Alumna expresses her emotions through digital art on self-made website
"Jane Kim makes art about moments that make her cry.
Alumna Jane Kim makes art about moments that make her cry. The artist said she taps into her feelings for each of her pieces but goes into creation without any specific visual aesthetic in mind. (Courtesy of Jane Kim) Though she works as a graphic designer, the alumna said she considers herself an artist at her core. Kim uses technology as her medium to create playful and interactive online pieces that are displayed on her self-designed website. Despite the fact that her specialty is in the fine arts, she has become well-versed in digital art and technology through her time in the design media arts program.
“I actually didn’t know how to use (Adobe) Illustrator or any of those digital tools until I got to college,” Kim said. “My foundation is really in the fine arts and drawing, so I’ve always carried around a sketchbook and drew everywhere.”
Many of the digital projects on Kim’s website – which feature distinctive pastel-colored geometric shapes – originate as drawings with pencil on paper. To transform them from her sketchbook to animated digital art, Kim said she first uses Adobe Illustrator to replicate her original work into the new medium. Afterward, she exports the program’s vectors – which are graphics made of connecting points – onto her website and code is added to make the images interactive."— Vivian Xu, Nov. 14, 2019
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