Zuzana Čupová is a freelance illustrator and animation student. I found her work in Issue 8 of the Character Design Quaterly magazine, and absolutely adored the variation and personality of each character she creates. The simplicity of each design is even more successful because of her strong shape language, and her strong gesture helps make them more expressive and thus more appealing. Her style really interests me, as although it commonly features a lot of long, skinny-limbed bodies, each character is still distinct due to the clothing, the head shapes, the faces and the body language. Skinny-limbed characters are a particular style that I've found I like quite a lot, with Laika being another huge inspiration for me.
This is one of my favourite pieces, as there are no clothes to provide distinction between the characters, yet each one is so personalised and unique. The story is also really effectively told, and is framed very well.
I particularly like her style of colouring - not worrying too much about shading, but instead using textures and gradients to provide interest.
Zuzana says she's been influenced by a lot of czech artists (Jiří Trnka, Adolf Born, Josef Lada, Cyril Bouda, Zdeněk Miler and Miroslav Šašek), so now I have more people to check out.
Sources
Character Design Quaterly Issue 08
No comments:
Post a Comment