Axilkai

  During the start of my summer break, a family member of mine hosted his own exhibition. His name is Ed, and he is my dad's cousin. In the art scene he goes by Kid Acne, and is very well known for a bunch of things, including illustration as well as music. This exhibition was held in a small café in Tynemouth and showcased a lot of pieces that he had created in collaboration with certain companies. Some of the designs where really cute and I really enjoyed in particular these T-shirt designs, that I actually purchased the black one. The black with teal was my favourite out of the two as I felt that the teal really popped out on the black compared to the white. One thing I liked about the design overall was the combination of two characters being in one, it sort of felt like looking at an optical illusion, seeing which image you see first, the boy character, or the fish.    This style of typography is very prominent throughout Kid Acne's work, and is very stylised to his ...

 Throughout my first year on the illustration course I believe that I have vastly improved in both my personal artwork and my artwork within the course. In September of 2021 I would say that my confidence within my artwork was quite low, although there where the odd few pieces that I was proud of, I still did doubt a lot of my skills, comparing a lot of my outcomes to the outcomes of others. Previously in my art journey, I would just remove and bin whatever I didn't like, making it difficult to track my progress, however in the past year I have tried to stop myself from doing this as often, so that my sketchbooks feel like a more loved item than just a burden that I don't want to look at. During most of lockdown, I often worked digitally on my iPad, using the program procreate. Although my digital work was decent, I neglected the idea of working traditionally as it was again, a lot easier to erase my mistakes whilst working digitally. Late 2021 was the time I began to work both...

  Illustration Trends – 5.5.22 Throughout 2020 and 2021, the whole world shut down, including the illustration business. The impact of the pandemic translated into the type of illustrations people where creating. A big trend included medical illustration, creating all types of posters and campaigns. A lot of the world was dominated by the illustration side as it became the primary method of advertisement and campaigning. For example, a lot of the posters for the NHS were illustrated with imagery to encourage people to wash their hands for longer and try to stop the spread of covid. Another example is the many charts and data pages shown throughout the years on the news, which were all graphic as well as informative. Because of Lockdown, illustration became the norm as things like photography and filmography could not safely be conducted. Even out of the media, many freelance illustrators created artworks to honour those working in the pandemic, also creating pieces that helped ...