The Work Of Georgi Dimitrov - Erase:

As a keen illustrator myself, I’m always on the look out for particular works that catch my eye. Georgi Dimitrov’s work is spectacularly bizarre  combining surrealist and cartoonist inspirations to create incredible, zany works of art.

The Bulgaria-based ‘Erase’ specialises in Illustration, Graphic Design and Street Art.

To see more of Erase’s work, go to his Behance page here.

Portfolio Study - Advocate Gallery:

For my most recent unit of work I have been given the task of creating an online portfolio/curriculum vitae for myself; as my knowledge of web design is limited I have decided it best to research into how websites are read, how they are used, and how they are created. This series of blog posts will look at a selection of illustrators/designers portfolios, and how I can learn from their layout and presentation of their web space.

In the Summer of 2012 I was fortunate enough to work for Advocate Art, an illustration agency in Ashtead, England; Advocate Art run a gallery alongside their agency on the ground floor of their building, and they are responsible for displaying many artists work both in their gallery and on their gallery website.

Throughout their site you are greeted by a lot of white space alongside their logo and navigation bar at the top of the page. I’m not the biggest fan of white space on a website, as sometimes it can make the page look barren and boring; however, on this gallery site it looks clean, professional and resonates the feel of a gallery space. More often than not, galleries are made up of large, white walls with work sparsely distributed across them; this is definitely the feel that I get from Advocate Gallery’s website, which I’m sure is difficult to pull of well, but is something that they have managed to achieve.

To see Advocate Gallery’s site, and find out which work they are displaying currently, head over to: www.advocate-art.com/gallery

Portfolio Study - Jasper Goodall: 

For my most recent unit of work I have been given the task of creating an online portfolio/curriculum vitae for myself; as my knowledge of web design is limited I have decided it best to research into how websites are read, how they are used, and how they are created. This series of blog posts will look at a selection of illustrators/designers portfolios, and how I can learn from their layout and presentation of their web space.

Jasper Goodall is a critically acclaimed illustrator/artist from Birmingham, England - graduating from The University Of Brighton in 1995. He has worked on some amazing projects in his lifetime, more recently designing the covers of several Muse singles and follow-up artwork for their gig at Wembley Stadium; I was intrigued to see how an artist of this stature would set up his online portfolio.

Goodall has kept his site minimalistic, with a sidebar on the left and a central column for images/text. The front page of his site acts like a blog, and the site and his work can be accessed in more detail through exploration of the sidebar and the options within. The site is predominantly white space, as an artist with his style, I was expecting more. He focuses so much on explorative backgrounds, characters, colours and the cosmos in his work, it would have been nice for that to carry over onto his site. However, the white space does let his work speak by itself, but sometimes I wanted to zoom in on some of the immaculate detail in his work, and was disappointed when this was not an option.

To visit Jasper’s site, fit to the brim with meticulous artwork, go straight to www.jaspergoodall.com