Art By Illustrator Taylor Callery

By Kerisha Collins

This Pittsburgh Freelancer is quite the creative in Conceptual Illustration, Editorial Design and Lifestyle Illustration

Taylor's method of working combines traditional and digital skills to enhance the product of his illustration. We would advise other illustrators to produce this type of methods in their designs.

His designs can range from being very stylized to being more realistic. He is also capable of creating forms of different sizes, from very small to very large.

He can create different forms of illustrations, which represent with art direction and timely turnarounds. With this skill, Taylor can produce a design with combined media.

He has the ability to create designs for clients, where they provide the subject he has to work with and then he pulls together his own personal designs. His self portrait, which Taylor has labelled Listen to your heart created with mixed media. This illustration displays him wearing over-head headphones, where one of the speakers has a heart-shaped design on it. Colours used are simple white, black and red to make it as simple as the message of the design.

Another illustration using various colours and blending modes is Opportunity. This is captioned by Taylor as Area businesses are aiming to capitalize on these terrible times to expand or to star a new, preparing for the upturn they know will one day come. I believe this to be another one of his highly influential, corporate related pieces.

Taylor's clients list is comprised of; Billboard Magazine, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Progressive & More... Getting to work for well-known companies helps boost not only your name in popularity but your abilities as a designer. There will be more and more people taking notice of you and your work. He is an active freelancer and chooses to work hard by the nature of his designs. Even though his work is not like the ordinary illustrator, he is still able to produce artwork containing deep thought and meaning to them. This is an additional talent he posses, as he is designing to influence the hearts and minds of the viewer.

Taylor has a sweet mix of digital and traditional art, which is now the case for many aspiring artists today. Although more students are using digital methods to produce fantastic results. If you interested in this style of work and would like to pursue a career in illustration, search for courses at you local college or university. Visual Communication, art and design, graphic design and illustration courses are all available to steer you in the right direction. If you are wondering which programmes are used to produce these results, look up Adobe for a list of popular titles such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel for Painter. - 30431

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