Today, the natural light introduces Ping, an interdisciplinary student who applied for a British master's degree in illustration. At present, the collection of professional works of illustration has been offered by three colleges and universities, namely, Lunyi Camberwell College of Arts, Kingston University, and Nottingham Trent University. Today, let's take a look at what Ping wants to bring to you through the collection of professional works of illustration Childhood, self-discipline, social feelings.

In the past, the frustration seemed to be gray, but Ping showed a different world. Each of her paintings was full of humor, sweetness and fantasy. From the poems flying in the picture to the geometric space of contradiction, all of them had the girl's unique playfulness, delicacy and keenness. At the same time, she could not hide her anxiety and thinking about problems.

Ping majored in environmental design and applied for a master's degree in British illustration. In her professional works of illustration, her understanding of architecture and space in the undergraduate stage can be used to express the social problems in her own eyes by combining illustration. Up to now, Ping has received the award from London University of the Arts Camberwell College of Arts , Kingston University and Nottingham Trent University. Now let's follow our words to see what Ping wants to share with you about senses, childhood, self-discipline and society through illustration.

　　 Interview introduction of interdisciplinary students applying for British master's degree in illustration:

Ping's first project is about her listening problem, which comes from her personal experience. So in the content of this project, she first explored from her own senses how to use other senses instead of hearing to perceive everything outside when she was in a silent world, that is, to find her own stronger and more sensitive place.

At last, Ping found the three major aspects of smell, taste and imagination, and explored them. She found some of her diaries and collected them. During the process of drafting, she discussed with the teacher what aspects could be presented and shared with everyone. Finally, she used these things to show her perceptual world.

This project is the first project of Ping. In fact, the environmental design and illustration she learned during her undergraduate period has a certain span, so during the first project, she was still in an immature state. Ping could also feel the difficulties brought by the large professional span, but she tried to make the first project from her own experience.

I think we all know the importance of topic selection for the collection of works. The topic selection not only determines whether it can attract the admissions officer, but also determines what you look like in the eyes of the admissions officer. So every time we start a project, we need to determine a theme first. But it is difficult at the beginning of everything. Choosing a topic is really the first step that makes students collapse.

Faced with this problem, students can also be divided into two types: one is that there is no idea, and the mind is empty; On the contrary, there are too many things in the mind, which leads to confusion and no clue. This situation directly shows in the collection of works that there is no distinction between primary and secondary, and the admissions officer cannot grasp the key points.

At this time, the experienced teacher plays a key role. The tutor of natural light will help students sort out the key points in the chat, and will also spread ideas according to the characteristics of each student, so as to find the personal voice that can most impress the admissions officer.

　　 KNOW CLEARLY ABOUT SOMETHING

In the second project, Ping wants to express a very abstract theme that is closely related to each of us. The theme revolves around "knowing".

For example, we all know that staying up late is harmful to our health. Staying up late has a lot of side effects, which can make us ugly and stupid, and can cause dark circles under the eyes and hair loss. However, many people still insist on staying up late. Maybe they feel lucky that the deadline for staying up late does not endanger themselves, or they can't restrain themselves from giving up the standard configuration of contemporary young people.

During the project, Ping was not fully mature in hand painting, because at that time, she had no experience with watercolors and colored lead. Ping's painting foundation stopped in high school art learning, that is, plaster statues and gouache paintings that everyone painted during the art examination stage, and did not carry out more professional painting learning later.

So at the beginning of the collection of works for interdisciplinary application for British master of illustration, Ping The students were led to do it by professional teachers. Later, they gradually became proficient in painting ability and skills, and then made the project we saw. They even drew a small story picture book, which conveyed some phenomena about knowing something but not stopping doing something. I think this story can insinuate many people's points in some aspects, causing everyone to talk about life, freedom Self discipline resonates.

Ping is Application for studying abroad in art There is no basic ability required by the illustration profession. During the collection of works, the teacher first took her to practice basic painting, and made many attempts with her while laying a solid foundation, helping her spread her thinking in the direction of the theme, and constantly improving her thinking latitude and ability.

