Digital Art

my updated digital artworks

sisterhood

This was one of the photos of Malaysian children I took while I was volunteering. Even though the photo perfectly captured my memory,

I wanted to manipulate it by adding Malaysian-looking colours and elements such as patterns and words.

I also wanted to express movement within my memory by adding organic brushstrokes in front and behind the figure.

reality of time

For this artwork, I combined a photo of an animal bone and hands and used various brush strokes and effects to achieve the antique feel. Sharp-edged shapes were added to express variation and depth.

Technical photos were layered in the back for contrast.

women in a white hanbok & a tiger

In this artwork, I wanted to experiment and create a piece that gathers the influence from both Western influences and traditional Korean influence when making art. Such vivid collage is often not seen in Korean culture, as most artwork tends to be very simple.

Thus, the lady nicely emerges into the field full of flowers and butterflies by adding a vivid and colourful background. She is wearing simple traditional clothing, hanbok, dreaming in the middle of the field with her tiger.

I also added embroidery to add additional details onto her undecorated hanbok, painted in "Minhwa" style, to explore how I can create artwork from western and traditional influences.

be green poster

This is a "Be Green" poster that I have designed to depict the message that we should use alternative energy like the wind power shown in the image.

To add to the message, I inserted bush images all around the wind turbine and added a green glow on the text to simulate light powered by wind. I used Silver Crown typeface, which is very slender and stretched vertically, to fit the text inside the poster.

3D effect on the text using photoshop was given to express depth.

ephemeral + tangible

When creating this piece, I thought of order found within the chaos; in life, we can often distinguish rules and patterns inside a seemingly chaotic environment and context. I wanted to express that idea by starting with abstract shapes and lines placed in a chaotic manner; then by placing orderly shapes and a figurative photo of a woman's face in the centre.

The shapes become more and more orderly and match the woman's face as they come to the centre of the image.

Therefore, even when there are abstract shapes, you can still recognise a woman's face; thus, it's order in chaos.

humankind

Rutger Bregman's "Human Kind" inspired me to design this book jacket cover in my own style. The author argues that humans are kind deep down and have a tendency to play; I liked his Jean-Jacques Rousseau perspective on perceiving humans.

To express that humans have positive tendencies deep inside them, I reverse-extruded the text using Illustrator and added a bright light shining from inside of the text using Photoshop.

I also added playful and optimistic elements using brush strokes. I also printed out the design and used it as a book cover to see how the colour and the design would look like if it was a published book cover.