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Sagmeister & Walsh.

Use of font on front cover of beauty book Work – Sagmeister & Walsh (sagmeisterwalsh.com)

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Neville Brody.

Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. He is famous for his record cover designs from the British music scene in the 1980s. He also founded the FontFont library of fonts. “With FUSE an interactive magazine and collection of experimental typefaces and posters, he challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design” Neville Brody | Life and (Typographic) Work | Hue & Eye (hueandeye.org)

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Saul Bass.

Was a famous graphic designer. He became famous from his motion picture title sequences. This is his title sequence from The Man With The Golden Arm, which has a cut out section for the arm.

Saul Bass | Biography, Designs and Facts (famousgraphicdesigners.org)

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Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Dracula is a character from the book by Bram Stoker, also named Dracula published in 1897. Bram Stoker was influenced by Transylvanian folklore and history. The book tells the story of how a solicitor goes to stay at a Castle of a Transylvanian nobleman on business, when he finds out that the nobleman, Dracula is a vampire he escapes. Dracula then goes to Whitby in England and is eventually hunted down by Van Helsing and killed. Some of the book’s most dramatic scenes were influenced by Stoker’s stay in Whitby, including the Abby ruins and wind-swept graveyard.

How Dracula Came to Whitby | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)

Original cover of the first issue of Dracula

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History of Vampire books.

Stories about vampires can be traced back a long way to the ancient Greco-Roman civilization. In English the type of vampire we recognise now can be seen from 1819 in a book called The Vampyre by John Polidori. However, it was not until the Victorian period when Vampire books became really popular such as, “James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the Vampire: Or, the Feast of Blood (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella “Carmilla” (1872); and, most famously, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)”. Vampire Fiction - British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

Vampire Sketch at PaintingValley.com | Explore collection of Vampire Sketch

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Comic written Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.

The comic takes characters from different works of fiction from novels, film and tv and puts them together in their own universe. The comic uses Victorian characters in a slightly steam punk Victorian England. The comic also uses real Victorian ads within to add to the ‘Victorianess’.

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Locke and Key.

Locke and Key is written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. It is a dark fantasy comic book series. The first volume is Welcome to Lovecraft.

Complete Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez: The horror comic book series that inspired the Netflix show — Monster Complex

The illustration style differs from From Hell as it is more cartoon animated in style rather than the ink sketching of From Hell comics.

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Dracula development.

This was my fist concept drawing for Dracula.

I really wanted to make an open jaw on my Dracula sculpture to try and make it look like classic snapshots of what he looks like from the old movies.

Over the course of me making him I found that I didn't go down that route because of the overall size of him wouldn't allow me to do that so I had to make changes to the piece

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This. is . Simon.

( I made Simon in year 11 of high school, he was apart of a series of characters' that I made. All of them / most of them had the same style and or look to them. )

This was the beginning of my art, It's where I found my love for line work and manipulation of basic shapes into creating depth into a 2d drawing.

My artwork now is a lot more jagged and not so concentrated on having a complete and easterly readable/recognizable structure as I wanted to dive into more of a darker theme and to get Intune with my slightly darker style of artwork, you can see this in one of my newest drawing's. (Example A)

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From Hell comic book series.

The From Hell comic books were published for a decade from the late 1980s into the 90s. They were produced by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.

A Review of From Hell: Master Edition from Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell — Nerd Team 30

I find the art work relates to how I would want to learn how to draw and I think I have many pieces of art that are very similar to these comics such as this piece that I made only a few days ago...

I related to how I wanted my Dracula character to look when considering the mouth and eyes.

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Victorian crime.

Victorian England was a dangerous time and place to live. It inspired stories such as Sherlock Holmes by Authur Conan Doyle where Holmes used deduction and forensic science to solve Victorian murders. This type of storytelling was influenced also by famous real-life cases of murder such as the Bermondsey case where a husband and wife Marie and Frederick Manning were convicted for murdering Patrick O’Connor. This case also inspired Charles Dicken’s characters in Bleak House. There was also the case of Amelia Dyer who killed 400 babies and often through them in the Thames.

