I’ve been doing some new ballpoint pen drawings, and thought I’d upload a couple that I’m pretty happy with. I always start out wanting to do something really loose and stylized, but I get way into the details and things end up much more realistic than I originally intended.
 
The image on the left is a character concept I’m working on, and the one on the right is just a silly character I made up– was mostly focusing on the anatomy in a bodysuit. I tend to draw stylized, skinny women most of the time (though I probably don’t have many of those drawings up on here), so I wanted to draw a new bodytype.
   
 So I’m officially finished with the last class in my undergraduate career. Last Thursday was the exam period for my 2-D design class, and we put on a small show in the gallery at Hanes Art Center. For the final project, as I mentioned before, we could do pretty much anything we wanted to do– it just had to be a series of some sort. I thought I’d post a few pictures of my project and our final exhibition.
What I did was draw the face and hands of the image with a brush and ink (just calligraphy ink) on matteboard. Then I layered cut colored paper to create the hanbok (한복), traditional Korean dress for women. The elaborate hairstyles are taken from old Korean paintings of women. I tried to emulate the traditional painting style for the faces and rendering of the hair. It turned out to be a nice fusion of different drawing styles. I also drew on top of the colored paper after I glued it on the board, so that it wouldn’t stand out too much form the drawing.
It’s been ages since I’ve updated- apologies! I tend to post when I have new work to show, but I haven’t been doing anything worth putting in my portfolio. I am taking a summer course in 2-D design right now, my last class as an undergraduate student. It’s actually a prerequisite for all the other studio art courses but I never took it, and now I’m stuck going back… The class itself is fine, but it’s definitely back-to-bases. We’ve done a lot of studies but no actual pieces yet. However, for the final project I’m working on a series of 6 images that I hope to hang in the apartment when they’re done. I’m using brush-and-ink to mimic the traditional Korean painting style from the Joseun (조선) period. All six are images of women in 한복, traditional Korean clothing for women. I’m drawing the elaborate hairstyles and everything! For the gowns I’m using patterned scrap-booking paper to create the look of fancy fabric. For now I only have the drawing portion done, but I’ll get some scans up when I’ve made some headway.
Two paintings from this semester. The first one was from a model. The second one is the interior of a Seoul city bus no. 7737. I spent a lot of time riding that bus back from Hongdae, alone, late at night. It seems I’m very interested in commonly ignored public spaces! I’m not yet finished with the bus painting.
 
 One of the things I fooled around with this past semester was printing on fabric. For this process I carved into 1/8″ thick MDF board in a floral pattern. Afterward I sprayed several coats of lacquer to make sure it won’t deteriorate when I inked and cleaned the board with acetone. One of the issues with printing on MDF is that it’s really soft and fibrous, and absorbs the ink– so it’s hard to get a clean print from it. I printed on several sheets of fabric as well as some t-shirts for friends.
Here’s one of the ones that turned out best, modeled by a lovely friend of mine. I hope to take the printed fabric and sew it into a garment, so I’ll post some more pictures after that. This kind of printing is pretty satisfying because you get to have a functional, tangible piece in the end.
 My intermediate drawing class just had its final critique today and we had to turn in a digital portfolio of our work throughout the semester. One of the projects we did was to create an ideal city. We could go pretty off base with it (which I did) and instead of doing something idea i decided to depict some aspects of cities that I think are interesting. My idea was to show a city as being very maze-like and crowded but organized and structured in its own way. My city is literally growing visible signs of disease but the people living in it are just living around it, building on top of the scars, both embracing and ignoring the problem. You can tell I had some influence from my time abroad because
most of the signs are in Korean and some of the things are inspired by Shinchon (the area near Yonsei). Anyway, we were studying 2-point perspective at the time which I utilized in this drawing. The drawing doesn’t seem complete to me but I think it’s worth showing.
이그림이 신촌에 조금 비슷한 굿이 있다. 큰 도시가 아파도 여러분이 계속 살고 있다.
 For a drawing assignment in my intermediate drawing class we had to draw a really close-up view of something. I drew this huge illustration of udon noodles (우동) in ballpoint pen, 18×24. It was pretty tedious but I think it’s nicely drawn (though boring), so worth posting. The first is the full image and the second is a detail.
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