DVB102
- Stop Asian Hate -
image as persuasion and commentary
week 4 | #oneperday
As an Asian person, discrimination and racism against my race has been a massive problem for decades. The hate against Asians has increased ever since the COVID-19 pandemic. So I decided to make my posters to make people aware of this issue.
initial sketches :
~ DAY ONE
technique : graphite on paper
~ DAY TWO
technique : graphite on paper
~ DAY THREE
technique : graphite on paper
final posters:
~ DAY FOUR (Black and White VER.)
technique : digital illustration
~ DAY FIVE (COLOURED VER.)
technique : digital illustration
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~ REFLECTION
Overall, I am quite happy with the result of my posters. I believe that it will influence and catch the attention of my target audience of young adults. Initially I was going to make the person a student as it might help relate more of the audience, but in the end I decided to make the person a nurse/doctor as it would be more impactful. (Nurses/Doctors are there to help us, but this one is got abused due to their ethnicity) However, I did have a lot of trouble creating the posters as I am not confident in drawing humans nor digital illustration. Even though I have had using my iPad for two years now, I don't use it draw a lot of the times. Before my final poster, I had done an attempt (Figure 1) but I was very unhappy with it so I had watched videos on digital illustration and then decided to restart and I am a lot more happy with the final. I did want the poster to look a lot more anime/manga style, but I don't think it did in the end.
FIGURE 1
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