What iv learnt and what im going to do from here

The Yo sushi brand.
I have discovered from my research that the yo sushi brand is fun, bright, colourful happy and very youthful looking. They use alot of vector art witch is a style that alot of young people like, i have used it before in my work and people always like that style over all the others i have used so vector art has to be in there (yo sushi use it, and young people love it, sorted). They also use Kimmi dolls with speech bubbles to advertise deals and other things on the website so its possible that a kimmi doll would be a good thing to have in there.

Art Style Research

From researching artist i have decided that i want to use a paint based background to give it a messy arty style i have used this technique before and its looks shit hot if done well (a thank you for Richard Hatton for the messy art lessons) on this a London landmark such as the tower bridge will be drawn with something like stick and ink quite abstractly and simplistically for a background image. I will also try this without the image and just have a distressed background.

On top of this for the main images i will use vector art in the style of somebody like Rubens Lp (who is my favorite vector artist) and a mixture of that and hand drawn illustrations (probably Gerald Scarfe influenced) . This will be mixed in with some vector swirls and other random assortments of graphics witch seems to be the vector art way. I could mix this in with some sushi/Japanese bits and bobs such as fish, chopsticks and kimmidolls. 

I also may get a punk influence in there, im a huge fan of punk and the sex pistols and the clash were two of London's biggest bands.

None of this is set in stone, im hoping to do alot of experimenting and new ideas may pop into my mind.

Things that will/may be in my mural.

When i think of London i immediately think of tower bridge, The queens guards, English bobbys, punk, the stones/the who, red busses and big Ben. I imagine most people get that image or a very similar one when someone says London.

So my mural will be made of iconic London images landmarks and idols with some japaniese stuff mixed in there as well. 

The style i have chosen fits the yo sushi brand and it will appeal to the younger people that use fast food places such as yo sushi.....time to get drawing.

Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Scarfe is by far my favorite illustrator, i just love his very unique style of drawing, i have tried to duplicate his style many times sometimes coming close other times failing. His style may or may not suit the yo sushi mural because it can be quite sinister looking sometimes but that doesn't mean it cant be tweaked to suit a younger audience. They did exactly that for the Disney film Hercules.
 

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Graphic Style research Part IV

Silke Werzinger

I really love the style of this artist, the messy style is fun and youthfull looking so with some added brightness it would look good for the yo sushi mural.

 

Nik Ainley

Graphic Style research Part III

Koa

Koa is a great illusstrator but his style is a little bit sinister and wouldnt fit in with yo sushis happy fun branding. 

 He wents to a graphic design high school for 3 years, after a long time of self-education and a high school of Communication. He worked in a french agency as Artistic Director, where he made 2d animations, webdesign, graphic design and other stuff (during 5 years). After that he realised WAR OF MONSTARS book with the big help of THE LAZY DOG (Paris) this project was a tribute to Kaiju Eiga films. He is actually working on a new book called SANG NOIR. A black and white illustrations book with other artists like he does for WAR OF MONSTARS.
His world is a universe of happy and colorfull oppresive chaos where monsters are masters and humans are slaves. Monsters fascinate him since he is a little kid. His universe is full of barbed women, dwarfs hip hop masters, clouds who laugh about humans, flying fishes who want to be rock stars, fearfull wherewolfs, ridiculous ghosts, strange dogs, shintoist gods, religious symbols, occult symbols, tattoos...
Mirror of our hearts his creatition takes part of our fears, fantasms for strange things. His creations are the echo of our falling civilisation where the human Insanity, violence and sex is everywhere but always with humor. But it s always turned to ridiculous and funny things, he doesn t want t chock people with his little monsters but more make them laught.

 

Graphic Style research Part II

Rubens Lp

Rubens lp is one of favorite illustrators, his style is very unique and intresting. The style would work great on the yo sushi mural cause its again bright, fun and youthful.

Graphic Style research

Here i will research into different artists and then afterward decide what style or more likes styles i will use on my mural and then i can get stuck into experimenting with different ideas and finding out what works and what doesn't work.

Steve Wilson

Steven is an Illustrator who lives and works in Brighton, UK. Originally from North London Steven fell in love with Brighton whilst studying on the renowned Illustration course there. He can often be found foraging through the local flea markets for obscure books and discarded paraphernalia to use as inspiration. Circus posters, fairgrounds, victorian postcards and tribal body art are amongst the themes he cites as reference for his varied and experimental work which he generalizes as 'somewhere between pop and psychedelia'. His working processes are as eclectic as his influences. Pen, pencil, paint, collage and even play-doh are combined with contemporary tools like photoshop and Illustrator to create his work.

He has a particular passion for working on album covers as he enjoys their permanent nature. "I like the idea that with an album sleeve the artwork is forever associated with that album and so you are creating a little piece of history." 

Steve wilsons style would be great for the yo sushi mural because its bright, colourful and fun like the yo sushi brand.

  

Clients include:
MTV, Coke, NYCGO, NIke, Virgin, Selfridges, Neiman Marcus, BBC, LEVI's, Penguin books, Sony BMG, The Fader, Julien Macdonald, Wallpaper magazine, Blackberry, 3 mobile, Ecko, Universal, Nike and design week.