Ashonda Bethea-Ruth Magazine Cover

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Tasha Davis Book Cover

 

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned  comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek  humorous mnner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting.

J. Thompson

Jeff Soto

Jeff Soto was born on June 3, 1975 in Fullerton, California.
Soto started out as a graffiti artist in his teens, and is an active participant in street art. After high school he attended Riverside Community College and worked in the fields of comics, illustration, mural painting and graphic design before transferring to Art Center College of Design in 1999. After graduation Soto continued to work as an illustrator but has slowly focused more on his burgeoning fine art career. Soto’s work usually consists of paintings on wood depicting Man vs. Nature conflicts, various comments on our times, and personal ephemera such as photos and notes. Much of his work appears to be political in nature.
                                                                                                          - J. Thompson

PHIL ROBERTS

Robert's is one of the top illustrators of movie posters in Hollywood. He was designed covers such as Encino man, Back to school, Coming to America, Bad news bears, and the Rugrats movie series. His style is mostly animated & painting artwork. His talented animation in his work always makes a statement to all the movie production companies. 

~P'Donia

Drew Struzan

Struzan is known for more than 150 movie posters, which include all the films in the indiana Jones, Back to the future, and star wars film series, But My favorite is Harlem Nights. Its simple with the placements of the characters but yet animated. He chose the right colors and elements of his design. Struzan's primary work medium was air brushed acrylics with finishing detail in colored painting; this gave him more options to change the images.

~P'Donia

MARY GRANDPRE

The book cover of Harry Potter and The Sorceres Stone led me to my second cover artist. It was design by Mary GrandPre. She is the artist who draws all the American versions of the Harry Potter books. This artwork inspire me because it shows unity, a variety of things put together to be come one. I also notice form, in the columns he’s flying through. I like the patterns and the hidden faces on the castle.

Tasha

GEORGE CONDO

The cover artwork I choose that inspired me was from the cover of Kanye West upcoming album titled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by George Condo. This specific album cover inspired me because it is very different and creative. I like art that makes you use your imagination. It shows a nude, monster looking woman, with wings and a polka dot tail on top of a demonic looking Kanye West laying on a blue couch holding a green bottle. I notice 3 elements of art used in the work. They include color, line, and space. 


Tasha

Emek Golan Summary

Erykah Badu's last album cover "Part One(4th World War)" lead me to the brilliant artist, graphic designer and illustrator designer Emek Golan.  His work is creative, inspirational, and meaningful. Emek does all his work by hand, which really stood out to me when I first read about him. He began his career as a poster designer, drawing poster for bands, rallies, and political events. His career sparked in 1990 with the uprising of rock bands and the increasing need for eye catching posters and flyer's. Since then his work has been seen in galleries in the US, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. His work is inspirational and intelligent. From the detail he puts into each piece to the layers and meanings behind each piece, he has become a favorite artist of mine.

~Denora L

Rachel Thomas Summary

Rachel Thomas, a creative art director and designer, creates everything from stage props to prints and everything in between. Thomas began her career as a photographer then branched out into set design where she began working with Big Active in 2004. Her stage art was seen by Joe Ann Furnice, who asked her to create a piece of work based on happiness for an issue in Selfridges magazine. This sparked Thomas's interest in graphic work and from that point she began doing several magazine covers and eventually album covers. In all her work Thomas sketches a set and sends it off to be built. She uses a material called polystyrene which is fairly affordable, making it easy to create large projects. She is inspired the stage productions of 1930s musicals. "It is about fantasy, visibility and taking things out of the everyday." The bright colors is what caught my eye. Everything Thomas creates is by hand. I love the way she works with color and shape to create a somewhat fairy tale image. Everything is so bold yet blends well together. Thomas has mastered variety and unity! I LOVE IT!!!!

~Denora L

Anna Maria Lopez Lopez Artist Summary

Anna Maria Lopez Lopez, brand name “anna-OM-line” is an artist who does design, illustration, digital art and photography projects. Her works consist of a lot of colors, abstract imagery, mixed media and illustration. Her work has been seen in on the cover of magazines, book illustrations, design contests, art exhibits, and editorials to name a few. She uses many elements and principles of design in her work, such as color, texture, size, shape, repetition, variety, rhythm and more. To create her work, she probably uses some forms of Photoshop, illustrator, and in-design. Portions of her work seem to be drawn by hand and scanned, while other portions are pictures edited and blended together. I really enjoy her bodies of work because they are very colorful, abstract and unique.Her work inspires me to be creative and think outside the norm. There are millions of ways to create cover art, it doesn't simple have to be a picture with words covering the outskirts of the image. 

 -Ashonda B-R

Barbara Kruger Artist Summary

Diane Kruger is an artist whose works has been seen in numerous places; magazines, billboards posters, bus cards etc. Her trademark consists of black and white imagery, layering red, white, and or black texts to her works. Along with being an artist, she is also a photographer. Barbara’s uses many elements and principles in her photographs. Her use of repetition, variety, color, space, and texture gives the viewer a lot of variety to take in. They also have a sense of unity. Her use of color makes certain elements come out of the picture more. The color of her words against her black and white photographs gives the photograph contrast, making parts more dominant than others, but still fitting harmoniously. Kruger most likely used Photoshop to edit her photographs after taking them. Most of her work consists of layering the words over top of her images. What I like about her work is that is it so simple, yet so bold. Just a plain black and white image with white letters and a red background behind it, with the right eye catching phrase can speak loud amongst other highly popular animated covers. Her work inspires me in the sense that i know that sometimes less can be so much more.

-Ashonda B-R