Max Reed

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Photo Studies

July 2018

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Original by Kimeillo on Instagram

Original by Violet1202 on Instagram

In Your Style Challenge

July 2018 In July of 2018, a challenge was going around Instagram in which an artist would draw a character in their personal art style, and then ask their followers to redraw said character in their style. These are a few of the drawings I produced when taking part in this challenge.

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Photo Studies

July 2018 More photo studies, this time from July 18th - July 20th. As I post my work on Instagram, I picked a theme for each set of 3 photo studies in order to keep my Instagram profile looking cohesive and clean. Again, all references were found on Pinterest.

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Photo Studies

July 2018 Photo studies from the 15th, 16th, and 17th of July. It was my goal for this month to draw a photo study every day, as I really wanted to get a better handle on colour (an obviously key element in my artwork). All reference images were found on Pinterest.

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Photo Study

July 2018 A photostudy from the 11th of July 2018, using reference from the website Lazy Oaf (an independent London fashion brand). I really admire the clothing designs that Lazy Oaf put out into the world.

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Original by Ruthhammondillustration on Instagram

Original by Procrastiartist on Instagram

In Your Style Challenge

July 2018 In July of 2018, a challenge was going around Instagram in which an artist would draw a character in their personal art style, and then ask their followers to redraw said character in their style. These are a few of the drawings I produced when taking part in this challenge.

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Photo Studies

July 2018 Photo studies from July 7th and July 8th, the first of which was referenced from a Vogue photoshoot and the second of which was referenced from a photograph on pinterest. These were, again, studies to practise my understanding of colour relativity, and were painted in Adobe Photoshop. When I do my photo studies, I challenge myself not to use the eyedropper tool until the end of the painting so that I can check my colours against the original photograph to see how I accurate I was. I feel like I learn more that way, and have found this to be a very beneficial practise in terms of understanding bouncelight and the balance of skintones.

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Traumatic Vitamins

July 2018 Character design for a fictional band called Traumatic Vitamins. The original lines were drawn using a ballpoint pen in my sketchbook, and then scanned and coloured in Adobe Photoshop.

Johnny and Luke

Luke

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Pear - Oil Painting

July 2018 An homage to my fruit-themed miniseries from earlier this year, featuring a boy with a pear on his shirt. This piece was painted using Reeves watersoluble oil paints, as well as regular oil paints. I worked on top of an underpainting of acrylics to provide a base for the painting.

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Consumption Conversation

June 2018 A playful concept inspired by the classic idea of the banna phone.

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Photo Studies

May 2018 Photo studies from May 27th, 29th, and 31st. These were all loose experiments using a textured brush in Adobe Photoshop, and were mainly an excuse for me to practise my understanding of colour and colour relativity. All images were referenced from photographs found on Pinterest.

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Heatstroke

May 2018 Another experimental piece focusing on the use of the primary colours magenta, yellow, and cyan.

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Oil Practise

May 2018 Some very messy oil studies painted using Reeves water soluble oils on gesso-primed sketchbook paper. This was my first proper time painting with oil paints, and it was definitely an interesting experiment. I used images from Pinterest as reference for the two girls, and added gold details using a gold acrylic ink.

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Breakfast Time

March 2018 A two part miniseries focused around breakfast foods. 'Breakfast Mouth' was actually inspired by lyrics I misheard from a song, while 'Unlucky Charms' is a cynical play on the popular American breakfast cereal.

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AS Level Art - Final Piece

March 2018 I briefly took up AS level art in an effort to build a portfolio for applying to courses the following year. These four images were drawn primarily with biro, with subtle additions of coloured pencil to saturate colours where necessary. 

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Shadows

March 2018 Digital paintings united by their use of colourful shadows. These were all very experimental, and were mainly an excuse for me to play with colour.

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Digital Collages

March 2018 Digital collage of my own paintings, again composed and drawn in Adobe Photoshop. For this piece, I was inspired the work of illustrator Ana Godis, who briefly experimented with laying out her artwork in a moodboard-esque style.