I had to post a response to the below questions for my art 37 class, I thought that it seemed relevant enough to post here as well.
Questions:
- Post a .jpg of your illustrator still life.
- Do you think there is still life in "Still Life" art?
- What art tools do you use to create...
- Traditional art (paintbrush, charcoal, etc.)?
- Photoshop art (paintbrush, pencil, shape tools, etc.)?
- How are traditional art tools and Photoshop tools different than creating art using Illustrator tools?
- Which of the "Master Still Life Art" best resembles your Illustrator Still Life art? Why?
- Do you prefer Photoshop or Illustrator or both as a platform for creating your graphic art? Why or why not?
The is unequivocally still life in “still life” art. While she us not known as a big time, but as an evangelist for adobe products, Julian Kost is a primer example to what still life photography is about. Her work is masterfully done, it takes objects of ordinary and gives them a deeper meaning through texture and stylization. The work has a psychological element to it, which is thanks to her studies in the subject. Still life art is about what objects can tell the viewer. It could be something about the owner, or a commentary on a particular aspect of life… really anything.
I am a photographer, so my tool is the camera. All cameras, be it one made out of a card board box, or a shiny new digital one. For the purposes of my art, Photoshop is a secondary tool. When working on composites, it is used to blend my images together into a new one, otherwise, I don’t use it. I focus on lightroom to impose my particular edits to my photos.
The difference between illustrator and other art tools is illustrator is based solely in the digital realm. Photoshop is an extension of the original dark room tools, built for the digital age. The end result of Photoshop is still a real word thing, whereas illustrator begins in digital and ends in digital.
I think my work best relates to Roy Lichtenstein’s the Interior with water lilies. It is a simple depiction of an environment.
If I had to choice between illustrator and Photoshop, Photoshop would be my choice. It is simply more relevant to the work I do.