Illustration for Designers – G1

What for is a happening?

With the idea of hosting a happening i intended to combine a houseparty (with only a few people, maybe 15-20) with creation. I’d like to give space for enjoying the day or the weekend with other people that have simmilar interests and to use the time to work, experiment or/ and talk together and with one another.

In Read more →

To create a design that fits different mediums we had the chance to choose an event ourself.

A fair, a fashionshow, the opening of a restaurant and a party as part of an exhibition opening came to my mind in the very beginning. Later on while being busy working on my last illustration and talking about this assignment with a good friend Read more →

I finally gained access to my oss platform (about two weeks ago already, guilty) but only now I have finally decided to get some work done *proudly sipping my burning hot tea as I write this*.

This blog post is about the very first assignment given to us.

Self-portrait I decided to do has a mix of both art nouveau elements and Read more →

CHILI PADI GIRL

A portrait of myself. Just like the Chili Padi (Small Chili) I’m small and I look harmless but if you irritate me.. i’ll BITE!

Style & Composition: This was a nickname my dad gave me when he disturbed me when I was younger and I snapped back. First Impressions of me are always Read more →

KEYWORDS

not really in any particular order or category/theme, but really whatever came to my head:

bubble tea (addict) / cat lady / aquarius / coffee / crafty (scissors?) / procrastinator / indecisive  / awkward / cultural / hoarder / flowers! (chrysanthemums/peonies) / sea / spectacles / kitsch / messy / boooooksssss / death cab for cutie + postal service Read more →

CLASS EXERCISE

As a prelude to the self-portrait exercise, we partnered up and did a quick sketch of our partners. It’s been a while since I drew analog so this was a great activity to get things started 🙂 I think that doing everything digitally (and also the undo/redo key) has made my working style even messier and I Read more →

Feedback

After the feedback from last week’s session, I decided to change my style into a more Tim Burton-ish style. His illustration is cartoony but representing twisted and dark feeling from it, which I think would be suitable for my concept.

       

Some of these drawings are not drawn but Tim Burton, but these are the kind of style that Read more →

Feedback and comments to better artwork:

the layer of glass was taking away the details and vibrancy of the interesting objects in the hair. Hence, there were suggestions to lower down the opacity of the outer layer and to choose a lighter color (eg: light blue or pink) to go above it. The egg earring was too overpowering in proportion to the Read more →

For this project it was recommended to look out for inspiration whether in form of new styles or to get some references from illustrations we like.

1. astoryaboutnothing

The instagram channel “astoryaboutnothing” tells an ongoing story about a diver in a fictional underwaterworld through slimy illustrations. The audience can decide at several points how the story should go on and get a feedback Read more →

To study the “concepts of visual narrative or visual storytelling” (Winstanley, L. (2018). Assignment 1. Singapore.) for my course “Illustration for Designer” I had the assignment to portray myself in any form of an illustration whether digital or analog.

To get started every student had to make a word list of 5-8 words discribing their current situatiuon in life. The given Read more →