Tim Marrs

Tim Marrs is one of my biggest inspirations and the way he uses Photoshop to create his pieces is very similar to mine. Tim used watercolours in this piece and also used Photoshop after which I've never actually considered doing but the outcome looks awesome!

 Tim Marrs is an editor and graphic illustrator from London. With an illustration career spanning over 10 years, Marrs did a lot of work at the Humberside University and later on joined the Master of Arts (MA). The title of the cover by Tim is ‘Appeal to Reason’, and it’s for a band named Rise Against. My first impressions of the album artwork are that it’s probably against conformity and possibly disagreement with government decisions. I have chosen to do an analysis on this piece of work because I like Rise Against’s music and I the cover has always interested and baffled me and I have had the chance to look into it. 

            To be honest I feel this cover lacks true meaning or it’s much hidden but I will try my best to try and uncover it. The first thing that I am drawn to when looking at this is the man in a suit with a gasmask fairly near the middle. I think is symbolising that government are poisoning people with what they want done, conformity is caused and Rise Against do not agree with that, the man is protecting himself, taking cover against and ‘attack’ by government. On the right hand side, we see a baby with an ac adapter charger coming from it, I think this symbolises a sense of control by government. It implies a form of robot, it illustrates conformity, a robot does exactly what it’s told and the baby implies that this happens from the day theyre born; the scissors show that this attachment needs to be disconnected. I think the barbed wire shows security, maybe were trapped and we are under control and the dog running symbolises escape and freedom.

Tim Marrs has created this with pencils drawings and filled with shades of colour, I think the drawings are very creative and interesting. I think he has definitely tried to push the limits of the human mind and tried to make people think further than for e.g just a man in a gasmask. There is a message and meaning in his artwork but he has left that for the viewer to uncover.