NOELLE STEVENSON
- comics are readable online
- Strong storytelling
- Available across many mediums
- I like her artwork, i think it's well thought out composition wise but also funny
- Produces comic book novels but promotes her work throughout a big range of social media hence why most of her stuff is online
I look at Noelle's work fairly often, I'm interested in her work because she is very character driven and her characters are personable. She takes time in creating her comics and developing how the characters move and react in each situation. When drawing some of my own things, I often try to keep in mind how the characters would move and facially react in the situations.
JILLIAN TAMAKI
- Runs her own sketch blog which is separate from her professional work, which is good to see that she's constantly working and thinking
- Her comics are small and short with unique thoughts behind each
- Colour isn't something she always uses, focuses a lot on the storytelling.
- Created books with cousin and made sure her online work was ongoing throughout, after the release of "this one summer" she was recognised and then started to produce a wide variety of editorial work as well as writing narratives for various shows.
I love Jillian Tamaki's work for a completely different reason to Noelle's work. Jillian creates quick quirky characters in interesting situations, which make for a quick and easy read in the mornings when I'm looking for something to cheer me up. This is something I have tried to apply to my own work in 505, getting across a mood or situation really quickly without having to have too many frames.
Jillian does also have longer publications with recurring characters in, what I like most about these is her restricted colour palettes. I am often put off reading a comic book if it has too many colours in it, I find it hard to concentrate on the words and hard to read (especially if that persons style is very ink driven).
DICK VINCENT
- Runs and keeps a blog and social media accounts, posts something new most days
- Goes to and participates in Print Fairs and events
- His work is both original ideas and his own take on media culture works (such as stars wars and romeo + juilet pictured)
- Works in one or two mediums, keeps his work consistent
- Sells his work on Etsy
- Has strong concepts in his work and often well thoughtout compositions.
I enjoy looking at Dick Vincent's work most mornings, he keeps an up to date instagram which is where his main audience is at. His work is very media driven, he often recreates characters from popular culture - such as game of thrones to attract a younger audience whilst also having his own spin on it. What I like most about his work is how adaptable he can be with his media presence, if anything happens in the world, he can release a small drawing the same day and receive traction from it.
MATT FORSYTHE
- Inventive and explorative with his creations
- Uses a variety of mediums and colours
- Still very identifiable as his own work (it is his style).
- Runs an up to date blog with his own personal work as well as working on other cartoon creations such as Adventure Time etc.
- Has a wide variety of things he works on, small individual works, prints, small comics.
I look at Matt Forsythe's work mostly in the evenings
TOM HAUGOMAT
- Very decisive in his colour palettes
- Has a range of work, produces stuff for magazine, for himself, for clients etc.
- Thinks about his composition more than any other illustrator I look at
- Very recognisable work
- Keeps an up to date blog and social media.
I like to look at Tom Haugomat's work because there is just such a range in what he produces. He produces work for lots of different clients, each with it's own careful picked out colour palette and unique composition. His work is very neat and considered, my own work is nothing like this but I admire what he does and always aim to have the same kind of composition thinking as him.
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