“I make art in the real world. I love working on prints, paintings, woodcuts, and ceramics,” noted Alcala in an interview with Amadeus Magazine. “However, for commercial and editorial work I usually draw on a tablet in Illustrator.”

His creative process includes a lot of extermination and sketching. “It might not look like it because my illustrations tend to be pretty simple, but the most simple drawing could have hundreds of sketches beforehand,” he notes. “A lot of it is just boiling down ideas until the drawings are totally efficient.”

But though simple, his creations pack a punch. “Ultimately I want my illustrations to have the same kind of impact that a great Mitch Hedberg one-liner joke has, haha,” says Alcala. “Really simple, hits you hard on contact, yet can stick with you for a really long time.”

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Using pop art aesthetic, her art tackles themes surrounding her experiences of racism, body shaming, classism, and chauvinism. “The focus is on my community,” she explained in an interview with Vice. “I’m not talking to a white audience. I’m talking to people like me, so we can talk about these issues in our community. When you do that and when enough people around you start doing that, you find that everyone else around you starts listening in. It puts the pressure on other folks to learn more about us, which is an added bonus, but the point of the work isn’t to appeal to anybody outside of who I’m speaking to.”

“Pop art is very fun in nature, but [my work] does talk about a lot of heavy things, so it’s also people who have topics they want to discuss but don’t really know-how,” she added. “It’s across generations.”

Indeed, humor is Qamar’s weapon of choice when tackling heavy loaded issues. Her book, Trust No Aunty (which has won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for humor), is an illustrated “survival guide” that aims at dealing with overbearing “Aunties,” whether they’re family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random women throwing black magic your way.

With almost 200k followers on Instagram, you’d want to join in the hype.

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“I make art in the real world. I love working on prints, paintings, woodcuts, and ceramics,” noted Alcala in an interview with Amadeus Magazine. “However, for commercial and editorial work I usually draw on a tablet in Illustrator.”

His creative process includes a lot of extermination and sketching. “It might not look like it because my illustrations tend to be pretty simple, but the most simple drawing could have hundreds of sketches beforehand,” he notes. “A lot of it is just boiling down ideas until the drawings are totally efficient.”

But though simple, his creations pack a punch. “Ultimately I want my illustrations to have the same kind of impact that a great Mitch Hedberg one-liner joke has, haha,” says Alcala. “Really simple, hits you hard on contact, yet can stick with you for a really long time.”

Follow him on Instagram for that added flavor:

The post Gabriel Alcala’s Illustrations Are Simply Funny appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Using pop art aesthetic, her art tackles themes surrounding her experiences of racism, body shaming, classism, and chauvinism. “The focus is on my community,” she explained in an interview with Vice. “I’m not talking to a white audience. I’m talking to people like me, so we can talk about these issues in our community. When you do that and when enough people around you start doing that, you find that everyone else around you starts listening in. It puts the pressure on other folks to learn more about us, which is an added bonus, but the point of the work isn’t to appeal to anybody outside of who I’m speaking to.”

“Pop art is very fun in nature, but [my work] does talk about a lot of heavy things, so it’s also people who have topics they want to discuss but don’t really know-how,” she added. “It’s across generations.”

Indeed, humor is Qamar’s weapon of choice when tackling heavy loaded issues. Her book, Trust No Aunty (which has won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for humor), is an illustrated “survival guide” that aims at dealing with overbearing “Aunties,” whether they’re family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random women throwing black magic your way.

With almost 200k followers on Instagram, you’d want to join in the hype.

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