Megan J

Digital process of my university work.

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These are my final 9 album covers, my live brief that I focused towards the theme of self admiration, and also my online portfolio cover image. I thought ally enjoyed this term because it gave me the chance to challenge something that I yet not tried, that being album covers as well as creating my website that I found challenging to grasp how to use it.

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I really like the vibrant colours contrasting with the white and black in my work after I developed it to have borders and a title.

Title: 내 방을 날아가라. - Fly to my room

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After reflecting on what I could do to improve my image and finding that I didn’t like how dark it looked, I edited it by using the layer mode screen with a lighter colour to brighten the image as well as using a brush to mimic squiggles and doodles to further create that theme of studying within the image.

Title: 한숨 - Breathe

I titled it after one of the songs I like because within the song it talks about how life can be hard sometimes and to find the best things in life. I found within my research that quite a lot of school students commit suicide because of the amount of pressure they face from parents and the education system to get good grades.

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Looking back on my first, initial ideas, I decided to develop one of them as I find it fits with a lot of the recent themes surrounding some kpop albums. What I did to develop the initial image was I added the gradient affect and also the text. I like this work because of its simplicity in terms of the colour palette.

Title: 여기 봐 - Look Here.

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Something that has been taking the Korean music scene by storm is the trend of triology albums. I attempted my own twist on the idea by creating what I call the “Moon” trilogy. Most Korean albums use vivid colour in both their albums and music videos which I wanted to mimic through my albums.

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To extra show my love for Korean culture and music, I wanted to show my favourite artists as well as a few of their album covers and screenshots from their music videos. The three being: Leehi, IU and BTS.

Credit:

https://www.soompi.com/article/1400131wpp/good-things-come-in-threes-12-k-pop-artists-who-brought-us-amazing-trilogies

https://ibighit.com/bts/eng/discography/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hi_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IU_discography

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/

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For my next idea, I wanted to experiment more with vector style and experiment with lines more to create patterns. What I think I could improve with this image is that it’s a little too dark so I will improve it in my development stages. What I wanted to achieve in this image is the way in which Korean culture is very much focused upon education and studying long hours at night.

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For further development, I wanted to add more interesting ideas to my idea by adding geometric shapes and using the same colour scheme as the gradient in the background. My next plan is to experiment with typography.

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I wanted to experiment with architecture seen as many Kpop albums depict city skyscrapers and other man made building, whilst doing this I still wanted to keep with the vibrant colour scheme and the grain effect that I think adds much more distinction to my work as I find I often use it whilst working.

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To continue with the cd covers, I have used an existing song called “긴 밤이 오면” which translates to “when the long night comes” that I listen to often.

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In terms of our online portfolio and designing an image that reflects us, I decided to come up with this image because with this term and in general everyday beliefs, I am a strong believer that any art form whether it be dance, music or art can be a way to communicate with different cultures, race or sex no matter the language and that everyone can enjoy it. That is what I want to fulfil as an aspiring illustrator, being able to communicate even with differences and for people to enjoy what I create.

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From the last three pieces I did I further wanted to experiment with the idea of space however being in earth and nature also therefor I came up with this piece which I may use in further work as a way of experimentation and to further grasp an idea of a potential style I might develop.

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For further experimentation I wanted to think about framing my work. I’m doing this I tried to imagine as if it was a song playing from a music platform such as Apple Music or Spotify however still using the bright colours within the picture. My next step is to add in the titles and artist. I tried to make it so that as the series progressed I added a moon and also the slider at the bottom moves further and further to the end.

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Taking into account that in recent years, the kpop industry have experimented with creating trilogy’s surrounding the main theme/topic. This is what I wanted to mimic by taking my alien cd that I did a week ago and then creating two more cd covers with the same style but with subtle changes such as colours. I will further continue to develop these as well as pick an existing K-Pop ground and style an album cover for either one of their songs or already existing album to further show my interests into the K-Pop scene.

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In terms of the live brief, I have decided to chose the brief of ‘appreciation’ from Clip Studio Paint within the illustration category. I will focus on self admiration as I find it is lacking in today’s society in terms of looks because of how the media portrays the ‘perfect’ body and also promotes ways of changing oneself to fit societies views on visual aesthetics of a person.

My plan is to illustrate a close up of a face which isn’t nessaserily classed as ‘perfect’ or much rather flawed with a caption across the face with a self appreciative words that go against the status quo.

Upto date work in progress:

Quote: my body is what I love.

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I wanted to continue with the idea of the sky/space. I also wanted to incorporate the more toned down colours of the sky within the idea of switches and further adding shadows to create depth.

새벽 = Dawn / Daybreak.

Mock up:

Process:

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For another mock up, I decided to focus more on the colours to create a vibrant piece with inspiration off Pinterest from other artists work to create a space themed album cover as I have seen the theme of planets and other space related things within kpop music.

My mock up:

Speed paint:

Inspiration:

Credits - https://www.pinterest.co.uk

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