My illustration is included in this year’s Mays Anthology, an annual anthology of artworks/writings of Cambridge & Oxford people published by The Varsity!
If you are interested in having a wacky (or normal, if you prefer) illustration to accompany your articles, I’m all ears… 🙂
예전에 그린 일러스트레이션이 매년 캠브리지/옥스포드 사람들의 글과 그림을 골라 출판하는 “5월 선집”에 포함되어 출판되었다. 편집장 서문에 따르면 “두 대학에 대한… 신화를 깨어 보는” 모음이라는데 내 그림도 한몫 보탠 셈이다. 글에 엉뚱한 그림을 곁들이고 싶으시다면 연락 부탁드린다.
… or jump?
Sketched on site at Espresso Library which has bikes hanging from the ceiling.
Modified, inked, and colored afterwards.
YK 2020.
Last year, I drew with dip pens and sketched more on site. I also tried weaving in stories, be it on science or others.
Next year, I’d like to try one-cut cartoons, starting from re-drawing classics, and hopefully at some point weaving in more from my day job, neuroscience and cognitive science. I know this part of my resolution is the same as last year’s. I found it difficult to start from vacuum, and that’s why I want to start from reinterpreting existing works.
What’s your new year’s resolution?
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I added ink to the original pencil drawing. I wasn’t sure how to deal with the complex lines of the trees – if I were to draw them all with pen, they would have overshadowed the church. So I tried wash and exaggerated the contrast. The moleskin paper was too thin to take the heavy wash but I was happy with the depth from the wash. The drawing started unexpected anyway.
Sketched on site. Pen and wash afterwards. YK 2019.
A clear day – a rare one in winter here.
2019 YK.
The city center of Cambridge is usually busy with tourists and shoppers during weekends, so if I have to shop, I usually scramble to get out of the center as soon as possible. But this time I decided to take my time and check out a cafe my friend recommended. The inside was full and steamy, so I had to take a seat outside, and funny enough, only then I noticed the view of The Round Church, the 800-year-old church that I have long wanted to visit.
The air was hazy and cool, and as I drew, someone knocked on the cafe window behind me. An elderly couple smiled and raised their thumbs. It was a sweet unexpected excursion in the middle of the busy city.
I was implementing Graham’s helpful suggestion when I couldn’t resist going wilder. I wanted to add hope to my rather desolate rendition of a lightening-stricken tree (below), but I didn’t want to make it an afterthought. The contrast between the strike and new leaves had to be the main theme. And probably the leaves wouldn’t need to be prominent—they just needed to be there, as “pennants”. So here they are.
그레이엄의 고마운 조언을 따라하던 중 더 격해지는 걸 참지 못했다. 너무 쓸쓸하게 그리고 만 벼락 맞은 나무 그림 (아래) 에 희망의 기운을 더하려던 참이었지만, 시늉으로만 하고 싶지는 않았다. 벼락과 새 잎 사이의 대비가 주제가 되어야 했다. 잎들이 그리 도드라져 보일 필요도 없을 것이다 – 희망의 ‘깃발’로 있어주면 충분할 테니까. 그래서 이렇게 그려 보았다.
YK 2018.
After a bit of walk down the river, we found a right spot to sit down. They had theirs opposite us.
한참을 강 따라 걷다가 앉기 좋은 자리를 찾았다. 반대쪽에는 새들이 그렇게 앉아 있었다.
YK 2018.
Yul HR Kang 