Nick Knight - Fashion Photographer

Nick Knight is a Fashion Photographer who has worked a lot with Lady Gaga, i really liked the power that comes out of his photo's, he always seems to get the photo at just the right time. He also makes his photo's look weird and out of this world.
The work he does is very digital, but the way he works with it makes it look entirely realistic. This is a type of patheway i wouldnt mind going down this year.

I started looking at him after a staff member from London College of Fashion told me he did a talk to the Fashion Illustration course. I think i will use him as a large reference in some of my projects.

Trajans Column cast - V&A museum

The casts of the the Trajan's column were assembled in the room they stand in, due too their massive size. When being built, they could be easily assembled like a jigsaw puzzle.

The casts gave opportunities for students and people not able to travel to Rome to see these wonders.
I was amazed by the sheer size of the columns, and was constantly asking questions too the museum staff about the history of the casts and columns.

Uni - Lincoln

Lincoln was one of my top choices when i was thinking about university, because the course looked so good in the past years i have seen it. I went with the intention of asking if i would be able to study fashion illustration if i was on the illustration course, The tutors told me i would be able to, but they would not be able to help me as they dont know much in that area. They then walked off half way though the conversation which i found completely rude and threw me off of the course completly. The facilities also looked pretty shit, from what i saw it was really bare and barren due to them being in a new building. I dont know if i will be applying to lincoln as the tutors have completly made me dislike it.

Drawing Megan

These drawings are my own representations of Megan Hurst, i tried to turn her into a fashion element by transforming her into this lanky model. I dont know if i like these illustrations yet, even though they were quick 10 minuete sketches.

Uni - Leeds

A few weeks ago i visited the Univercity of Lincoln open day, attending the talks to the fine art and illustration departments. Although the course's themselves looks decent and the facilities they had were also brilliant, i dont think the course was for me. The tutor giving the talks did not make the course sound overly appealing, speaking in a monotone voice does not sell it well.

In the building that houses illustration, they had floors full of Apple Macs, a floor for photography, a floor full of studio space and a floor for woodwork. The facilities i saw were very good and probably would have met nearly all of my needs.

I am not going to throw out the idea of attending leeds all together, but it will not be one of my first choices.

Hayden Williams

I have used Hayden williams as a large reference for my  personal statement and my own projects the i do at home. His work style is very detailed and refined, putting the most minute detailing in his illustrations. When you view his peices you can almost feel the passion from what he has done.

Hayden does a lot of work revolving around celebrities such as Oprah, Michelle obama (shown below), the disney villains and Miranda Priestly/Meryl streep (shown above)

William Hogarth - A Rakes Progress

http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/ this is the source of the following review of "A Rakes Progress" by William Hogarth

A Rake’s Progress

William Hogarth (1697-1764)
A Rake's Progress (1733)

The eight paintings in William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1733) tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father. It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730).
The series is principally known through the engravings made by Hogarth from his paintings in 1735. In an advertisement published in November 1734 Hogarth invited potential subscribers to visit his studio in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square) to see the paintings before subscribing to a set of engravings.
The paintings were in the possession of William Beckford until Soane bought them at auction in 1802 for 570 guineas (Mrs Soane bid for them at Christie's on her husband's behalf). The canvasses of A Harlot's Progress, also owned by Beckford, had been destroyed in a fire at Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire, in 1755.
The paintings were originally hung at Soane's country villa, Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, but were moved back to Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1810. In 1824 Soane re-hung them in his new Picture Room at the rear of No.14 Lincoln's Inn Fields together with the recently acquired Election series.
1. The Heir
The scene introduces our hero, Tom Rakewell, who has inherited a fortune following the death of his miserly father. Tom is pictured in his father's house which is beginning to yield up its hoarded wealth.
Tom is attempting to pay-off a servant girl, Sarah Young. She holds a gold ring, revealing that Tom has seduced her with the promise of marriage. Behind Tom, a lawyer, employed to compile an inventory of his dead father's estate, is stealing gold coins. A starved cat searches for food in a chest full of silver, whilst servants find treasure hidden in the fireplace and behind wall hangings.

2. The Levee
The second scene sees Tom in his new palatial lodgings where he is holding a morning levée in the manner of a fashionable gentleman.
Amongst the assorted visitors who have come to offer their services is a jockey, a dancing-master (with violin), a music teacher (believed to be based on Hogarth's great rival Handel), a landscape gardener, a poet and a tailor.
On the wall behind hang some of Tom's recent acquisitions three Italian paintings - Hogarth was known to dislike the fashion for acquiring Old Master works (which he branded 'dark pictures') at the expense of paintings by British artists.

3. The Orgy
It is three o'clock in the morning and Tom, drunk, is enjoying the attentions of prostitutes at the Rose Tavern in London's Covent Garden. A night watchman's staff and lantern lie beside him (souvenirs of a rowdy night in the surrounding streets). Two of the ladies are relieving Tom of his watch.
In the foreground a woman is undressing ready to perform poses on the pewter dish that is being carried into the chamber.

4. The Arrest
Tom has squandered his fortune and narrowly escapes arrest for debt on the way to a party at St James's Palace. It is Queen Caroline's birthday, also St David's Day, and the two bailiffs wear leeks in their hats to mark the occasion.
Tom is saved by Sarah Young, now a milliner, who pays his bail money with her meagre earnings. A street urchin steals Tom's gold-topped cane, whilst a lamplighter, distracted by the commotion, accidentally pours oil on to Tom's wig.


5. The Marriage
Impoverished, but accustomed to a life of luxury and excess, Tom decides to marry an old hag for her fortune. The shabby setting is Marylebone church, which at this time was on the northern fringes of London and well known as a venue for clandestine weddings.
Tom is clearly more interested in the pretty young maid then his one-eyed bride. In the background Sarah Young and her mother are being prevented from entering the church.
Two dogs in the foreground (one of which has lost an eye) present a grotesque parody of the marriage.

6. The Gaming House
Tom, wigless and cursing his fate, has gambled away his second fortune.
The setting is White's Club in Soho. Tom is not the only loser - a dejected highwayman (with pistol and mask protruding from his pocket) sits by the fire, and a nobleman, eager to continue playing, pleads for an advance from a moneylender.
The gamblers are oblivious to the fact that the club is on the point of destruction. Only the two croupiers appear to have noticed the smoke curling in from behind the panelling.

7. The Prison
Tom is now an inmate of the Fleet, London's celebrated debtors' prison. Beside him lies the rejected script of a play he has written in the hope of securing his freedom.
Other prisoners in the cell are trying similarly hopeless schemes. One man has written a treatise on how to pay 'ye Debts of ye Nation', and another is attempting to make 'fools' gold.
Tom, exhibiting the first signs of impending madness, has sunk into despair. The beer-boy harasses him for payment whilst the gaoler demands the settlement of his weekly bill. His wife scolds him for having squandered her fortune.
Sarah Young, who is visiting with her child, has fainted from distress at the scene.


8. The Madhouse
In the concluding scene Tom has descended into madness and is now in Bethlem Hospital or Bedlam as it was known.
He is surrounded by other inmates who are suffering various delusions. These include a tailor, a musician, an astronomer and an archbishop. In the door to one of the cells is a man who thinks he is a king - he is naked and carries a straw crown and sceptre.
Like the real Bedlam, Hogarth's Madhouse is open to the public. Two fashionable ladies have come to observe the poor suffering lunatics as one of the sights of the town.
The ever-faithful Sarah Young sits, weeping, by Tom's side.