Yuto Onoda

Yuta Onoda, originally from Japan, is an illustrator / painter based in Toronto, Canada.

He has been shaping his art aesthetic through various forms of media, finding new avenues to express himself.

http://www.yutaonoda.com/

The Wilhelm Scream

Ice Cream

Top song, off to see this live in the big last week.

The Big Match

This beautiful animation I first saw broacasted on The One Show on
Friday 13th and my mum really liked it, and I did too. It's a three
minute short story of a boy from Northern Ireland revisiting the day
he went to see the team play Denmark, and the journey of his tshirt.

I really love the transitioning and colour through the different scenes
and situations, the details brilliant and you're immersed in a real
atmosphere.

It took me ages to find out who produced it, but it just so happens to
be N.I animation team FlickerPix.

So, FlickerPix, thankyou

Sexy Heroine

Very sensual and provocative works by J.K.B Fletcher, I love the intimacy that stretches beyond a photograph in these oil paintings, and the sense of scale is magnificent when painted big. I'd love to do something like this (as a portrait of whoever would be willing to sit in). But anyway, I just love these.

Corpse Bride

This is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful film.

Kanye West - Runaway

I'am late catching on to this, but aside from his egotistic reputation, this is a pretty epic piece of film-making, which showcases pretty much the greatest songs on one of possibly the best albums of the year personally.

First Year PPD Evaluation Presentation

So this is my finalised PPD presentation, I can't rate it myself but I tried my best to make it visually interesting and include the content I needed.

Mateusz Sypien

Stunning work:

And the trailer for a stunning short film of his entitled "Colourbleed":

"A young girl, creative and idealistic, dreams of brighter days in a forgotten Eastern European city. Her fate is inextricably sealed when she crosses paths with a scheming, and enigmatic old woman, who harbours a dark secret.

What seems like a small act of cruelty between strangers, will fracture the very foundations of a city."

Ambitious Plan

Last week I was stuck for things to do and irritated by my inability to work when I really need to, so I produced a plan for a probably far-fetched by nonetheless exciting adventure.

So I've planned out a 15 day journey to Brighton beach, all on my bike, stopping off every night at a different Travelodge. I'd really love to fulfill this grand idea in the summer, with hopefully a bit of money behind me (with the only worry being a change of clothes every day and night).

I've even gone to the extent of drawing on to a map my various overnight destinations, eventually leading to Brighton on the 15th day, but this could change depending if I extend the trip to more days, just to control the amount of cycling every day. Oh and I might need a puncture repair kit or two.

Illustration w/Matt

Illustration:

Silja Goetz - http://www.siljagoetz.com/

Skills: collage, paper craft, black pen

Tone of voice: Silja's work includes very fluid and highly detailed line work. A collage effect provides her work with a handmade tone and an expanse of colour brings these illustrations a mild and upbeat tone.

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Good Wives & Warriors - http://www.goodwivesandwarriors.co.uk/

Skills: pen, acrylic paint, collage, digital manipulation

Tone of voice: GWW's work is a collaboration of highly complicated patterning of abstract shapes that provide a very astronomical and mystical texture, with invading bursts of loud and futuristic colour.

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Chris Dent - http://www.chrisdent.co.uk/

Skills: Pen, pencil

Tone of voice: Dent's work is a re-imagining of the cityscape, illustrating the architecture of skyscrapers in extreme intricacy.

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Berto Martinez - http://bertomartinez.blogspot.com/

Skills: Watercolour, pencil

Tone of voice: Martinez captures the personality of much his subjects through montaging images together in photographic and cloudy watercolour.

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Alexander Wells - http://www.wellsillustration.com/

Skills: Pen, digital manipulation and colouring

Tone of voice: Wells' work is very cinematic in it's use of colour and composition. The tone of his work can often be quite dark and surreal at times, involving what can be graphic subjects.

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Graphic Art:

James De La Rue - http://www.jamesdelarue.co.uk/

Skills: black pen, watercolour

Tone of voice: De La Rue creates highly detailed and typically black and white illustrations of a cartoonish but realistic nature, sometimes adventuring out in to colour.

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Iain McArthur - http://iainmacarthur.carbonmade.com/

Skills: Pencil, watercolour, pen

Tone of voice: MacArthur produces highly realistic black and white portraits, intervened by tribal patterning that repeats over certain areas to create a masking effect.

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Phil Dunne - http://www.lovetherobot.com/

Skills: Pencil, pen, digital manipulation

Tone of voice: Dunne possesses a youthful style of pen illustration that reflects his influences of reading comic books, adding bursts of wild colour digitally.

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Jonathan Lam - http://www.jonathanlam.co.uk/

Skills: Pen, pencil, watercolour, digital manipulation and colouring

Tone of voice: Lam approaches with a cinematic vision of angled scenarios with muted colours, illustrating the idea of life in a modern city in all it's grit and gloom.

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Anna Higgie - http://www.annahiggie.com/

Skills: Pen, pencil (coloured)

Tone of voice: Much of Anna Higgie's work focuses on themes of femininity, fashion and beauty that becomes abstracted by colliding shapes that replace sections of the body, restricted to a minimised palette.