Illustration – Reflection Personal lessons I learned: Ugliness can be effective if it’s accurately expressive Sometimes the simplest solution is the most direct one. (But subtlety is still beautiful; I’m still trying to get it right because it’s quite tricky) Even pink can be creepy if you curate it right. Curved upper lips make for a creepy character. […]
Illustration – Process I started with an idea about an event of bus-hopping. And then it turned into an event of a bus tour of horror places in Singapore. And then it turned into an event welcoming you to hell, Asian horror style. Finally, I decided to turn it on its head into a happy-go-lucky ‘Welcome to Hell […]
Editorial Illustration, Final Below is my final editorial illustration, finally using split complementary colour scheme: Mockups: Photo Mockup:
Editorial Illustration, Pt. IV After settling the concept of robots searching for hearts in a maze and sketching it out, I found that it is very hard to do a satisfying isometric maze by hand. So I moved it over to Adobe Illustrator. At this point, Lisa also suggested that the heart does not need to be smack in […]
Editorial Illustration, Part IV (Thumbnails and Concept) I had a few ideas at this point (See the concept for each on each as a caption when you hover over the thumbnail). Ultimately, as the concepts got too broad, Prof and I decided that we should narrow down to a more focused concept.
Editorial Illustration, Part III (Moodboard) This is a rough mood board that I came up with for the first concept.
Editorial Illustration, Part II (User Persona) In this post, I will talk about the user overview and personas for Varoom magazine.
Editorial Illustration, Part I In this post, I will talk about my research on Varoom, Editorial Illustrations, and the subject matter of Style. Article: Material Love, “Beauty School Gave Me Brain Damage”: The world of Seth Bogart , VaroomLab Journals (Issue 3: Interpretation and Issue 4: Visionaries)
Self-Portrait, Part V As of week 4, this was my final illustration. Reflection below was written after class.