Blog Entry # 5

For this blog assignment, we are to blog about an artist in our major. From what I had to choose, I chose Dave McKean.

1. Dave McKean has contributed a lot for digital arts by showing off different styles of images for a lot of mainstream things which includes CD covers, book covers, graphic novels, and also short comics.

2.Dave has illustrated a lot of different comics and other forms of media. The fact that he uses a lot of different forms of media makes him stand out. He does paintings, line-art, photography, digital manipulation, and typography. He uses his many talents to make himself known, and to put it oout in the publice for people to see.

3.What impresses me the most about this artist is even though he failed to find work as a comic artist, he met a few people and started to do work with them and became popular. He got something out of failing and that is good to see. Failing is not always a bad thing, it just opens up more oportunities. I also like some of his works he did for the comic book series called "The Dreaming." A lot of his works seem surreal and that gives it a freaky but interesting feel to the works.

4. In one of his works for the comic book "The Dreaming," he had an image with a face with buildings on top and bottom. The face seems to be the most dominant object in the image. It is the biggest and it is easilty distinguished. From the face he seems to have made some skyscrapers rise up from the top of the head and that sort of makes the buildings subordinate to the face. In another work of his from his tarot series, he had one titled "Space" and the human figure is the most dominant object and it looks as thought it is in torment and stressed. The form is dominant compared to the little human figure hanging on the side and also the birds in the sky.

5. In most of Dave's works he seems to manipulate the human forms. In some images there is a normal head, but the body that is attatched is manipulated and sometimes distorted to make the image more interesting.

6. After seeing some of his works, I think that he works with a lot of abstract ideas. I like working more with abstract ideas as well and it seems that most of the digital manipulations he does on his works make it very interesting. Also, the fact that a lot of mainstream media use his works makes it even more interesting.