Video: Ian MacArthur's Exploding Emotional Illustrations
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photorealism and surrealism have recently become quite fashionable trends in painting: some artists paint pictures that cannot be distinguished from photographs, while others create fictional worlds, connecting reality with sleep. Against this background, Iain Macarthur, 24-year-old illustrator from Great Britain, as they say, killed two birds with one stone: in his works photorealistic portraits coexist with fantastic lines, patterns and colors.
“Using mostly a simple pencil, watercolor and gel pens, I create portraits of ordinary people, but I do it in an unusual way, decorating the drawings with patterns and ornaments to get the effect of a bright explosion. I transform faces from something simple into something completely strange and wonderful,”- this is how the author himself characterizes his work.
Ian MacArthur says that he is very fond of drawing photorealistic portraits. It usually takes him a whole day to create one image, but the author is never 100% happy with the result. “I am my strictest critic,” says the artist. To make his work more interesting and mysterious, Ian often complements the finished portraits with intricate fantastic patterns: "They look as if it is an inner essence or emotions of happiness bursting out."
The artist was born in 1986 in Swindon. He claims that he began to draw from childhood. At first, these were meaningless scribbles on the covers of school notebooks: as Ian himself admits, drawing was much more interesting for him than studying. Some time later, already in college, the author was determined to become an artist and illustrator. Among the people whose work prompted him to choose an artistic career, Ian names the names of Max Ernst, Alphonse Mucha and Bruno Novelli. If we talk about the sources of inspiration when creating their own works, then the artist can find them anywhere: to the extent that an interesting drawing on the wallpaper prompts him to come up with an idea. In addition, Ian loves to observe the behavior of birds and animals.
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