Monday, March 3, 2008

Julian Opie

first off, this man has the GREATEST website i have seen in ages. i'm not even a Mac OG--it is impossible not to appreciate, especially because it works so damn well.

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I came across Julian Opie's work as some teeny pictures in a Japanese magazine. The super-small images caught my eye because they were so bold. Opie's drawings are incredibly simple, almost chunky, yet they all feel extremely real--the way he captures poses with such simple strokes is kind of awe-inspiring. I love the feeling of the drawings. While they give a lot of visual information, they seem emotionally kind of blank--purely documentary.

Anyway, I'm obsessed. Not a fashion illustrator per se, but an AWESOME illustrator whose work has something to say about drawing humans.