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Various Artist Styles
Instead of evaluating just one artist for this brief, I have decide to take a look on several artists, seeing as there were many that fit the cafe's theme and aesthetic. As for my brief has been given the exception of a second artist evaluation, which has become a study in batik instead of a second artist evaluation.
Apricotmayor has a distinct palette of muted colours that she uses on all her pieces, as the main purpose for them is commercial. Although most of them include a light source within each piece, she incorporates it well into her entire business' aesthetic with varying saturation levels per colour. The line art in her works is not fully black either like Nakamura's, but instead of a dark blue, which gives a good touch to the overall aspect of her work.
@apricotmayor
What to consider:
- The colour palette and how a good aesthetic has been achieved and maintained
- The use of a suitable and consistent font
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What to avoid:
- Too much detail, as the work will be combined with slivers of batik and batik in and of itself is already an eye-catching pattern.
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@elbth_cafe
Elbth's work is cafe central, everything focusing on what one would expect to see when entering her cafe. Her work varies from food related products, such as cards, to the actual food itself. Her style is quite flexible, having the ability to either work as a single coloured line art, to various small works as one, to non-coloured lineart detailing a complete set.
Things to consider:
- The various types of ways to display the products
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Things to avoid:
- Prevent or avoid the line art from being too thin, especially if its coloured
- Skewed perceptions, such shown in the "pawcky" work
- Shocking/loud colours
@gachapins
Gachapin's designs and works are mainly for commercial purposes, to be made as physical metallic pins, more specifically. There are works that are not made for commercial purposes, such as the onion drawing is shown, however, they do still possess similar traits to those used as her product design. Her style works well with coloured and non-coloured line art, which is a good factor if a change in line art colour was to be made, the style would not be disturbed.
Things to consider:
- Smooth lining, with different aspects of one drawing having different sized brushes to emphasize certain parts
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Things to avoid:
- Having the pictures seeming a bit too 2D when it might seem better as a more 3D llustration
@junyx_the_pasta
When considering my second artist evaluation, I was advised to look into someone's work who doesn't focus mainly on or have drawn food theme work before. Junyx was one of the first accounts I had found that fit the specifications. Even though majority of their work consists of fanart, this does not deter me from evaluating their work.
Things to consider:
- The constant size and the slight change in the size of the line art regardless of emphasis
- Having coloured and uncoloured lines in one piece
- The muted colour palette, and using more brighter colours for certain aspects (in the bedrock image) for a good effect of emphasis.
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Things to avoid:
- Rough/too thin line art; even though in this case the way the line art has been done, it would not fit with the batik, whose line art would be smooth as it would be done digitally rather than traditionally
- Too contrasting colours; as the only aspect of their theme is muted colours, and they colour their works based off the character references
@kicesliced
Kice was the second person whose work does not include foodstuffs that had captured my attention. Their work and the way it has been coloured reminds me heavily of watercolours. Thankfully, it is possible to recreate watercolour-like works digitally, as scanning a watercolour piece may not go well. In this instance, my experiments would be more heavily influenced by the bottom two drawings, as the top one was chosen for a broader perspective.
Things to consider:
- The way the drawings have been coloured in
- The simple lighting
Things to avoid:
- Thin line art as the outer lines, or thick line art as the inner lines
@lemonscribs
Lemonscribs' work is the transition back to foodstuff illustrations. Her works range from outfits to accessories to food. One thing that stands her work out from the rest is her choice of colours that she used and the bold line art. The combination of non-coloured and coloured line art
Things to consider:
- the difference of one colour used, range of colours
- the 3d aspect is handled well
-coloured and non-coloured line art
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Things to avoid:
- Too much detail; the illustrations for the cafe should hold minimal yet affective detail
- too bright colours (shouting)
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@pinesnprints
Pine's works were the first non-lined works I managed to find for this evaluation. Making non-lined work had influenced a much more simple style of illustration when it comes to making a piece from the looks of her works.
Things to consider:
-add something that stands out to the final product (like pines has smiley faces on each item, making it cute and recognisable as her works)
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Things to avoid:
-too simple
@blblu0
Blblu's work is one that you might imagine finding at a well off cafe or restaurant for that matter, possibly on promotional material. Once again, she is included in the non-lined group, but instead of taking a simple illustration approach as compared to Pine's, her works are more detailed and uses a wider colour palette.
Things to consider:
- The variation in colour for one piece
- Different brushes used such as airbrush and possibly a custom made one
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Things to avoid:
- The colours aren't as muted of striking, depending on what type of batik it would accompany
@mochigardens
Out of the three artists here that I have included who do not fully line or line their work at all, in my opinion, mochigarden's work is the best out of them. Her use of simple shapes and colours make for a simple method of creating such pieces, even being able to give a slight 3D effect to the bottles as well, through her simple illustrations.
Things to consider:
- the colours
-the simplicity, to some degree
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Things to avoid:
-too simple, no lines
-not that distinguishable from afar, as there is no/minimal amount of linework and the colours tend to blend in with the background
Experiments
The following are experiments of illustrations that could possibly be used in the final products, either in a single artist's style or the result of all of them combined.
These are the rough sketches made of the illustrations with near to no reference used. They were then scanned and re-sketched into medibang paint pro in order to clearly define the drawings before starting them in different styles
This is the sketch on the left and the final product on the right.
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