2008年12月17日星期三

Illustrator Natalie Shau



Natalie Shau is a 23 years old Vilnius (Lithuania) based artist. She works mainly in digital media and her pieces mix photo manipulation, 3D elements and digital painting.


About her work, she says she "enjoys creating surreal and strange creatures, fragile and powerful at the same time. Her style was influenced a lot by religious imagery, fairytales illustrations and many classical and modern painters."


Once I saw the picture below, firstly I was attracted by the face of the woman: delicate face, the black hair is waving under the elegant hat and the wonderful stature. Well, the eyes demonize her. Legs are turned into many ink marks which track the way she passed. Or, when she was walking from the end of the path to here, her legs are getting comminution in the way. This is quiet impenetrable, but creative.


The background here, I was thinking that the whole background is in one layout. Then I found the right part was put darker than left one. The branches are quiet clear in bright green. So I think the artist tries to set them in different layouts. The woods with the little path which disappears as a point is classical as well as typical design. The whole illustration is detail-concerned, carefully processed. The basic keynote of the picture is absurd, cool, coquettish and exquisite.

I don't get deep meaning here, and I think it will be a good decoration of some specific music or stories.



I found that she really likes the spuare shape. Many other works were done like this. And in this one, a round scene was used inside it which giving a sense of that we are seeing with a telescope. That's quiet creative.



If you like Natalie's style, here are two links I recommand:


http://www.myspace.com/natalieshau
http://natalieshau.carbonmade.com/
I pretty like the second one. For the works are ordered in specific series. They are not that new, but well-organized which can help you a lot once you want to analysis her illustrations.

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