Peter de Sève ;

De Sève is an illustrator, who is well known throughout the world, starting from his work with magazines,  books, television adverts, prints and feature films.
His work is easily distinguishable as many covers of "The New Yorker," and creating the lead cast of three anthropomorphic characters in "Ice Age," and has contributed amazing designs to the feature films including "Mulan," "Finding Nemo", "Tarzan" and "A Bugs Life."



De Séve's style of work spans out massively from mixing traditional work with modern characters, mostly fiction. He also applies a significant amount of humour in his work: For example his piece entitled "Batman, The Musical,"was one that caught my eye immediately, as I am a fan of Batman. He uses a wide variety of figure stances, stating that he tends to imagine the character he has created, standing in front of a "circus or fun-house mirror" in order to show them in almost the opposite way. E.g from being tall and thin, to short and fat.






Another of de Séve's pieces that I feel, uses this technique is called "Easy Being Green, It Is Not." This illustration consists of Kermit the frog from "The Muppets," and Yoda from "Star Wars," and I believe that this image works amazingly as a piece because the characters could not be from more different worlds, yet they are sat together as if they have known each other for years!
I think this is down to de Séve's attention to detail, the delicacy which he uses to colour his images and his ability to draw facial features at such a high standard.