• Picture This: Illustrator Gets Inspired By The Morning News
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[URL="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261075848/picture-this-illustrator-gets-inspired-by-the-morning-news"]NPR Story[/URL] [quote=NPR]People don't often think of the news as a source of inspiration — and certainly not a source of daily inspiration. But that's what it's turned into for Maria Fabrizio, an illustrator based in Columbia, S.C. For about a year, Fabrizio has been working on a project called Wordless News, in which she draws one image a day based on a story she hears or reads that morning. Starting Monday, she'll spend a week creating images inspired by what she hears on Morning Edition. The idea for Wordless News came to Fabrizio in February 2013, when Pope Benedict decided to step down or — as Fabrizio imagined it — hang up his hat. "I wasn't too busy at work that day, so I just started drawing the really fantastic pope hat on just a pretty ordinary looking hat rack," she tells NPR's David Greene. " ... I posted it on Facebook, and I got a huge response of people just saying, 'You should do this tomorrow,' and, 'Do it the next day.' And so I just have been doing it ever since. It's a part of my daily routine now."[/quote] Just a few Examples. [quote][img]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/01/09/women_marine_custom-af06bffbfdcf605c4ebc6c447c5cadb7b3b06d26-s40-c85.jpg[/img][/quote] [quote][img]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/01/09/shrink_wrap_41213_custom-3bb2af081424b5a932c50379388dca5c760f8411-s40-c85.jpg[/img][/quote]
[QUOTE=Swilly;43487817][URL="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261075848/picture-this-illustrator-gets-inspired-by-the-morning-news"]NPR Story[/URL] Just a few Examples.[/QUOTE] Could turn this into a game really.. guess what the news story is based on the images. I'm guessing that the first one is about the 55% of females in the marines failing the 3 pull-up minimum; the second about NASA's asteroid capture thing
the illustrations look unfinished to me to be honest.
[QUOTE=MenteR;43489157]the illustrations look unfinished to me to be honest.[/QUOTE] You mean like how most news stories are never fleshed out?
[QUOTE=Swilly;43489178]You mean like how most news stories are never fleshed out?[/QUOTE] no. they're illustrations and they look like rough drafts. the army one looks like a sketch, and even the composition is kinda shitty. the second one just looks bare and uninteresting (again shitty composition). good idea, bad execution i guess. the only good one available in the news source is the pope one and it differs drastically from all the other illustrations.
[img]http://wordlessnews.garnetlife.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/christie-580x580.jpg[/img] Poor Chris Christie.
Better than Anthony Weiner. [IMG]http://wordlessnews.garnetlife.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/weiner2-580x561.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=MenteR;43489157]the illustrations look unfinished to me to be honest.[/QUOTE] because they are I wouldn't call them illustrations so much as sketches, though they're clearly aiming for the same style you'd expect of a finalized newspaper illustrations. Doing a pieces daily is pretty rough if you were expecting refined things, I'd expect he has a few drafts and scrapped ideas each time and these are only as far as he gets before just being done with the concept
The news and what goes on in the world often inspires me as well, although it's really not directly evident in the final product.
[QUOTE=dai;43489955]because they are I wouldn't call them illustrations so much as sketches, though they're clearly aiming for the same style you'd expect of a finalized newspaper illustrations. Doing a pieces daily is pretty rough if you were expecting refined things, I'd expect he has a few drafts and scrapped ideas each time and these are only as far as he gets before just being done with the concept[/QUOTE] not really, concept artists have to do a lot of refined work every day. i'm just saying the execution could be better :p
[QUOTE=MenteR;43490130]not really, concept artists have to do a lot of refined work every day. i'm just saying the execution could be better :p[/QUOTE] I'm also fairly sure she does this just to do it not as a job.
it's pretty clear this person isn't a concept artist by practice, and by this quote- [quote]Fabrizio gets up around 4:45 a.m., scans the news for great stories, and then goes to work in her studio — which is conveniently located in her backyard. She works on Wordless News until about 10 a.m. and then turns her attention to work she's doing for her graphic design clients.[/quote] they're actually a practiced illustrator and these things are a morning warmup sketch while they drink their coffee, eat breakfast and watch a little TV. These aren't finalized and published, just interestingly inspired doodles put out like someone would on any old sketchbook blog
I dont like his art, there's some pretty wonky anatomy.
[QUOTE=dai;43490404] they're actually a practiced illustrator and these things are a morning warmup sketch while they drink their coffee, eat breakfast and watch a little TV. These aren't finalized and published, just interestingly inspired doodles put out like someone would on any old sketchbook blog[/QUOTE] if this is it then makes a lot more sense.
[QUOTE=dai;43490404]it's pretty clear this person isn't a concept artist by practice, and by this quote- they're actually a practiced illustrator and these things are a morning warmup sketch while they drink their coffee, eat breakfast and watch a little TV. These aren't finalized and published, just interestingly inspired doodles put out like someone would on any old sketchbook blog[/QUOTE] sketchbook blogs are the shit. a lot of times i prefer looking at sketches or random ideas like that than full finished pieces
Picture This: We were both butt-naked bangin on the bathroom floor.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43489178]You mean like how most news stories are never fleshed out?[/QUOTE] No news stories look fleshed out the way SH reads them.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;43494295]No news stories look fleshed out the way SH reads them.[/QUOTE] True on a lot of levels, especially since so many don't read the damn articles.
[QUOTE=dai;43490404]it's pretty clear this person isn't a concept artist by practice, and by this quote- they're actually a practiced illustrator and these things are a morning warmup sketch while they drink their coffee, eat breakfast and watch a little TV. These aren't finalized and published, just interestingly inspired doodles put out like someone would on any old sketchbook blog[/QUOTE] that makes so much more sense now, for a moment I was worried these were supposed to be complete pieces, which they clearly aren't
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