers to only one upload a night.

I really enjoyed reading the article as Jason seemed very laidback and down to earth, he swore a lot during the interview and thought nothing of it. He believes that photography has been changed by an uncomfortable relationship with the art market and doesn't believe being a photographer isn't all about making money its about having a hobby to enjoy.



Jason does not believe in a bad photo, he believes that any type of photograph is perfect, he thinks that people who put to much of an effort into there photographs are usually the ones who have more poor outcomes.

He also mentioned another project of his, 'beauty where you find it' this is a website he has produced with no text just one image that is a link to the next image. this is obviously the opposite of the Daily Nice as it contains mainly all of his images.

Sheffield Art Galleries.

Before half term on the 18th October, the Graphic design and Interactive media groups visited two Art Galleries in Sheffield. The first was 'Restless Times: Art in Britain 1914 - 1945' The museum displayed a variety of work from many artists based on the impact of war. We were told to take a look around and gather some information on the artists we like, also sketching some of the artists work.


The first image i sketched was an image by Alan Rogers' original - Speed Underground:

This image was used as part of a campaign to restore interest in the London Underground system. I chose to sketch this image as it was very eye catching and simple.

Here is the image i sketched myself, i think the image is a good sketch as it shows exactly what the image is of, although i would of payed more attention to detail if i could redo this piece of work.




After attending the restless times exhibition we visited a nearby gallery with the work of Abram Games. I enjoyed looking at his work as it was appealing and extraordinary, most of his work i believe was based around safety and advertisement. Abrams work was very eye catching and i found it interesting to sketch as some of the drawings i thought were extremely simple were actually quite detailed and i had to take more time to complete these.

Here are some of his images i found most interesting:

Here are some of his images i sketched myself:

Unfortunately compared with Abram's own work my sketches are of a very poor quality. If i had a chance to go back to the museum to re-sketch these images and take a better look into abram's techniques i would definitely take the oppurtunity.