Dave Mckean

Dave Mckean is a major inspiration in my artwork and has been since I was first introduced to him in my final year of school (2008). I absolutely love his wide range of work and find him such an inspiring artist as he has tried many forms of different ways to communicate messages and be creative. For this reason I have included my 3 main types of work I love that he has done. The first is of his drawings, my parents recently brought me his book Squink, too many times I can just sit looking through that book for inspiration to just pick up a paintbrush (or whatever medium) and just make markings to try and represent what's in front of me. In this book the only use of medium is black ink. I find this alone incredible as the images still vary quite significantly, as in they have different mark making techniques applied, different styles, and it appears them spontaneous marks. The second image is of his photo manipulation and heavy mixed media images that he creates. This is the first work I discovered by him and it was definitely what has helped to inspire me to be more creative with media etc. The other amazing thing about the piece below is it's sheer size that it was painted at so that it could be used in an a4 comic. The final thing that I have linked is of his movie work that he has done. Mirrormask is by far one of my favourite movies for it's artistic qualities and it amazes me that Dave Mckean just tries his hand at everything, as this is how I like to work, and I hope to have skills in many aspects of creativity.