OUGD602 - PPP3 - Creative Networks Lecture

Last Thursday I attended the Creative Networks lecture held in Leeds College of Art. Although it was wholly an exhibition of illustrators and not graphic designers, it was really fascinating to me, as illustration has always been an interest of mine. 

Babs Tarr gave an insight into her practices and she's simply amazing - she can achieve almost any style and covers a lot of bases meaning she's really flexible in her work. The amount of work she produces as well is astounding, and really inspired me to churn out loads of work, if I'm honest!

It turns out that I already follow Babs on Twitter, but I also proceeded to follow both Cameron Stewart and Matt Forsythe too. I managed to get a mini Batgirl drawing from Babs, I admire her a lot! 

I'm really inspired to pursue illustration a bit more, it's always something I've wanted to do.

Some of Bab's amazing work: 

I really like her use of colours and the subjects she draws attract a lot of fans (she said that fan art is a good starting point as you immediately have an audience. If you dump it straight onto tumblr then your stuff can get reblogged and spread around like wildfire if it's good and its of something people know and love - she said people love sexy ladies!)

http://babsbabsbabs.com/