Author: Gabriel Nunez (Page 7 of 11)

This piece was created by Akira Toriyama who is the artist behind the famous anime series, Dragonball Z. I chose this piece because It is a good representation of  value structures and tonal organization. Akira Toriyama uses pencil and ink to create his images. However, when creating the front covers of his manga series, he uses watercolor.  The compositional techniques Toriyama uses are triatic arrangements of Foreground, Middleground, and Background. In order to heighten the relationship, he restricts each area to a general range of value which is black, white, and grey. He purposely places these values in certain areas to reinforce the image’s sense of depth. I consider this technique effective because each field of view does not distract from one another and makes a perfect relationship. Even if there is a lot going on with the characters’ clothing and special effects in the background, the three values compliment each other.

This Illustration was created by Johnen Vasquez, an American artist and animator who created the children’s television show, Invader Zim. The Process that the artist used to create this art piece was with digital media. Perhaps one of the Adobe programs. However, to get the overall image drawn, the artist used pen before adding color digitally. The compositional technique that the artist used is one point perspective. Each building is carefully placed and shows its 3-dimensional aspect in a 2d space. You can see both sides of every building and how the light affects each building This makes the landscape appear more realistic and effective. I can integrate one and even two point perspective in my own landscape drawings to make my buildings pop out of the page and appear more realistic just like Johnen Vasquez did.

Jillian Tamaki explains in her article essential and necessary steps to coming up with ideas and how to execute them. These steps include finding inspiration from all places that include watching film, reading books, reading news, visiting museums, etc. to be as invested as possible. Next is to record and collect these images to have for references and have those references easily accessible. Another step is choosing your words first and carefully because is starts to have clearer ideas rise and think of many associations. Next, adding images that can help trigger more ideas. After, you can combine the words and images together to get inspiration and use that as a guide for your ideas. Lastly, creating thumbnails will help pave the way and make it clear to execute your art pieces. 

Some techniques that she uses that I have already incorporated into my idea generation process are collecting data to learn more about my topic and using images that can help me trigger more ideas. Some new techniques that I’ve learned that I find helpful are choosing words first carefully to have clearer ideas and having more word associations and combining words and images to get inspiration and see my ideas become a guide.