Opus New Year Illustratio a designatore Jui-Ping Lee est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2024 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Categoria Certaminis Ars Digitalis.

FerrumArs Digitalis· 2024

New Year Illustratio

a Jui-Ping Lee

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Categoria Ars Digitalis

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Designum

De New Year Illustratio

In atrio tranquillo, inter lenem turbinem nivis hiemalis vibrantesque colores foliorum autumnalium, sedet figura elegans Kimono exquisito ornata. Scaena essentiam Wabisabi evocat, pulchritudinem solitudinis ac serenitatis incorporans. Texturae delicatae textum ornant, maxime Pini solemnitatem significantes; et Seigaiha rhythmica tranquillitatem maris repraesentans. Propius inspiciendo plura detalia intricata revelantur: ad sinistram lamina lapidea nomen calamarium artificis ferens quiescit; in Kimono vero, texturae murium annum novum 2020, annum murium, repraesentantes.

Agnitio

De Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

New Year Illustratio victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur New Year Illustratio creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. New Year Illustratio ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Post Designum

Fasciculus Nuntii

Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: An elegant figure with splendid Kimono, serenely sitting in a yard on a cold winter's day at new year, with colourful leaves and slowly showering snow around her that represents the traditional artistic term, Wabisabi (beauty of solitude and tranquility).

If we zoom in, it can be seen that the Patterns are mainly Pines, which is used in the most formal kimono, to be worn only on ceremonious occasions; and also "Seigaiha (sea waves)", which represents tranquility.

Aside from that, the stone plate on the left reads the pen-name of the artist; and on the kimono, there are patterns depicting mice, to celebrate 2020, the year of mouse.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Original dimensions at 5600*3150 px, with 935 canvas layers
Notulae: Illustration, Kimono, Furisode, Kouyou, Karesansui
Technologia Productionis: Drawn using a Wacom Cintiq Pro 32, with software Easy Paint Tool SAI 2.0
Provocatio Designandi: The key challenge is to make a painting while keep the authenticity of the elements - the kimono, the karesansui ("dry yard") and the red leaves. While many other illustrators prefer drawing kimono-like outfits, this work must be authentic on the kimono design so it can fit the theme properly; under such condition, the creating process became much more difficult due to the fact that it can not be a free-form creation, but a restricted one that the combination of all the elements in the painting must be meticulously designed and crafted.
Investigatio: Research especially on the meaning of the kimono patterns was conducted, to better represent kimono while avoid improper designs. Books and documents are examined, and different combinations of patterns are tried in the painting, and the one with best both cultural and visual effect was determined, resulting in a design which is both having superb color representation and cultural meaning that befit the theme of the work (new year).
Inspiratio: When I was sitting alone in my home watching a video about how Kimono's (traditional Japanese dress) are made, I suddenly imagined a figure in Karesansui (Japanese stone yards), surrounded by maples and wearing the most fine, magnificent Kimono; and I, a "photographer", would quietly approach, crouching on the ground and capture the evanescent moment with a single-lens-reflex camera (which is my canvas and pen)
Duratio Operis: The vague inspiration of it formed since 2017-2018, and the actual drawing started in December 2019, finished & published in January 2020.
Cursus Operationis: At first sight, you will immediately focus on the figure in the middle, in spite of the fact that the saturation level of the background is much higher. This is called the "blurring perspectives" technic that by burring out items whilst no obvious perspective cues, it creates a huge sense of space, and can lead the beholder to focus their sight at once at the non-blurred items, namely the figure in this painting, sitting in the middle, creating a "photo-like" effect.