Dante Ferretti

 

















Born 26th February 1943, is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer for films. He has won three awards for best art direction for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Aviator and Hugo. 
He uses a lot of dark contrasting colours to create a forbidding environment. 
Dante Ferretti inspires me a lot with his work. He brings a lot of dark natured personality to his work, something I can relate to as I like to bring a lot of goth like features to my personal work. His work helps me reflect on a lot of things, as I do enjoy the movies he helps create. Plus he's worked with my top inspiration - Tim Burton, who has created a lot of wacky, dark and creative films. 

Robert Edmond Jones - Inspiration for Concepts

Born 12th December 1887, died 26th November 1954. He was an American scenic, lighting and costume designer in Theatre. His stage craft has taken storytelling to a new level, using bold and sharp colours for simplified realism, also creating simple yet dramatic lighting. He expressed himself through his stage sets. 

Robert Edmond Jones is a get inspiration! As I've got more into concept art, creating my own scenes and characters are expressed throughout me, as my work is dark and I like to add a bit of boldness and dramaticness, it's work I can look at and see what I can develope my own into.

Understanding Colour

Here we started to understand the colour wheal, were we learned about the use of colour, and experimenting with a cube through Photoshop. 

 

Dave White

Dave White is an English Pop - Art Artist, that experiments around with acrylic paint, to make realistic, messed up work. Dave is an "expressionist", by 16 he fell in love with oil paints, by 18 he had his first solo exhibition called, "Animals and Other Thingies". 

Being outgoing and creative, he has been about to express and experiment with his work at ease, never throwing a "useless" piece of work away. The most interesting feature about him when painting, is that he likes to use his left hand, he finds that using your non writing hand expresses the most within yourself. 

I do find this work very interesting, the sense of depth and colour make it very exciting, and the object is seen with a different light, you get to see more into it in a different and distorted view.