My Name is Abagail Teresa Serrano, I am a student at NJCU working towards my BFA in illustration. I currently work with the NJCU marketing department as a graphic designer, but my goal is to be a character designer and work on something in the entertainment industry. I love to share my colorful imagination with others and my art is the avenue for it My work is also an avenue that I can use to help others make their colorful imaginations visible. An influence of my work that has followed me since childhood is a YouTube creator with the username "drawing wiff waffles".The way she explores different media and designs characters has always pushed me to create my own. I am heavily inspired by the beauty of Miyazaki films. Studio Ghibli’s fantastical worlds and sweet character designs make me want to create my own. His work is inspired by people around him, Japanese yokai, and more, it is truly a marvel to view these films that give a wholesome morally driven story with or without dialogue. Something else that has been a big inspiration for my artwork lately is Elden Ring, created by Hidetaka Miyazaki. The game is also in a fantasy setting but the lighting in the game and in the concept art for this game just motivates me to keep pushing my work. The cutscenes within the game are visually stimulating on many different levels. Morphing my favorite parts of both of these creators' beautiful work to create something that represents me and my own stories is something that is empowering and hope I can do at least a little justice to these creators through my illustrations.
My work focuses on interpersonal relationships and I often focus on women making them fantastical and usually silly. I make fantasy-style illustrations, heavily focusing on lighting structure and character interaction or design. My art is a reflection of my creativity and the worlds I have been creating in my head for years. One example is a character I have named Honora, who appears in the small body of work I included 3 times. She is a Goblin who I created a few years ago, she is chaotic, silly, and very much a way I put my unserious attitude towards the world around me into my work. I feel that most things are not that serious and that people need to remember that as a way to feel better. My creative process has changed over many years of making art. I have used fantasy to escape for as long as I can remember and my work reflects that. I love to focus on characters with visually interesting lighting situations. My art avoids social issues at large. Despite this, women's issues and rights are important to me. The heavy representation of women in lead or powerful positions in my work is one of the subtle ways I speak on these issues. Overall my work is supposed to be fun to look at and engage viewers' imaginations.
“ Photographs, which package the world, seem to invite packaging. They are stuck in albums,
framed and set on tables, tacked on walls, projected as Slides.”
This quote stood out to me because I feel as though a lot of things can be placed into this place when it comes to art. The collection of pictures, physically, is consuming. My family has a large collection documenting generations of us, as well as drawings and paintings made by some of the people in those images. I want to continue this collection, where my mentality, myself, and the rest of my family can be captured in art and images, and kept in this ever growing lineage produced by pictures.
“ Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it,
photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are.”
Photography as a relative of art rather than a replacement for it is an important distinction that came up around the first few years that photography was popularized. I also love this quote for the credit it gives to photographers. They aren't simply capturing snippets of the world but embedding their own meaning into it and showing a world they are making for their photos. The interpretations of the world being able to shift through mediums is beautiful.
For my own work I use photographs as reference for difficult poses. These images aren't real snapshots of people naturally laying on the ground or jumping in the air, but a posed image to show the photographer's ideas.
5 things to describe my work
D&D style fantasy
mythical women
interpersonal relationships
silliness
mood
Images Left to Right
Deep Underground; Procreate
Honora; Photoshop
Flames of Sorrow; Procreate
Viewing the Arcane; Procreate
Sunshine; Procreate
Late Night Chats; Procreate
Tree Houses and Dirty Knees; Procreate
Path Finding; Photoshop
New Justice; Photoshop
The Borda; Photoshop
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