Welcome to My Blog: The Closet!

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Hello and welcome everyone to my blog. My name is Jenny Lee, also known as Yoonji Lee, and I am a Art and Design student in DMUIC for the Academic Year 2022-2023. This blog, which I lovingly call The Closet, will be continuously updated with my artworks, processes, and research works that I will do for Digital Arts and other subjects.

I will talk about a little bit of information about myself: I had always been interested in drawing ever since I was a child, and this interest has continued on to be my interest and now my study. Due to this interest, I was also exposed and have seen works that shown different illustrations such as comic, games, animations, and such. These exposures continue to inspire and motivate me to this day and I will always be open to more of inspirations.

Before I go on, I would like to introduce one of my favorite artists: Joseph Christian Leyendecker, also known as J.C. Leyendecker.

J.C. Leyendecker (1912) Kellogg's Kids
Found in: Haggin Museum

While I had not known about Leyendecker's works for a long time, his works have become a major inspiration for me when I first learnt about him. He was a prominent illustrator in America and had worked on several illustrations including but not limited to: magazines, posters, and advertisements. 

The picture above is a work from a series of illustrations that Leyendecker did for an advert for the famous cereal company Kellogg, and this series of illustrations was appropriately named “Kellogg’s Kids.” Haggin Museum describes this series as:

‘Starting in 1912, Leyendecker captured the hearts of American mothers through his series of cherubic infants, winsome children and wholesome adolescents enjoying bowls of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes’. (Haggin Museum 2018)

Other works of Leyendecker have similar, if not the same art style as the photo above: minimalistic hair, clear highlights making skin, hair and objects look almost like silk, and although not clearly shown here, clear and linear wrinkles in clothes. I fell in love with his works due to these characteristics—even if its a painting of a real life person, it is modified and presented in a different and unique way that it is realistic and a illustration. 


My belief in art always laid in the fact that art has to capture both the imagination and real life in a way that others would be able to visualise it in their heads when they see the illustration but different from a photograph—even if a hyper realistic drawing is made, I always thought that those drawings are not much different from pictures. Leyendecker’s works captured my very belief, so ever since I knew him, he became my inspiration. As of now, several of his works are at least 50 to a 100 years old, so I hope that his works continue to live on and inspire others, and I also hope that my works would be able to inspire other growing artists like how he inspired me.

References:

Haggin Museum (2018) Collections: Leyendecker, Kellogg’s Kids [Online] Available from https://hagginmuseum.org/collections/leyendecker-j-c/kelloggs-kid/ (Accessed 6th October 2022)

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  1. Zoe Van-de-Velde9 October 2022 at 12:27

    Good first post, nice information about yourself and an artist you like. You have quite a bit of highlighting as you have not patsed as plain text when teh writing is from elsewhere - you need to just clear teh formatting on blogger by selcting the highlighted areas and Using the T with a cross through it to clear it.

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