I’ve seen it everywhere. In magazines, in internet, in CD covers, in clothes… But I want to know what the name of it is. Here are some examples:
- http://freecodesource.com/home-page/preview.php?id=L560607750
- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/davidsdove19/random%20and%20dumb/gothgirl101.jpg
- http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j315/GOTHIC_TINKERBELL_MEGAN/layputs/56.jpg
- http://fdots.com/cc/c9/8819a29ed548b013c671290f57fe7f92.png
- http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b124/firefary14/suicidal.jpg
- http://www.freefever.com/myspacelayouts/layouts/vintagegirl.jpg
- http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g92/deuce2277/Boardwalk_background-1.jpg
- http://layouts.cbimg8.com/20/9885c.jpg
Don’t Pay attention to the theme (what the illustrations are about), I am interested in the technique, que repetitive patterns, the use of stencil like little images, the way the human body is defined in black and white shapes, the little twirls and fine curved lines, the intense colors, ink splaters, etc.
Image taken on 2007-04-23 19:19:09 by NMCIL ortiz domney. Image Source. (Used with permission)
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Looks like Vector graphic images. like you’d create in AdobeIllustrator, CorelDraw, any graphic illustration program. Many of the elements in the images you gave as examples look like they came from clip-art discs or pictures, just random objects put together.
As far as what you’d call the style, maybe “cut-and-paste”?
On a whole, it seems you’re talking about vector art. It’s simplistic yet complicated, and it’s definitely one of my favorite types of art to look at. <3
The first one [girl with gun to head] is vector/cutout.
The second [goth girl] is just dark art, solid ink mixed with soft shading. Not vector.
The third [inverse blood spatter couple] is vector.
The fourth [heart splatter] is vector.
The fifth [suicidal romance] is just using brushes and texture and fancy text to create a collage-type image, suitable for backgrounds.
The sixth [balloon girl] is vector, but the girl seems to be manipulated to look vector. I could be wrong and it could just be a very detailed vector image.
The seventh [boardwalk] seems more like cutout-collage mixed in with bright colors, rather than vector.
The eighth [circles] I suppose can fall into vector as well.
a lot of it looks like graffiti, you know using stencils and spraypaint (that accounts for the colors since spraypaint only comes in certain colors, and the point is to catch people’s eye) and intentionally letting it drip and adding splatters. And also with graffiti there are often places where a lot of people come to add their “tags” or their individual stencils or signatures, so that the whole wall is layers of different words and images. That at least is what the style is supposed to look like I believe. Sorry I don’t know if there is even a name for it :P Grunge maybe?? All I know is that there was a good bit of this kind of tagging around the art department where I went to college. The art majors (mostly the white middle class guys to be stereotypical about it) who were greatly interested in screen printmaking and graphic design seemed to be the ones who were making the tags. These guys seemed to be very much into Indie rock and stuff. I know I’m grossly stereotyping here but it’s the only thing I can think of.