Ben Wiseman
BEN WISEMAN is an illustrator who comes from Brooklyn, New York. His work has been recognized by American Illustration, ADC Young Guns 7, and AIGA. He graduated from Parsons in 2008.
He also doing illustrations for some famous companies, such as, The New York Times, WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Real Simple, The New Yorker, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Washington Post, Travel+Leisure, German GQ, CVS, Clinique, Chandon, Orange Worldwide, SpotCo, Newsweek, TIME, Random House, This American Life, Winkreative.
These are some Ben Wiseman projects which can be my inspiration.
The left illustration: It is an illustration about a situation which shows people activities when they are holiday. The title of this illustration itself is Sunday. From the title, I can understand that the artist wants to show what people are doing on Sunday in a garden.
The middle illustration: The artist shows the laptop as a book store. Although most of color is pink, the illustration has nice contrast.
The right illustration: It is illustration about I-phone gift box with a pair of shoes inside. It is sismple and not too much objects, so the main focus of the illustration can be understood by other people.
The left illustration: This illustration tells about an airplane in the shape of I-phone. Moreover, there is no too much colors. The artist is only playing with blue color and create it very contrast and clear message behind.
The middle illustration: It tells about people activities in weekdays and weekend. Moreover, it is a colorful illustration with so many different kind of characters.
The right illustration: There are only three illustrations to focus on, such as, a tree, a little boy a falling down apple. It tells that there's a little boy who wants to catch the apple which will fall down towards him.
The left illustration: This illustration tells about a couple. Although there are only two people and very simple, the final design is very clean and also clear.
The middle illustration: It is a flower pattern illustration which has so many colors. It is quite messy, but it can still be seen the pattern itself.
The right illustration: This illustration tells about the situation of fashion class. With different angle, the illustration is unique and can be understood by other people.
Ben Wiseman is also doing illustration for cover design.
The left illustration: There is no too much of text in this cover design. Although, it looks quite old style, the contrast is very nice with little bit of shadow.
The middle illustration: This is an unique cover design. The illustration is too small to see, but over all, the illustration can tell what it is about.
The right illustration: This illustration tells about the languages in different nations. The mouth represent as the language itself, where we use our mouth to speak with our mother tongue. It is quite simple, but the message can be conveyed very well.
The left above corner illustration: This illustration is simple and the artist uses the rainbow to convey his message about love vote for same sex marriage.
The right above corner illustration: This illustration shows about mystery man who wear a mask. Although there is too much colors, the illustration is very clear to see.
The left bottom corner illustration: The illustration of this cover is quite different with others. It is because, the illustration looks like children's drawing. However, it can be unique of the way to do illustration.
The right bottom corner illustration: It is very clean illustration with line background to show the airplane which is hidden because the plane was gone.
I choose Ben Wiseman as my inspiration is because, he can do illustration without doing too much shadow. Although, he doesn't put the shadow in every of his artwork, his illustration can be very famous, very nice and unique.
By his artworks, I can also learn how to convey the message by illustration in simple way, even in one illustration there is only one object. Moreover, I also learn how to do color so the illustration looks very clean and clear.
