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I recently found the New York based Illustrator Hye Jin Chung in an article about her work on the It's Nice That website. I looked through her own site and loved her college/drawn pieces. This mix of materials is something which I have wanted to do for a while and seeing it done so well in her work makes me want to do it more. This piece is one of multiple made for a zine called Collectors, featuring four strange women who each collect unusual things: Plants, Planets, Water and as shown in the image above, a Mineral collector. Although I loved all the images in this zine I have chosen this single image of the mineral collector as the piece I wish I'd done. Although the style is much cleaner than the way I work at the moment I really like the blocky shapes and the simple set of colours used in the body of the woman. But then she adds texture and interest through the hair and the multi-coloured rocks balanced on the shoulders. The effects on these cut out pieces are added and made by the artist not found which is another technique I want to try out from this piece. The mix of collage and pencil drawn details adds so much to this piece and it is hard to tell where the drawing starts and the collage ends.
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