Robert Farkas

Robert Farkas is an illustrator from of Budapest, Hungary. He is known for his unique style that blends watercolors and digital techniques. Drawing much inspiration from the mystery and beauty of wild animals, many of Robert’s works portray animals such as lions, tigers, foxes, and wolves.

Atmosphere:

How does the work make you feel?

The work makes me feel satisified and also imaginative

Why does it make you feel like this?

The style and the coice of the balancing, contrasting colours create an abstract and aesthetic effect

Does the work create an atmosphere

It clearly creates a warm atmosphere through the choice of the warm coloured paper and the strongly saturated colours themselves

Style:

Does the artist have a style to their work? 

The artist strongly has a style to their piece by restricting themselves with a number of colours used, to create a contrasting image, in order to make the person stand out more from the background

Is it contemporary or traditional in appearance?

contemporary and traditional, this can be presented by its style and colour

Design elements:

Which of the following design elements is prominent? ( colour, line, tone, texture, form, shape, pattern)

Colour, tone, form, shape

How have they been used?

The rough effects of the brush strokes that make different forms and shapes, along with colours combined

What is the composition or layout like?

The composition of this piece is mostly focused central of the image

Content:

Is the work a portrait, landscape, still life or is it abstract

Portrait

What do you see when you look at the work?

Portrait of a man with a red coat

What is happening in the image?

The image presents the expression of the person in the portrait, as if they look either surprised or happy

Based on what you see, explain what meaning you think that the work is communicating

The work could communicate something based on community and teamwork by the colours and the sport like effect presented in the picture

Techniques and processes:

What is the medium of the work? (Drawing, photography, textiles, digital art, etc)

Photography, Digital art, Photoshop, Traditional art (such as watercolour painting, etc.)

What particular techniques have been used? (Eg crosshatching, darkroom, batik, layering and opacity)

This piece could involve techniques such as: layering, painting, photoshopping, filter playing (could also involve opacity)

How can you tell that these techniques have been used?

The use of strongly saturated effects and filters 

Context: 

Does the work respond to any occurrences that were happening at the time? ( eg socially, technologically, or politically)

Socally

Does the work relate to any other areas of knowledge such as science, religion or geography?

Science and social communication

Links to project:

How does this work relate to the project?

The work relates to the project because it is a portrait of someone presented using a watercolour technique

How could this work influence your project and ideas?

Yes, it clearly influences my project and ideas by introducing some further techniques such as changing saturation and contrast within the colours and the bold shading. Therefore this exends my experiments on using photoshop, and watercolours.

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