1. Self-Promotional Image Poster
This self-promotional poster presents a dress-up game inspired layout, with a variety of different clothes meant to represent my idealized style and the style of artwork that I find myself drawing often in. The colour palette is limited to three main colours (although of varying shades) in order to make the clothing feel cohesive and allow the audience to have more freedom to pick and mix between, if it was an actual game. According to Woo (2022), the way the artist dresses the virtual body in a dress up game is more associated with the theme of their artwork. The clothing itself is influenced by gothic lolita fashion and clothes often found in the ’emo’ subculture – the reason behind these styles being chosen is that they often emphasize the contrast between ‘sweet’ and ‘dark’ elements, which is a reoccuring theme in my art. This promotional poster is meant to present myself as an aspiring character designer and illustrator, as well as expressing my personality through the clothing shown.
2. Self-promotional poster
This self-promotional poster portrays a house that has dessert-like charactersitics and is sliced in half, resembling either a dollhouse or a cake. Each room is meant to represent a different aspect of myself as an artist – the blue room represents solitude and working on art independently; the yellow room is meant to show the optimistic and bright side of my work, with the stairs leading up, suggesting progress, and finally, the pink room presenting myself as an artist in the future. The roof of the house has a spelling of my first name in a sprinkle-like manner, whilst the rooms spell my last name, ‘L’, ‘A’, ‘MOT’ in order to show that it represents my own personality in the artistic sense. This poster is supposed to present my strenghts and individualities to the purposed audience, as well as presenting the fact that my area of expertise in graphic design is illustration and drawing.
Harvard References
Woo, H. K. (2022) Beyond a pink game: practice of self-identities and cultural diversity through artistic
creation from the dress-up game. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Anthropologist. Available online: https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/hka/documents/2022/HKA12_WOOHiuKi.pdf [11/12/2023].