Kyle Platts
This is Kyle Platts. I first discovered him on tumblr where I follow several artists’ with a similar style. On his blog, he has links to his website, online shop, twitter, and a direct link to buy his comic book. He posts current illustrations on his tumblr along with various comics, WIPs, and random works from different dates. His website has links to social media sites and to projects he did for different companies.
His posts on tumblr receive different amounts of notes. One post might have over a hundred likes and reblogs while another post will only have about twenty. I like how that doesn’t deter him from posting more. He also makes sure to tag his posts with his name and illustration or comics. You don’t see a lot of his process work on his blog but rather more finished pieces and published illustrations. I like his way of posting and the organized style of his blog and website. They both have simple layouts with a white background and easy maneuverability. His artwork is very colorful and graphic and I think contrasts nicely to his online presence. He doesn’t make you go and check out his work but has all of these ways of finding him if you really wanted to.
His instagram, shows more of his personal life. Once in awhile he’ll post a photo of something he’s working on or a sketchbook page. I think this is a good approach to something as quickly accessible as instagram. I sometimes use it for posting sketches or roughs of projects I’m working on.
Here's a video of Kyle working on his comic, Megaskull. It's by someone else but
I found it interesting to see how he worked along with things he did throughout his day.
Nathan Fox
I stumbled upon Nathan Fox’s website when I was searching for artists with styles that interested me and that I could learn from. At first his website seemed full of promise with enough media to keep me occupied for hours. He provides a ton of work to view from current works to old, published illustrations to sketches, comics and more. However, the links for a blog, downloads, and a bio are not yet working. I discovered his website about two years ago and still the links do not work.
His store has prints available for sale as well as original art,
which is something that I feel I can learn from.
I also follow him on twitter where he is active and current as opposed to his website and blog. Here he posts sketches and quick ink drawings. I like that he used the cover to one of his published works as a background but I don’t think it looks right tiled as it is. If it were me, I’d have a single image that did not move when the viewer scrolled down.
Alexis Zirritt
An artist I’ve been following for a while now, Alexis Zirritt, can be found on multiple social networking sites such as Behance, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, and Vine. On what appears to be his website, Alexis gives links to all of his social media outlets along with links forpurchasing his artwork located on the bottom of his website
I can definitely notice Alexis’s style in every website. His logo can be seen on his behance site and personal website. I wish he used a better image for the background of his main site. He has a lot of great composed illustrations that would look way better. Or maybe he likes that the links cover up the illustration in the back. Maybe he feels that doing this will cause viewers to actually go to these sites to check out more of his work.
My favorite thing to follow him on is instagram where he posts frequently. A lot of his posts are of quick sketches with an ink brush, which I love. With instagram’s new video feature, Alexis takes fifteen second process videos of him drawing. Using something like that or vine I think is a new way to go about showing what you’re working on since it gives you an easy way to showcase a whole step by step process.
He has two tumblr accounts, one that is active and one that isn't. I think he should get rid of the old one since the newer one looks way better and since the old one hasn't seen a new post since 2010. I’m worried about trying to keep up with current social media sites but at the same time being active in each. After a certain point, how many sites would be considered too many?
