contents 路 PROSPECT
Introduction --------------------------------2 Evaluation -----------------------------------4 Graduation ----------------------------------7
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Course project Kino -Down By Law--------8 Personal Project-Dream --------------------66 Extracurricular commissions ------------145
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Online profolio ---------------------------168 Travel & Draw ----------------------------170
INTRODUCTION In this book, I will show you all the works i did in this final year. In the beginning, i will tried to discuss about the Evaluation for this year, and then, i will talk about my thought about Graduation also include my opinions about this course. in the second part, you will see the projects that i did during this year. The course project, personal project, and some extracurricular commissions. I will list the process of each project, the research artist, and their specific works that inspirited me. And the processing sketches, also include some photos that I took during the working time. Some background researches, such as documentary video even scientific article. Besides, in the commissions part, I will list the final works, and simply show you the main idea or sketches. And in the end, the last part is about some personal things that I want to put in this book, such as my Online portfolio, and my works about life drawing when I traveling. I think that Is one of my favorite things those during years.
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EVALUATIONS I am not really good at writhing, not the mention as my second language, but I have to say, the evaluation form myself for this final year is very important for me. It is the time to calm down and organizing my thought.
ter than what I expected. What’s more, after several presentations, I realized that people preferred to see the more tellingly images rather then cumbersome texts. And summed up some points about how to presented well in a presentation.
GOOD POINTS
About the personal project, I did some single images, clay toys and comics for my different dreams. I tried to illustrate them as a comic. I am very pleasure about the outcome. And lots friends like my style. And I tired different ways to convey a abstract dream. I spend times on recording my dreams, and after practice, I can remember more dreams. The process of personal project really improved my opinion about how important a solid research is in a long project, even I still need to develop it in deeply. And during this year, I did lots Giclee print in Digital studio in college, it is a very nice place, i learned a lot about digital print from technicians.
I did a lot of works in this final year, and I know I have learnt much from them. Prior to this, I did not really sure what should I do when I meet a project, a specific topic and problem. But now, at least I took a step forward to a professional illustrator in my career. During the Course project, I decided to use screen print to do my final work. I really like the outcome of screen print, the texture on the surface and the thick color. At the first piece, I did not match the layers well, but after that, I did not let it happened again, I am fully considerate when I started to do the prints. The color was not as my planned, but they still looks good and may be bet
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Finally, all the commissions I did during this was like open a new gate for me. Because, I found that do a commission is not like a course work, I can not just do what I want, I need to follow the require from the clients. And I need to achieve their goal. They were challenged my quality as a illustrator. And I do enrich my experiences in the way to be a good illustrator, even that I still not professional at the moment.
IMPROVEMENT About the course project, as the tutor said, the text design is interesting when they along, but not really works when they been put together with the image in the poster. I think that is the problem I need to solve in the future, I do not really know much about graphic design, all the works I did so far are more like a painting or simply drawing. I need to think more about visual language. And the project itself was not convey the film very well. In the personal project, i was thinking about doing some ambitious painting, but I changed my ideas too late, and did not follow the schedule very well. I have to say, the outcome is nice but not really expressed all that I want to show. Not only the ideas about presenting strange dream, but also my skills on combining deferent material. and I think this project is not end yet, I will keep recording dreams, and illustrate more stories, and I wish one day, It could be a really amazing book about dreams. If I got more time, I will develop the clay toys, I can draw on actual objects, use those normal object in our life, such as bottle or wood, I tried some, but the result was not good enough to show. Overall, as I still in a course, may be I spent too much times on the other things, or commissions. I did not really get my plan done well. And the relationship between works are not closely enough, and I style is not steady so far. I think I need to improve my visual language into more personally, more specially, and more professionally.
