Ray Nguyen: capstone

Abstract

The artist's statement: As an illustration-based graphic designer, it is important that my visuals communicate the narrative that my projects aim to tell. Whether it be for my personal work or collaborations with clients, my process is thorough from the beginning of the project to the final product. To get the best results, I ensure to ask questions to fully understand the scope of a project’s expectations, develop presentations, concepts, and sketches to fully explore all facets and directions a project can go, and ensuring all the fine details are included and presented for a fleshed out final product. I draw inspirations primarily from animated work, translating them into my own work through lively illustrations and saturated colors that bring life to things I design. As an aspiring graphic novelist and children’s book illustrator, a lot of my illustrative work includes analog textures, such as paper, watercolor, graphite, and pastel-adjacent textures to give my illustrations an additional layer of depth. Apart from just illustrative aspects, thoughtful typography choices and layout are of utmost importance to me, since impactful design should seamlessly blend both eye-catching visuals with legibility for audiences to understand and remember.