I've been looking at a favourite illustrator of mine a lot lately. Timothy Bradstreet http://timbradstreet.typepad.com . When I first saw his work years ago, I thought I'd found myself an illustrative soul mate, so to speak. The shadows he achieves using ink and brush are superb. He takes photos of friends and family to use as reference for all his images.
He never colours his own pictures, he prefers to work in black and white, but his lines are sublime! I will start to take photos of friends and family to use as reference for the characters I will create for my uni project. This is because I want to capture that reality and make this place 'Library of Babel' more believable.
For my own progression I will obviously render everything myself, as limiting my technique to just black and white, will only hold me back as an illustrator. Tim Bradstreet uses a light box to draw out his images. Some people think of this as cheating, but the major decisions of where to place marks and also what type of marks, always comes down to the artist and Bradstreet has definitely evolved his technique of what to line in and what not to.
Another artist I looked at today is Danjiel Zezelj http://www.dzezelj.com His work is also quite harsh in it's black and white tones. An artist from Croatia there is a definite eastern european feel and look to his work.
The shadows, again are exquisite, the poses add a sense of drama and the rendering technique can add a sense of mystique but also contemporary design.
His lines are a little simpler but still manage to portray a very detailed look to the finished image. I also like the way he uses foreign style text. Something I may well use for the Babel project, as the the author was from Argentina.
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