I’M BACKKK, after a week full of submissions. I thought that I couldn’t make it through the submission week, but I did!
Ok, back to my last project in 2D: Ego In Different Setting.
At first when I get the project brief, I was clueless on what I want to do for this project. But the one thing that I wanted was to have my style injected to this project. Like when people see the outcome of this project, they will know that “this is Azizah’s style”. That was one of my objective for this project.
So to start of with this project, I did a mind map based on myself in 3 different types of environment: Around friends, family and being alone. And I realise that I have a lot of roles in my family; middle child, daughter, maid (because I always clean the house) and humpty dumpty (as I’m the clumsy one in the family). So I decided to do on middle child, as I was inspired by my friend’s work about her being a middle child. Below is a gist of her book on middle child.
After reading her book, I had a better understanding about what I wanted to do for this project – Me being a middle child and sisterhood.
Equation 1: Shopaholic me + 2 sisters = They wearing my new clothes
Equation 2: Me blended into the background + Sisters get attention from my parents = Independent and freedom
Equation 3: Hardworking me + Messy room = Me cleaning up after my sisters
Equation 4: Me + sisters quarrelling = Resolve the conflict
Feedback given: have a constant art direction throughout as some frame has a lot of things going on, and some are just simple and direct.
Hence I did some artist research so that I can visualise how my outcome will roughly look like.
Based on this project called Tanakan for RBK, I like the minimalist, clean and simple where the subject is in the centre (which is similar to my style as I mention in the previous project that I like having my subject in the center). And I also like the use of contrasting colours.
Marly Gallardo is one of my favourite illustrator. Throughout her illustrations, she uses split complimentary colours, hence most of her works look coherent because of the use of colours. *Me bookmarking this part* Another thing I like about her work is because of the use of PINK. Because for this project I thought of using Pink as the main colour as pink represents me and my sisterhood.
Another artist that I would like to reference is Petra Eriksoon. I like her style of illustration and colour use such as the gestalt on the portrait.
Ok, I think this is sufficient for just one post. The next post will be on my progress and the difficulties I faced while exciting my work. (: