Pawel Kuczynski: A brilliant mind.

Pawel Kuczynski

Pawel Kuczynski is a Polish artist that specializes in satirical illustration. Born in 1976 in Szczecin, Poland, he graduated with a graphics degree from the Fine Arts Academy in Poznan.

 Pawel has been focusing on satire since 2004 and has garnered nearly a hundred prizes and distinctions since then.

Much of his artwork deals with serious themes such as poverty, greed, politics and mortality. While his subject matter is stark, his illustrative style is whimsical and cartoonish.
This provides great contrast and makes his work interesting to analyze.

Below you will find a curated selection of Pawel’s brilliant illustrations. 

Illustration: Today's sketch

                           Ryuichi Sakamoto 'The Sheltering Sky

                                                    Today's sketch was about finding the Self

              

Illustration: Learning from life drawing

        First some  30-seconds quick sketches, then a 3 hour sketching of the model. Learned so much that day.
  Start with anatomy. Learning how to relax your muscles, to draw using your arm instead of your wrist, and trying to feel the energy of the model's body. Look at the way she stands as a whole figure, and not precisely at all the details.To understand what her body is telling you. Learn the body language. As I was drawing her, I realize how my mind works and what it does to confuse me when I am trying to convey reality to the paper. As you try to draw every single detail from the beginning of your process, your brain does not look the whole picture and he cannot find the right relation between the parts of the body. ..and somehow you end up with a big-head girl and a paraplegic foot.

  So you have to look at it as a whole picture. Sketch it as a quick figure, with other words, draw your first impression of what you see. You can then focus on the details : )

Mine were more like caricatures.

Mood of the day

                                       


                                                                           You have to let it go..

Illustration

    Illustration is about making stories. Stories that live inside your little head, or were a part of somebody's life. For me, to be an illustrator means to have two things; Good memory, and imagination from heart. The bad thing is that I have the memory of a golden fish.

  You have to imagine these stories like they existed, like you lived every minute of the character's life. Maybe he gets anxious, but happy. Then he gets angry. He cries. You have to know how he/she reacts when everything is going wrong. If you created a character, you have to know him.

  Everyone can tell a story and if you tell it good maybe something can happen. Depends on the story. The sure is you must have something to say behind the story, otherwise it has no value.

Some illustrators with really good hand and a weird mind like..

.. James Jean
James Jean is a Taiwanese american artist. He is known in the American comics industry as a cover artist for various books published by DC Comics.
Here is some of his work.

Creating puzzles.

It's that you actually can't see your fear, that makes you even more terrified. If those

fears had eyes and noses and pretty ears they will be more familiar.

It's the unknown that you are afraid of. It's the unshaped.

 Put a shape on it. Make it yours.

    photo and Photoshop editing by Georgia Gianna

Art Practise

Painting

 with water colors 

by : Georgia Gianna