Not a song title this time since I feel this post warrants its own title.

I was approached during Pizzafolio this semester by extremely talented photographer YiFei Gu. She pitched to me an ambitious and what we believe to be something quite different from most editorial photographs. She asked me to collaborate with her on a fashion editorial set with the theme of Thumbelina. She and her fantastic team would provide the model, styling, etc; while I would provide the imagery for the background.

In short, a collaboration of illustration and fashion photography.

Suffice to say, I jumped at the chance to work with such dedicated and talented people who had a very interesting vision. This is the fruits of our efforts. The post will comprise of the illustrations I did and the final edit which was handled by YiFei. The final edit was done to her liking and understanding of fashion editorial spreads.

The project consists of four 1 page spreads and two 2 page spreads.

For those of you who are not familiar with the general story of Thumbelina, here's a link to one of the versions that are pretty well known. CLICK HERE.

I helped out during the photoshoot session as well as to gain inspiration for the background which would accompany each image set. It was a fantastic experience as I managed to meet the rest of YiFei's team. They help her in most of her other projects as well.

Team Introductions :

Photographer: Yifei Gu
Hair Stylist : Karlson Fan
Model : Bethany Pifer
Art: Jia-Ling Pan
Styling: Annabelle Fan
Makeup Artist : Christina Chen

There will be progress gifs after each image to show my process all the way to the final edit. Enjoy!





















Gosh those gif images took forever to make.

I did all these, value studies to final, in 5 days. The next time I do this, remind me to plan it out a little better. This time though, it couldn't be helped.

It was a great experience, stressing as it was due to the tight deadline and the sheer size of these works.

I'm proud to say these are the first Adobe Photoshop artworks I have done in a good few years. Anyone who knows me well will know my great disdain for painting in Photoshop since I'm an avid Corel Painter user. I do use Photoshop a lot, just not for the process of painting, much.

The sheer size I needed to work at was too heavy for Painter so I turned back to using it at the last minute. Struggling with a program I wasn't too familiar with for colouring was rather stressful but thanks to Andrew and Robert who advised at the beginning stages and gave me input throughout. I think I did quite alright overall.

YiFei put this project together with hopes of publishing a compilation of her editorial works! We're aiming for Spring Show (I think). I don't know if she will be selling the books here, or if she'll be selling them if at all but I will keep everyone posted if anyone is interested! Please do check out her works. She's a truly inspiring photographer!

I hope you guys enjoyed it *v*

Following the trend of just posting with titles of the song I happen to be listening to at the moment as I fill in the blog entry. Yeap, creative huh? ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

Dusting the blog, haven't updated it in ages and I don't have many new things to update with either. Most of these were from the previous semesters. Hopefully I'll have some newer things soon.

Some quick studies. Clothed and unclothed! Nothing much new here.




Isabella was our model :D Not the model Isabella, friend Isabella~


Some clothed figure drawings I threw into photoshop.


A quick watercolour I did about 2 months ago of a lady at Borders. I need better colours in that palette ┐('～`；)┌ Need better control too.

On other news, I sprained my left wrist so this took awhile to type. This happened a little while ago and I'm a little better now but it didn't exactly kick start my semester on the best of notes. Here's to hoping that things get better (and that I actually update).

Till next time (ﾟ∀ﾟ)!

First art post here, fiddling with the coding and the controls.

Nothing much new since I haven't scanned anything in ages (I will get to it sooner or later, I promise) but I have select things from the previous semester to share :)

One of everything's a good way to start I guess.

I think about the 10th still life I painted at a workshop. One of my better ones, and hopefully the others never see the light of day.
One of the drawings I liked best from Drawing from Imagination class. Huge this was.
Some random quickstudies.
A train~~ Done with markers, I missed using them so much.
Some of friends at workshops : )
A clothed figure that I took some artistic liberty with.
Nudes in ink.
Nudes in colour pencil (and a random face)
And some from Metamorphica.

That should be all ~ Its late, I'm hungry but not tired. That's not a good sign.

Before anyone thinks I'm going on a massive emotional trip because of the blog post titles, I tend to like posting with the title of the song I'm listening to at that moment : D

Just so you know.

Till next time!

Test test.

So I was, erm... encouraged, to get a blog. This is an opening test post to see if my layout is working.

My name is Jia Ling Pan. Its a bit of a mouthful or some people have a problem pronouncing my first name so I also go by 'Jac'Kee'. I draw, I dream, I read, I'm crazy and a lot more.

This is my art blog. And my rambles that come with my art. A little. No, come back D8!

Anyways yes, first post :D