Artist Research: Andy Mangold

After recently starting a new project with a brief of designing a sculpture, and came across a really great typography sculptor, Ebon Heath.

His work is unique and original. As an artist, his typographical sculptures exude an illusionary effect to the vision of the average eye. The way he has used the perspective of type by altering the different letter sizes creating a three dimensional effect. Using simple things such as hanging letters from string and using a blacked out background creates the dramatical effect he inflicts and portrays in his images. Waves, straight lines, curved lines, hanging, interlocking, no matter what kind of way he displays his work, it always seems perfected.

Lucas Maleonte

Looking through some recent/ modern artists and a video from Lucas Maleonte gradually building up his image of below:

Originally sketching on a blackboard with chalk and eventually building up to this amazing image and is now wall art.

stenSOUL - News and Updates: Self Portrait stencil on AUSTRAILA.com!

Here's a video of some upcoming tours and live galleries an artist i've been recently looking at called 'StenSOUL' whilst looking more into depth on the album's artwork for 21st Century Breakdown from Green Day. The artwork is inspired by at least 20 different artists and are highly credited for it.

Life Drawings

Here i used charcoal on cartridge paper, darkening and sketching in the chade of the model.

Here's a mix between pastel, charcoal and chalk, each used for skin tines and highlights of where light is on the model, and charcoal for the shading etc.

Here are my quick 1 minute sketches of the model, picking out each body part and scaling using other body parts to keep in proportion.

Here's a few illustrations I've done recently of friends of mine and myself. I used Illustrator to trace the images and used certain pastel colours and used no outline on anything (apart from certain details), just plain colours as i am starting to really love this kind of art.

Illustration Friday: Duet

Here's two birds i illustrated using a child's colouring effect.

Film TV Title Sequence

Here's a screenshot of the intro for the film 'The Number 23'. 


Using simple typography, and a relevant fast flowing animation of none stop typography, with added images. I think this works really well, not only because it looks good but it relates to the film and the background story itself.