Illustrations of Todd Lockwood

I have ALWAYS loved dragons! I think because they are so much like dinosaurs, & I
love them too.
I first noticed Todd Lockwood's illustrations because of the dragons in his Dungeons & Dragons artwork. The color is spectacular & the action and movement of the images is incredible.

I almost feel like I'm in the battle with his characters. You can feel the gritty sand blowing in the air & the movement all around you.

Not only are his dragons extremely detailed, but his humanoid creations are, too. Just look at the long braided hair on the woman in the picture at right. Then there's the man, wearing armor, wielding the sword, with his hair blowing behind him.

Then he has these make-believe characters that are just fascinating!

Here is one of his fairy people. She looks as though she is growing out of the tree, and her hair could be leaves or grasses growing wild...even her clothes seem to be part of the forest.


One of my favorite illustration books, where I got this weeks post, is called Transitions - The Art of Todd Lockwood. (Which I will let anyone borrow if they want) He has so many interesting things, please check out his website.

The Art of Todd Lockwood 

Schusev State Museum posters

I found these in Communication Arts under Poster Exhibits. Here is the captioning straight from the article.

"Saatchi & Saatchi developed an advertising campaign for the Discover the Full Story project at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. The objective of the campaign was to encourage locals—who might think they already know all there is to know about their city—to visit the museum. The posters take three key historic buildings that are symbols of the city (the main building of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint Basil’s Cathedral and the Bolshoi Theatre) and imagine what they might look like if their above-ground structure represented only a tenth of their total volume. The campaign reminds Muscovites that a story hides behind the façade of each building, and knowing the outside is just the tip of the iceberg. 

 

 
I absolutely love the fact that as the article states the illustrations show not only "the tip of the iceberg," but what they envision to be below ground if it where possible.

Here's the pertinent information:
"Yuri Polonski, art director; Anton Demakov/Irina Gorshkova, writers; Mark Ignatiev/Vitaly Mashinsky, designers; Stuart Robinson, creative director; Sergey Sidorov/Anastasia Vedernikova, typographers; Ekaterina Pastukh, agency producer; Saatchi & Saatchi Russia (Moscow, Russian Federation), ad agency; Anastasia Grigoryan/Irina Korobyina, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, clients"

Here's the link to their site and what they have written about the project.




Saatchi & Saatchi 

Illustrations by "eBoy"

I have really been able to understand what "eBoy" has had to say in our "Thinking Visually" text book. So, I decided to look at more of his artwork online. I wasn't disappointed!

Some of you may not know this, but, I LOVE video games! That's why "eBoy's" illustrations didn't disappoint me, they reminded me of the Roller Coaster Tycoon / Zoo Tycoon graphics. Also, some of the Anime that you see on Cartoon network.

With all of the bright colors, many visually stimulating objects, creatures, etc. They are like pictures of scenes from some of my games. There is a ton of action in all of them too, you might have to look closely, but it's there. 

Take a look at the site & you'll see all of the crazy stuff...
hello.eboy.com 

TCM Summer Under The Stars - Clark Gable

This was for the month of August 2013, but I saw it in the Communication Arts March/April 2013 issue & just had to post about it.

Every year TCM has Summer Under The Stars and therefore are trying different ways to draw in more viewers. These are screen shots of this years web design. The entire thing is interactive and for each actor, the layout/design and typefaces are different. If you click on a picture it draws you in to another page.

 
The bio is the second page you land on. It has a synopsis of the actors life and works along with other tidbits of information about them. The text scrolls while the background remains the same.

Then on the third page you get kind of a collage of pictures from various movies that the actor starred in. You have the option to save some of these pictures off, "pin" to Pinterest, "share" to Twitter and "post" to Facebook. Sometimes you can even comment on the individual movies. It's pretty cool overall.

Then on the fourth page, the schedule appears for the times and titles of the movies that actor appears in. If you click on any of the movie titles, you will be taken to a page with a synopsis of that movie and links to articles and a video. On the bottom is a link to "shop now," which takes you to the TCM store where you can buy just about anything relating to these old movies (mugs, shirts, etc.)

Here is the link if you would like to take a look at some of the other actors' information.
TCM Summer Under The Stars 2013