Miles Donovan

This work was made by Miles Donavan. It is a vector portrait that he has created. He does a lot of different vectors using different colours and different photographs. It has been made to be put on his website in which he shows a lot of the different work that he has done. Each and every piece of work has a different style to it as it uses different shapes and colours and different photographs.
I have chosen to analyse this piece of work because it is a simple vector that uses a lot of different colours and it is quite attractive to the viewer as it is easy to see what the original photograph must have looked like.

The information i have looked at to further my understanding of the work is his own websites in which he has a lot of different work that he has done and shows the kind of style and techniques that he uses to create these vectors. It also gives a lot more information about himself and why he as done the work. And has a link to his own blog. http://www.milesdonovan.co.uk/
I have also looked at another website in which it shows an interview that somebody did with Miles Donovan. This interview has a lot of information about his work and the techniques and materials that he uses. I think he does this work just for his own personal reasons and not because there is a deep meaning behind it. http://www.theartfuls.com/interviews/miles_donovan

The materials that have been used is paint, (spray paint and normal paint) and illustrator. I did my own interpretation of his work and i used a normal photograph and illustrator to create the vector which is what Miles Donovan might have done. The techniques used is using the pen tool and going over the lines of the different shades and tones on the original image.
The artist has used a lot of bright colours such as dark blue, light blue, red, yellow and white. The work is quite small as he just wanted to show it on to his website and his blog for his viewers to see. And the formal elements used in this work is colour.

I have chosen to analyse this piece of work because it is a simple vector that uses a lot of different colours and it is quite attractive to the viewer as it is easy to see what the original photograph must have looked like. My first reaction to the work was that he has used the right colours to really make it look like the original image for example, for the darker shades in the original photograph, he uses a dark blue. I like this work because it does not just change the hue/saturation on the photograph but uses a technique using the pen tool in illustrator to really make it his own. The work has inspired me to do different images and use this technique in illustrator. I can also use different colours as he has demonstrated on his website and on his blog.