Advancing Practice - Artist #1

Zac Waipara

He is are New Zealand born artist and he has many skills that are related to digital work. studied graphic design at Unitec and te reo Maori and digital design at AUT. former NZ herald graphic artist. And is now are lecture in Digital Media at AUT

He works with illustration where he makes his comics and books and graphic design, animation and motion graphics with his six seasons of the kids TV show Miharo.


The reason why i like his work is because i can relate to the story's. I like that he focuses his work on New Zealand Maori Heritage and makes it his own. Till this day we continues to grow as an artist 

He found his passion in the love of comic books where he really liked the creativity of mixing words into images. He also created the design artwork for New Zealand's International Children's Book Day 2007 poster.

I like the use of colours in these images above. It brings out the nature and the how serious each part of the scenes are. So if it was black and white it would give you more ideas on how major this situation would be. but adding colour to it will give you are strong idea on what is happening.

I like the look of this image because it has that old school feel of the image and it makes it look old school. Even with the title Jackson's store makes me enjoy this illustration. I believe that using these colours it makes the image look vintage. 

I would use this to show the viewer that this scene is important only because the camera angle is low and it makes him look strong with the city view in the background.