Between The Lines is a student-run organization, created by a group of talented, passionate and ambitious young writers and artists. The main project of the organization is the literary magazine which Initially began with a literary circle where students shared and critiqued each other’s work, and as a small school-funded publication; <Between The Lines> is now reaching the wider public with its vision of inspiring more readers and supporting more writers and artists. The publication is in English and Korean, and is the first and only national literary magazine devoted to publishing creative works by the students in Korea. The ultimate aim of the organization is to create a artistic and creative community of Korean youth, that will act as a springboard for future initiative projects like the literary magazine.
illustration I created for the BTL06: visual art crew facebook group
This project was initiated when I was selected as the visual arts crew for the 06 and 07 issue of BTL. It has been less than a month since I got my first tablet, intuos, and my submissions for BTL were my first attempts to create some 'artwork' with this new tool
BTL 06 issue has the theme: Circle. Keeping this in mind, the illustrations may strike something new
Catching Snow
Catching snow portrays the emotional despair of trying to catch subjects as snow. It is great beauty in its own, but attempts to acquire it will result only in failure and despair. Feel it, rejoice from it, saturate yourself with the essence of it, but never try to make it yours
As one could have easily guessed, I used "Let it Go" from the animation movie <Frozen> as the background music for this illustration.
Though I mainly worked with Clip Studio Paint for this picture, I wasn't quite used to the system, and I did the final touches with the program I was most used to: Adobe Photoshop (CS5)
Circle of Life
Life is a circle. It is a cycle. It is an incessant repetition of life and death, of joy and sorrow, of love and hurt, of fullness and hunger. It is a cycle that comes from the red flesh beneath every scar that returns to the blue of cure and refreshment. A human being, existing in its pure form - nothing but ashen bones - tries to put an end to this cycle, to escape from it, to pull the rope that will free him from it, but he cannot. Circle, it is said, does not have a end...
This is the first 'authentic human being' I tried to construct on the computer. Normally, flesh and clothes can hide some awkwardness even when body ratios are not correct. In skeletons, that is not possible.
In Catching Snow, I was still too much used to the Photoshop layout and utilized too much of layers. As every graphic desighner using photoshop will now, the utilization of layers is crucial in Photoshop. But in CSP,as brushes read the colors in the background, layers tend to decrease the 'naturalness' mix. Circle of Life, for as I only then realised the importance of color mixing, was done all on one layer. That did have some bad influences, like this one
Futuristic Lover
What is love? It is like the starry sky where darkness hides its beauty amongst the sparkling jewels. It is like the colony up out of reach where terrestrial harm cannot be inflicted. It is like the combining of two forms into something drastically different, a phenomenon of change and recreation. It is like a lone mind, waiting for the one to come among the many gone. That, my dearest souls, is the love of a futuristic lover
The title actually comes from the music I used when creating this picture. I found this video quite by accident. Seeing the video, one can see that the graphics used in this video influenced 'The Futuristic Lover' quite a lot.
Drawing the background was the first, and thus, the hardest part of all. In a way, it is the part where least energy may be used, as most of it will be covered by the 'subjects' anyway. I bought a MacBook Pro just weeks prior to drawing this, and I greatly wanted to simulate the aqua-blue space that was, and still is, my background. Though the quality is atrocious when viewed in retrospect, it was good experience as I got to utilize many previously unknown tools
It is like the starry sky where darkness hides its beauty amongst the sparkling jewels.
This is how I actually drew the Earth portion of the picture. I wanted it more apocalyptic, but I failed to draw out the disastrous image in this section. It seemed I had to color the Earth total red in order to get that effect, which I thought would damage the bluish tint I wanted for the picture to have.
It is like the colony up out of reach where terrestrial harm cannot be inflicted.
This is perhaps the part where my intention disaligned greatest from the actual picture. The original intent was to have the crash blinding white, and have a person standing silently in front it, only a shilouette and no details. But with each brushstroke the colors got too dense to create such effects.
It is like the combining of two forms into something drastically different, a phenomenon of change and recreation.
I actually took account of an actual person, my friend, for this. The person should've been more prominent, as it was in the original concept, but things happened :)
It is like a lone mind, waiting for the one to come among the many gone.
This portion of the whole illustration that best shows the theme: Circle. Circles don't have points. Yet in here they have. Circles don't have ends, yet here they do. What are these? These are tributes to the dead, markers of the corpses. In other words, these are graves. Circles. Think about that...
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