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GRADUATION Actually, this is my second time to graduation from BA course. The first time was in China. But they are totally different for me, not only the culture, but also the whole concept about education. And this is also what I learned from here, a foreign country. I found that the education here is more like help student to build their art personality, which based on their own specific individuality. But Chinese education is more like get different student in and produce the same goods out. they have a main idea about what a good artist should be, but they ignore something more important. To be honestly, a degree is not that necessary for me, or for an artist. What I wish to gain before I came here is an different live experience as living in a totally different place and cultures. That is way I prefer to spend more time on traveling and meet more people from deferent places, those can broaden my horizon. I thought a lot about my life, and what exactly that I want. When I looking back, i found that I can do better than before, not only on art, but also on daily life. I was been pushed to cook by myself and do part time jobs in order to live. Those things really made me stronger and more confident. After graduation from BA course, I will keep doing MA illustration course in Camberwell. In the one hand, I can stay here. in the overhand, what most important, MA is like high level course, and I can experience a completed education system for these two course. I hope I can get a good mark in the end and get in the MA smoothly. As for my illustration career, I think the graduation is like a new beginning. After this stage, I become more confident to be a artist. And I grasp and develop my own process to work. That is very important to a artist. It promote my efficiency a lot. What is more, the personal project have not been done yet, I will keep producing works for it. As well as the travel life drawing, I have been keep doing that for couple years, it changed my idea of drawing and life. As the longer future, I am not sure if I stay in UK or not. I realized Europe is a good place for artist, but the market here is matured and saturated. Meanwhile, China is growing fast, and I can see more and more opportunities there. Besides, it is my home, I got friends and family there, they can help me a lot. So I am now very excited for the future, as well as this summer. I am very pleasure about these 2 years life in Camberwell BA course. it gave me a lot. Thanks to all the tutors and classmates, especially my housemates.
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cours proje
se ect KINO-down by
the reaserches about succesful posters
The Raiders trilogy harked back to a time when men were real men, women were real women, and swarthy racial stereotypes were real swarthy racial stereotypes. This comic-book style poster design by Richard Amsel is a young boy’s dream - full of swashbuckling adventure, foreign devils and a splash of romance. - 10 -
While still at college, John Alvin freelanced for Hollywood art director Anthony Goldschmidt. Little did he know that his little sideline would pave the way for a career that spanned 35 years and 135 movies. He was working as an illustrator at an animation studio when Goldschmidt recommended him to paint the poster for Mel Brook’s spoof Western Blazing Saddles. Alvin would go on to create posters for films such as Blade Runner, Beauty and the Beast, Gremlins and this stunning creation for E.T.
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The poster for Quentin Tarantino’s follow up to Reservoir Dogs screams sleaze. The femme fatale fixing you with her cold eyes, the cigarette, the gun. Then there are the trappings of the cheap and nasty paperbacks of the past. The magazine masthead, the 10-cent price tag, the creases. Pulp Fiction is a throw back to the hardboiled noir of the past and yet still feels dangerously contemporary. - 12 -
The iconic image of Jodie Foster staring out of the Silence of the Lambs with a moth covering her mouth is a favourite for both critics and fans. The American Film Institute has named it one of their 100 best movie posters and in 2006, the Key Art Awards crowned it the best movie poster of the last 35 years.
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FILM BRAZIL POSTER
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This one is my favorate one which made by Martin Ansin’s
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SKETCHES
I tried to draw some figurs in the films. also those interesting things, they inspirited me a lot
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A life drawing course the model keep changing his identity, and keep talking something about himself, occupation, preference, family. And i realised that my drawing figures will be changed when the model changed his personality. very nice practice.
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The official posters for Down By Law
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The film is black and white, its hard to find a picture with colors.
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In the film, the part that they boating throught an old forest impressed me. and that color photo from the film inspirited me a lot. then i tried to did a quick sketch about this part. and i give it a bright color as pink and light yellow which in contrast with the tone of the film.
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Rich Kelly
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I learned a lots of skills about screen prints from him, his color is very coordination. and only use little layers to get much color combinations.
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MAIN CHARACTORS sketches
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when they in the jail, Zack cut some lines as a mark to record days. i think that is a interesting element that i can use.
