This is a post in a series of interviews featuring up-and-coming illustrators, in a celebration of the first annual Illustration Week. Enjoy!
Danny Quirk
Website: http://www.behance.net/dannyquirk
Blog: http://danquirk.blogspot.com
Your work is incredibly realistic. What is your process of completing a painting?
Everything is a staged photograph, collaged/comped in Photoshop, and that finished ‘comp’ is my sketch. From there, if I have time I’ll draw it out, or else graphite transfer the image onto paper. From there, just start painting away. ha. For the Marines series, bought uniforms/guns/props (all current to date/location) and used that as reference. If there’s one thing I can’t stress more ESP for realistic artists, it’s DO YOUR RESEARCH/ HAVE SOLID REFERENCE.
It just makes a world of difference in the final.
The anatomical ones are actually lots of fun to do. Generally speaking will ‘dissect’ a region of the body and photograph it. How I go about this is I’ll draw the anatomy ON the body, exactly where it would fall under the skin in permanent marker. From there, paint flesh tone latex over the anatomy, and have the subject cut it/peel it open, so when photographed, there will be the exposed anatomy in slight perspective as it would move with the body.
By: John,
on 10/22/2009
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The Pink Tentacle blog has scanned and annotated a few amazing pages from the book, Anatomy of Japanese Folk Monsters by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. You might recognize Mizuki’s art from his (also-incredible) manga GeGeGe no Kitaro.
The above folk monster is the Kuro-kamikiri (”black hair cutter”) which “is a large, black-haired creature that sneaks up on women in the street at night and surreptitiously cuts off their hair.”
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Speaking of Japanese monsters, did you see this scroll (via boing boing)