GALLERY

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Andy Council, "City Rooster"

ANDY COUNCIL
LOCATION Bristol, UK
JOB Artist and illustrator
CONTACT www.andycouncil.co.uk
SOFTWARE Flash and Photoshop

Andy Council first studied animation at the Arts Institute, Bournemouth, before deciding to move towards illustration instead. “My training was based around the traditional techniques of animation and involved lots of drawing,” he remembers. “At the time I was influenced by street art and the work of Miyazaki and Geoff Darrow, among others.”

Following his graduation, Andy soon began to attract more illustration work, and he continues to experiment with and develop his strong illustrative style. “I now use more digital techniques, which I mostly taught myself,” he says. “I started off using Photoshop to bring colour to my complex line drawings before moving on to Illustrator and Flash, which is easy to use for drawing and relates back to my college training in cel shading techniques and animation.”

So what’s next? Andy has already animated his Bristol Dinosaur using Flash, and now hopes to bring more of his monstrous creations to life.

CITY ROOSTER “I thought I would move away from dinosaurs for this one. I really like chickens; there are lots of unusual breeds that come in different colours, shapes and sizes. The combination of the rooster and the city kind of represents Bristol and the surrounding rural area where I live.”