Jon Klassen is a Canadian book writer and illustrator who was suggested to me by my Tutors based on his style of drawing. I personally am glad I was introduced to his work because I have been looking for many inspirational illustrative practitioners who's styles work well with the type of animation my group is trying to make. Klassen's style is very simplistic and straight forward and his his backgrounds are minimalistic and work well with the scenery provided.
I like his work for the being soft on the eye in its appearance and the way it is put together simplistically, you can make out clear what is supposed to be happening in each scene because there is no clutter of background colour and imagery placed behind the characters. The background is plane which means the characters stand out clear on each page and are easy to identify by the readers. Another major factor which helps me here is that the characters are made to appeal to a young target audience because they are all designed for children's books.
Marie Thornhauge
Love Marie Thornhauge's drawing style with a passion, she too is another artist suggested my tutors who works on developing illustrative characters for people in general who need assistance with character design background work and other things. Her style is also simple like Klassen's but completely different in a great way because she creates characters of all shapes and forms and uses very simple environment to tell a story with shapes and shading which is another concept I could follow. I like her work mostly because it reminds me of my own but also seems very exciting in its presence based on the colours used because they set the mood in relation to the colours and the background because she uses both a contrast of both light and dark colours to give the viewer a real feel of the atmosphere from looking at the colours and the emotion s of the character to help.
Both her and klassen's work will be beneficial for me when developing my animation because they will help keep in mind what makes scenery and characters important based on their decisions and how the artwork they have produced has turned out.
I feel my scenery ideas are weak at the moment because they do not feature much detail or a variety of colours to help convey emotions which means they lack feeling, because the colours are all bright and the story we are telling is sad so we need to reduce the bright colours to something dull to indicate when emotions are up or down in scenes just likes Marie Thornhauge's bed room scene which helps indicate it is night through the use of the moon and the dim darkly shaded bedroom.
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