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I only just got around to taking photos of my piece from the beautiful Beginnings&Endings mythology anthology organized and printed by Ipsy Bipsy Studio! I did a take on the Chinese creation story Nüwa Mends the Heavens.
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A Taxonomythic Bestiary
For a project that involved the contemporization of mythology, I dealt with the tradition of naming newly discovered species after mythological creatures. Visually, I focused on scientific illustration, bestiaries, and pterosaur fossils. Although I wanted to evoke some scientific illustration-like imagery, the purpose was not so much scientific accuracy as it was the feeling of mystery and magnificence. There’s a mythical quality that surrounds prehistoric animals, an unknowability that lends their fossils to interpretation and reinterpretation.
Keeping in mind that I took a lot of artistic liberties with these skeletons, the pterosaurs I referred to are:
1. Azdarcho lancicollis - named after the Uzbek word for dragon 2. Quetzalcoatlus northropi - named after the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl 3. Samrukia nessori - named after the samruk/simurgh
(gold leaf & ink on hot press watercolor board)
Final project for Illustration Concepts, based on imagery found in Huichol mythology.
500+ frames at 24 fps later, I now know for sure that being an animator is not my calling haaaah
L'atelier gorgone
Illustration Concepts: Narrative.
