Julia potts

Figure 1

The work above is both created my Julia Pott. Julia Pott is known for her "awkward"animation using awkward characters. It has been said that the animated characters are there to act out her inner confusions. She recently graduated from Royal College of Art back in 2011 with a MA in Animation. She now works in America, New York, Brooklyn. She has been identified as the 25 New Face of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2012. This type of work is more of animation; it is used to tell a story. Julia Pott mostly draws her art work.  On her website shows some of her art work on her sketch book. http://www.juliapott.com/Sketchbook . The work above is her "Personal Illustration".  So it had no intention of being used for other that just showing off her work to the public. I have chosen to analyse figure 1 as I found it interesting on how Julia Potts draws these "awkward" characters. To me, I find them very odd, all the characters have different shapes, allure very much so detail to define their character. Also, what fascinated me was the use of the odd shapes in the background.

The title of this work is "Here with me", it was created back in 2010 so during her course. The genre of work this relates to is illustration, the artist is trying to show a short story with the images she has conjured up.  You can tell this by the characters and also the words used over them. I think that this work is more about friendship; the title gives off that idea, "Here with me" but also within the illustration shows "I Love THAT YOURE HERE WITH ME". The way the phrase is shown to use seems to be in a form of speech bubble like. It's like bother characters are thinking the same thing. This strongly gives off this feeling of friendship along with the theme of friendship. I don't think it could be a relationship of love as the characters looks male and also in the background it sees they are camping out. The work just simply tells us a story about two animals, camping, enjoying time with a friend. I assume that the artist got the inspiration from her self, as this art piece was part of her "personal Illustration" where the work she does under that category is more inspired by her feeling, emotions and all other aspects of herself. To emphasise on that, she has said that her work are about her inner confusion. 

The artist has said (on her blog) that this work was done on an A2 size paper which is very big. The materiel used is most likely to be card or plain paper. The technique used for this work is mostly hand drawn using a pen. It is very detailed like the fur texture on the raccoon like animal. Also the over looking human face on the left is shaped like a tree but with facial features like hair, nose and eyes. Furthermore, the colours used within the image are light, they contrast well with all the other light colours, for example the mountain  peach colour.

Figure 2
kissed
created in 2012

In comparison to figure 1, figure 2 is completely different to figure 1. This illustration was also created by Julia Potts. I find this image to be much dark, the atmosphere that it gives off is gloomy. The colours used emphasises on this idea. For example the background is a realistic picture that has been altered with the saturation to make it look more dull and gloomy. Then there's the sky that also has been edited to make the atmosphere within the illustration more bleak.
The materials used within this illustration is different to the materials used in figure 1, for example, the artists used real life images rather than drawing them, it more of a collage I suppose than an illustration .