.

[olivercartwright]

.....

[FourTonMantis]

Taking a photograph and drawing some filled objects all over it. Interesting "drawing" style.

[Hive_minD]

Taking a photograph and drawing some filled objects all over it. Interesting "drawing" style.

Next time check out his website before commenting like that. If you look at his series then you see what he is going for.

[FourTonMantis]

Next time check out his website before commenting like that. If you look at his series then you see what he is going for.

I did look at his website. I'm not going to lie, some of them are cool, but the fact is that all of them are scribbles on photographs, and as for this whole "depth" thing he's talking about (on this one) I'm not seeing it. It just seems really busy and I don't really have to struggle to realize that there's a photo underneath.

[grue]

It's called basic design and everyone into visual arts should learn it first. Even before freehand drawing and painting.

I am not amused. Anyone who outright dismisses someone else's work should have never been let out of kindergarden.

Lovely work olivercartwright, the 5 parts/concepts on your site show clearly that you know your stuff. Please post more.

[NathanLong]

Checked out your site, and strangely, I like pretty much everything you do that doesn't have a model in it.

You are a top notch graphic designer, and the interplay between type, graphic elements and photos in all the CD cover work is fantastic. It creates great moods. The bic pen stuff is fun too. It's the model stuff I don't find very interesting.

The models are conventional pretty girls, doing conventional model poses, and what you have laid over top of them rarely seems to interact with them in any meaningful way, (exceptions are the girl with the flowers in her hair, and the one with wings on her back, both of which are conventional ideas as well, but at least the art and the photo are playing off each other.) The others do not, at least to me, comment on or counterpoint the source material in interesting ways. It is all very pretty, but it is no more than pretty.

On the other hand, it probably pays better then the CD work, so carry on.

[Uziel]

There are some nice effects in your portfolio but sometimes you completely destroy a good picture.
Try to add something to the picture not to dominate it with an abstract feature smack in the middle of the model or skribbles all over the page.
Otherwise both will be competing for attention and none will win.
The flowy feel is what makes abstract art on pics so good - it's easy to take a good pic and an abstract feature and just paste it on top of eachother.
To put some thought in it and positively influence both parts is something else.

I like the abstract petal and picture seperatly but the combo...not so much.
http://www.olivercartwright.com/images/one/heidi01.jpg

http://www.olivercartwright.com/images/three/lucy_cartwright01.jpg

One of the ones i like.
http://www.olivercartwright.com/images/four/alexi_freeman01.jpg

[Aryeh]

I did look at his website. I'm not going to lie, some of them are cool, but the fact is that all of them are scribbles on photographs, and as for this whole "depth" thing he's talking about (on this one) I'm not seeing it. It just seems really busy and I don't really have to struggle to realize that there's a photo underneath.

As far as Graphic design this peace is very nicely executed. In my book its A+ work.