My Artwork 2
Here are some of my favourite personal pieces I’ve made throughout the past year or so.
Self Portrait
I drew myself in a few different art styles, including my own and then like the ‘Sailor Moon’ anime. I picture this version of me with axolotl horns, though I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve always focused very heavily on character illustration, but I’m hoping to use my time at Uni to expand beyond that.
My Characters
These are characters from a story that I’ve been working on for quite a while – I like to imagine it as a web-comic or an animated series. For my Graphic Communications A-level, I decided to make a pretend poster, with a fake title and streaming service. Drawing a big city background took a long time, but I believe it was worth it.
Zine Project
This was my contribution to a charity zine during lock-down last year. 40 artists came together and each produced a full-page, digitally coloured illustration (this was my first time working in CMYK so that was a challenge to overcome). The theme was celebrating the anniversary of the K-pop girl group ‘LOONA’, so everyone was individually assigned one of their songs as a prompt to base their drawing from. Mine was called ‘Heart Attack’ and is about a girl trying to attract the attention of someone she looks up to.
I was also lucky enough to be one of the 12 artists working on the cover – we each drew one member of the band, then made a collage of them together.
The zine was named ‘Asterism’, and copies were printed and sold online, along with other things like stickers, prints and key-chains. The main goal was to raise money for Black Lives Matter, and all of the proceeds from sales were donated.