William Heath Robinson
Born in London in 1872 William Heath Robinson was a illustrator/cartoonist in the first world war. Heath Robinson has been described as [1]the man behind the name[1] with his famous history as a cartoonist. William was born into a family of artists in 1872 and from and 1887 he went and studied and islington school of art. He wanted to become a landscape painter but after that he had gone in to doing book illustration.
[2] By 1899, he had illustrated an edition of Cervantes' 'Don Quixote', and another of 'The Arabian Nights'. In 1900, he illustrated an edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 1902 he wrote his first book, 'The Adventures of Uncle Lubin', for the first time enjoying complete artistic license. He also worked on an edition of the writings of Rabelais, and published another book, 'Bill the Minder', which was an enormous success. [2]
Bill the minder by william heath robinson.
William Heath Robinsons came known as a gadget king and his cartoons settled the beliefs of what marked the 20th century, such as 20th centurary industrial workers. Figure 1 showing the industrial workers out at sea in the 20th centuary.
The wrok by william heath robinson below is representing the coloussus which was the worlds first ever computer. In the 20th centuary used by the british colledbreakers at bletchery park. William had produced the cartoon on this with over 2000 charactors.
Chris Riddel
Chris riddell an illustrator who was born in cape town, South Africa to British parents before moving to back to England when Chris was 1 year old Chris Riddel studied at University of Brighton. Since Graduating Chris Riddell has became a british illustrator and illustrated 13 different books. The books Chris Riddell has illustrated are The Empour of Absurdia, The ottoline book series. Ottoline and the yellow cat, ottoline goes to school, Ottoline at Sea. And Wendel's workshop CD, Wendel's Workshop, Mr Underbed, Alienography or how to spot an alien invasion and what to do about it, mr underbed, goth girl and the ghost of a mouse. And aswell as Chris Illustrating his own books chris has also illustrated books for authors such as Neil Gaiman.
3 Of Chris riddell books
Chris Riddells books were illustrated for children. And Chris has been rewarded the Nestle Childrens book award for 2006. Showing in the images below Chris Ridell had used nice colouring in his work which he mostly used indian ink to produce the colour. And his book have a good sate of humour and style which children love. And Chris had his first book published in the 1990s.
Chris Riddell video showing how he produced his work. WIth the tools he uses and the inks in his style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMEGblE0sw
A book worked on by chris riddell and Neil Gaiman.
Dave Mckean
Dave Mckean an English Illustrator, Comic Book artist, Graphic Designer and Film Maker, and photographer. Dave was born in Maidenhead in 1963 Dave had designed and illustrated book covers, Graphic Novel's, Cd Covers, Magazine Illustration, Films and DVDs and had produced fine art paintings and drawings and photography.
Shown on the figures below Dave Mckean's commission artwork. Dave is a well popular artist with a really good painting style. Where to form the textrure Dave Mckean used bits of stuck on paper to the paper to form the texture then paiting over with ink and forming a smudgey type paint mix. Which makes daves work interesting.
Some Of Dave Mckean's commission work
Dave has illustrated over 40 graphic novels such as 9-11 which was based on the terrorist attackings in september 2001. And the oth Dave has worked on Freak show, Rolling stones, dark horse the list can go on. But Dave Mckean had produced a series of graphic novels which was The Sandman series. Whcih consisted to over 20 books. Aswell as working on The Dreaming Comic covers and having 60 of them comics published.
Four of the many graphic novels Dave Mckean had Produced
Dave Mckean also had a filming career. And had produced up to 20 different films. such as The Balled of Buckethead, Footloose NYC, Lowecraft 1 and Izzy.
Some of the films and DVD's Dave mckean had produced
Through out Dave Mckeans career as he had work on editorial for Magazines and Magazine covers. Using both his Illustration and photography Dave Mckean produced imagery for magzines, such as interview editorial and some graphic novel magazines such as the new yorker. Dave had used his photography skills producing human figure photography for magazine covers such as Q magazine, Go, Rolling Stones, D Side, DreamWatch, List can go on he used his graphic design knowledge and photography to produce the front covers for them magazines.
Biblography
http://heathrobinson.org/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/29/heath-robinson-deserves-a-museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqjyynNYaM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robinson_william_heath.shtml
http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Bill-the-Minder-by-W-Heath-Robinson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/chrisriddell
http://www.chrisriddell.co.uk/
http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/author/1223/Chris-Riddell.html
https://www.pinterest.com/banderbear/chris-riddell/
http://www.parentingwithouttears.com/articles/GraveyardBook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean
http://www.davemckean-collector.co.uk/page_833188.html
quotes
[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/29/heath-robinson-deserves-a-museum
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robinson_william_heath.shtml
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