The History Of Art

I could’t pass this piece of art without posting it on die without ART.

It have simple look, creative shortage of every artistic epoch and it have educative character :) what could you ask for more? ;)

You can recognize every artists style, I think that commenting on every style is not an essence of this post, so we will just skip that.

There are many artist in same epoch as one of these represented, but as you can see these are representatives according to artist of this piece of art…

Write a comment, give us response if you have something interesting on this subject…

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Dec 23 by Alen

You must have me muddled with someone else? No Abi, that’s you!

When I said I wanna blog about her, she thought I’ve muddled her with someone else. No dear, that’s you. Abi Daker has working as a professional artist since graduating from the University of Reading in 2003. Abi provides illustrations & artwork for children’s books, print and web publications, adverts, posters and private commissions. Her work is always drawn freehand, whether it is coloured digitally or with dry or wet media.

All my personal work is based around things I see during the day; people, places and scenery. I draw a lot of aerial views because I like to see the top of buildings.

Did you heard about a Happy Journey? O’yes, Abi is one of the founders – I’ve blogged more about the project before. You can find more of her creative work at abidaker.com and make sure you are following her on Twitter. She’s cute!

Thank you for being so modest! Love you.

May 29 by Danijel

Hello creativity. Hello Jenuine!

Jen Collins is an illustrator living in Scotland. By day she works at an arts centre, and on evenings and weekends she can be found drawing at her desk, as well as spending time with friends and eating yummy food with her boyfriend. Such a interesting person. Things that make her happy include sunny mornings, the prospect of small adventures, meeting and collaborating with other creative people and finding excellent things in second hand shops. Think we have a lot of things in common. She wishes there were more hours in a day, or more days in a week, so that she could sit with a cup of tea & a sketchbook more often.

I’m following Jen on Twitter over a year and she’s becoming very dear to me more and more. Her creative work is so cute, I’m seriously thinking to buy a piece from her shop. She has just redesigned her website hellojenuine.com, go and check it out.

Frankly, I wish to become your friend and stay in touch! By the way, welcome to my blogroll.

May 10 by Danijel

Creative coffins? Introducing Happy Journey

After Thereza’s tweet about a special project I was very curious and sure it’s connected with art – art project. About 4 hours later a Happy Journey was launched. It’s the product of the imaginative heads of illustrators Thereza Rowe, Lesley Barnes and Abi Daker.

It was born out of a Twitter interaction over a link Thereza posted featuring eco friendly customized coffins which used mostly stock images and very little imagination.

They invited the best artists illustrators from around the world to form a collective to answer a brief involving *final destination* boxes design. The project has been developing better than they ever expected as the response from the artists involved and originality of their artwok have been amazing so far. Although currently web based, ideas and possibilities for print publishing + an exhibition are being discussed and explored.

GET INVOLVED

Should you wish to get involved the first thing to do is to join the group pool on Flickr, read through the brief and download the project template. I’m sure there are many creative brains, show us how your *final destination* box is gonna look like.

Good luck with your project!

May 01 by Danijel

You are safe now! (New header illustration made by Djuro)

You’ve noticed something new here? O’yes it’s a header illustration made by my dear friend Djurdjica Selec also know as Djuro. She’s amazing and really nice person, I usually call her a ninja because she kicks ass in drawing stuff. As freelance web designer and illustrator she works with the clients around the world. Djurdjica recently moved to the coast and still can’t believe it.

She’s currently working on improving her drawing skills, her design eye, reorganizing both her online and physical studio, preparing fish and going to bed no later than 5am. I’ve spent a few great weekends with her and had so much fun. For Christmas Djuro bought me a book called “Sexy Web Design”, by Elliot Jay Stocks which is still on my *Read me* list. She sometimes tweets about these things. And sometimes, when things consume her enough, she will draw them and put them on her blog.

To realize what she meant with the illustration I asked her a few questions:

The illustration you’ve done is not far away from the blog concept, and that’s why I like it very much. How did you come to the idea?

Well, since our initial Skype musings on Die Without Art blog, we both loved the idea of the illustration to literally represent that title. Your only wishes were to make it black and white, with a dash of red. So that was perfect, because we both wanted it bloody :).

Later I spent (how much?) two – three weeks, just letting my sick and bizarre part of mind do its work. At first I was getting all sorts of suicide – scene ideas, but soon I threw those out and just wallowed in ironic and more “bad luck” ones. And those came suprisingly easy.

