It’s people like CAL ARTS grad Nate Wragg that keep me fighting to be first in line for every Pixar film. I have yet to come across an artist that works there who isn’t fantastic. Wragg is no exception. Clever, well-balanced, and perfectly drawn, his work embodies the illustration style that I think of as my ideal. It’s certainly not my style, but that’s great because I hate my style. Wragg has a style that I equate with a new form of sumi-e, using fewer lines, generalizing shapes, and letting the colors create the rest. Those are the same reasons that I can never get tired of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Samurai Jack. You can bet I’m about to drop some dimes on a couple of his prints. Sleep well, Nate, knowing that your art will be watching me make sweet, tender love to the mother of my not-yet-conceived offspring.
{ 2008 03 03 }
Larry | 19-Jun-09 at 2:32 am | Permalink
Sumie? Really? Wragg’s re-digested take on 1950s design couldn’t be any farther than sumie.
Brad | 19-Jun-09 at 8:52 am | Permalink
They’re called analogies, Larry.