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Rowena's Design and Illustration Portfolio
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2009(New to Old)
Title: Color Edictorial---Why do dogs eat grass Material: Photoshop CS 2 Estimated Time: 8 hours About the work: A color page based on an article of a dog organization. Title: Corporate Illustrations for Chinese Physic Service Material: Photoshop CS 2 Estimated Time: Upper: 2 days, Lower: 2.5 hours About the work: As the title indicated, the upper one promotes the palm reading / fortune telling by a juxtapose of the landscape of the palm with the "hand" map. The lower one promotes the service overall, using the idea of lighthouse (with a small yinyang symbol) for the enlightment, give them hope through the knowledge of their fate. Both are outdoor activities VS the phychic symbols Title: Gorden Lunan Material: Photoshop CS 2 Estimated Time: 10 hours About the work: A character design based on the profile of a Soviet spy during WWII to cold period time. Mr. Lunan in Canada. Title: Fly me to the end of Horizon Material: Photoshop CS 2 Estimated Time: 1 week About the work: Fan art 2008(New to Old) Title: Heaven and Hell Material: Photoshop CS2 Estimated Time: 6 hours in total About the work: Original pieces, respond the to the concept of heaven and hell. My personal perception is that there is no such thing as heaven or hell exist in the world, as a place. It is just how people see things. One's heaven can be other's hell. Scarecrow is a static figure, and different persumptions can create different visual result. Title: Tomb Thief Comic Material: Pigment Liner, Photoshop CS2 Estimated TIme: 3 days About the work: I create this 4 page comic spread project from a popular Chinese novel. Tilte: Lama Warrior Material: Photoshop CS2 Estimated Time:ق days About the work: An original character created for my school assignment. Title: Vampire Transformations Material: Photoshop CS2 Estimated Time: 2 days About the work: Morphings from a girl to a male vampire Title: French Connection---Storyboard Recreated Material: Photoshop CS2 Estimated Time:ل days About the work: Storyboard conceptual illustration, original, from the script of French Connection. Title: Yinyang Lake Material: Photoshop CS2 Estimated Time: 1 week About the work: Original characters fit into an environment. 
He is a Tibet monk and martial artist who is forced to fight against the sovereignty, due to the emperor's destructive acts against buddism.
Material: Photoshop CS2
Estimated Time: 1 week
About the work: A conceptual illustration of a heroine Alice
Title: Megamorphosis
Material: Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 2 weeks
About the work: A conceptual illustration involving morphing objects to other objects and connect them into a common theme
Title: Summer Sculptor
Material: Mix media traditional
Estimated Time: 1 week
About the work: Reflection of a coastal Chinese tribal culture with a fantasy quality.
Title: Drunk
Material: Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 7 hours
About the work: A mere experiment with matte painting, also a fan art.
Title: The Trip
Material: Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: Another fanart for the Chinese RPG Game. Originally I was doing a practice from a photo for the background, and I just want to fill in with figures.
Title: Goddess of Wine
Material: Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 10
Estimated Time: 3 weeks
About the work: a conceptual approach to the femine aspect of wine
Title: Desperation
Material: Acrylic + Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 10
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: A conceptual piece using a storytelling approach to reflect the struggle of establishing ego, self esteem and freedom.
Title: Crimson Breath
Material: Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 2 days
About the work: Actually this is a fan art for a Chinese RPG Game, but I reconstructed the characters and the whole theme. So except for some part of the cloth design, it is still original.
Title: DJ promotion Poster
Material: Painter 10 + Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 2 days
About the work: A Brand new approach of being more expressive and putting less concern on the details and accuracy. The brush stroke is pretty rough, to keep the energy flow of it.
Title: Lord of the Flies Montage
Material: Pencil + Black markers + Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: Gearing towards adult, a dark and sinister design poster for Lord of the flies with incorporation of symbols and mood.
Title: The Spring Conjurer
Material: Acylic ink + Watercolor
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: This piece reflects an unusual primative Chinese tribal culture called Miao. Most of the Miao girls wear excessive amount of silver as part of their costume. The bamboo instrument she is holding is called " Lusheng", and her music attracts some mysterious visitor.
Title: Harvest
Material: Acylic ink + Watercolor
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: We were asked to produce a decorative drawing based on flatness and abundance of textures with an overall theme. I combine some food and design them as architecture elements with small fun figures into the scene.
