ERIK JOHANSSON
For my inspirational artist, I choose to pick Erik Johansson. The reason for choosing this person as my artist was because I wanted to try and find someone that would have an amazing portfolio with lots of nicely composed images. I usually tend to look at more VFX artists that do digital compositing for films and movies but seeing Erik’s portfolio and seeing his creations gave me a far more inspiring feel for this project. His portfolio usually consists of surreal photography with scale composting. A Lot of his work deals with having very bright themes to dark themes with the lighting okaying a big role in his composites to match the energy of the composite.
The composition of his work is what really wanted me to pick him for inspiration, the look and feel of each image give off a chilling feel with the images really having a nice look and color to them. The scenes that are made up are quite unreal but the way he works with the lighting and scaling of each image makes it look much real. His photos usually have one or two subjects in the frame which seem to have a central focal point in the composition with a very strong sense of scale within the subjects accompanied by a very strong light source to give it more depth. I also love how he is able to show us some of the processes that go into making these photos and because they take a very long time to make and are only composed of images and none of the items are computer-generated he only makes about less than 10 images a year. One of my favorite photos of his is a picture of an island in the middle of an ocean that has little cranes and construction trucks fixing up the island which also has buildings on top of it. The images seem to represent the daily life of people and them interacting with normal objects but with a twist to them, not really random but not the usual. I love the range that he has with a lot of his work as well some being the very close distance from the frame or either a very wide range.
For me, this looks very amazing and I would love to try and not replicate one of his images but get something close to what he has made in terms of getting the right composition and beautiful lighting effects that he has made. I want to create something very creative just like him but make it really pop and show the skills that I have. I would really like to do something with a scale similar to his because there are many things that are very small that we tend to overlook and seeing them very large can be a very big eye-opener to us once we see them large.
ERIK JOHANSSON
ReplyDeleteFor my inspirational artist, I choose to pick Erik Johansson. The reason for choosing this person as my artist was because I wanted to try and find someone that would have an amazing portfolio with lots of nicely composed images. I usually tend to look at more VFX artists that do digital compositing for films and movies but seeing Erik’s portfolio and seeing his creations gave me a far more inspiring feel for this project. His portfolio usually consists of surreal photography with scale composting. A Lot of his work deals with having very bright themes to dark themes with the lighting okaying a big role in his composites to match the energy of the composite.
The composition of his work is what really wanted me to pick him for inspiration, the look and feel of each image give off a chilling feel with the images really having a nice look and color to them. The scenes that are made up are quite unreal but the way he works with the lighting and scaling of each image makes it look much real. His photos usually have one or two subjects in the frame which seem to have a central focal point in the composition with a very strong sense of scale within the subjects accompanied by a very strong light source to give it more depth. I also love how he is able to show us some of the processes that go into making these photos and because they take a very long time to make and are only composed of images and none of the items are computer-generated he only makes about less than 10 images a year. One of my favorite photos of his is a picture of an island in the middle of an ocean that has little cranes and construction trucks fixing up the island which also has buildings on top of it. The images seem to represent the daily life of people and them interacting with normal objects but with a twist to them, not really random but not the usual. I love the range that he has with a lot of his work as well some being the very close distance from the frame or either a very wide range.
For me, this looks very amazing and I would love to try and not replicate one of his images but get something close to what he has made in terms of getting the right composition and beautiful lighting effects that he has made. I want to create something very creative just like him but make it really pop and show the skills that I have. I would really like to do something with a scale similar to his because there are many things that are very small that we tend to overlook and seeing them very large can be a very big eye-opener to us once we see them large.