Nick Higgins

Nick Higgins  

Biography

�  Nick Higgins is a London based artist who completes his pieces of work by use of a computer and the programmes on it such as photo shop and illustrator. He edits photos and puts them together to create his own unique feel.

Subjective ideas  

�  I chose these Nick Higgins photos as they are the ones that stood out to me as having the most amount of character and the best composition, I also like the way each time you look at the picture a new image or section is noticed, which gives the picture a different feel every time you look at it

�  I also like the negative space used in every photo as it does an extremely good job at easing the business of the photo and really breaks up the buildings or people from the rest of the image. Furthermore these pictures were my main piece of inspiration for my own work; including building structures and silhouettes. I also used his idea of different brush techniques in the background of my image.

Structural

�  Nick Higgins edits photos on Photoshop and illustrator in order to create different effects, for example drawing patterns on the background using different brush techniques, making people silloheutes, and buildings different colours.

�  The use of colours in his work is normal fairly easy on the eye by the main use of pastel colours. He also uses many contrasting factors in order to show a more decorative and different piece, from line drawings to coloured buildings.

Cultural   �  Nick Higgins work has been developing as the years go by as have

computers and the software that’s been available to him during the last twenty five years. Computer aided design has improved greatly since he started out. This may have influenced the simple line drawings and other aspects of his images.

�  However if Nick Higgins started out now his work may have become much more complex as it is so much easier to achieve complexity, with the software available to us today. Although the simplicity within Nick Higgins work is sometimes good as his images are much easier to look at, and I like his pictures because he doesn’t do any images where the subject isn’t obvious. Or where I am not certain on what the image actually is.