ART DIRECTION & Research

This was a personal project and I naturally swung towards Japanese comics and game art upon starting on the research for this project! Japanese RPGs are my life and I really want to let my love for games decide where to swing for this project!

Seeing as I was assigned to the first week for the weekly presentations as well, I decided to incorporate extensive research of Russian Constructivism, Suprematism and De Stijl into my works as well.

 

I did some research on brushwork and practiced some calligraphy too to practice discerning line work and improving my line expression for this project.

I decided to base my Project 1 on interpreting real life jobs as a utopian fantasy much like fantasy jobs such as Mages, Swordsmen, Bards, and more!

PROCESS

Sketches:

Deciding the occupations was definitely the toughest part of this project – but I didn’t expect sketching and composition to take so much time! It took me the entire Chinese New Year break (at the rate of approximately 1 drawing a day, at least) to complete the pencil work and line art.

I proceeded to scan in the drawings and repurpose them into digital portraits for printing through Photoshop.

I initially planned for it to be monochromatic, but it didn’t turn out so well. After consultation, I decided to have larger percentages of color and…

It worked out decently – I think! 🙂

… now just need to repeat consistently for 3 more.

After finishing up the four portraits, I went down with Nic to Sunshine Plaza for printing!

Introduction Activity: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/laum0005/graphic-form-introduction/

Other Research: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/laum0005/research-artist-and-unconventional-art-material/

Final Designs: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/laum0005/graphicform-project-1-part-2/