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Pop Art Design Exhibition
We went to the Barbican to see a fantastic Pop art exhibition. Pop artists commented on the cult of celebrity, commodity fetishism and the proliferation of media that permeated everyday life in America and the United Kingdom after the Second World War. Radically departing from all that had gone before, artists delighted in adopting the design language of advertising, television and commerce to create work that was playful but often also intentionally irreverent and provocative. In turn, designers routinely looked to Pop Art as a constant source of inspiration. Pop Art Design paints a new picture of Pop – one that recognises the central role played by design. Bringing together more than 200 works by over 70 artists and designers, the exhibition includes iconic and lesser known works by such artists as Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Judy Chicago, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Joe Tilson and Andy Warhol, shown alongside objects by Achille Castiglioni, Charles and Ray Eames, Peter Murdoch, George Nelson, Gaetano Pesce and Ettore Sottsass. Pop Art Design also presents a wealth of graphic material from posters and magazines to album sleeves, as well as film, photography and documentation of Pop interiors and architecture.
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after watched the film, i truned back to search some opintments which could express the personality and feeling of the 3 main charactors. I tried to catch them and put them together. i highlighted the 3 main charactor by water color.
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FINAL WORKS
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layers
This one is the first print of the series, i decited to use 3 layers, and one of them should be very light and grey in order to make it as a shadow layer.
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layers
The second one is Zack, when i doing the print, i found that the intended color can not be achieved. but the outcome was still good.
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i decided to give the Bob one some bright color, which i think suit his personality and his background in the film. in my opinion, he is the only hope in the story for all of them.
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“House” Text design
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FINAL WORK
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The outcome screen print, the layers was not matched well, but i it still works well, and looks good.
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The layer works and sktech for the final poster In the film, 3 prisoners’ fate were been conected closely, and they have to act in concert. so i drew a 3-heads man running throught a forest. and i put Bob in the middle, lead right and left head run forward. I decided to do 4 layers, i finish the whole sketch first, and then used light box to sort the layers out one by one.
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Goni Montes
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COLOR TEST I used different color combinations to get different visual feeling. 4 layers for screen prints
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Final works
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PERso proje
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EARLY REASERCHES At the begining, i was inspirited by some scientific documentary about dreams. I don’t know anybody who isn’t fascinated by dreams, i mean they are outrageous events in our lives. they can be bewildering, terrifying, inspiring, but do they mean anything? are dreams the nonsensical byproduct of a sleeping brain, or a window into our unconscious mind, rich with revelations? why would Mother Nature highly activate your brain, paralyze your body, sexually activate you and force you to watch these things we called dreams? After more than a century of searching, scientists may finally be nearing an answer by literally watching dreams unfold and testing their impact on both our sleeping and waking lives. some dreams are eerie, impossible and often, just plain weird, yet some say they’ve changed the world. Usually they fly throught the mind unremembered. yet they may be key to understanding the mind inself. The scientist most associated with dreams is still Sighmund Freud, who saw them as briming with symbols, mostly sexual. such symbols took form as the sleeping brain tried to disguise forbidden urges welling up from its unconscious, though even Freud cautioned the kind of thinking could be taken too far.
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The breakthrought came in 1953, when Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky began recording people’s brainwaves as they slept throught the night.
throught some experiences, the scientist found that we have more negative emotions during REM- related dreams, because amygdala is very gighly activated, and the amygdala specializes in handling unpleasant emotions like inteense fear or intense anger or aggression. From one of the experience, Jone get an assignment. they learn how to play a downhill skiing sumulator game, he actually control a character on the screen by moving his feet. that night, John is awakened repeatedly during non-REM sleep and asked about his dreams. Early on, they’re simple re-enactments of the ski game.
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But as the night apsses, they begin to incorporate other memories. the scientist believed those dreams does far more than while away the night. it is all about the function of sleep and the role of dreaming in processing memories, that it refines the memory, it improves the memory, makes the memory more useful for the future, so when they come back, they’re going to be better. And Jogn did better, the next day on the virtual slopes, his performance has clearly improved.
Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience Consciousness is the awareness of oneself and the environment. Changing states of consciousness are often associated with biological rhythms—periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning. These rhythms are typically entrained (synchronized) to external cues, but many are also endogenous, generated from within. Circadian fluctuations occur about once a day; infradian rhythms are longer; and ultradian rhythms are shorter, often occurring on about a 90-minute cycle. When people live in isolation from all time cues, they tend to live a day that is just slightly longer than 24 hours. Circadian rhythms are governed by a biological “clock” in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus. The SCN regulates, and in turn is affected by, the hormone melatonin, which is responsive to changes in light and dark, and which increases during the dark hours. When a person’s normal routine changes, the person may experience internal desynchronization, in which the usual circadian rhythms are thrown out of phase with one another. The result may be fatigue, mental inefficiency, and an increased risk of accidents. Folklore holds that moods follow infradian cycles. Some people do show a recurrence of depression every winter, in a pattern that has been labelled seasonal affective disorder (SAD), but serious seasonal
depression is rare. The causes of SAD are not yet clear, and it has been difficult to rule out placebo effects in the most common treatment, phototherapy. However, recent research suggests that light treatments can be effective. Another infradian rhythm is the menstrual cycle, during which various hormones rise and fall. Wellcontrolled double-blind studies on “PMS” do not support claims that emotional symptoms are reliably and universally tied to the menstrual cycle. Overall, women and men do not differ in the emotional symptoms they report or in the number of mood swings they experience over the course of a month. Testosterone fluctuates in men, and high levels have been linked to various behaviours and moods, but no one has suggested that these behaviours and moods constitute a psychological syndrome. Expectations and learning affect how both sexes interpret bodily and emotional changes. Few people of either sex are likely to undergo dramatic monthly mood swings or personality changes because of hormones. The Rhythms of Sleep Sleep, which recurs on a circadian rhythm, is necessary not only for bodily restoration but also for normal mental functioning. During sleep, periods of rapid eye movement, or REM, alternate with nonREM sleep in an ultradian rhythm.
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Non-REM sleep is divided into four stages on the basis of characteristic brain-wave patterns. During REM sleep, the brain is active, and there are other signs of arousal, yet most of the skeletal muscles are limp; vivid dreams are reported most often during REM sleep.
Exploring the Dream World Dreams are often recalled as illogical and bizarre. Some people say they have lucid dreams, in which they know they are dreaming. Researchers disagree about whether the eye movements of REM sleep are related to events and actions in dreams. The psychoanalytic explanation of dreams is that they allow us to gratify forbidden or unrealistic wishes and desires that have been forced into the unconscious part of the mind. In dreams, according to Freud, thoughts and objects are disguised as symbolic images. Most psychologists today accept the notion that dreams are more than incoherent ramblings of the mind, but many psychologists quarrel with specific psychoanalytic interpretations. Another approach holds that dreams express current concerns or help us solve current problems by working through emotional issues, especially during times of crisis. Findings on recurrent and traumatic dreams, gender differences in dreams, and the dreams of divorced people support this problem-focused explanation. A third view holds that dreams are the by-product of mental housekeeping. According to this information-processing approach, dreams are merely random snippets from an ongoing process during which the brain scans and sorts through new data, or unneeded synaptic associations in the brain are weakened. REM sleep has also been associated with the consolidation of memories, during which the synaptic changes associated with a recently stored memory become durable and stable. However, this approach seems to tell us more about REM sleep than about dreams per se.
Brain-Wave Patterns During Wakefulness and Sleep
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At this stage, i just keep doing random drawing from my imagination and some visual experiences. also some of them were from my dream fragment. i found that it was very hard to remenber a actual whole dream, even make it narrative.
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Lucid Dream I start to do reaserches about lucid dream. A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. Typically this happens when the dreamer experiences something strange, and when they stop to question their reality, they realize they are in a dream. Lucid dreams happen naturally on occasion, although some people may have them naturally more often than others. The definition of lucid dreaming may be simple, but there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding it.
History of Lucid Dreaming Lucid dreaming is an ancient practice that has most likely happened since the dawn of man. However, the first written occurrence of this practice was in 415 A.D. St. Augustine wrote in a letter that: “Your body is asleep, but in your brain your mind is bright and awake and awareness is now in your brains own created world.� Tibetan Buddhists were also practicing a form of yoga that assisted them in maintaining waking consciousness while sleeping and in the dream state during the 8th century. Indigenous peoples around the world have practiced the art of waking up in dreams for centuries. To them it is part of a spiritual practice that is known as shamanism.
