Sayra Begum: January 2014

22 January 2014

Estrangement

In a realistic world there are the beautiful and equally there is the ugly, both coexisting with each other, to define and appreciate the opposed. But in the strange world of Acacia, only beautiful creatures inhabit it, and everything always remains perfectly beautiful. In order to sustain this there are regulators, working out of sight from the civilians.

This silent zine tells the story of an estranged girl.

21 January 2014

Spiritual Chickens

The task in this project was to illustrate this sinister text. I created this dark and surreal painting, using acrylic, to compliment the atmosphere .

Witch

These two paintings were a response to an article based on The Pendle Witch Trials. I approached these paintings with the idea to portray the women as they were accused. Visually communicating the crimes they were accused of by adding the mystical elements to the paintings, rather than portraying them as victims of persecution.

Moon Bird

Moon Bird is a wordless narrative about an alluring hybrid landing on the moon to meet the creature that guards it.

The Trapped Crow

The Trapped Crow is a wordless narrative, incorporating love and curse . I created this double page spread to submit to Tiny Pencil.

1001

1001 is a fairytale story I illustrated, written by the author, Razwan Ul-Haq. The story is written for young readers as they follow the characters on their magical adventure. The characters learn about each others culture and the reader follow them on this journey.

Fish prints

These images are the result of observational drawings in classroom workshop, which were then taken away to be spontaneously assembled in this form.

Surreal Drawings

I created these surreal drawing, based on the human form, to use as surface design. I hand painted these designs on tote bags and hand-bound books which were sold in The Illustration Shop.