Trikucian

My name is Jessica Noel Jeffery and I like to think of myself as a “Jack of All Trades” when it comes to the world of art. I love to dabble in several different kinds of art styles and mediums, but there are always two that I keep coming back to: costumes and digital painting. While these two mediums may seem very different, one being very tactile and in the real world, the other being purely digital in the virtual world, I find they both bear resonance with me because of their potential for interactivity, both for the artist and the audience. I believe that the best way to enjoy art is to touch it, to discover it with all of your senses, not just your eyes or ears. A great deal of my personal art is geared towards my own need to interact with the comics, video games, and movies that I love. To create a costume based on one of my favorite characters I first draw the character out, and then I decompile the different pieces of the costume. This also lets me work on my digital painting skills, which I would later use for my own character designs and graphic novels. The next step with the costume is to draw out the pattern, adherent to the measurements of the model, and make adjustments accordingly. After that I make the mock-up piece to make sure the garment falls right, and the last step is of course to make the costume itself. In this last step, being the most tactile, I have many opportunities to tweak the piece to my own liking. My technique to creating a digital character is very much the same, the only difference being I draw the final costume for them, as opposed to making one with real fabric. I believe knowing how something works in the real world makes it look and work infinitely better in the virtual world, and as such is why I find the costume and digital painting mediums connect so succinctly for me.