Lines of Duality

YEAR

2025

BRIEF

Three illustrations from prompts picked from chits, each pairing a main subject with an environment that supports its story. The aim was to explore different styles, techniques and palettes so that subject, environment and style work together to carry one clear idea.

CONCEPT

Inspired by Edvard Munch, I explored how the same person feels and expresses emotion differently online and offline. Online emotion can be edited and controlled, while offline emotion is spontaneous and unfiltered.

INSPIRATION

The moodboard covered digital identity, social media culture, contrasting emotions, distorted expressive forms and pastel environments. The idea was a soft, pleasing surface with distorted emotion underneath.

SKETCHES

DIGITAL ITERATIONS

ILLUSTRATION

Contrasting expressions, forms and colours show both emotional states in one figure. Warm tones suggest comfort and openness, and cool tones suggest distance and introspection. The piece leaves viewers asking what is being shown and what is being hidden.

Lines of Duality

Lines of Duality

Lines of Duality

BRIEF

CONCEPT

INSPIRATION

SKETCHES

DIGITAL ITERATIONS

ILLUSTRATION

MOCKUPS