Doodles

So, I've been thinking about pattern-making lately. Here's a doodle from a couple weeks ago, and two from last year that I haven't posted. It's always fascinating to see old work resurface for new purposes!

Discorder Magazine calendar illustration - June 2011 issue

This is an illustration that I did for last month's issue of Discorder Magazine. The first iteration was intended for a colour spread, and the second iteration was the final one that got printed in black and white. It was really fun and I hope that I get to do it again!

You can check last month's issue here: http://issuu.com/discorder-magazine/docs/discorder_june_web My illustration is on page 18 (they spelled my name wrong a couple pages after : ( )!

Can you spot the corner store inspired by the Hasty Mart on Main and 16th?

Deck Show! - April 2011

In April, I had a piece at the Deck Show, at Third Skate Shop. My skate deck was displayed for a week, and was accompanied by cyan/red 3d glasses that make the shapes pop off the skate deck. It took me weeks to find an effective tutorial on making cyan/red stereoscopic images, but I eventually found a way that worked best for a black and white graphic image like mine.

Interval Show - March 2011

In March, my friend Joelle Burch, a fellow illustration student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design curated a show that took place inside a small stair case. Thinking of my fondness for all things related to architectural space, she invited me to do a mural for the show. Inspired by the house surrounding the staircase, I incorporated overall colours tones that I got from the rooms, and certain pieces of furniture. 

More Brick Girl!

In my Illustration: Advanced class, with Justin Novak, I spent the semester really trying to develop the concept surrounding Brick Girl's world. These iterations of Brick Girl in two different forms helped to map out her character, and how a narrative surrounding a character's internal activity can be manifested visually. I plan on developing her further in the next couple of years to do a series of illustrated children's book and perhaps a "Polly Pocket" type tin toy. 

 Iteration 1: potential page in a picture book revolving around the character, Brick Girl’s interior and exterior world.

This is an illustration of Brick Girl where she is portrayed in a a state of loneliness. The blue microscope lens shows her interior design, and the workings of mind. Through this, Brick Girl’s emotional state of loneliness is reflected.

 Iteration 2: Blueprint for potential vinyl “polly pocket” Brick Girl toy.

This is an illustrated plan of the different dimensions of Brick Girl from various angles, to be used for visualizing Brick Girl as a three-dimensional object.

Outdated Update!

It's been a while since I have updated my blog. Here is what I have been occupied with for the past couple while. For the past couple of months, during my spring semester, I have been trying to develop a character and a narrative to go with her fantasy world. I came up with this character named "Brick Girl". Brick Girl is a female adolescent figure who has a house for a head. Brick Girl says few things, as she is a silent sort of person. As emotions and thoughts unravel in her mind, they manifest themselves in the way that the interior space of her "house head" is arranged. The smaller versions of her that run inside her "house head" reflect her internal frame of mind.

The challenge in illustrating this character was how to use a consistent blueprint language to illustrate her mind. Within this (continued) obsession with Brick Girl, I incorporated her two of my classes this semester, to explore her figure and the concept of her world, that revolves around the interior space of her mind.

"Hyperballad" (2011)

This is an illustration for an assignment to illustrate an inspiring piece of text. I chose the musician, Bjork's song, "Hyperballad". In her song, the female protagonist detaches herself from her partner, fleeing the house that they live in, on top of a hill, to throw anything that she can find in her house, down the cliff. She takes enjoyment from watching the objects, like random car parts or cutlery, fall and crash at the bottom of the cliff. This makes her imagine her body in the same fate. As a daily routine, after she does this, she returns to her lover in her home, and goes on with her day, happily. 

To me, this song isn't a morbid song about suicidal thoughts. It's about being in a perfect relationship and stable relationship, and the need to remind yourself that you are alive. The action of throwing things off the cliff is an act of freedom, and sense of control. The notion of imagining oneself to fall and crash into the bottom of a cliff is another act of freedom. The freedom to control one's fate. Practicing this routine every morning, allows her to go on with her day, remembering that she is still herself. 

Using my interpretation of the song, I used Brick Girl as the protagonist in my illustration. The analogy of her mind being a house works perfectly in this concept. As she empties the contents of her house over the cliff, in a sense, she is purging and cleansing--practicing freedom. This daily act of "house cleaning"  allows her to be sane. The colour palette that I decided to go with reflect the early morning sunrise that the protagonist wakes up to. Here are two iterations that I did for the assignment, and the first scanned in drawing before I printed it out and painted on top, and put through photoshop again. The first image is the one that I handed in.