SUNGA PARK


Sunga Park is a graphic designer and illustrator currently living and working in Busary, South Korea as a wallpaper designer. He creates various prints, but one thing i was drawn to the most is his watercolour paintings,inspired by architecture. 

I came across Sunga on Pinterest, once inspired by his work i looked into more, his blog has various work of his in different categories, i decided to look into his architecture painting as this is what I'm interested in. 

Lookingat the way Sunga captures his vies is interesting, seeing further photos of his work, its as if he leaves his signature mark by leaving the paintings unfinished.
Im not sure if i can say they're unfinished as such, but his technique of blending out the painting i find interesting.

I think he's capture the main features of his paintings and added enough detail, which is why the washed out look seems to work well within his illustrations.

I decided to create my own work inspired by Sunga, i searched for famous landmarks and chose one i thought was interesting. I added in the detail in which i think gave it enough structue for it to look observational, i then slightly blended it out at the bottom. His work i find very dramatic, i wanted mine to be quite subtle. I find his very overpowering, which is why i decided to tone down the was i would fade it out.

Im happy with the end result of this, i also enjoyed creating an illustrated watercolour painting inspired by architecture. One of my three themes was texture, i decided that id try this on a piece of fabric to see how the watercolour would react to the surface of the material.
This was the outcome;




I think this actually worked well. i was a bit sceptical about applying watercolour to a surface that has texture but i think it created a original outcome. I don't think the watercolour paint went well with the materials as it soaked up a fair amount which meant repeating layer and building up more of a tone.