Title: Snowman merchant
Material: Acrylic + Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 10
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: This is a satire conceptual illustration featuring the blizzard in China during the spring festival in 2008. Some merchants took adventage of this disaster and traffic inconvenience, then cause a huge inflation of grocery price. I portray these merchants as a greedy snowman.
Title: Princess Bride (Cover Illustration and black and white story illustration)
Material: Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 10 + black pigment liners + pencil
Estimated Time: 3 weeks in total
About the work: I basically followed the movie version of princess bride. I regard this story as an adventure type more than romance, so I use lots of dynamic element to bring up the mood and actions.
Title: The fruit and vegetable advertisement series
Material: Pencil + Markers + Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 10
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: My concept is gearing towards all range of costumers, so I emphasize the healthy and fresh aspect of these food with associations of fruit with nature. These are supposed to be rough compositions to show the client.
Title: An edictorial portrait of Tome Hanks
Material: Pencil + Black pigment liners
Estimated Time: 3 days
About the work: Well, this is ORIGINAL, I did not copy from any photos for this image. I presented him in a wisely manner.
Title: A Memory of his Lover
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 9
Estimated Time: 7 hours
About the work: First, this is a fan art from a Chinese Computer game called The Legend of Great Swordman IV. (ÏÉ„¦Ææ‚b) It was rather hard to explain the story because the story is complicated and long. So what I was trying to do in this piece is to experiment techniques and showing the dynamic flow of his hair blowing in the wind. I kept the the bush work rather loose to express the mood.
XMAS (2007)
Title: Parody of Moth
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 9
Estimated Time: Above 20 hours, under 30 hours
About the work: A romantic version of a natural phenomenon. This is a conceptual piece I came up after I was free from school work. I want the audience to feel the sense of hallucination. The moth maid is freezing to death, so just like the poor match girl, she sees what she is always yearning.
2007 (Old to New)
Title: Artistic Vision
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 20 hours
Date: Jan 2007
About the work: It is a personal piece prepared for the 2nd year design portfolio submission. I was trying to express the sensitivity of an artist by using a surreal concept and transformation.
Title: The Swing
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 15 hours
Date: Jan 2007
About the work: An experimenting work to be submited into my 2nd year design portfolio.
Title: Xmas Nightmare
Material: Mechanical + HB pencils + Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 20 hours
Date: Apr 2007
About the Work: This is one of my homework assignment in my first year design courses, create a narrative by incorporating at least one figure, simple? Well, I chose pigs and personified them, the sequel of 3 little piglets.
Title: Conspiracy
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 9
Estimated Time: 20 hours
Date: May 2007
About the work: My original intention of creating this image was to practice dramatic lighting effects, but then I want some communication between the characters and atmosphere.
Title: I AM BACK
Material: Software-Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 22 hours
Date: Jul 2007
About the work: This is an illustration for a short story, where the main character retreats to the hotel from a dangerous trip. He slaps his palm with mud on the wall. If the traveller could come back alive, both of the palm prints would appear above the traveller's name.
Title: Fantasy Stationary Shop
Material: Pigment Liner + Prisma Color Markers
Estimated Time: 2-3 Days
Date: Oct 2007
About the Work: Another school project from my design class. The objective is to explore multiple perspective and warm up before the classical lighting exercise. ISince the project was called "fantasy house", I decided to free my imagination by selecting a group of items from stationary category.
Title: Spiritual Mask
Material: Mechanical + HB pencils
Estimated Time: 3 Nights
Date: Dec 2007
About the Work: A design project which involve exploration of different textures and classical lighting. The mask must be influenced by a certain culture. Mine was influenced by West Coast American Natives. I try to keep it organic with a sense of luxury and mystery. The mask is a combination of Buffalo and eagle plus other decorations such as furs, teeth, leather.
Title: Desert Patroller
Material: Pigment Liners + Photoshop CS 2 + Painter 9
Estimated Time: 3 days for Evolution Process
15 hours for Final Version
Date: Dec 2007
About the Work: This is an assignment which we need to choose an animal and combine with human anatomy to create a morf. I chose Camel, built from skeleton
With a translucent muscle layer on top
Finished with skin layer.
And I design a set of props and logo for this character.
Title: Seduction
Material: Pigment Liner + Photoshop CS 2
Estimated Time: 3 days
Date: Dec 2007
About the Work: A story from Bible of my own interpretation.
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