Looking at my assignment piece for the “Say Hello” I can understand why the style is reminiscent of these artists: I feel like this is a substantial development in my learning as a lot of the work I see in the New Yorker is inspiring to me and is potentially where I could see my work in the future. I have started a Pinterest board here that I will continue to add to. I got lost in the archives for a long time looking at historical editions and illustrations and have found two artists that I admire and will research further: Peter Arno and Mary petty. The New Yorker Image from the New Yorker Website of the September CoverĪlthough I have heard of the New Yorker I did not really know what is was or what is was about so I have spent some time familiarising myself with the publication before looking at the cartoonists. You can see this reflected in his work I imagine he must have a mental catalogue of items, people and places that he draws from which gives great consistency through his comics His drawing ability is so good, he draws often – he even keeps a daily comic book strip diary.How so much of his personality comes through in his work and in return his art comes through in his personal style.The contrast of the bold outlines and the ink wash or gouache block colours are really effective for making parts of the illustrations stand out.His technical skill with a brush making the lines beautifully neat as if they just flow straight from his brain.The retro style makes the work seem timeless.I borrowed the book “Who Could That Be at this Hour?” from the library to better look at the illustrations. Seth mainly works in traditional way using pencil, pen, ink and gouache from what I can tell but looking at the Lemony Snicket illustrations they look really clean so I think they are potentially done digitally, maybe Adobe Illustrator. The film was really great it is a mixture of live action and animation based from Seth’s drawings and offered some great insights into his life and work. I also watched a short film about his life entitled “Seth’s Dominion”. I read a further interview here which goes more in to depth on how his creative process and details within Palookaville. I found out that he has also had his work featured on the cover of the Newyorker and produces commercial illustrations for other publications such as the Globe.Īn interesting interview on Palookaville which also talks about his illustrations for the Lemony Snicket books “All the Wrong Questions” is here. Seth is the author of ‘Palookaville’ which is an ongoing publication of Drawn and Quarterly. I love the use of the block gouache background and how dramatic it looks against the inked landscape. This is a photo from Drawn & Quarterly and shows a spread from Palookaville #23 by Seth. I am researching to understand why it is reminiscent of these works. My tutor compared my greeting card for the assignment “Say Hello” to that of “Canadian cartoonist Seth (‘Palookaville’) and the more illustrative ‘New Yorker’ cartoonists”.
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