American Illustration 38 Winners

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Yuko Shimizu

Fairytales of Oscar Wilde

Fairytales of Oscar Wilde. December 2018. I was assigned to illustrate Oscar Wilde's Fairytales book. This portrait was used as frontispiece. After initially fully colorizing it, I ended up deleting the colors all together at the end. This feels more right. Sometimes I spend as much time deleting color layers.
Yuko Shimizu

Human Evolution

Human Evolution. September 2018. An opener illustration for a feature article about human evolution, with three articles on the topic. The large scale section opener was then cropped into three separate sections to make three separate article openers.

Scientific American
Yuko Shimizu

Dusting Off the Male Gaze

Dusting Off the Male Gaze. April 2018. The magazine is for people who work in higher education environment. With MeToo Movement becoming so big, they decided to have an issue dedicated to the topic. Multiple female artists were commissioned to create art commentary regarding the topic. This was my contribution.

Chronicle of Higher Education