I find Kilroy's style pretty boring... incredibly boring. I really hate this style of clean photorealistic realistic black and white work. It always seems kind of plasticky and unless the lighting is incredibly dramatic it will always appear flat; and not in the good way. In an uninteresting, nothing to elevate from the page and actually make make the viewer look or think about the work kind of way. Luckily as you can see in the photos Kilroy only uses this style on some of the figure, leaving the rest of the figure to be drawn with limited basic line work. While I don't like the style of his detailed areas I do think the contrast between the detailed and empty areas of his work is very interesting and could work well if applied in some way to my own work with my more interesting sketchy linear style.
Julie Verhoeven
Verhoeven's work is very different to mine. It is pretty abstract and loose in a grotesque sort of way and colour is in general used in a much greater way than in my work. She kind of reminds me of Egon Schiele except her work is a bit more expressive and loose, in a grotesque way. While their is a lot of looseness in Schiele's work it is a controlled purposeful looseness while Verhoeven's comes across as more wild and thus the end result appears warped and grotesque as apposed to Schiele who's work I find visually appealing. I'm sure that's not what Verhoeven's work is going for but it is what my work is aiming for, our styles are simply very different.
There are some things I can take from her work however. These are things like her use of different coloured line work, as apposed to just black, and the strength of her lines as well as the loose way she uses ink sometimes being pretty interesting and not jus unappealing. She also deals with interesting poses, something I'm also working with except she exaggerates and warps her poses past a point of aesthetic pleasantness.Antonio Lopez
I really Lopez's work. He has a strong intense graphic style and uses a range of marks and tones throughout his work. It has that flatness that I've been talking about but the dynamic brush work and marks bring the work of the page and make the work not only visually interesting but aesthetically appealing as well. While his work deviates a bit (though not that much) from my own the end result is pretty much what I'm going for, Something that shows of the aesthetic quality and style of the model themselves while also bringing attention to the fact that it is still a drawing and presenting these two aspect in tandem. An interesting thing about his work that I really like is how he keeps the skin of his models clear, not doing any tone work. I've looked at artists who do similar techniques, usually to separate the clothes from the model themselves. This doesn't happen with Lopez's work however the model and their clothing, and their hair are blended seamlessly to be one being (exactly what I'm going for in my own work). I put the reason that these elements work together in his work down to using a strong use of line for the skin areas of the model and the same sort of line for the clothing as well, connecting the drawing by having the same basic structure throughout despite different marks and shades being used within to present the differences in texture and material.
Image sources:
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http://lfwdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Julie-David-610x769.jpg
http://www.jujuchan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PlasticDreams2JulieVerhoeven.jpg
http://www.fashionillustrationgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/02390_AL_il_figsite.jpg
http://www.bklynlibrary.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/exhibition_large/images/events/exhibitions/2012/Antonio%20Lopez_BROOKLYN__1_300dpi._H-7_%5B1%5D.jpg
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