Illustration – Initial Outcomes

After deciding on the overall idea of our illustrations and what style we wanted to use, I researched online to find some artwork which resembled the sort of style we were going for.

I took influence from my sketches and searched to find some drawings which illustrated the sketchy and hand drawn style I wanted to achieve, the scribbles and rough lines give a sense of messiness and imperfectness, and just like mental health illnesses and the people suffering with them nothing can ever be perfect. I think the messiness backs up our idea of the ‘storm’ going on inside someones head, and can also go to show that something which doesn’t by any means look perfect can still be beautiful.

I also came across an artist called Michal Mozolewski who creates artwork using a mix of painting and photo-manipulation. Although the art is made through editing photos, the style of all of his pieces are very moving. He takes portraits and using illustrated lines or brush strokes and makes the beauty in the image imperfect. All his work has a very dark feeling, they all seem to be emerging from the darkness into the light which is a very moving thought and one which our protest aims for. Although we wanted to keep our colour palette very minimal with mainly just black and white, the addition of the blue draws the eye and I feel there is more of a feeling of sadness portrayed in the blue than black and white. The images all seem to have faces with the mouths closed which goes alone with the quite side of our oxymoron, and personally I think the way they all contain illustrative lines is a subtle way to make the piece look messy and as if there is a ‘storm’ going on inside their head.