Jack the Ripper was a Victorian serial killer who signifies this period in time. He butchered sex workers and although the type of women who killed were often overlooked in society at this time, the murders were so awful it caused public outcry and panic. The comic book series From Hell by Alan Moore in the 1990s was based on Jack the Ripper’s murders including some real aspects of the crimes and some made up ones.

The Most Notorious Murders in Victorian England | History Hit

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Victorian era.

The Victorian era in the UK was the time when Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 until 1901 when she died so it made up a large part of the 19th century. During this time the industrial revolution occurred and saw large numbers of people move from the country to towns and cities to work in the factories that had been built due to technological developments. However, this caused lots of issues in relation to public health because working class people were living in overcrowded dirty conditions and diseases like cholera spread. Cholera is a water borne disease. In 19th century London it was deadly between 1830-1860, it killed 40,000 people. People did not realise that it was spread by water and that the dirty water in the Thames was the main source. There was more focus on improving public health once rich people started dying too. There were also issues with pollution in towns and cities from the coal burnt to power factories.

The Cholera Epidemic - Victorian Epidemic & Cholera in the World Today (familyhistory.co.uk)

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Alphonse Bertillon.

Alphonse Bertillon’s Anthropometric Identification System | SciHi Blog

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer who researched biometrics. He developed a way to identify criminals using their physical features as before this, only names and photos were used. Bertillon anthropological method which included describing a criminal’s ear, nose, iris, body, and face. Later this was replaced by taking fingerprints. Scientists did not always work with police to catch criminals.

"Can you tell who a criminal is just by looking at them? No you can’t, but that didn’t stop the idea from gaining traction in the late 19th century. Early criminologists in the U.S. and Europe seriously debated whether criminals have certain identifying facial features separating them from non-criminals. And even though there is no scientific data to support this false premise of a “born criminal,” it played a role in shaping the field we now know as criminology."

There are many characteristics in art itself that can define faces to be seen as evil and are or can be recognized as a perceived "evil" face or being, there are patterns that "evil" people might not be fully aware of their actions and behaviours, I.E all their negative traits, take empaths for an example.

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Was there something within my work that I struggled with understanding in the beginning, How did I overcome the first couple of challenge's in the beginning of this project? And how I currently believe what kind of direction it will go in!

I believe that the direction of this project it is going to heavily focus on improving my Dracula sculpting and line work, to try and create extra small details in-order to grow my skills in sculpting and my overall art. I Believe that is is very important to find new ways and overall better techniques as I want to look deeper into my work and find new ways of creation, I found whilst I was making my sculpture of Dracula I understood line work in sculpting way better than I could imagen and found the experience overwhelmingly fun!

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Artiest that have made Dracula out of clay and why I like them, how does the artist relate to what I have been working on over the past couple of days?

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Sculpting Dracula.

This is the first time I have ever done a real piece of art out of clay and my experience so far with clay modeling has been overwhelming good so far as I have been show how to sculpt out of clay but I found it hard to see how to make the necessary lines to form things like the cheek bones, the jaw line and the eyebrows but over time it did become easier to build up some really good definition on the check bones, If you where to look at the nose that I sculpted on to it I found that it was lacking the depth necessary to make it standout against the checks/check bones and it worked very well just by adding in a slight indent up where the nose it to separate the nose from the rest of the body and so I found that made the nose come to life a bit more...

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Thomas Allen.

Look at his work and add to the blog - discuss how he creates and uses the covers he finds to make 3D works before examining whether you like the idea or outcomes.

Thomas Allen Turns Tired Pulp Fiction Book Covers Into Pop-Up Sculptures (inhabitat.com)

Thomas Allen creates 3D art to bring to life classic books from the 1940s and 50s mostly westerns, romances, adventures and mysteries. These are called "mini dioramas" and allow characters to interact with each other even though the characters may be from different books. It gives old books a completely new look. The way the models pop out grabs your attention. He uses characters that are cut out of books and combines them with other characters from other books in a collage style. The examples above show the action and how two men may be fighting through the book on the right.

Vintage Book Covers Get 'Pop Up' Treatment by Thomas Allenarthaus (myarthaus.com)