Big Heads - Owen Davey

Owen Davey is a freelance illustrator based in Leicester. 

Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy - for The Guardian

His general plan for making work is thumbnail sketches and research, followed by concept and composition. He then uses Photoshop to finalise his imagery. 

It doesn't matter how good you render a bad idea, it will still be a bad idea. 

One thing I learnt from this session is that research is really important to his practice. For example, his book about monkeys is heavily informed by a lot of extensive research, he had a lot of knowledge of the subject and you could tell that he knew what he was talking about. I feel this is really important if you are making work that needs to be accurate or factual in some way. 

Being an illustrator is a combination of being a businessman, an artist and PR. A lot of it is based on how you deal with clients and how you promote yourself. 

Visual Diagram - Where am I at the moment?

This is my visual diagram of where I am at the moment. I have included the work of illustrators who I am interested in at the moment and some which I have always had an interest in, for example Julia Rothman and Paul Davis. I particularly like the work of Lucinda rogers at the moment, probably because of my continued interest in working with ink and line. I said that I need to go on more adventures because I feel I will get more inspiration for my work if I continue to see more new things and places. On a personal level, I have learnt a lot about living by myself for example, cooking, managing my own time and generally adapting to living in a new place. 

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Superhero Task

This is the superhero drawing Dom drew based on me and where I am right now. It relates to how I seem to be more productive in the evenings and at night. I think my sidekick 'simple man' is to remind me to keep my work simple and not to overcomplicate everything. 

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