Tim Burton's Influence On Edward Scissorhands

The artist/designer i have decided to base my work off is Tim Burton, Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is mostly known for his “Burton-esque” style that he has been developed by him as he is such an influential artist with his films and art, it is mainly frame by frame art as he does storyboards for his stop-motion films and also concept arts for his final characters in the films, his work has been produced since 1982 and he is still making work up to this day which is either films or art, he has made things such as The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Corpse Bride (2005) and Frankenweenie (2012). His biggest influences are the work of stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen and the …show more content…
He uses mainly triangles and stretched out rectangles for his art and some circles, these are very basic shapes to use for creating an art piece, the artist uses a very sketchy, very unrefined technique, there isnt a great deal of skill to it but it still looks very profressional, he uses the hatching technique as well to highlight the darker areas of the character and also a double hatching for the shadowing on it. The texture of it looks smooth as it is just pen on paper and the work would be no bigger than an A4 piece of paper. Tim Burton made this piece called "Edward Scissorhands" for the concept art of the film Edward Scissorhands. I know that Tim Burton goes for a unique style, it looks twisted and dark as he is intending, this shows through the way his strokes of the pen are unrefined and quite messy. The work doesnt match with any other work of the time, there was no distinct style around in the 1980's when this was created, it goes with films that Tim Burton has done because he has worked to do his own style and has developed that over a number of years, so his style at this time was very distinct and doesnt fit any stereotype of art genres that were around at this time. The colours …show more content…
"Ramona" is on normal canvas paper and is using fine liner and oil paints to create the simple colouring and shading style, the shading is minimal and just where the main shading would be instead of blending it, it gives off a harsher block shading to show off the hardness of the "punkness" of the piece. Although his art style is still "burton-esque" and like characature, he uses bright colours to contrast against the dark of the leather jacket and the black hair, also from the lightness and creepiness of the face of it brings it together for Burtons broad audience wants of creepiness and lightness. The lines are quite neat although shaky and very light, you can see it has no structure and is very freehanded the lower down it gets showing that he was trying to make it seem more interesting or even to take away the interest from the legs and move it upto the face and main body to make that really stand out. The mood of this is quite subtle as not easy to tell what its intending but its definitely from around the era of