AvaTAI

Student Artist. Working towards paving a never ending exploration journey to a dream I have yet to dream of.

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Walking Animation (Loop) Media: Video

I did a trial with my Cintiq-16 Wacom tablet and Adobe Animate software to create a 7 second long animation of a boy walking with a grocery bag in his hand. I found the process much easier by separating each moving part of the body as a layer itself by using a different colour, this way I can visualise what the next frame should look like.

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Life Drawing  Size: A3 (x3) Media: Charcoal

Digital Life Drawing + Nude Model Practical Session 

I was able to get an opportunity to have a 6-hour long live session course to do several types of life drawing. I was able to explore different mediums e.g red paper, graphite, charcoal (black/white), paint etc.  I did some fast 20-25 minute observational drawing of the shape and form of a woman’s anatomy. I used a Cintiq-16 Wacom tablet with the app “Medibangpaintpro” to do these figure drawings. I attempted using a variation of brushes as well as the different sizes and capacity of the brush during this study.

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One After Another Size: 297 x 420 mm (A3) (series of 3) Media: calligraphy rice paper, charcoal, Chinese calligraphy ink

Description: Simple series of a peanut. The graphite drawings present a peanut cracked open. It’s the same photo but one nut is taken out until only one peanut is left in the shell. I decided on this composition of the nut as it shows every detail possible of a peanut. To present the “Chinese Culture”, I used randomly splattered black ink and rice calligraphy paper as my background material. The shadows have faint lines on it created with the eraser, taken from the photos I’ve taken on my living room floor.

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「奶奶的微笑」 Size: A1  Media: calligraphy black ink, charcoal

Description: This is a face portrait of my grandmother (my father’s mother). This study was initially picked among the photos of my family; including family dinners, gatherings and celebrations. A connection was made to identity, culture and family. Our family cherishes my grandmother very much, our happiness and liveliness makes her at ease. The happiness of a mother depends on the happiness of her children, and this capture of her smile is the proof behind a family filled with joy and nonchalance.

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Round Connection Size: 84.1 x 133.09 cm

Description:The focus of this piece is the round, oval-shaped table which is a symbol of “团圆”. The word means “get together”, which implies the connection and strength of bonds between relatives. There’s a saying in Chinese which is “尊老爱幼” which means respect elders and love children. In Chinese families, we tend to listen to the eldest and adore the youngest. We can see that family dinners strengthen the bonds between relatives.

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Mend your Scars Media: Red Fabric (cloth), peanut shells, lino print, dark ocean-blue thread

Description: Peanuts are scientifically proven to lengthen a person’s life expectancy. The cloth is a representation of a person’s life and the reason behind the tears are the challenges and struggles we face everyday that wounds us. The thread and the peanuts are metaphorical to symbolise that our lives can be patched back together by the strength of peanuts. This piece was initially planned to be vulnerable, contemporary and malleable, just like how we all live our daily lives.

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Our Connection as one

Title: Our Identity as One 

Size: A2 x4 (suspending Etching Plate)

Description: This piece is a 3D stimulation piece of 4 A2 sized suspending etching plates presented under red, blue, yellow and green LED studio lights. The inspiration came from the theme of family, identity and heritage. The 4 plates represent the 4 generations in my family, they are hands of the eldest member from each generation considering both sides of my family.

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Hand Observation Studies

Size: A4 Media: A4 paper, coffee, charcoal

Description: Both of these are observational hand studies I did with charcoal. I decided to use coffee stains as a background surface since the colour matched the skin colour of a human. The studies were done with the photos I took with a Canon EOS 1300D camera. The photos were my grandmother’s hand(s) being held by her sons and daughters hands. 

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“Once upon a time, inside the water god, lived a flower.”

Description Character Design (Book cover illustration). A poster of my original character design in a story I wrote myself.

Context This piece was inspired by a Korean-artstyle manhua/comic/manga book named "Bride of the Water God" written by Yun Mi-Kyung. My story presents more towards the father and daughter relationship, and instead of focusing on the Korean culture, I wanted to go for the Chinese Culture by referencing a mix of fantasy and the 1368-1644 AD Ming dynasty clothing.

Contest (Artstreet) I applied in an artstreet “character design” contest and submitted both of these pieces in. Even without a win, I enjoyed the process of researching and trying new digital art-style techniques.

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“Never have I dealt with anything more excruciating than my soul”

Digital illustration on MediBangPaintPro which is an app/software to do digital art. Afterwards, I edited the work on adobe lightroom and photoshop.

This is an illustration produced with one character split into two. The theme of women trying to reach perfection by hiding their real selves away to become who society wants them to be. The hands, butterflies and mirror shards are the three components of the piece that has its symbolic meaning: the backhands are trying to hide the real you away in order for the perfected version of you to prosper; which links to the butterflies, butterflies are symbolic for prosperity and rebirth; finally, the mirror shards represent the outbreak of the perfected you coming to life.