Hannah Radenkova

Hannah Radenkova's poster for 'Peter and the wolf' is an amazing image! When I saw it in the 3x3 annual I was not able to see the brush strokes of the wolfs fur, the picture in the book, did not do it justice. When I saw the image online it was completely different, instead of just being a contrast between the white and black, I was able to see the mark making and detail of the wolf, especially the shadow around the eye. This changed the image for me, gave it much more depth and character, the wolf leers at Peter and although he is small, Peter defiantly stares back. I love this image, very captivating.

 

http://hannahradenkova.blogspot.com/ 

Cristiana Couceiro

Cristiana Couceiro is a Portuguese artist who likes to use a variety of different styles and art to create amazing collages and images. I particularly liked her 'Daylight and the sun' series of images as they are lovely scenic black and white photos with overlaying blocks of colour and geometric shapes. The vivid colour on top of the monochrome photos creates a great contrast. By looking at the images I think she created them digitally but they could also be produced via screen printing the colours over the images.

 

http://www.cristianacouceiro.com/ 

Brian Stauffer

Brian Stauffer is an American illustrator from my selection of artists featured in 3x3. I really liked the political messages in both bits of work, they are very visual pieces with a great message.

  

http://www.brianstauffer.com/bio.html 

Adam McCauley

Adam McCauley uses a retro screen print style, some of the work appears to be very reminiscent of American adverts and artwork from that era. I really like the style and the use of techniques.

 

http://www.adammccauley.com/home.html 

Aaron Meshon

Aaron Meshon is another illustrator from the 3x3 annuals, his illustrations are heavily influenced by Japanese Kawaii culture where most things look cute and have a face. I like this and think that his maps of America are humerus and good natured, they have a great sense of depth, where the images have a sense of perspective whilst still embracing the two dimensional flatness with which they were meant to be viewed.

http://www.aaronmeshon.com/en/

Aad Goudappel

Aad Goudappel is a Dutch illustrator who has received honours from 3x3 and Communication Arts.His artwork is very crisp utilising clean edges and clear cut lines. His work appear to be very much vector based, with the images probably being produced using Illustrator, yet the angles and style seems to reminiscent of screen print artwork. I like this, a use of a classic style, but with clean lines and colours.

http://www.aadgoudappel.com/

Three by three illustration annuals

Whilst looking for inspiration amongst the shelves of the college library I came across these little treasures! I got out two 3x3 annuals, No. 5 and 7. Unlike other illustration journals which I have looked in for inspiration the 3x3 books seemed different, for one they are organised into different categories; advertising, animation, books, editorial ...etc. which means that there is a very broad selection of illustrators and a great collection of all their different styles.I really enjoyed flicking through them looking for new and interesting artists, they are definitely good source books! 

 After flicking through both annuals, I have come across a number of artist which I find quite interesting, The posts to follow are from this selection ...

http://3x3mag.com/

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