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Staselė Jakunskaitė: SWAP
SWAP is a personal project, where parts of everyday situations are swapped with each other, to create new and surprising images. The illustrations are used as merchandise, and may become a book when the series is complete.
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Fabrizio Lenci: 2021 Character Explorations
Fabrizio’s character explorations are experiments to find new ways to represent the human figure. Using elegant geometric shapes and vivid colours, these self-promotional images are fresh and contemporary.
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Carina Lindmeier: Still Life Illustration
Carina’s still life illustration series respond to a social media challenge for artists to create interpretations of a shared photograph. These digital illustrations started as an observational sketch, and were then finished digitally. The bright colours and energetic style show the illustrators ability to explore and play.
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Fluttuante: Hopscotch
This pastel-toned, playful illustration was created digitally to be entered into a competition and exhibition.
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Camelia Pham: Breathing Out Tigers
This was a personal project was created with a sense of catharsis; to relocate an identity, and liberate her creative self. The work is created digitally with colourful half tones and translucent layers.
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Stephanie Stella: Lazy Sunday
Stephanie’s personal portfolio piece is created digitally, showing her idea of a heavenly lazy Sunday, where she is curled up with her beloved dog at home.
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An Chen: Still Life
An Chen’s personal work explores how plants grow in geometric ways, which is inspired her angular approach to depicting this particular still life.
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Siming Ma: A little monster with a big mouth
These charming illustrations were created for personal portfolio and picture book illustrations. The little monster’s ventures are vividly depicted through creative use of colour, collage, and texture.
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papagxiong: Daydream
This personal work is inspired by the artist’s pet cats. The illustrations use an unusual colour palette, with a luminous, dreamy quality, which is created digitally using Procreate, and then finished in Photoshop to unify the tones.
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Miriam Martincic: Box
This self-initiated piece shows the harrowing story of children held in detention in the USA. Here, the artist’s surreal style is on display to full, emotional effect.