illustrophile

When looking through a large list of illustration blogs, i came across illustrophile. Instantly, this caught my eye and i believe it to be one of the better Illustration blogs i came across. The font for the title of the blog was simple, but made me look twice with the two toned colours used. I felt the title was simple enough like this, rather than 'overpowering' the website with something more complex and complicated. Another part of the site i enjoyed was how simple the site was set out. I never had to search for anything whilst i was using the blog. Everything was set out easy enough to find, which made the site appeal to me even more. The bold texts to show the different areas for the site also made everything a lot easier to find as again i never had to search for through the site just to find one tiny aspect of the site. The layout of the site is simple enough to find and is a very popular layout method. All the text is kept to one side whilst the bars are kept to the right and top bars. Illustrophile isn't just a blog dedicated to one artist, it's hosts a large number of illustrators. This was another thing that appealed to me as it meant i could look through the blog to get more inspiration from their own pieces and techniques which i could begin to use in my own work.

Gallery Visit: Abram Games and Restless Times.

On Monday 18th October we went on a trip to Sheffield to visit a gallery of Abram Games and another exhibition on 'Restless Times'
I fount the work created by Abram Games memorable as they were brightly coloured and many of the images were very bright and bold.
What i enjoyed about the exhibit was the fact we saw a lot of his finished pieces, yet his 'development' work was displayed which made us realise how much he changed his work when it came to looking at the final piece he had created.
Abram Games was the official artist of the festival of Britain and a popular war time artist. Comparing this exhibition to the previous restless times gallery, i felt this appealed to me more as it was a lot brighter and the way Abram Games had created his work was eye catching and made you look twice. Where as in the Restless times gallery the work was of a very high standard but many pieces were of a dark mood and most images were mainly monochromatic.