Elaboration 2: Pete Fowler

The second designer/illustrator who I have chosen to elaborate on is Pete Fowler, another artist whose imagery really appealed to me and my style of working.

Fowler's almost halucenogenic and severely abstract designs featuring highly stylized animals and people, dreamy, surreal landscapes and bold colour stand out to me as being very daring and utterly brilliant. Some aspects of his work could easily be something straight out of the 1960's, almost reminiscent of The Beatles classic animated fantasy film "Yellow Submarine" (1968).

One of Fowler's "crazy" symmetrical pieces.

Another feature of his work is that he almost constantly uses is symmetry (as can be seen in the example to the left), every eyeball, feather, twirl etc can be reflected exactly. As it is clear his work is predominantly done digitally it would seem that although extremely 'busy', his work can be produced quicker than using mainly traditional media and techniques.

Overall, as a huge fan of bright, colourful and simple illustration I would consider myself a big fan of Pete Fowler. I just love the simple 'line and fill' quality to his work which works really, really well in his pieces. However I do feel that without the heavy use of digital media this type of work would not appear as complete and well done as it does.

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