Sung Jin Arrives In London. 1. 2009
Julian Opie is one of my favorite artists and a big influence on me stylistically. The way he does his portraits like this is something I've been practicing for a while now since I discovered his work. The thing that interests me most is the skill in which he creates an image with such simple shapes. At first glance this image seems very detailed but when you start to look at it more you realize that actually it's only made up of a few colours in blocks. (The background of this one is much more detailed than the other's of his I've seen)
Blur's Greatest Hits, Album art. 2000
This is the kind of thing I'm more used to seeing from Julian Opie. Very basic, very simplified human figures. This is what really drew me into his work, because when you look at it, your brain fills in the picture and lets you know it's a human face, when really it looks very little like a face and is just a 2D image with some black lines on that resemble facial features.
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