Big Heads this week was a very inspiring one for me. While I was unable to attend the session, I did watch it on the Big Heads Youtube channel.
Matt Taylor draws hyper realistic illustrations with beautiful colouring and I was intrigued to hear that he does in two very interesting ways. Firstly, he doesn't draw from reference per say, he traces the image digitally using his Cintiq and Photoshop. Secondly he uses Adobe Kulur to find a range of colours that work well together.
What was interesting about this was how several people have since said that he doesn't have integrity using this process. However I disagree. He still creates completely unique imagery using, what you could say, digital collage. He traces the image, adding and taking away where necessary, thus making the work his own. He also uses Adobe Kulur but Adobe doesn't tell him where to use each colour and in a way to compliment the imagery - so how is that not a skill in itself?
I feel like I learnt a lot from this Big Heads and want to adopt some of his methods to improve my own working.
Here are a few examples of Matt Taylor's work:
Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Matt Taylor on Pinterest.
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