Jon Mcnaught
Jon Mcnaught often creates narratives around locations, made from notes he has made in his phone whilst travelling during the day. His three graphic novels, Dockwood, Birchfield Close and Pebble Island are all inspired by places he has previously lived.
Jon Mcnaught's work inspires me mainly because he doesn't use a lot of text in his comics, but still conveys a clear narrative, I'm not very good at working with words within a narrative, so it inspires me to try and create narratives through just image alone. His limited colour palette is also something that inspires my work, I want to try and restrict myself to only a certain amount of colours that compliment each other to create a continuous aesthetic throughout my work.
Jesse Jacobs
Jesse Jacobs is an artist an illustrator, mainly a cartoonist.
“I have a day job; it’s part-time. I work at an organic food co-op. There’s a lot of driving on country roads, going to farms, and picking up things to bring them other places. When I come up with a basic idea—it usually starts with an image in my sketchbook—I’ll develop the story very loosely, to keep the freedom to include any sort of wild imagery I can muster up and draw. In the new book, two people are on a safari in a weird landscape, and anything can happen, and does. In comics, it can be daunting when you come up with ideas and then you have to draw them—so I try to keep the story loose and let it develop so it’s fun for me to draw, or else I’ll never finish a book.”
Again it is mainly the limited colour palette's that Jesse uses that I want to try and incorporate into my own work. All the colours seem to compliment each other and are quite similar. He uses one bright colour to create a focal point within each image.
Jefferson Cheng
Jefferson Cheng is a San Francisco based designer and illustrator focusing on print, identity, and interactive work with a range of clients, big and small. He is also currently a designer at Google.
The main aspect of Cheng's work that stands out to me is the bold shape combined with the colour. His work is a lot more Graphic than what I would normally look at, but I think this style of work is something I'd be interested in looking further into during the next modules.
Anja Mulder
Hi,
My name is Anja Mulder and i am a photographer and illustrator based in Groningen, the Netherlands.
I think that the way Anja presents here work when she is photographing it really helps to push her chosen aesthetic, it feels like she considers every aspect of her work and how its surroundings will affect the way it is perceived. I like her use of collage and how she combines different materials with 3d objects to communicate a tone of voice.
Joan Cornella
Joan Cornellà Vázquez (born 11 January 1981) is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his unsettling, surreally humorous and blackly humorous comic strips as well as artwork.
Similar to Jefferson Cheng's work, the bold colour and simple shapes work well together. He also never uses speech in his comics, and conveys narrative through simple and direct images in each panel. I like that his work is so humorous and dark, and the short narratives within the comics work well with this.
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