Jamie Hewlett

Jamie Hewlett is one of those artists I really like, about half the time, but always forget about. His work appeared on my tumblr the other day when I was just sort of browsing about for influence and I remembered how much I liked (some) of his work. Hewlett is most famous (and known by me) for his work behind the band the Gorillaz in which he has a very unique cartoonish but semi detailed and precise style. I really like how strong and defined his style is.

I was looking at his work trying to figure out if it related to my project at all when I came across a series of Tarot cards he had made.  The illustrations on these cards weren't particularly interesting to me but I really liked the card context of the work . I have been playing around with putting my work  into the context of a series, currently exploring this by making my work smaller and smaller and at the moment is very similar to card size itself.(http://mqltv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cartas-tarot-jamie-hewlett.jpg)
 These aspects were on my mind later when I saw three packs of cards on my bookshelf. I looked at these cards and decided it would be interesting to start drawing a series of work on these cards. This way the material itself interlinks the series of work naturally and not just because multiple similar drawings are put next to each other. It also adds another element to my work other than the figure itself which is something I've been thinking about lately.


His Gorillaz work and also his Tank Girl work have more of an influence on my comic work. The main problem (one of many) that I have with my comic project is figuring out a strong consistent style, the thing I most like about Hewlett's work. The thing about his work are there are some very distinct features to his figures that are throughout his work, similar angular, thin body shapes, pointed faces with a protruding jaw etc. In short there is less variety between the people he draws than there is in life. This sounds like it should be a negative but apparently it's not. There are a few reasons for this; his drawings are good, Jamie clearly knows what he's doing and is achieving the look he's going for, more than I can say for my work. This is something I really need to work on as I have no idea how I want my drawings to look like really.
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