(DATABASE) First round of WIP for Project One: Anthology

Jing-Wen Yuan 

1. How would you describe the style of your work to someone who is not an illustrator/artist/student? 

My style of work is very cute and wholesome, themes about childhood, curiosity, nostalgia, and includes a lot of colors suitable for children. I draw in gouache and watercolor traditionally. 

2. What are the logical projections of this style in terms of who might hire you to work as an illustrator? 

-children’s book publishing, comics for children 8-9 years old and freelance editorial 

3. Separate from the person hiring you, whose eyeballs do you imagine your work will appeal to? 

I imagine my work will appeal to younger audiences (5-7) or people who like cute things 

4. How does your work “hold up” in terms of contextual scale? Meaning, where do you see your work most “understood” along an axis that goes from most universal to most local? Meaning, is it possible to define audiences of your work at the universal, planetary, regional, nation-state, local area (town, city, county, province, defined area, etc.), neighborhood, home, room, and mirror levels? If desired, how might you expand this appeal? Or, how might you force a limitation on understanding and why? 

Universal audiences, childhood, funny, parents, joy

Regional : Canada, Taiwanese-Canadian 

Comic about my life 

5. In terms of trajectory, what would your absolute ultimate dream job be? What factors brought you to an art career? How has that changed over the years?

Children’s book illustrator, first idea is fanart in childhood then manga, then painting and sketching in backgrounds. It changed because I used to want to be a concept artist for characters and I reverted back to children’s book illustration and comics. 

6. What social, cultural, psychological, economic, political, etc. factors have influenced where you are now in terms of practice? How much of that is in/out of your control? What might you wish could change along these lines? 

Asian-canadian immigration/assimilation 

-global warming

-cuteness in animals like humans

7. What concerns do you have about your work? Meaning, are there any fears, concerns, issues you have concerning your work, its production, the reaction to it, etc.? 

I’m concerned about my audience not understanding my work and relating to my characters 

8. What are you least confident in? What has been discouraging to you concerning your work? What obstacles do you see looming in terms of your work, prospects, and future? 

I want to have more of my own style 

Part 2: Keywords From your answers create a list of 5 to 10 keywords that reflect your work and define your practice. 

Chinese-canadian person, tiger, memories, tuguegarao city, pollution 

Roxi Dimarucot

Fun silly childlike stuff, I am still unsure of which way I want to go. The first one is a blanket fort situation, the second one is just a little silly brother at the skate park, and the third is a class of artists!

Cassandra Carlos

White tiger

Mai Nguyen

My idea is about care and I chose the Japanese macaque partaking in self care 

Yusha

Rough sketches

Pearl

People are forced to spend a lot of time at work every day, and so many people even need to stay up late to work overtime. The normal routine of life becomes very chaotic because of the excessive work. I chose to use abstract images to show people who are under a lot of stress. The location is also relatively abstract. The first scene can be described as a swamp-like office where people are surrounded and sucked by a lot of work. The countless deadlines make people gradually collapse in the work. The other two are in clocks. These melting clocks represent people's erratic work schedule. Like the third one, the fall of the character means that the person has completely lost control of his or her schedule.

Key words: Life/ Stress/ Work/ Time

Shuya Zhong(Savanna)

My style is more on the traditional side.

My style can be used on novel illustrations, covers, clothing, and silk scarf patterns.

I think my audience would be people who love traditional aesthetics in terms of painting style.

I am passionate about traditional art and traditional materials, but I also have a great interest in fashion, so I really want to combine my artistic style with my fashion style, and let people feel my attitude towards art and fashion through this way.

I started learning how to paint in elementary school, and the first type of art I got in touch with was traditional Chinese ink painting. I was then exposed to more art materials and styles gradually. I chose to come to Emily Carr, where I got to meet so many people who loved art as much as I do for the first time. It wasn't until my junior year of college that I started to develop a strong interest in fashion design, so I decided to spend my free time learning about fashion design. As for my ultimate dream job, I hope I can combine what I have learned and what I love about art with my fashion style. To become a fashion designer with my own personality and to show my attitude to the public through my designs.

I really like avant-garde and modern fashion styles, which is very different from the traditional painting that I am good at, which makes me struggle a lot. But since I am studying at Emily Carr, I have a lot of opportunities to meet and learn about different cultures. There are different cultures in different time periods in different countries. I also found that many modern art styles, designs, and even ideas have evolved from the traditional culture of the past which makes me feel that the problems I was struggling with could actually be solved, and I hope that I can find the answers through more studies.

My concern is that I don't have a deep enough knowledge in fashion design as well as a deep enough attainment in traditional art, which means that I need to study hard and gain more knowledge in order to achieve my goal.

As I mentioned earlier, my knowledge of art and fashion is still very weak. It's not enough to achieve my goal. If this becomes my job, I would definitely be worried about whether my designs are going to be accepted by the public. Also, unlike school assignments, I would face a lot of problems when it becomes my job, for instance, money.

Keyword：Traditional, Concise, Color, Fashion, Breakthrough, Accumulation, Attempt

Sho ritco

I’ve been fixated on drawing houses, this one I’m working on is a house in the neighborhood I just moved into, the Cambie area. I grew up in a trailer so I love cute houses and really appreciate looking at them. I’m working on the final line art but am not sure how I’d want to colour it. I traced some perspective lines from an image I took, I really wanted it to be corrected and perspective Is so hard for me. I will add a figure in the yard infront of the house with a pet 

Maggie Lin

The rough idea for these sketches is finding serenity during stressful times.

angela wall

The nouns I’ve picked are Le loyon, cockroach, mirror, bathroom and deviancy. Le loyon was this guy who dressed up in army fatigues topped with a camo cape and vintage gas mask. He haunted the woods in Mauls, Switzerland for over 10 years and was only photographed once. After his photo was published in a newspaper, he left a pretentious goodbye note on top of his gasmask and disappeared. While he claimed to be a ghost it’s obvious, he’s some guy who enjoys his vintage military gear and walks in the woods. Cockroach because the more I learn about them the more I relate to them. Deviancy and mirrors play into the concept of identity and what is a “correct” identity. I picked bathroom as it several of the worst shock images I’ve seen take place in a dingy bathroom (the tubman photos.)

So far I've done reserch, sketch exploration and figured out how colours look in CYMK. I'm going to do some cleaner sketchs of the best thumbnails in watercolour to play with duller colours.