The recent revival of dilettante and outsiders art has brought an immense visual wealth to the world of character design. Artists release their creativity through spontaneous freehand drawing and create untamed, edgy and unparalleled beings. Their fast, eruptive and rough drawing techniques can be seen as a therapy to the sterility of the flood of digital images. Common sympathy seekers, consumer mascots and pop icon characters are re-traced and translated into an emotional, personal, diary-like language.Pictoplasma presents a fine selection of the most adventurous images from a global scene of artists, workingmainly with a pen or analogue techniques such as water colour, collage or photo montage. Besides showcasing the key players of what is being labelled"fractured figuration"or"new psychedelic folk", Pen to Paper tells of the longing to bridge the inevitable gap between the human body and the realm of the image.
Pen to Paper by Pictoplasma presents a fine selection of the most adventurous images from a global scene of artists, who reject the computer and channel their creativity through spontaneous freehand drawing. This recent revival has created untamed work, edgy drawings and exceptional beings while injecting immeasurable visual wealth into the world of illustration, fine art and especially character design. With works by Allison Schulnik, Shoboshobo, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, John Casey, Luke Ramsey, Eric Shaw, Joey Haley, Kerozen and many more.
Pen to Paper by Pictoplasma presents a fine selection of the most adventurous images from a global scene of artists, who reject the computer and channel their creativity through spontaneous freehand drawing. This recent revival has created untamed work, edgy drawings and exceptional beings while injecting immeasurable visual wealth into the world of illustration, fine art and especially character design. With works by Allison Schulnik, Shoboshobo, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, John Casey, Luke Ramsey, Eric Shaw, Joey Haley, Kerozen and many more.