Andy Watt

I like this image and its name 'Asbo Grannies'! I think it is trying to communicate that as a small number of teenagers can recieve ASBO's (Anti Social Behaviour Disorder), grannies can to! I think it is a humorous piece as you dont hear about grandma's having ASBO's. It shows them with coffee cups and burgers and them smoking and all wearing brightly coloured sunglasses, which some ASBO teenagers do actually do.

This image is called 'Coach'. It looks to me as if it is the Arsenal F.C. manager Arsene Wenger (Below the illustration). I like the detail and realism this image portrays as it represents Arsene Wenger very well. I think this is being communicated towards football fans and Arsenal F.C. fans. It might have been used in a football matchday programme or even in a newspaper.

Andy Watt creates humorous and acerbic illustrations. His eye for telling details combines with a jaundiced view of the world to result in richly provocative imagery. His work is both repulsive and compelling.

Gary J Lucken

This image is of a world map but made up of different coloured, different types of bottles. Some of the bottles include cola cans, beer bottles and water bottles. I like the way the image has been put together as it creates an accurate picture of a world map.

This very colourful and detailed image (below) is of a girl playing on her PS2. This style of art almost reminds me of an online game someone showed me when i was in Junior School called 'Habbo Hotel'. I like the detail that has gone into this image and I think Gary J Lucken is trying to communicate what a stereotypical Japanese teenage girls bedroom looks like as it inlcudes a laptop, a big tv, a Pikachu toy and some Japanese writing and symbols.

Gary J Lucken/Army of Trolls: Army of Trolls is the portfolio of London born, video game-obsessed artist Gary J Lucken. Working from his computer in Switzerland, surrounded by Japanese toys and piles of old 2D video games, Gary produces a unique brand of colourful artwork, heavily influenced by the video games, toys and pop culture he loves so much.
UK-born Army of Trolls is based in Switzerland.

Nigel Buchanan

Nigel Buchanan is an illustrator who draws things about everyday life. For example, the illustration below is trying to communicate swine flu. It has four pigs on a bus and then a wowan standing near with a look on her face as though to say 'stay away from me'. I like the way the four pigs each have a different expression on their face because it gives more realism to the image.

This image (below) is of two giant humans clambering over/under a windey road. The woman has a grocery bag in her hand and the man is dressed in a suit and is holding a briefcase. I like the way the image actually looks quite real but I am not sure what the image is trying to communicate.

Michael Terry

This image shows a large man with large arms and hands leaning over a table. It is quite a humourous image because of the way it has been created. I like the oversized nose of the man as it creates the type of picture you get when watching 'creature comforts'. This image (below) shows an out of proportion face which could of been either a self portrait or a picture of someone Mike Terry met. It could of been drawn using either pencils and then paint or by using Photoshop. I like the way the nose and the lips are bigger than everything else as it gives a humorous side to the image.

Mike Terry uses a range of traditional media to build the rich surface detail in his images. His celebrity caricatures grab viewers with their exaggerated humour. His illustration style is humourous and conceptual. His best work comes from being given the freedom to express his own brand of humour in illustration. He produces his illustrations in gouache, colured pencil and pen and ink.

Jim Hansen and John Burns

Jim Hansen and John Burns are the illustrators and authors of this book: 'Manga Superheroes & Comic Book Characters'. This book teaches you how to draw Manga Superheroes. This book is trying to communicate how anyone can learn to draw Manga really well with a little help. I think it is aimed at various age ranges from teenagers to adults or anyone who wants to learn this syle od drawing.

Julie Bell

This image (above) is of Skaar: Son of Hulk. I think the image is trying to communicate the grusomness of the character and how evil and dangerous he is. I think Julie bell communicates this by the weapon the character is holding- the massive sword thing and also by the characters build- very muscley. Also this image is out of one of the marvel comic issues.

This image is of a woman with wings in a bikini who is on a motorbike. I think this image is trying to communicate the dark side of the woman, as the chopper style motorbike has a kind of skull on the front of it and the picture is quite dark and the motorbike also has spikes coming out of the wheels and a tail thing coming out of the back of the motorbike. I think the target audience for this piece of art would be for aspiring fantasy artists.

Julie Bell is an American painter/ fantasy artist. Julie Bell has painted the covers for about 100 fantasy/science fiction book and magazine covers since 1990. In the early '90s, she illustrated painted covers for video games as well as many trading cards for the superheroes of Marvel and DC.

Boris Vallejo

This image (above) shows a woman caressing an angel type woman upon tree roots in the sky. I think the image is communicating love between two different creatures due to the fact that there is one ordinary woman and a winged woman with a strange tail.

This image is a piece of fantasy art. I think this image is trying to communicate the fantasy imagination Vallejo has. It shows a woman in a swamp like place with a bow and arrow. This would take the interest of a fantasy artist.

Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian born American Painter. Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Normally, the subjects of his paintings are monsters, gods and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle.