Personal project
Featured illustration: "Shedding"
Project overview & goals
Using a deer shedding her antlers as a metaphor for gender transition, I aimed to create a painting that felt triumphant and personal.
Details
Time period: 2022
Medium: Digital
Tools: Procreate, iPad, sketchbook & pens
Process
Sketched and planned different compositions
Picked a composition and translated sketch to digital
Refined colors and shapes, rendered. Chose colors that appear on the transgender flag as a color scheme.
Challenges
Convey a metaphor without using words is always an interesting challenge. It's always a balancing act trying not to hit the viewer over the head with the message, but still make it obvious enough to be meaningful.
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