This idea came to me while I was in the exact position our guy there is – the living one. I was drawing, with my iPod on and thinking “Okay, so I am indulging in some form of art, so I am safe now, but what if I weren’t?” and BAM! A piano falls right next to me! Well not really, but piano is the quintessential thing to be falling from the sky, killing random non art – loving people. The dog came to the picture later, as I felt bad for killing the poor guy, so hey, why not give him someone to fire the alarm?

It is a very self-explanatory idea and I liked that, header – wise.

I’m sure readers wanna know how you draw it?

I like to have a photo reference when drawing people, so after an unsuccessful web search for the exact poses I imagined, I turned to my only model available at midnight – my boyfriend, and made him pose for both our guys. I must say he was very cooperative, even stayed in the “you were just crashed by a piano” pose longer than needed. The piano was easy to find. So that was the sketch.

After realizing I sketched a way too vertical composition for a header, I traced it on a another paper. Actually two papers, glued together (you can notice the seam on the piano). I traced it with a pencil, and then traced it again with a thin black pen. I used Staedtler Tripulus Fineliner. Originally I planned on on coloring it in Photoshop, but I got carried away with the fineliner, and did the shadowing with hand. I also used a red fineliner and a grey Faber-Castell crayon. And lots of eraser!

I know you’re attending a drawing course, can we expect new works, soon?

Well if I do wish to exhibit something soon, it will surely go up on my blog. I’m trying to keep myself in a learning-mode as much as possible, and the drawing course is extremely valuable for that. Most of my work now is school-work. I sometimes publish that work on Twitter, while the initial “I made a drawing!” enthusiasm is still with me. To publish something purposefully, I need a backstory, an idea, a blog post, or a fun project such as DwA here :)

Thank you Djuro!

You’re following Djuro already?

Djuro is one of DwA’s friends with creative brains, read her blog at drawingdjuro.com. Hope she will publish new stuff more often. There you can find her drawings and sweet words. For short updates please follow her on Twitter.

Wallpaper alert!

You like the illustration ninja Djuro made? You can have it on your desktop. Just choose the resolution 1280×1024, 1680×1050 or 2560×1600 pixels and enjoy it every time you minimize your windows.

DwA logo is on the way. Stay tuned. Thanks for reading.

Feb 27 by Danijel

The *Billie Jean* legend

It seems Michael Jackson left the trending topics on Twitter and the other media is forgetting him too. Am I wrong? This illustrations by an norwegian illustrator and designer Rashid Akrim, are here to remind you about the *Billie Jean* legend. Urban use of bright colors perfectly cheer up the dark side of the tragic (true) story.

I’m not MJ’s fan but I like this illustrations, Rashid really done a great job.

Feb 22 by Danijel

How imaginative illustrations can be?

And we have some illustrations here before the Valentine’s day and at the beginning of the Winter Olympic Games.

Mario Sughi is an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and historian, living and working in Dublin. At the end of the 70s he worked in Rome as humorist in Italian satirical magazines Il Male and Zut. Mario has moved to Dublin in the late eighties where he studied Medieval History. In 1995 he was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin.

I believe that the work of an illustrator betrays his desire to make use of imagination to recreate the world in which we all live.

I chose a few of his illustrations. My favorites:

His unique and unusual style has changed my view of the illustrations. Really!

Thank you Mario.

Feb 12 by Danijel

You still wanna smoke?

What kind of art is this? Simply, my interpretation is “the fate of smokers”. Now you see how smoking can be art. Whatever, I’m sure mixed stuff below inspires you to think twice, next time.

Daniel Sparkes began his artistic career as a key member of the British street art scene in the early 2000s. Before long, this lead to work producing designs for fashion brands such as Nike and Sixpack and illustrations for clients such as Redbull and Warp Records.

Sparkes now works purely as a fine artist, producing drawings and paintings for exhibition. Find his work at danielksparkes.com.

Feb 06 by Danijel

Sky Nash, young book artist in making

Sky Nash is an artist from Birmingham currently based in London, studying a BA (Hons) Book arts and design. She started the degree in September and she’s constantly learning new things.

I choose it so that I could carry on being an illustrator and learn something practical at the same time.

Enjoy the rest of this article and see what 20 years old female artist can do.

After making some improvements on her original design, she printed on book cloth and end paper. Look at those hardback characters, awesome.

This was an experiment with book structure, trying to take away some of the normality in books.

Sky wanted to experiment more with the paper here, white paper feels a bit lifeless sometimes, she spent a lot of time covering the paper in oil and tea staining it, which made all of the pages even the cover semi transparent.

Sky is such a friendly minded, follow her on Twitter (@skynash). Over and above you should read her blog at sky-n.blogspot.com.

I hope she will share her new works with you, a Die without Art visitor. Subscribe here.

Jan 26 by Danijel