Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Worry Little - Illustration - Little Worries

 
Little Worries, 'red thing red.', 2011

Today I like to enlighten the unique drawings of a true artist. He doesn't reveal his real name but is known as: 'Little Worries' all over the internet. Currently he is living and working 'somewhere' in the United Kingdom. And from time to time he posts a photo of himself on his Tumblrpage.


LittleWorries, 'my dreams have been troubled by tiny eggs and bones,
perhaps I should start sleeping elsewhere', 2011

Little Worries, 'feely feeler', 2011

Little Wories doesn't make a secret of his drawings, there are a lot of them !
You can see most of them on his 18 paged Flickr-Photostream that started in may 2008. This really shows the proces he went through during the years. 
 Though all his drawings are different, one can instantly see that it's a piece made by Little Worries. 
And that is impressive.


Little Worries, 'look not for me', 2010

Little Worries, 'surrounds', 2011

Equally impressive is his drawing skill. Only using a pencil, he creates lively images of all sorts. A wide variety of animals, some nudes, but also pencil finished collages.

And when you yourself might have little worries of your own, it's posible to trouble 'Little Worries' with them. He will then give you advise and do so in a most poetic way. 
He won't give you a solution but a hint of what it might be, a direction, so you might solve it easier by yourself. Very much like his visual work actually.

That's why his drawings are so good, they do not tell the whole story. The viewer is finishing what 'Little Worries' initiated, what the viewer sees in it may be different every time one looks at it.




This is the latest drawing 'Little Worries' is struggling with.
I will show the result of it, once the owls have been fully brought to life.




Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The Promised Bulb - Illustration Art - Teetering Bulb


Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon, 'Open/Avocado', 2010, illustration by song of 'Kim Boekbinder'


 'Kim Boekbinder - The Impossible Girl' (a musician, composer, performer and visual artist !)
started a very special collaboration project with several visual artists for the release of her new album 'The Impossible Girl'.
The outcome of her collaboration with the, previously mentioned, illustration duo; Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon of ' Teetering Bulb', is truely amazing.
The complete artwork can be looked at and listened to above.


Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon, 'Birthday Scribble', 2010,
pencil on denril, colour with Photoshop
Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon both started out as graphic designers. Still they felt that making a graphic design wasn't as fulfilling as drawing was for them. So they went to a two year boot camp called 'Portfolio Center' were they were Classically trained. A lot of practice followed and still continues, because Huggins and Devon practice and sketch every day.
In a small apartment in Brooklyn (New York) they started their Studio 'Teetering Bulb' and have been full time illustrators for three-and a half years now.


Kurt Huggings & Zelda Devon, 'Tragedy of John Cali, 2011, charcoal on paper, colour with Photoshop (35,9 x 28,2cm)
This unusual piece was created by 'Teetering Bulb' for Reader’s Digest Asia. The book entitled 'Tragedy of John Cali' is a short story about a man’s persistent pursuit for his wife’s killer.
To my opinion a very beautifull depiction of the concept, loss..


Kurt Huggings & Zelda Devon, 'Fragments',  2008, pencil, colour with Photoshop, 300dpi (38,4 x 25,6cm)
Kurt and Zelda made this mystical illustration for a short story (of Josh Rountree and Mikal Trimm) in the magazine 'Realms of Fantasy'.
 The woman we see carries the weight of the loss of her family wich led to the emergence of a magical forest. In here she is haunted by a satyr that we see sitting atop of the big heart the woman carries. The young satyr is a symbolic representation of her son.

The story behind the image created by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon is intruiging. But whitout it, the image would'nt lose any of it's power. It can acually tell the whole story by itself.


Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon, 'Pomegranate', 2011, watercolor with digital help (43,5 x 23cm)
Another beautifull and meaningfull piece of Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon. It takes the viewer to mythical spheres, tempting..
Normally I'm not very fond of digital adjustments in artwork. But the way Kurt and Zelda treat their creations is very respectfull. They really preserved the purity of the original drawing, it can not be fully grasped what is and isn't rendered. 
Making their work of art magical itself.

Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon

 Kim Boekbinder

Kim Boekbinder is a very progressive artist, as her project mentioned above may prove. 
Also her album is for sale on her site for 'any price', but is worth a lot. 
I want to thank her for sharing her music.
 I also want to thank all the other (visual) artists whose work has been made accessible to share.
 I hope I have made my posts worthy for both sides.
Link with Love