Mike Mignola - revisit & relevance

Mike Mignola is someone whose work has definitely had a massive impact on the way I think both aesthetically and conceptually since his talk in first year. I really like the way he uses the dark and negative space to tell as much story as what he draws. Shadow is something that I still don’t properly understand in my work, but it's something that I feel definitely gives a lot of atmosphere and character. I’ve started to utilise negative space a lot in my COP work right now but I thought I should talk about the work that's fuelling those decisions in regard to my studio practice.

The noir look of Mignola’s work is something that gels quite well with the aesthetic themes I’m looking at in developing this concertina book, so I’ve started to combine the two in early roughs. Still finding it quite hard to balance this with COP, not sure how much time to dedicate to each module, but I think it will be a lot easier to focus and think once I’ve finished the work I need to do for the dissertation and that module.