Audrey's Art
Hand-drawn pen & ink drawing scans, by animator and digital artist Audrey Bryann Young
Hand-drawn pen & ink drawing scans, by animator and digital artist Audrey Bryann Young
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-Born to Walk Alone-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts serpentine scaly creatures - snakes or dragons - twining around each other in a hostile dance, over an abstract mountainous landscape. In animation, these creatures would come to life and do exactly that! Who will be the last one standing, and ‘walk’ (or slither) away from this fight? -Colour Me-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract - or, in the center, not so colorful - depicts what looks like a stained-glass window, with black-and-white shapes bursting forth from its center. When the artist was coloring the different sections, she felt the strange desire to leave the middle section blank - like in a coloring book, allowing the viewer to imagine colors of their own choosing! The contrast between the colorful, smooth undulating waves of the background and the unruly, monochromatic spikes evoke feelings of creativity, inspiration and rebelliousness; this star is daring to be different and stand out from the crowd! -Dreams Never Touch the Earth-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts a chain of hearts, stretching across a landscape of segmented patterns of forest green, watery blue, and earthy gold, which could represent stones and precious metals. In the artist’s mind, the hearts symbolize feelings of connectedness between people, even if they do not know each other directly; as well as the love and imagination flowing though and between them, like the veins and circulatory system of each individual, which ultimately bind them together as one. In the animation, these hearts glow and beat, with a background of ambient sounds that evoke the experience of underwater deep-diving. -Every Move You Make-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts a series of gyroscopic shapes that resemble eyeballs; are they part of some mysterious, robotic clockwork mechanism? A surveillance system, watching your every move? And if so, do the eyeballs just impassively observe, or do they have thoughts, feelings, and judgements of their own? In the animation, these eyeballs move and blink in a wall of glowing light and shadow, to the clicking, hissing, buzzing, and clunking sounds of gears… -Give Me Some Rope-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts a sun, its rays beaming down upon a melting, oozing landscape of color and a pattern like a woven net of rope. In the animation, the red sparks that begin as part of the sunbeams turn white and blue, evoking snow, hail and raindrops, as if the sky is challenging - or attempting to destroy - the rope net with different kinds of sunny and stormy weather. In the artist’s mind, this image evokes feelings of resilience and endurance, as we brave the elements and forces of nature which assail us. -Had to Perish Twice-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts the clash between fire and water, two opposing forces of nature, over a background of greenery. In the animation, we see that the fate of the greenery might well be doomed twice over: should the flame prevail, it shall burn. The water fights fire with a shower of hail, which will fall upon the greenery and kill it with a chilling blanket of frost. Only once the ice is melted by the heat can it become water once more, and revive the greenery anew. The title is a line from Robert Frost’s poem ‘Fire and Ice’. -Never Promised You-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts a bouquet of roses, two of which arch over to form the shape of a heart, under a blue sky dotted with white clouds; however, while such a thing would normally symbolize love, the observant viewer can see signs of trouble: the black-and-blue roses, which form the heart (itself a forlorn purple, rather than a happy red or pink) are releasing dewdrops that evoke the look of falling tears; the rose stems have not been pruned of thorns, and around the thorny base are pools of blood-red; and the leaves, while half-green, are also half-withered with orange. -Pass Me Up For Dead-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts a rainbow-hued cluster of flowers - one large, the others smaller - which almost resemble butterflies in appearance; however, these lovely flowers are either growing in a harsh, inhospitable desert under a bright sun and ominous grey clouds, or they are engulfed in red and orange fire, pillars of smoke rising from them as they burn. In either case, they are not long for this world; in the animation, the main flower wilts before our eyes, as we hear the ambient sounds of crackling fire and the howling of both wind and beast. -Rings of Power-
by Audrey Bryann Young This colorful abstract depicts multi-hued flame-like shapes, rising up through overlapping rings of gold; in the artist’s mind, it evokes imagery of spectacle and competition, such as in an illusionist’s act or the olympic games. In the animation, the rings vibrate in a rising sequence as the flames glow, flash and spark, until at last the energy becomes too much for the rings to take: they shatter and fall apart, dropping out of the frame and, presumably, into a broken heap. |
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