Discovery of digital work

Upon looking up artists for inspiration, I came across a few digital artists that I really like. These included people like Kyle Lambert, Alice X Zhang, Vlad Rodriguez, David Chen
They all work digitally to create amazing illustrations.


 
Alice X Zhang Creates unique images of film and television stars, these would be able to work as posters, I think she sells prints. I really like the use of colours and texture, they make the work stand out as unique and add depth. There is a high amount of contrast between the light and dark used in her images and the composition is inspiring - i'd like to be able to tell a story through composition in the way she does.

Vlad Rodriguez uses similar subject matter in his work. The images he makes are also like posters but are composed in a more traditional way - similar to film posters (Including all the characters in one image, the main character at the center / largest. He uses a more dark and realistic style, I appreciate the detail and texture.


Kyle Lambert paints digitally, sometimes producing photo realistic paintings on an Ipad.
I think it's crazy?
It inspired me to work digitally on my ipad, and has helped me with a few briefs. Thanks to Lambert, i downloaded adobe ideas to create work on, and absolutely love it.
The subjects, like Rodriguez and Zhang, are recognizable to the general public.


The final digital worker that I found at the beginning is David Chen - his images are more based on narrative than the others and this is why I really like it. The way i'm used to working with figure and portrait is very different to Chen's work (I find mine is boring) - He creates a narrative by using figure, which is something I'd really like to do.
 


Some of my work from recent briefs that have been inspired by these artists:

I really like working digitally because it's fast and easy - my work involves heavy use of painting rather than drawing and line work, so this is a practical process. (The hassle of paint mixing and drying time is eliminated) I really want to improve this basic knowledge in digital work, but at the same time keeping my analogue methods - they have been successful for me in the past and people that do not understand the digital process can still appreciate my technical competence (Some people have said that artists could 'cheat' on the computer by making photos appear to be painted, I wouldn't want people to consider that)