ILLUSTRATION THEN AND NOW
John Tenniel
• How illustration has changed a lot over the last 100 or so years alone
• More formats are accepted, more people are free to create (gender, race, class)
• A highly-prestigious arts education is no longer paramount
• Aesthetic focus has changed - no longer a need or requirement for detail, representational drawing
leading on to...
A RISE IN DIY ATTITUDES / PROCESSES
• Continues to defy barriers and hierarchies present in creative circles
• Accessible, inclusive, anyone can take part
• Blurs the lines between low art and high art - LO-FI, AMATEUR ART
DIGITAL PROCESSES, THE INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY
• Have all created a massive change for creative fields like illust and graphics
• A change in how images are made and distributed, who gets to put out work, who sees them
• Other changes like efficiency, digital aesthetic (synthetic, crisp, clean), can also mimic traditional media, arguably classical training is no longer needed. Tutorials, research.
More examples of practitioners / areas within illustration...
ED CHEVERTON
leading on to...
A RISE IN DIY ATTITUDES / PROCESSES
• Continues to defy barriers and hierarchies present in creative circles
• Accessible, inclusive, anyone can take part
• Blurs the lines between low art and high art - LO-FI, AMATEUR ART
DIGITAL PROCESSES, THE INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY
• Have all created a massive change for creative fields like illust and graphics
• A change in how images are made and distributed, who gets to put out work, who sees them
• Other changes like efficiency, digital aesthetic (synthetic, crisp, clean), can also mimic traditional media, arguably classical training is no longer needed. Tutorials, research.
More examples of practitioners / areas within illustration...
ED CHEVERTON
• Naive in style, handmade aesthetic, free
• Mix of influences and reference points - mirrors po-mo eclecticism? (fantasy genre, jazz, movies, games, imagination, comics, toys..)
• DIY projects and collectives (Jazz Dad Books). A return to handmade, and small-scale publishing. A rejection of large-scale projects and companies
• Creating for the enjoyment, to share. Not entirely profit-driven
• Reminiscent of folk art/a more naive form of art? Emphasis on grounded elements like colour and shape. Pure
• Jazz influence - freedom, movement, sporadic. Far away from rules, structure, uniformity, symmetry, order
• Reminiscent of folk art/a more naive form of art? Emphasis on grounded elements like colour and shape. Pure
• Jazz influence - freedom, movement, sporadic. Far away from rules, structure, uniformity, symmetry, order
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