AUDIO FOR DOING LUCID DREAM
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Centuries later, in 1975, lucid dreaming was scientifically proven by Alan Worsley at the University of Hull in England. Worsley was successfully able to signal a pre-determined set of eye movements while in a dream state to researcher Keith Hearne. It was Stephen LaBerge who, in 1978 performed this experiment and gained worldwide credibility and made the validity of lucid dreaming well known. LaBerge is the founder of The Lucidity Institute and author of: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.
Carlos Castaneda The_art_of_dreamingAnother who is well known within the lucid dreaming world is author and spiritual teacher Carlos Castaneda. Carlos is the author of the book The Art of Dreaming and in this book he describes in detail what he calls “The Seven Gates of Dreaming.” He also extensively describes how to get to a state of Total Awareness; achieved by means of dreaming, although, people are skeptic of Carlos’ work and many parts of it are often dubbed as mythical or fictitious. Many lucid dreamers claim to practice his techniques regularly. One of Carlos’ most popular techniques and one that I have had success with myself is the “hands technique.” This is where periodically throughout the day you make a conscious effort to look at your hands for about 10 seconds at a time. While dreaming, after having had made an imprint in the mind of your hands, they should be seen at some point and when they are you will notice them (your hands). You will notice that they will look a bit different, fuzzy, morphed, you might have 6 or 7 fingers instead of 5 and it’s at this moment that you may realize, I’m dreaming?! From here you may be able to consciously control your dream. You can decide what you would like to do, where to go and who or what to see!
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SURREALISM My dissertation topic name is Dali – an absurd and genius prankster of the modern art in 20th Century So i did a lot of reaserch about surrealist arts and Dali’s opinion about art.
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality.� Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader AndrĂŠ Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement. Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
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JAMES JEAN
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ANDREW HEM
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VICTO NAGI victo is a illustrator from Hong Kong and currently lives in New York. her works are full of extraodinary things. and she use variety degital methods to achieve his goal. that inspire me a lot. she also cambine some traditional elements with fantastic composition.
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SKETCH I start to try to do some works base on my dreams, and collected any images that i saw from internet or books. at the begining, i just kept trying used different materials. and those artist that i reaserched inspire me a lot.
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personal dream record Since the begining of this dream project, i started to record all the dreams that i can remenber when i waked up, it more and more easier, and more details came out.
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also, some times, i did some quick draw, tried to illustrate those wierd things appeared in dreams.
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i also made a graph to record my mood every day, and record what i did every day.
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POMPIDOU MUSEUM During the holidays, i went to France, and visited the Pompidou museum. I saw a lot of fantastic Mordern Masterpiece there. they inspirited me. i start to think more possibilities an art work could be.
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FINAL WORKS Single Image Dreams 3 dreams
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1. Dragon Ball I felt that there was something walking around in me. Then I opened my eyes. I lay, still, on the bed, but in a forest surrounding by plants and trees. They were slowly winding around me and I couldn’t even move. I then saw myself from a third-person perspective but instead of seeing myself i saw a girl who lying there who i remember meeting in a small town. In my dream she seemed to be collecting Dragon Balls. but i know, only the one with star is the real Dragon Ball.
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i did researches about plants. and draw the sketch.
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2. Armor I was at a square, and there was a big cathedral that reminded me of the cathedral at Brugge. I saw some high school friends. They then asked me to dress up in the style of Cosplay. Then we appeared in a place, which looked like a theatre stage, and we were wearing gladiator helmets. Other players where wearing strange masks and they started to attack us. I suddenly realized that I had no armour on my body. I thought I going to die, but one of my friends said: hey, don’t worry, we are in a church.
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3. Tattoo I was very anxious, It seemed like I was in a river, a sticky black river, the water flowed slowly like silk satin. I talked to a tattooist who I wanted to tattoo a dragon onto my chest. He agreed, I did not feel any pain when he tattooed me. But when he had finished, I found a weird tattoo in my body. It looked like an image from that moment like a tumbling river with people inside. I even recognized some old friends, but they all looked weird and I couldn’t find the tattooist anymore.
