Illustration / Digital Media

Illustration / Digital Media - Victo Ngai

Illustration. Digital Art.

Victo Ngai is a digital illustrator who make illustrations for news papers and magazines, she has made work for the New Yorker and the New York Times. She also creates story board for animations from company's like dream works.

http://victo-ngai.com/about

I really love her work, it is so creative and has such imagination in it. I love the fantasy of it as well as the technique. I read that she draws her work out with pen/ink and then after it is approved she takes it onto Photoshop where it is colored digitally.

She wrote about how she works which i find very interesting...

"I start with learning what my clients want me to communicate: what is the most important thing that I need to showcase in this piece? From then on I brainstorm and see what kind of visuals will be relevant and will be the best symbolism or metaphor to communicate this idea and tell this story."

I really liked this technique because i really enjoy working digitally. I wanted to try this out with the theme of my illustration unit, the book 1984.

I started with the part in the book where Winston is dreaming about his mother and him sinking on a boat. I wanted to over exaggerate the waves and make it feel very dream like. I also added the pages from his dairy flying away.

In the same part of the book the dream them switches to Julia running towards him naked.

I kept going like this taking bits of the book i liked the visuals i got when reading.

So far this is my favorite way of working and I will continue exploring it. I really enjoy the process of drawing and then moving onto digital work. I always have a bit of a problem with working only digitally because i feel like it takes away from a sort of physical connection with the work, but this way i find more a connection and then i can keep my interest in it for a long time.

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