David Ho Art Work

David Ho Development

As David Ho is an artist who uses illustration and design to express pain, depression and despair to create very fearful illustration. I created development pieces from his work as shown below by using masks while trying to keep the metallic look of his work.

Nightmare
Within this piece I have took David Ho's work and tried to add colour by having metallic colour's but then the luminous blue eyes could add a fear factor as some people could see it as alien like as this links to my project is aliens are a prospect that people are scared of,m whether they are real or not, we don't know but a lot of people are scared of aliens. I experimented with masks as a lot of people are scared of masks as they don't know what is behind them, by adding multiples of these it then creates an element of fear as it becomes creepy.

Mask
Within this piece of art I then looked at David Ho's work which is designed to show depression and despair. Within this piece of work I have experimented with textures, as the background of this piece of artwork is under a old bridge which makes the art piece looks worn down and breaking away which can show depression and despair as well as fear as people have a fear of anything breaking away and being destroyed. I used a mask as when asking friends and family it is one of the things that they are mainly scared of, this is because people are unsure what is behind them and they are fake. I have used black and white colour so that it has a metallic colour to it so that it looks dull and depressive which are a lot of people's fears.

David Ho

David Ho

David Ho was born in New Jersey and moved away to Taiwan with his family when he was a child and when he was a teenager he moved back to America to California. Ho has a Bachelor degree in Art History and Fine Arts. David Ho has created numerous digital art pieces which are recognised all over the globe. This artists work is imaginative and scary.

Creep Machine

This is an image of a piece by David Ho. This relates to my project because my project is based on fear. I believe that this piece is asking society 'who are we?' as it is almost as if people put a mask on but inside they are empty and lonely. This links to my project as a lot of people are afraid to be alone. I like the colours which are used within this piece as it is very dark and grim. The face is almost ghost like. I could use this within my project as I could explore the idea of whether we put a mask on to cover up how we are feeling inside.

The Padacia

This is another piece by David Ho which I really like. This relates to my project of fear because I believe that within this piece it is rather about the fear of Death as it shows someone who has been hit by an error and is disintegrating away from the earth. I also think that it could be considered as a metaphor of fear of being a nobody as it shows that they are disintegrating so it could be that they are losing there life as it is slowly dying. I like the colour scheme again within this piece as it is very dark and raw as it is mainly black and browns which are like dirt. I will use this within my project as I will explore the fear of loneliness.

General Fear

These images I have gathered are general fears which I believe that people have. These are generally clowns, puppets or deadly animals. These images link to my project because I will explore people's fears throughout my whole project. I will look at dolls, clowns, heights and other fears.