Visiting Speaker - Victo Ngnai
http://victo-ngai.com
Victo came in yesterday and gave a talk. It was sooo
good! I initially thought it might not interest me that much as her work was
very different to mine as she focuses a lot of complex scenes and editorial
work. Her work is incredible! – I like at it and actually can’t work out how
she’s done things. Her work to me feels like a build up of layers and I think
this is something I struggle with. That and composition – In first year we
looked at composition and line of sight for visual language and I really
struggled to transfer those ideas in to my own work. When looking at her work,
this is really strong to pick out and she does it beautifully. Her
illustrations are far more complex than you initially think, as she manages to
fill all her ideas in to one image. You can see the time and effort that she
puts in to her work and you also get a sense of narrative in her illustrations
too.
She does a lot of editorial based work for the New
Yorker and the New York Times. Her work is so clever. This is what I struggle
with a lot – thinking outside the box. I found it hard to draw a message
without being literal. She said she looked at it by thinking of the key themes,
for example ‘abandonment’, then the imagery can me almost anything you want it
to be, as long as it shows abandonment. Some clients may not want this, so it’s
dependent on the brief.
It was also nice to see that he work stretched to
advertising and packaging – something I’m more interested in.
'its not how good you are, its how good you want to
be'
paul arden
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