Creative Review

There’s a book I bought from amazon called 'Behind Illustrations' and it covers most of the top artists/painters/sculptors and also talks about what historical artists influences our contemporary illustrators of today. I know I've mentioned him a few times through out my study but before I came across his inspirational drawing style the book mentioned a guy called 'Luke Dixon',  It just talks about how he came across his style to why he draws like how he does. Most of his work relates to portraits and famous people, there are loads of illustrators trying to portray the same message with what Luke is trying to do but I think only Luke can do that. Meaning when he does a portrait his twist of getting the person looking just like how they are with his conjoining consistent thick line style is 'painfully' amazing, the reason I say painfully is because I've tried to cover a portrait but with how he combines the resemblance with his style but its not easy and I don't know any illustrators that can pull it off like how he can. When I carried on reading I was even more inspired with what he's come across as of today because from him starting from so little to where he is now is truly fantastic!! He now has his own international Clothing Line, he's done collaborations with Nike, and he’s collaborated with some of the biggest clothing companies and set up his own foundation. I find this very motivating and it motivates me to do well and I'm not saying I'm going to end up where he is now but if I at least get my imagery out there I might come across something like how he has. Making that connection with the outside world is difficult and reading this book reminds you how it can be done and how having that success is reachable. He mentions how these connections in his life were like a miracle coming true to how he didn't expect anything like this, he says from his own perspective that he just liked creating beautiful images but from where he was sat he didn't think that his work would go anywhere but from where I was reading and to how I viewed his work I think me and many others could see that his work was going to make a change in his life. After a few reads I could see that there was more to illustrating then just drawing a few detailed pictures, I could see that if you make the right choice and believe in yourself you may head down the direction you want to go down. It just takes dedication and for you to think about how your work could be relevant in the art industry, there’s a lot of competition out there and there’s loads of illustrators and I just see it as how your style and imagery differentiates from another illustrator. I don’t think you should be to competitive because I see that as a target for another illustrator to beat you, I’ve seen artists that don’t even take up the subject and their work is just phenomenal.