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In order to draw this dream, i did some research about Tattoo, and i found a amazing book about japenese Tattoo. they got very typical traditional japenese elements, but it is still nothing about me. So i start to use the my own style and reference the way that how Japanese tattoo be organized.
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reseaches about a very old Chinese traditional pattern about dragon, The Chinese call it “ Qi Lin�. very beautiful and i really like the movement of them.
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CLAY BLOCK FIGURES throught my recording about dreams, i start to make some small clay figures, and they are all the figures in my dreams, some of them are appear in the Comic.
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4. Chicken House This is about a dream from myself. I dreamed that I became a chicken, a toy. And it was one of my favourite when I was young. I was in a weird house and i can change myself to different characters. They were all from my childhood memories. Such as some super heroes, the Spiderman and Harry Potter, Super Mario. and I even saw the sea waves hit the house. - 128 -
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5. Lucid dream I suddenly realized that I was dreaming, and then I knew that I was lucid dreaming. I became very excited and I tried to think about something, and they all appeared just as I imagined them. I was in a swimming pool where I found that I could control the whole world. It was a strong feeling mixed with curiosity and anxiety. Then I saw a man come out of the swimming pool, I recognized that he was a friend from my childhood. At the beginning I was happy until I saw a toy bus in his hand. I was flooded with bad memories about been bullied, when I was young, they took my toy bus and smashed it. That bad memory made me feel angry and upset. I could not control my brain to stop thinking them. Then, Bad memories do not disappear and keep coming out.
6. Sea I was in my room in China where I was painting the sea. No matter how hard I tried, the seas I drew were not what I wanted. I ripped the canvas and I did it again and again but I never felt satisfied. At last, I was driven in despair. I went to the balcony, and jumped into the waves between the buildings. But, It was very quiet, only a splash came from my last rusty brown sea.
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working process
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Firstly, i did quick sketch on sketch book, and spent all times focous on story itself and the composition. and then before i did the final sketch, i will do some reaserch about specific actions or scene. then i can start to do final sketch, mwanwhile i also considered the color effect for next step.
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Extracur commissi
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FOURCONERS
THE GREAT GATSBY This project is about the fiction the The Great Gatsby for Fourconers press. i come up with 8 ideas, and did a presentation.
1. the origin of Gatsby, at the top side, is the gentle and rich, successful Gatsby, and the another part in the bottom is the poor and young Gatsby, I put 2 different icon in the Conner like the common poker, the top one is easy to understand, but I put a heard for the poor Gatsby, which means his sincerity and strong faith. Also in both sides of the background, I will draw some pattern, as u can see, some magnificent column, in the bottom it change to tree-trunk, also the crutch change to farm tools. and I put the bottom character in the shadow, in the one hand it is for the composition, in the other hand, in the story, Gatsby try to cover his these, the initial idea is Gatsby stand in the wharf, and his reflection is that poor boy. 2. is when Gatsby tell the story about him and MR, Dan Cody, the rich man he met. In image, I want to convey that it is the new begging of Gatsby’s life, start from the ship and the ocean, but as my understanding of the story. that ship of Gatsby ‘s life was toward to a huge Vortex, and the city shining inside the middle of the Vortex. Also the young Gatsby stand in the bow. Gatsby can reach the city, the upper classes, the fame and money, But he pay the price of his life in the end of story, he cant go back since he boarded. 3. is the first that Callaway met Gatsby in Gatsby’s crazy party, so I put Gatsby in the middle of the image, surrounded by those crazy ppl, they all looks strange and with mask, may be some of them not even looks like human being, they dancing singing drinking. Only Gatsby is very peaceful and genteel. The Gatsby will be white and brightly, on the contrary, the party around him become gloomy. I am not gona draw any faces in all of the images, because, I believed it is very stupid to destroy reader’s imagination about the character, and it will be always someone don’t like the face you draw. 4. is when Gatsby met Daisy in Callaway’s little house, the image here is about the my understanding for them, 2 hands entangled, and its obviously the flower hand is Gatsbys’, and the withered wood hand is Daisys’. Not only because Gatsby prepared lots of flowers in the story, but also, flowers represent life, beautiful and truth, but flower and woods all from nature, so even Daisy is cant go back, she is dead, she is still kindly as Gatsby, also, tree and flowers should grow together, but it is impossible when the tree dead. 5. This idea is from the last one, a white flower lay on the things like gold money, jewelry, things represent the luxury life in the story. the flower represent the spirit of Gatsby.
