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Showing posts with label graphic designer. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Aton, A Work in the Making
Anthony Louis-Jeune, known artistically as Aton, is a 26-year-old artist who has the ability to put his hands on many different projects.
A native of Haiti, Aton has been drawing since primary school.
“When I started, my mother did not want me to draw,” he explained. “She would even tear up my drawings.”
This did not stop Aton from living his dream, neither did being colorblind.
"I feel normal because I never saw colors. I was born this way," he said.
Aton still manages to create colorful, dazzling paintings.
"I have a concept of the colors," he explained. "I concentrate more on the intensity of the colors. I know that yellow is brighter than orange and green is paler sometimes."
He buys tubes of paint and pencils that have the names of the colors written on them to help him.
"I always knew I wanted to draw," said Aton.
He was inspired by those artists or those minds per say who created the comic books he owned.
"I wanted to be like them when I get older," he explained.
Aton explored the idea of pursuing drawing as a profession when he sold one of his drawings to a band in Haiti as a logo for 300 USD at just 15 or 16 years of age.
"I was like 'man, I can make money out of it'," he said.
As a result, he began working for a marketing company named Graphcity to create logos. He then created his own company, Aton Concept, and freelanced.
When asked about what his company offers, Aton listed graphic designs, illustrations and logos.
"[For graphic design, I make] business cards, billboards, shirt designs, [and] anything related to designing...[something]," he added. "I can conceive it and people can do it."
Aton also worked for other Marketing Agencies, such as Image & Marketing and Publi Gestion, and illustrated for big companies, such as Comme Il Faut.
In addition, he illustrated for the famous Haitian writer's, Gary Victor, popular series, Djamina, shown below.
This did not stop Aton from living his dream, neither did being colorblind.
"I feel normal because I never saw colors. I was born this way," he said.
Aton still manages to create colorful, dazzling paintings.
"I have a concept of the colors," he explained. "I concentrate more on the intensity of the colors. I know that yellow is brighter than orange and green is paler sometimes."
He buys tubes of paint and pencils that have the names of the colors written on them to help him.
"I always knew I wanted to draw," said Aton.
He was inspired by those artists or those minds per say who created the comic books he owned.
"I wanted to be like them when I get older," he explained.
Aton explored the idea of pursuing drawing as a profession when he sold one of his drawings to a band in Haiti as a logo for 300 USD at just 15 or 16 years of age.
"I was like 'man, I can make money out of it'," he said.
As a result, he began working for a marketing company named Graphcity to create logos. He then created his own company, Aton Concept, and freelanced.
When asked about what his company offers, Aton listed graphic designs, illustrations and logos.
"[For graphic design, I make] business cards, billboards, shirt designs, [and] anything related to designing...[something]," he added. "I can conceive it and people can do it."
Aton also worked for other Marketing Agencies, such as Image & Marketing and Publi Gestion, and illustrated for big companies, such as Comme Il Faut.
In addition, he illustrated for the famous Haitian writer's, Gary Victor, popular series, Djamina, shown below.
Aton actually comes from an artistic family.
"We all have some sort of love for doing stuff," he said.
They each embrace a different type of art. For instance, his grandmother is a dressmaker. "She draws also," Aton added.
His mother is also artistic.
"My Mother... is really manual," Aton explained. She sewed the curtains for her house.
None of the members of his family, however, use his/her artistic skills as a profession.
"I am the only professional artist," Aton explained.
He does admit that one of his cousin is considering using her skills professionally.
"She's working on it," he said.
"We all have some sort of love for doing stuff," he said.
They each embrace a different type of art. For instance, his grandmother is a dressmaker. "She draws also," Aton added.
His mother is also artistic.
"My Mother... is really manual," Aton explained. She sewed the curtains for her house.
None of the members of his family, however, use his/her artistic skills as a profession.
"I am the only professional artist," Aton explained.
He does admit that one of his cousin is considering using her skills professionally.
"She's working on it," he said.
Among Aton's art projects is a poster that he recently designed for a juice company in Haiti.
“[The poster is designed] for them to post anywhere they are selling,”he explained.
Aton is currently attending Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic, where he is getting a degree in Fine Arts/Illustration. Here are a few more of Aton's works:
"In school, they teach us how to draw with our left hand and ...our feet," he explained.
Aton also enjoys to rap, which is a hobby for him. He did a remake of Gregory Isaacs' Night Nurse.
He also recorded his own song called "Get Foktop," which gained him fame on campus.
Aton would actually like to release an album with 15 songs ranging from Hip Hop to House.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Marlie Decopain, The Accomplished Artist
Marlie Decopain is a motion graphic designer and digital fine artist with an impressive list of clients like Stardust.
She developed an interest for art at a very young age.
"Every night I'd draw and give the drawings to my mom," she recounted. It's for this reason that her parents decided to enroll her in a Summer art school at age seven.
At age 12, she joined Graffi Colori, an art school ran by her neighbor at her house, where she learned drawing techniques.
“She gave me a good foundation, which then allowed me to keep growing as an artist and expand my views and perception of art even after she was no longer my teacher.”
On her website, nicheeny.com, you can find one of her Graffi Colori drawings.
“I was 14 when I made it,” she said.
The neighbor, who was actually an architect, taught the class every Saturday, and Decopain was her student for three years.
Then Decopain moved at age 16 to the United States from Haiti and finished her last two years of high school there. She took a regular art class her junior year and an Advance Placement art class her senior year.
“In the AP art class in high school, we did a lot of figure drawing but the teacher also allowed us to work on other projects of our choice in order for us to develop a portfolio,” said Decopain.
After reading the story of a digital artist in a magazine, Decopain developed an interest in digital art and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where she graduated with a bachelors degree in computer art.
Decopain is also good with animation, but she stopped working on animation three years ago. She worked on animation on a number of promos for HGTV, NatGeo and HBO to name a few.
As a hobby, Decopain paints.
“I loved painting,” she gushed. “I still do.” But the lack of space caused her to set this hobby aside.
“I'm hoping that in the future I'll be able to have a studio space so that I can start painting again.”
Nowadays, Decopain works mostly on her computer as a freelance artist.
“I bounce from company to company,” she revealed. She works on specific projects for several companies in Manhattan.
Some of the companies Decopain has worked for are Stardust, Nice Shoes, and Click 3X. Her first gig was with Comedy Central where she designed a promo.
She is currently working though with a program called, Art Quake, in which 10 artists will sell their original prints in a portfolio. Cybil Charlier who previously worked with Decopain for an exhibition invited Decopain to be part of Art Quake.
All proceeds from this project will go to artisans who lost their works or art supplies in the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Marlie contributed to the design of the video of Ricky Martin's song "Lo Mejor de Mi Vida Eres Tu"
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