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Figure 17. (a) Jason Johnson, “Cancer Sticks,” (b) Adam Smith, “Smoke is No Joke,” (c) David Frisk,
“Smoking Kills” (© 2012, J. Johnson, A. Smith, D. Frisk. Used with permission)
Three works of students from the “Digital Il-
lustration” course are presented in Figure 17.
the night. Street art has several facets, from art
painted or stenciled on buildings, through objects
hung from the buildings, to pictures created on
trains, buses, cars, or underpasses. These types
of activities are considered illegal, cause penal-
ties, and create graffiti-cleaning jobs. There is
a famous story about a man living on London's
streets, who'd used to moist his own socks to
create art on the buildings' walls. When caught
and brought into justice, he made his way out of
the court, and possibly jail, by stating he actually
was cleaning the city by removing dirt with his
own socks.
Photorealism masters are on the other side of
a spectrum, producing hyper realistic pictures
that look like photos (for example, http://www.
boredpanda.com/photorealistic-paintings/). Trick
photography and special effects are shared online,
for example by Evan Sharboneau at http://trick-
photographybook.com/?hop=14713 or at http://
photoextremist.com/. Techniques of this type al-
low satirical approaches, such as those displayed
by Pawel Kuczynski in satirical illustrations at
the Bored Panda magazine website (http://www.
Project 4. Street Art vs. the Hyper
Realistic Digital and Traditional
Paintings
Quite another type of illustration can be seen in
the form of street poster art, scraffiti (layers of
tinted plaster) and street art called graffiti; these
art forms, sometimes considered controversial,
present artists' reaction to social, political, and
cultural events. For example, Banksy (http://
www.banksy.co.uk/), the street artist with an
international reputation, is a painter, filmmaker
(e.g., “Exit Through the Gift Shop” nominated
for the Academy Award Best Documentary film),
and political activist. His graffiti art, infused with
humor and social commentaries, keeps abreast of
current events and illustrates common immedi-
ate concerns. Banksy goes beyond graffiti, for
example by cutting in half the London's iconic
phone booth, re-welding it as a bent one, and
placing it back on the street under the cover of
