Artists – JackTaylorsFMPll

Marion Deuchars

This is one of the artists who caught my eye in the book full of illustrators. Marion Deuchars’ use of typography was the reason I instantly liked her work. This ‘homemade’, art and craft style she displays throughout her work is one that I think would really work in such a zine I’m producing. It has an authentic, welcoming feel that i feel would be very fitting for a homemade zine, it adds a sort of personal touch connecting to the audience.

D&AD Creative Advertising Design and Digitial, 2015. Meet Marion Deuchars [online]. London, D&AD. [Wednesday 24th April]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL0UZZ0bLM4

I really enjoyed watching this video, She explains her methods of work and why she works in such a way, what makes it useful to her. At 1:58 she explains that ‘the tendency when you go on screen is to tidy up those mistakes… I think mistakes are interesting’ I love this! This is exactly what I’m going to follow through with when producing my work it gives the typography a ‘DIY’ personality, like you can feel a personal human touch there.

Marion Deuchar found in The illustration book I was looking at (insert link)

This sense of humanity is something I really want to have in my zine so Marion’s lettering and type will really inspire me in this area.

Peter Arkle

Peter Arkle lives in New York City where he’s a freelance illustrator of books, magazines and ads. He occasionally publishes a newspaper ‘Peter Arkle News’, containing stories and drawings from his everyday life.

This is a double page spread from one of his sketchbooks that really caught my eye, I love how raw and ‘lazy’ it looks. I really enjoy this kind of premature, easy feel with not a single straight line in sight. Of course white and black always looks good but This off white, almost yellow paper is something I really like, it gives it a natural feel as though white is too pure. Same for the pen turning grey on parts as it drys out.

Mrzyk & Moriceau

This team made up of two illustrators (Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau’s) are famed for their risqué, offbeat illustrations. Using the very simple foundations of illustration their almost exclusively black and white line drawings lose no impact for their simplicity, and between them they’ve built something of a cult following.

Their surreal images play with body parts, black humour and innuendo, bordering the line between the dreamlike and insane, resulting more often than not in a sort of playful demeanour.

Gemma Correll

Gemma Correll is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator. I really enjoy her work. She does much work illustrating for books as well as her own, she also does illustration and comic work for various magazines. My favourite of her work is the comics she does for ‘NIB’ magazine.