Rik Oostenbroek. All images courtesy of the artists
Artists add a graphic layer of bold illustrative visuals to portraits of athletes with muscular bodies in a new series from London-based creative studio FutureDeluxe and sports photographer Philip Haynes. The collaboration sees the accentuation of the strain of athleticism by juxtaposing human bodies with CGI, Illustration, collage, and stitching.
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Expressions, as the series is known, features a series of collaborations between the studio, the photographer, and five artists from various mediums. The works draw from a wide range of emotions from aggression to euphoria. “We work a lot in CGI, so we were keen to experiment with as wide a range of mediums as possible,” FutureDeluxe explains to The Creators Project.
Caleigh Illerbrun
Artist Caleigh Illerbrun illustrates a wolf wrapping human flesh. The interaction between a nightmarishly detailed creature and a powerful body sees the natural enhancement of both. “I worked in acrylic paints, after a lot of pre-planning sketches digitally, for general layout,” Illerbrun says. “Then hundreds of fine layers to build up the different fur, wood, skin, and rock textures.”
Lola Dupre
The human body serves as a big part of Lola Dupre‘s work, and these athletic portraits “lended themselves perfectly” to her style. By combining the printed images on a wooden panel and sticking paper down, Dupre distorts and deforms an original image to extremes. ”The organic body forms morph themselves naturally in my process as the elements of the composition distance themselves from each other,” she says.
Rik Oostenbroek decided that he didn’t want to deform or change his photo too much, because, “the photo would speak for itself.” Using 3D- and hand-drawing techniques, he layered gold and blue paint and photographed the results to preserve the textural shadows. It makes his mix of paint and pixel float naturally along the model. “I’d really tried to do something I haven’t done before. Blend different forms of media into each other and create something unique out of that,” Oostenbroek explains.
Check out the rest of the Expressions series below:
Jose Romussi
Gabor Ekes
Alexa Sirbu
Click here to see more work of FutureDeluxe and here to check out the work of Philip Haynes.
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Source: vice.com