UNIT 4.

I have stumbled across one artist who really inspires me for Unit 4 in this assignment.
His name is Eric Drooker.

During this assignment I have been looking at the grading criteria and have came across how I can illustrate my ideas into my work to project a stronger theme and sense of knowledge about what I am doing.

Eric Drooker began to sell illustrations to more mainstream publications, and became more widely known as a cartoonist when his short story "L" appeared in Heavy Metal. "L", along with two other stories, his first made up graphic novel, ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures'' a wordless, dream-like narrative of powerless citizens' struggling with authority in a rapidly deteriorating New York City—which won an American Book Award.

In 2006, the Library of Congress wanted the original art for ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures,'' including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings. ''The complete Flood'' Archive is housed in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, which is open to the public.  

              
P1: 
In his work, Eric creates his images using various materials, this can include, paints, pencils, liners etc. This connects to various Medias and to the specific media what he works for and also what his work is mainly about.
For example he works for a magazine and draws about people working in city life. he mentions how he was born in Manhattan and how he draws this idea of the area being so full of buildings. a world of economics.
This relates to media because the media and press mainly talk and broadcast the downfalls the economy has which is city life and pollution etc, his images of people working in a city life or wandering in one is always depressing (hence his weather images and drawings) he gives a sense of meaning that the city life is like a concrete jungle of greyness because of the going ons in it. 

M1:

D1:

P2:

I have been on a website named Pikmonkey and uploaded the entrance to the road where the factory is. I have chosen this image to show how i have used different medias to create my own visual language.

I have edited this image on a setting called Draw. I first started to colour the sky a much darker grey than it was because of the inspiration i took for Drooker. Some of his images are quite deep and meaningful and not always positive and as working in a factory isnt the happiewst of placest as well as the road on which it lies on i thought i would turn it grey to give it more of a downwards feel.

I then clicked on the types of efffect i could give it and wanted to give it more of a depressed look. I found an edit named Nosferatu Dawn which i covered over and really gave it a little bit of paleness to the photo which makes the whole location look quite grim as well and it pushing the contrasts of the black and white up allot. I have turned the black up so it defines the lines of the buildings on either side more. 

M2:

These images are also edited to give a clear meaning to the audience of how I have used the language of art and design,

 have came up with ideas of how i can relate my editing to the artist inspiration of Eric Drooker.

In his images he portrays children playing on a street which is quite a relaxed feel about it and in the background looms this big economic world with factories and pollution behind.

I have chosen this street as the direction going into the factory gets smaller and smaller so its like you are being drawn into some sort of warp,

The image has many types of languages of art and design in it for example the compositions throughout it as the main one are direction and another is lines.

The way it leads you into the factory, it makes you want to go down to that street to see whats at the bottom. with this I have edited it so it looks like quite a gloomy place, though factorys arent exactly the happiest place to work so the ironic ness of this image shows well to the viewer why I have tried to adress this.

P3:

    Similar to P1, Eric Drooker always publishes his work with several visual languages  
going on at a time, for most of his images what show immensly high sky scrapers in the background and like the other image with all of the books; he uses lines with his pencil or crayon what he uses in them.
Another image of where he shows this is where the man is looking up and it really gives you a great sense of how these city buildings and lifestyle can dawn on you. With this included it shows how tall they really are.

Another visual language I would like to point out what Eric uses is the sense of Motion. throught out all of his drawing images, there is always something in the picture what is moving, he can really perfect this by varying it, such as the man on the construction sight, it might not be his faviurite job what is coming over to the viewer and seems theres no life or enjoyment working in the city but with the image of the butterfly which also brings colour into it refreshes the viewer and give sus hope that there is something full of life out there,

Another picture shows this well how it shows people walking to their jobs, people walking from their jobs leaving, the mood is low the weather he has brought into the image represents that the city life isnt what people sometime think it is, (a happy bright up staged area) this can show its the oppositewhere its raining, people have hung backs to show their mood isnt great and the form of colour shows the with the dark blues, but gives us an insight that not all is lost in this area where you can see the mans heart, how ever big it is.

P4:
This image below is one of the favourite images I have from Eric Drooker. This image is intended on viewer to know what it is, and what it is about. The way he portrays it is amazing, there are several aspects of visual language included in this image and also parts of Design language.

For the Visual language and also the Design Language there is colour, because everybody knows that the rainforest and jungles are bound with colour everywhere you go, the leaves are full of life which the city would be, this image can portray night time as well with the dark colours being used mainly so the lampposts are on and glowing.
 I think this drawing can be took from the song Empire State Of Mind. In this song it describes New York to be a 'Concrete Jungle' and this shows in this image just that.

The man who walks up the tube station into this city Jungle life, which shows motion such as the man, the insects buzzing around, like cars or children or adults would be on a typical morning, the trees represents lampposts or buldings, which are everywhere on each corner near and far. The aspect of design language is used here from the colour schemes which I have mentioned before, how it is dark so he has used the vaiation of blue colours, on the trees which give a great dark shadowy effect also.

 The design prospect of the things in order of the image, the business man at the front with a forward tree then more trees what fade into the background.
Another Design layout would be the forreground and background similar to what i jave just mentioned, how at the foreground you have these massive large wild shrubs with then a main palm tree located in the middle of the image and then in the background you would find more trees going off into the distance.