Contemporary artists.

Today will be the past for tomorrow! In this blog post three contemporary artists are going to be researched. There will be a small bibliography on them, but most importantly their style is going to be discussed in this post. Their style is also going to be compared with artists (which are their inspiration).

Hydro74 Joshua M.Smith.

Hydro74

He started learning at university but he didn't take it seriously. He took some photoshop basic lessons and started to gain more interest in the subject. Some artists whom influences him are: Rick Griffin, Jim Phillips and Greg Irons.

Rick Griffin

Jim Philips

Greg Irons

He developed his style by trial and error. Before he used to create shapes and place shapes on to shapes and use that as the basis for an illustration, but over time he became a perfectionist to line. He hate brushes and strokes although use them from time to time. He likes to give the impression to his final piece as raw, organic and not clear. When he worked with other companies he learned to work fast and simple but making it feel complex at the same time. When he was asked in an interview how you describe your daily work flow? he said, "Pretty standard. Wake up, coffee, email, twitter, figure out what I'm doing, do it, play a little Xbox, work more, coffee whenever the cup is empty and .. More work. If I have nothing going on, then I focus on creating fonts or organizing for the next project."
He uses patterns which resembles art nouveau patterns, like those used by Alfons Mucha and other nouveau artists.

Mike Austin (Human Nature 84).

 He is a vector illustrator, Mike Austin impressed everyone on the digital art community with his new approach on making vector graphics and being a high defensible of media. He started designing by drawing ninja turtles for his classmate. His influence is Michael Jackson (the singer), because when he saw him dancing and singing he, Austin always thought that Michael Jackson must have practised everyday to master his art and so Austin do the same for his art.

Mike Austin

 Some of the artists which influenced his style are Glen Vilppu, Carlos Huante and Burne Hogarth.
He started out with Photoshop,but his school also taught Adobe Illustrater.

Glen Vilppu

Carlos Huante

Burne  Hogarth

 He fell in love with vector around 2008 when he started dabbling in animation and discovered a lot of similarities between Adobe Illustrator and Photo Shop.
Mike Austin calls described his style by saying, "I have always been keen on cartoon styled artwork but I also love the old masters dedication to the figure and 3D space. I combined fun world of cartoons and the old masters mentality, so I guess you could call my style Cartoon Realism."
He basically starts his work by sketching than moving on to Illustrater.

Alex Beltechi.

He is a digital illustrator and designer. He studies design and he earns money by creating Photoshop tutorials for a popular website. He is excellent in designing typography and streaks into the image.
"Art was mostly a hobby" he said. Than he started taking art seriously as he began high school. He started doing posters, banners and flyers to his local church on Microsoft "picture it" but when things started to be sophisticated he switched to adobe software like Photoshop and InDesign. He finds his inspiration everywhere. Usually from day to day objects like sounds, People or places.
How he works? Once he knows what to create, he search on the internet to see if it's been done before, this is done so that his work is original and fit to his style. He do scribbles and thumbnails on paper to map out ideas in a visual form. After that it is all digital work, but he tries to keep his initial thoughts as the main guiding factor, but he trys variations along the way too. He works with a good selection of pencil and paper, when coming to photography he uses Nikon D-90.

Alex Beltechi 

Bibliography

Media Temple Professional Hosting,abduzeedo,[web],Available at: < http://abduzeedo.com/interview-tutorial-designer-alex-beltechi> [Accessed 1 november 2014].

Media Temple Professional Hosting,abduzeedo,[web],Available at: < http://abduzeedo.com/interview-joshua-smith-aka-hydro-74> [Accessed 30 october 2014].

Media Temple Professional Hosting,abduzeedo,[web],Available at: < http://abduzeedo.com/interview-mike-austin-human-nature-84> [Accessed 31 october 2014].

Media Temple Professional Hosting,abduzeedo,[web],Available at: < http://abduzeedo.com/interview-sam-wolfe-connely> [ Accessed 3 october 2014].