Crazy Head Digital Art by Jinho Kang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
IronFine Art· 2020
Crazy Head Digital Art
by Jinho Kang
Client: Jinho Kang
A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #89875The Design
About Crazy Head Digital Art
Every human being have their own characters like different ego, thinking and basic nature. The artist Jinho Kang stated that this Crazy Head came from it. So the car represents human's ego. Man is watching the car and wants to get rid of it but he can't. They seemed stick together forever. Man's eye is exaggerated like cartoon style. Even though the topic is heavy everything that he had done on this work looks more fun and casual.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Crazy Head Digital Art is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Crazy Head Digital Art is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Crazy Head Digital Art is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I obtain inspirations from a variety of movie clips, and photographs or illustration artwork from many artists.
Then I try to find my ideas and themes with which I can communicate with other people, and put them all together to create a whole new design of mine.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
We human beings are born with our own characters and we carry them over to our death. My design depicts those inseparable relations.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I hope to have my work exhibited as many places as possible.
Grand Interview
Your innovative fusion of cyberpunk aesthetics and psychological exploration in Crazy Head Digital Art presents a compelling visual metaphor of human ego - could you elaborate on how your background in animation influenced this unique artistic expression?
Animation, just like design, requires a lot of creative ideas. A significant amount of time is spent on creating smooth, continuous movements. However, during the planning phase, unexpected creative thinking is often required, especially when it comes to the visual elements. It's not just about the story, layout, or poses; the expressions on the characters' faces change with each situation and need to be depicted carefully. Naturally, animation must also flow smoothly. Moving into digital art, I believe it’s become an essential tool for me. It allows me to look at images and objects not just for what they are, but to deconstruct and combine various elements to create a composition that tells multiple stories in one frame. Even though the image is still, I create layouts with animation in mind.
The car element in Crazy Head Digital Art appears to be permanently attached to the figure's head, symbolizing inescapable ego - what inspired you to choose this specific visual metaphor, and how did it evolve during your five-year development process?
The past decade has been the hardest time in my life, both professionally and personally. Going through a life that felt like hell, I came to understand how fragile humans are and how everything can be lost in an instant. My values and my perspective on humanity have completely changed. As a result, I created images that represent human thoughts and perceptions, comparing them to tangible objects that stick to us. The man in the artwork represents ourselves, while the car attached to his face can be seen as all the miscellaneous thoughts and clutter we cannot shake off.
The exaggerated cartoon-style eye in Crazy Head Digital Art creates an intriguing contrast with the serious themes of human nature - how did you arrive at this deliberate juxtaposition of playful style and profound subject matter?
Having worked on several Warner Brothers cartoons, I can see how you've grown fond of their quirky, unconventional style. Merging that comic cartoon style must bring a lot of creative freedom, similar to the distinctive, imaginative touch that Tim Burton brings to film. It’s a fantastic blend of humor and eccentricity!
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Every man have different characters like thinking, idea. Sometimes It is positive or negative things. It sticks to human's mind. On this art the car represent that ego. Man's eye is exaggerated like cartoon style. So It looks more fun.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- It's 2362x1813 300dpi. digital art.
- Tags
- digital art, cyberpunk, crazy head, cyber zico
- Production Technology
- Normally I use some photo I took and sometimes it comes from many different sources, made draw and retouched many times then finally change into different object.
- Design Challenge
- Hardest one is that what kind of stuffs I put it in on the man's head and when should I finish this project.
It's the battle between my thought and technical drawing.
It continues retouch. - Research
- Animator is my main job since 1988 and still working on animation & game area as animator. Anyone can watch Crazy Singing Bird show on YouTube. Anyway, I always eager to make new things which is related with cyber punk & bio mechanic style. Also interested in inside of human mind.
So I mixed together. Using Photoshop, makes some crazy stuffs as 2D. Sometimes I took the pictures, drawing, and research the google. All kinds of stuffs related with humans are my materials. - Inspiration
- Some funny stuffs came up instantly during watching trailer movie. I don't remember exactly when it was what movie it was. Later I mixed something on the man's head and made it into gif animation. That's the start of my Crazy-Head series. It have been developed many times through the last five years.
- Project Duration
- It started 2013 and retouched 2018.
No exhibition. - Operation Flow
- It's only digital art for the personal project.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Jinho Kang
- Team Members
- Designer/Creator of Crazy Head: JinHo Kang
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Illustrator Jinho Kang, Crazy Head, 2015.
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