Post 1 Introduction- Juliette Reyes

    Hello, everyone. My name is Juliette Reyes. I mostly create digital work and want to pursue a career in character design. I've always enjoyed making my own characters and daydreaming about their little worlds and personalities. 

    When growing up anime was my biggest influence, but as I got older Mila Useche and Jackie Droujko were the artists who really inspired me the most when I was first figuring out what kind of artist I wanted to be. 

    I loved Useche's work's vibrant colors and cute little characters. When I was first introduced to Mila Ushche's art she was a character designer who worked digitally, but now as a response to the creation of AI, Useche only works with paint on canvas to connect back to traditional mediums. 

    I also enjoy Jackie Droujiko's character designs. When I design a character, I always think back on how to create interesting shapes and volumes like Droujiko. I was introduced to Jackie by her YouTube videos. On her channel, she shows the process of her illustrations and short film animations and does portfolio critiques for other inspiring artists. I find her very encouraging and educational.

    As of late, I would describe my work as colorful and playful. I enjoy drawing round shapes and I have also been loving the colors blue and yellow together. 

    As for social issues, I've been thinking a lot about book bannings, class divisions, and Trump revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. These are just the things that have been weighing on my mind as of late and when I do I like to think about the quote..

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people".

-Alan Moore, V for Vendetta 

Portfolio of Artist:

Jackie Droujko

Mila Useche

2 Quotes + A Responce

"To collect photographs is to collect the world. Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store."

    "A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture."

    I found these quotes interesting because the first quote feels nostalgic. Photographs indeed collect the world we view, and we things we find interesting and love. If we look at the photos on our phones it tells our story, what we did, who we were with, and where we were. I also think it's the photographer who shows their world and the world they want us to see. But I also think the second quote is interesting because it fuels the other quotes. The images we have are our presumes proof of our lives and our world. But the world we try to show can also be an unreliable narrative.