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and I also thought this one can be the cover, 6.and this idea is not mature enough, its about the dead of Gatsby, Gatsby dead in the his swimming pool. After he die, no one actually really care about it except Callaway, so I was try to covey this point thought the image, like blood in the water, but Gatsby’s body is not inside, and surround by the flash of camera. or maybe just Gatsby’s clothes in the water not his body. It looks like the people only care the event, and treat it just as news. 6. is about the valley of ashes, and the eyes of Docter TJ, Eckleburg, I wanna convey the concept that eyes is watching the people who works there, so I thinking about the reader can see the after image thought the eyes, and the image itself can be just very simple but very strong, I can image that when ppl read here, and see this huhe eyes, and play for it. 7. so here is the after page for the valley of Asher, I was thinking that the people who spend their whole life to work there, and the profit and energy go into the city, that relationship just like the tree and tree roots, we can see the workers connected with the roots, just like working under the ground and sending the nutrient to the city.
Also, I will make the people and the city can be seen thought last page, 8. and the last one is the concept about the cover, I was thinking to make the cover totally different compare with normal book, as u can see, it completely looks like a suit, but it is a hardcover, it can be opened just like we opened a suit of Gatsby, and the interesting things is when ppl see this hand, they know that he hiding something here, and after they open buckle, they see the hand catch a photo, after they read the book, they will understand this, that is the secret which Gatsby try to hide thought the whole story, the photo is young Gatsby with MR,Dan cody, the rich man. Also the spine and back, they all looks like the suit of Gatsby. And also some immaturity ideas here. Such the green light and the NY city, they all very important in the story, Thought all of these illustrations, I want to open a new door for the readers, and let them thinking the meanings under those images, not just restored scenes they already got from their unique imagination. And It will be very interesting if the book can interact with the readers. - 150 -
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FIFA World Cup 2014
this is a single page commission for Anime-Taste. mine one is about the England team.
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Brave New World
This is actually my 2nd year project. But in the begining of this year, it get published in Chinese Edition from Beijing Yanshan press, and i did one more page.
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MAGAZINES
Cover: I did a lots of front cover for a Chinese magazine. called The Adventurer. From Qingdao publisher.
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MAGAZINE INSIDE STORY PAGES I also did lots story illustrations for magazine. those works really helped me about understanding about narrative illustrations.
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FOOTBALL TEAM COMMISSION this one is for Jianlibao corporation. about a advertising, the client’s require is drawing football players in realistic style. I did reaserch about that football team, but its hard to illustrat all the details based on little photoes.
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FRESH PRNTS POSTER This is a collaboration work with Patrick Pat Macdonald for the show fundrasing. Pat did the line work, and i did the color.
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ONLINE PROFOLIO Finally, i created my own personal website. which i think is very important for an artist, i need to treat my works in a professional way, and better display. the website is based on Cargo, and i edited some CSS by myself even i did not even know any about web language. it was hard but i really enjoyed it and pleasure about the result. its availivle on : www.reeozerkos.com
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trava draw
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I can say this is a project that i been doing since 2 years ago. I like to travel to different places and meet different people, listen to their stories. And do life drawings wherever I want, record those beautiful moment. what you can see in this book just the tip of the iceberg. As I become more attracted to this, I found that I can did more and more better life drawing, and I also tried to put the concept about times in it, which I think make it more vivid.
I did this page on my way to Holland and this one is on a boat in Greece → - 172 -
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In Paris, Montmartre
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I like to draw people when i on a train, i did those on my way to France.
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� I was in a small town called Brugge in Belguim
→ I was riding a donky in Greece, and of course, i did that draw afterwards
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