In these courses, teachers teach students to explore constantly and discover their real interests through exploration. Therefore, even for basic courses, there is more room for in-depth study. What we gain in different courses is not only basic skills and theoretical knowledge, but also cognition and understanding of comprehensive aesthetics and design thinking.

Efforts to improve basic ability and enlighten thinking are the most important two points in the early stage of the collection. These not only determine the quality of the collection, but also become advantages after enrollment. The stronger the basic ability, the higher the degree of realization and completion of good ideas.

　 　GIRL'S SOCK

The next project is the fourth project in the work collection of Ping students. Let's skip the third project to see this one, because this project is another storybook from the second project.

This story is about her and her sock collection. The inspiration is that one day when she was sorting out things, she found many old socks. Some of these old socks were broken, and some of them were only left. But these socks remind her of some memories of her childhood.

Many people have a hobby of collecting things. Most people who like collecting things will collect stamps, toys, shoes, handbags, postcards and other things. Each kind of collection may represent a kind of view on things. Ping's collection is somewhat unusual, but there is also her own "perspective" here.

Inspired by this, Ping later designed this project with the image and perspective of a little girl, hoping that this little story can bring children a wonderful journey, and also looking forward to bringing some interesting things with socks one by one, like the cute little girl in this story, to expand children's creativity and imagination.

This project is done in the form of collage. When Ping started to practice one by one, he still encountered some unexpected problems.

In fact, when collage is done, it will be found that this way is not like the general hand painting, which can be repeatedly modified, or add something to the original picture to increase the aesthetic feeling. The form of collage modification is limited to color and size, which requires students to do a good job at one time. Even if they do this step, they should pay attention to the order when pasting later. Therefore, Ping made a lot of efforts and consumed a lot of time when doing this project.

　　 SOCIAL TREND

The fourth item is the item 3 skipped above. What this item wants to express is Ping's thinking about some problems in the current society. These thoughts include many aspects, such as the economy. With the development of the economy, people's desire for money is growing. In order to satisfy the greedy heart, money has become a destructive thing, even causing harm to animals.

Another example is science and technology. In the current social development trend, science and technology is one of the most important points with a sense of existence. Science and technology gradually engulfs our lives. There are people everywhere who bow their heads to play with mobile phones. This situation can put people in danger and do not know it in many cases. In addition to these two points, there are also issues related to education and medical care.

In this project, Ping made an installation art work with her own illustration, which is a big challenge for her, because this installation work is not a small project, which combines inkjet printing and collage, and materials use watercolors, cloth and digital illustrations.

In this project, Ping made a three-dimensional visual expression form by cutting and sewing cloth to show the social problems she wanted to express. She believed that there are relatively many social problems in existence, and hoped that more people could pay attention to the development trend of globalization through this way.

　　 TWINS

Ping has a twin sister. In movies, no matter what type of movie is, it will convey the inner connection of twins. In life, they received many curious questions because of their twin identity. For example, people generally ask, do twins really share the same frequency? Do twins know each other's secrets? Do twins have the same hobbies and personalities? Do twins really have magical hearts?

The twins described in the movie inspired Ping's desire to describe twins with paintings. At the same time, this way can also satisfy everyone's curiosity about twins. So she decided to cooperate with her sister to create this project, which is their first cooperation.

In fact, this cooperation is a great challenge for the twins. On the one hand, it is the pressure to do a good job in the project. On the other hand, it takes courage to explore the intimate relationship in depth.

Later, in order to do a good job in this project, they all relaxed a little and adjusted their status. Then they divided their work and took charge of different parts. They recorded some subtle details in daily life, listed these details, and transformed these abstract feelings into real images, even expanded to simple philosophical images.

In addition, the two sisters also learned from each other's painting styles and tried various painting methods to make ideas collide with each other, so as to achieve the best artistic effect.

Illustrations are of great ornamental value and contain many lovely stories. But after removing the stories in the paintings, there are also stories worth digging. The above is the story behind Ping's interdisciplinary application for the British Master of Illustrations Foreign art colleges , professionals want to know more questions, welcome to find natural light free advice.

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