What is Illustration?: Part 2 (Aesthetic: Detail)

The following posts will provide examples of practitioners that correlate to my own practise and interests. I shall make updates as I find more examples.

Aesthetic - The Detailed

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Kevin O'Neill

The harsh and angular intense detailing effortlessly transitions from the Martian landscape to the industrial smog of London, O'Neill's application of Victorian-like pen and ink drawing is combined with relatively simple colour washes.

Dan Mumford

Quite a lot of Mumford's work is perhaps bafflingly detailed. This is the strongest example of his practise, a clear scene is set the dramatic view-point and colouring contrast add a threat to the event.

Robert Stumpf / Rost Graphics Berlin

Rost has exhaustively documented Berlin to translate atmosphere and space. The method involves editing and tracing his photography. Inevitably this results in the flattening of 3D space. Tone and shade are created with dense pointillist pattern to reduce the amount of screens required during the printing process. I find that the strictly ordered patterns and intentionally balanced colouring helps to create imagery that is dense under close inspection, whilst a holistic view does not become lost in the noise.

David Foldvari

Davids' work often manages to instil Steadman levels of surrealism whilst exercising some level of  restraint. This allows the imagery to have a photographic accuracy, which generally enhances the surreal aspects.

  

 Mattias Adolfsson

The thick application of detail within Mattias' work is rather astonishing, the work speaks of a dedicated investment of labour and mastery of spacial proportion.