Iain Macarthur
born in 1986 in england swindon. He became a fanatic of art at the age of eight in which he was introduced in art through watching a lot of cartoon shows and comic books. The first comic he looked at was the batman series. Since then he is been obsessed with drawing odd fantasy drawings and anime characters.
When Iain got older he diverted from anime drawings to realistic figures and faces, always striving to make them more detailed and photorealistic, he always do one or two drawings ever since, he also carry a sketch book around all the time on his travels drawing on the bus or in a coffee shop, he enjoy doing it and helps him improve drawing people more better, which shows how motivated and inspired he is in art.
Iain Macarthur looked at a lot of artist’s and illustrators throughout the years, all with different styles and different medias. His favourite artists that influences me in my work is Alphonse Mucha, Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, James Jean, David Choong Lee, Sergio Toppi and Ashley Wood. He also gain knowledge and inspiration through cartoons still as well as lighting, peoples face expressions , eyes, different forms of patterns and shapes. In 2008 he graduated from swindon college in HND illustration and maybe hopfully will progress in studying in BA illustration sometime in the future.
Using mostly pencil,watercolours and pigment pens Iain createsportraits of ordinally people but create them in a unusual way by embelishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect. Making there faces from somthing plain to somthing entirly bizzare and wonderful at the same time.
