Darren hopes

This is the official website for the illustrator Darren hopes. Darren uses a mix of traditional and digital techniques to create his own unique style of work. He starts by painting out and using inks traditonaly, then scanning them in, he combines them on computer and alters them so that it all fits together.

celia calle

Celia calle is an american illustartor and comic-book designer. her style is very cartoony, the choice of anatomy is fairly thin and flexible, and her facial expression are fairly large in perspective. Her most noted work is that for Vertigo's American virgin and ESPN magazine.

Rebecca horn

Rebecca Horn is a german artist who works on very peculiar media for her art. She is an instalation artist,, which works on large, three dimensional works in interiors of museums and other gallery buldings.

Her most popular work is called the Einhorn (Unicorn)

This is a very unusual peice. I could only assume it reflects the mythology and secrecy of the light in the human spirit.

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum is a performance artist from lebanon, who now lives in London. Many of her work can be found all over many museums and galleries, and includes work that has been displayed all over london.

Franko B?

Franko B is a london-based Performance artist, born in italy. A performance art is basicly a work of acting displayed so it is portrayed as art. In this case, Franko used his own body as a canvas, and his own blood to shape emotions of the human condition.

I think this is absoultely disgusting. Not only is he naked and very pale, which itself is a horendous sight for some, but he's bleeding! There's no other subject about it, it's a naked guy bleeding! Fine if it's on a canvas painted or digitised, but this is a performance art, it's done live! You can say all you want, but that is my opinion.

Storytelling screen-grabs- scale and centre

If you want to have a career in Video editing, The best thing to do is to start with basic editing techniques.

Here, I'll show you how I edited a image to zoom in and out in a vocal point. First, you need to open up Final cut Pro:

First you will need to set your timeline cursor on the first frame of the image and double click on the whole clip. Your preview window will show the clip you have double clicked on.

above the previewed  clip will be three tabs. select the tab called 'Motion'. You will notice under the tab called 'Basic motion' there are four rows, 'Scale', 'Rotation', 'Centre' and 'Anchor Point', Each with respective dials and digits.

DO NOT TOUCH THEM!!

For now, you will need to click on two diamond shaped buttons, one in the 'Scale' row and one in the 'Centre' row. No more, no less.

You will now need to select either the end of the clip, or the start of the next clip. If you click on to the start of the next clip, MAKE SURE YOU PRESS THE BACK ARROW ONCE!!

Now you will need to return to the motion tab on your preview window. Now you can use the dials and levers. Start with the scale lever. This lever will shrink and grow the image depending on the position on the lever. Set the scale to '110' manually with the lever or by just typing 110 in the box to the lever's right. once you have done this, click on the diamond marked button in the  rotation row.

N0w in the 'Centre' row, simply type 1001.49 on the left box and -32.2 on the right box. You can also drag the image on the video window, but just type now for the sake of argument. Then Simply click on the diamond marked button on the 'Anchor point' row.

Once you've done that, you'll have something that looks like this:

Try it yourself! scale and centre in Final cut pro.

The Raven played by Vincent Price

The Raven is a poem written by Edgar Allen Poe; it illustrates how a man's sanity is challenged by a bird on a door.

Vincent Price is a great narrator for this story. His style is gentlemen like, while also having a sense of insanity.