Mikkel Sommer

                         

Mikkel Sommer's work was in our mark making seminar and I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! I wanted to just write a quick post about why I love it. 

• the one armed lady is so cool as a set of illustrations like I really loved the idea of taking that simple composition and playing around with line and mark making and tone and colour. it's so playful and nice to see how things like shadows or her face are represented in such different ways. I love that the picture changes and the plant changes and her face changes but the vibe and feel stays the same. like the images are all so different but the artist plays around with how you can warp a image through changing line/marks/tone.
• his character design is crazy!!! I just love the shape of his characters' bodies like the round n lumpy and textured shapes, but also the men with super square chests. I could talk about everything so much. the scratchy pencil lines are thick and dark and seem heavy and I love that! and teamed with the line work which has that scratchy quality but are thinner and lighter and create clean shapes.