Liam Brazier

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Paris Games Week Event Features Watch Dogs

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Eye-catching listings artwork commissioned by Radio Times

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The man with the digital scalpel

Somebody say something about corners and edges.

The UK-based illustrator and animator Liam Brazier looks at the world in a unique way, and his artwork certainly reflects this. Effortlessly bringing shapes and bright colours together to form people, places and objects, he’ll give any project a distinctive look and feel, drawing the viewer in through deconstruction. Liam’s work is often classed as ‘low poly art’ (though in reality is quite the opposite), focusing on using 2D shapes and colours to reduce images to as few basic forms as possible. His imaginative process was birthed with paper collage techniques evolving to vector artwork in more recent years. With a BA in Illustration from the Kent Institute of Art and Design, Liam’s influences include the flat-plane paintings of Charles Sheeler, Disney, and Star Wars. He’s based in the East of England.

Approach

Liam used to cut each shape out with a scalpel, using coloured papers to construct a final piece. Today, he has distilled this process down to a digital one, drawing and colouring his shapes in software and using strong, saturated tones to suggest depth. He Draws everything on iPad in Linearity Curve. When it comes to animation Liam utilises a wide variety of styles as the brief dictates and creates predominantly in After Effects.

Style

Using shapes and colours to depict three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional surface, Liam reduces objects to their perfect forms. There is beauty in the simplicity of his work as he pushes the boundaries in both still images and animation.

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What led you to become an illustrator?It was certainly one part people telling me I was somewhat adept at drawing at a young age, and an equal part being wholly inadequate at every other profession.Did you study illustration at college?I studied art and design at college (near my home town), specialising in illustration in the third year, before undertaking my BA degree for the same at a now non-existent university (nothing to do with me!) in Kent.Where did you grow up?In a town on the estuary of the Thames. With sea air in my lungs, and a chip on my shoulder.Where do you live now and what drew you there?My now wife and I moved to London about eight years ago, primarily to be nearer her workplace, but also to escape the confines of small-town mentality. London, and indeed many cities, have a vibrancy and life that’s hard to verbalise, but you notice it hugely when it’s absent.Describe your studio for us.I work from home, so a succession of bits-of-front-rooms generally. My wife works from home some days a week also so we share a big desk and flip a coin on what music gets played.Who or What is your biggest inspiration?The illustration style I’m best known for was really an organic evolution from coloured paper collage work I was doing in the 90s. In retrospect I believe taking a lot from Charles Sheeler’s paintings of buildings (which I adore), but ultimately just a student trying to produce work on an extreme budget, that had a stack of colourful paper and a scalpel. How do you get your ideas?I am a sponge for mass media generally - I mean even I have limits but popular culture is my jam. Whether it be riffing on something well known, or an editorial piece of something entirely new I do always attempt to visualise something in a new way however.Do you collect anything?I probably have more Star Wars toys now than I did as a child of the 80s. Young me would be jealous.What are your interests outside of illustration?Playing guitar kept me (relatively) sane throughout art university, that’s for sure. It’s a hobby, but one that tunes out all the otherwise busy parts of my head. I am also a self-taught animator of course. Which, while I love it, is really a natural extension to the illustration for me.Tell us about a favourite project you’ve recently completed.A close friend and their partner have very recently come to the end of a long, extremely arduous journey of opening their debut restaurant. I was very honoured to be involved in a small way by providing some artwork for the dining room. What would be your dream job/commission?I’m a huge Star Wars and Disney Parks fan. I think my head would comically explode if I ever saw one of my doodles when walking around Disney World or similar. I am utterly fascinated by the process of film production also. And while in no way a concept artist, I would love to be a tiny cog in those machines behind those curtains for sure.Why is illustration such a powerful medium?Illustration, by its nature, says so much by not saying anything at all. There’s something in the process of sparking connections from viewers eyeballs to their brains within an instant, that cannot be beat.How much of your work is hand drawn?Although digital these days, every image I produce is with my hands, one line at a time. Computers streamline the process, they don’t do the work for you.How do you envisage illustration evolving?Motion becomes more and more intertwined. It seems inevitable really.Who is your art hero?My work shares practically zero connections with it, but Mike Mignola’s constant output of beautiful, minimal pieces in the comic world is overwhelmingly astounding.Do you have a method for dealing with the feeling of having no ideas?Ideas form on their own. It’s best to distract yourself and let them get on with it.

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Liam Brazier

Selected illustrations

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Patrick George portraiture for telivision show

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Official EP Cover for Quivering Hourglass by StormSinker

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Selected Clients

Disney, Marvel, Queens of the Stone Age, John Carpenter, Politico, Megadeth, the BBC, 20th Century Fox, GAME, Casio, Transport for London, David Letterman, Team France at the Tour de France