Self portrait of Shi
Shiyi Yu
Illustration (School of Art and Design)
About this Item
- Title
- Self portrait of Shi
- Date
- 2024
- Summary/Artist's Statement
- Original illustration of Shi. Done using paint and ink.
- Genre: Fashion design, Figurative art, Portrait
- Artist statement:
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Born and raised in Ningbo, my hometown in Southern China. It is a place where modern architecture and wild exotic animals can be seen all together. As a child, I often had the opportunity to analyze all kinds of species of living creatures. I was always curious and often imagined what the world could be. Growing up in such environments built my passion, love and respect for the land around me.
Eventually after I moved to America, my art is still strongly influenced by the Wondrous culture I grew up in. I want my artwork to capture nature's phenomenal elegance, beauty, its unique flow of energy and its cycle of life and death.
In my illustrations, I combine imagination with reality to create many fantastical worlds. One example of my work that displays my distinct take on semi-realism is "Fledged." "Fledged" is one of my many watercolor pieces that is extremely detailed, yet is stylized and emboldened by my own imagination. I spend hundreds of hours revising my ideas until my artwork captures original inspirations in my head.
My favorite mediums to use are watercolor and digital media. Many of my artworks are entirely done using watercolor and some are a combination of watercolor and digital media. Adding my digital rendering skills, it allows me to enhance my traditional media to a new level where I can add more depth and vibrant colors while still keeping the original textures of watercolor. - Medium
- Acrylic paint, ball-point pen, ink, oil paint
- Dimensions
- 18 x 24 inches
- Course/Degree Information
- Course: IL 484 Advanced Color Rendering I (Spring 2023, Semester 7)
- Professor: Kam Mak
- In Exhibition
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2024 Graduating Student Exhibition - Illustration BFA
- Rights
- In Copyright
- The copyright for this work is held by its author/creator(s). Usage of this material beyond what is permitted by copyright law must first be cleared with the rights-holder(s). This work has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for this work and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: il_000777
Citation
Yu, S. (2024). Self portrait of Shi. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/199144
Yu, Shiyi. Self Portrait of Shi. 2024. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/199144
Yu, Shiyi. "Self Portrait of Shi." FIT Digital Repository, 2024. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/199144