Placing these two projects together revealed something I hadn't fully articulated before — that illustration and photography are, for me, the same question asked in two different languages. Both are about deciding what gets to exist on the surface and what gets erased. Both demand the same thing: restraint, and the courage to stop.
Light &
Form
One question, two media:
how does light define form?
Illustration, photo editing & art direction
Self-directed study · 2021
Four final plates. One visual language.
Created independently in Illustrator and Photoshop, from pencil studies to two poster colourways and two edited photo plates.Symmetrically Unorthodox — Illustration
Two colourways, one composition. Compare how colour changes the emphasis while the wave pattern, typography and diagonal form stay in place.
- Read the pair
- Follow the headline, curved pattern and diagonal form. The reading order holds as the palette changes.
From Shadow to Serenity — Photo Editing
Two existing edits of Blue Haven. Read them together to see how headline alignment, figure scale and text grouping change the balance of the composition.
- What stays
- The monochrome figure and blue flowers preserve the mood while the type and spacing change.