Friday, September 21, 2018

HONG KONG ON STEPS - Tales of Our City (Artist: Joy of Madness)


Joyce Ho 2005年畢業於白英奇專業學院,修讀平面設計課程。她從小喜歡外國味重的插圖及瘋狂卡通,欣賞外國的瘋狂創意及強烈的用色,自此影響了往後的畫風。畢業後活躍於角色設計及插畫藝術活動等工作,喜歡創作怪獸角色,因為這些源自本身的創作力和幻想,不能在現實世界中看見。

Joyce Ho graduated from Caritas Bianchi College of Careers in 2005. She majored in 2D graphic design. When Joyce was a little girl, she took great interest in western style graphic designs and crazy-style cartoons. She admires their wild creativity and bold choices in mixing and matching colours, which continues to inspire her own designs. She likes designing monster characters because they come from her own creative world.



主題:放下、自在  
取材於中國傳統故事「西遊記」。用擬人法描繪故事中孫悟空被五指山壓著的情景。圖中的孫悟空表情厭倦,背著五指山四周尋覓三藏為他解救。其實每人身上也背負了一個「五指山」,可能是一個責任,亦可能是一個身份,也可能是一種執著?沒有人知道,但可以肯定的是大家也希望尋覓到自己的「三藏」,放下了,便能自在。


Title: Let Go and Relax
The artwork was inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Personification is used to illustrate the situation in which Monkey King was crushed by The Five Finger Mountain. The exhausted Monkey King was seeking for his Buddhist master, Tang Sanzang's help.
In reality, everybody carries a Five Finger Mountain, it can be a responsibility, an identity or some kind of attachment. We all hope to find our own Tang Sanzang, so we can let go and relax.



主題:Joy of Madness 的誕生   
自小Joyce 就很喜愛幻想瘋狂古怪的事情,亦很鍾情於日本卡通怪獸造型的模型公仔及插畫。結果長大後,仍然樂於繪畫設計各類古怪造型的怪獸公仔。所以她繪畫了三隻怪獸合力去「捽」神燈,最後Joy of Madness這個招牌三眼小子就因此而誕生。

Title: The Birth of Joy of Madness

Ever since Joyce was young, she enjoyed imagining all sorts of craziness in life and she admired Japanese cartoon monster figures and illustrations. Thus, the very reason why she is fond of designing and drawing various types of monster characters. In her artwork, there are three monsters rubbing the oil lamp, and it is how Joy of Madness' signature three-eyed monster was born.

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