Pretty Friday!!!

Did your Know that in America some companies celebrate Friday as a special day! I'm sure you also prefer Fridays over Mondays ha ha ha :) They call that PRETTY FRIDAYS!  and employees are supposed to wear clothes to make them prettier.  Wouldn't it be nice if everybody did the same everywhere? What about in our school? Wouldn't that make us smile early in the morning? I also would  update the  blog’s status  saying, “Pretty Friday! Students and Teachers  are looking dapper today.”

To be honest, Who has any idea of what “dapper” means? even though you can easily figure out that it must be something good. You can think “hmm… is it the comparative form of ‘dap’ or what?” So, what is dapper?

Neat and trim in dress or appearance, typically of a man  (pulcro)

So, yeah.. it is a good word to use!

Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.

He studied at the Lambeth School of Art and was elected to membership in the Royal Watercolour Society and the Society Nationale des Beaux Arts, and became Master of the Art Workers’ Guild.

Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912 1911. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914

 Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until transparent tints were created. He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work.
Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in st
yle to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks.

Rackham ilustrated books as Brothers Grimm stories (1900), Rip van Winkle (1905), Peter Pan (1906), Alicia in Wonderland(1907), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), Undine (1909), The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie (1911)...

Victor and Jack the Ripper

Well, this is my Halloween poster design! It wasn't chosen in the contest but I´m very proud of it anyway. In my poster I used a vectorial style of drawing using a computer program called Illustrator. This program allows you to change the size of the image with no restrictions. With illustrator you can get perfect curves and a "cartoonish" appareance too. I love animation and cartoons so I tried to make a poster with a cartoon style about Halloween. In the image Jack the Ripper appears stalking  a woman in the dark streets of London. The font I used is from the movie Mars attacks of Tim Burton, scary and retro! The colours are very shiny and brilliant,like an episode of Scooby Doo. My poster wasn't the scariest one, but it was the  funniest, in my opinion.

Victor :)

Reyes's poster

This is the Halloween poster I included for Oviedo Art School Poster Contest.

 

 I chose an orange colour as background because it is the typical pumpkin colour and a typography 'Helvetica' in black, with a small separation between letters to give it the sensation that there is more space.

I created a typographical game with the letter W, transforming it into a bat.

Dates are below the title block, building a structure of a gun.

A clear and simple poster where Halloween is the only important thing. 

Reyes Fernández

Rafael Alburquerque

Rafael Albuquerque is the critically acclaimed Eisner and Harvey Award winner co-creator of Crimeland (Image Comics, 2007), Mondo Urbano (Oni Press, 2010) and the NY Times Bestseller, American Vampire ( DC Comics/Vertigo, 2010) written by Scott Snyder and Stephen King.

Making comics since 2003, Rafael has worked with all major publishers in the business, illustrating popular books such as Blue Beetle, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, and, recently, The Uncanny X-Force for Marvel.

Rafael lives in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, at least for now.

Alan Lee

 
Alan Lee

Alan Lee is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He was born on 20 August 1947 in Middlesex, England and studied at the Ealing School of Art.

 

Illustrations

Lee has illustrated several fantasy books, notably several works of J.R.R. Tolkien, such as the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Children of Húrin. Other books he has illustrated include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock (as well as the cover of an early print of this book), The Mabinogion, Castles and Tolkien's Ring (both by David Day), The Mirrorstone by Michael Palin, The Moon's Revenge by Joan Aiken and Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson. He has also illustrated Rosemary Sutcliff's adaptations of Iliad and Odyssey (Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus) and did a cover painting for Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Alan did the artwork for the CD Alive! by the Dutch band Omnia, released on 3 August 2007 during the Castlefest festival."Shapeshifters" by Adrian Mitchell, a retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses, illustrated by Alan Lee, was published by Frances Lincoln in 2009
Watercolour is a commonly seen medium in his work, along with pencil for his sketches.

Film

Lee and John Howe were the lead concept artists of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, and was contacted by former director Guillermo del Toro to keep continuity of design for the upcoming Hobbit films. In a documentary interview on the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson details the story of how he managed to contact Lee, a rather reclusive man, in his home in the south of England. By couriering a package to him containing two of Jackson's previous films, Forgotten Silver and Heavenly Creatures, with a note from himself and Fran Walsh, Alan's interest was piqued enough to become involved. He went on to illustrate and even help construct many of the scenarios for the movies, including objects and weapons for the actors. He also makes a cameo in the opening sequence as one of the nine kings who became the Nazgul.

Lee has also worked as a conceptual designer on the films Legend, Erik the Viking, King Kong and the television mini-series Merlin. The art book Faeries, produced in collaboration with Brian Froud, was the basis of a 1981 animated feature of the same name.
Lee recently released a portfolio of his conceptual artwork for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, entitled The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook.

BRUCE TIMM

Bruce Walter Timm (born on February 8, 1961) is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.

Timm's early career in animation was varied; he started at Filmation, working on the layout of Blackstar, Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and its spin-off She-Ra: Princess of Power, and The Lone Ranger (Timm also did background work on G.I. Joe). He also worked for numerous other employers, including Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth Productions, and attempted to find work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, but without luck. In 1989, Timm joined Warner Bros. At Warner, Timm worked on Tiny Toon Adventures.

.However, Timm is best known for his subsequent work on the animated series based on various DC Comics superheroes, popularly referred to as the "DCAU" (DC animated universe). Along with his Tiny Toons partner Eric Radomski, Timm co-created and produced Batman: The Animated Series, which premiered on September 5, 1992, and went on to co-create and produce Superman: The Animated Series (premiered in September 1996), The New Batman Adventures (premiered in September 1997), and Batman Beyond (premiered in January 1999). He also served as producer on the feature-length Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker before taking the helm as creator and producer of the animated version of Justice League, which debuted in November 2001. This series continued in the form of Justice League Unlimited. Timm actually had very little to do with the production of the Teen Titans animated series, though because of a mistake in the first season end credits he is often mistaken for an executive producer. Timm was also the producer and co-director of the direct-to-video Superman Doomsday.

Although he shared character designer duties on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League with James Tucker, Timm did virtually all the original character designs for Batman: The Animated Series himself (with the exceptions of Mr. Freeze and the Riddler, who were designed by Mike Mignola and the characters Man Bat and the Mad Hatter, who were designed by Kevin Nowlan).

DC universe animated series, including Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond, and other DC-set works associated with Timm (and his collaborators') art styles are often referred to by fans as "The Timmverse" of DC comics, relating to those series' distillation of popular storylines from the comic book versions or the outright introduction of new characters or relationships (such as Harley Quinn, alterations to The Question's personality and background, or Batman and Wonder Woman's romantic fling).