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I'm Lauren, a 22 year old illustrator born and based in Scotland, working with particular interest in music, portraits, and architecture. About My illustrations revolve a lot around heavy line-work, inspired by comics I read as a teenager that laid the foundation for my initial interest in illustration. I enjoy using my work to capture emotion and movement in the mundane, and using illustration to study myself and my own behaviour. I have run an etsy shop alongside my studies at art school as a secondary form of income where I've sold some of my personal work as stickers, which has been a fun and exciting venture into the world of small businesses that I hope to keep up for many years to come. Post-graduation, I aspire to train and work as a secondary art teacher, in the hopes of passing on some of the skills I've picked up studying at DJCAD to a new generation of young artists and designers. I found in high school there was a general lack of knowledge surrounding more contemporary design practises like illustration, and I would love to be able to inspire others to follow the same path that I have and find inspiration in art practises outside those more commonly covered in secondary schools. Hometown Hero Comic Book Created for the personal book project we started in spring 2020, this comic is based off of the song Hometown Hero by Canadian musician Andy Shauf. This has been one of my favourite songs for years and being able to see it visualised through my own artwork has been really gratifying. I'm going to see Shauf in concert in May, so hopefully by the time the degree show opens, I'll be able to have a signed copy of this as well! Gallery Thumbnail - A comic book, sitting on a desk amongst various artist's tools. The cover of the comic is purple, and there is an illustrated cigarette in the top centre, with a curling cloud of grey smoke coming from it that fills most of the cover. In the centre, in bold varsity font, the comics tiutle reads 'Hometown Hero'. Below, in smaller purple font, it says: Lyrics by Andy Shauf, Art by Lauren Young Gallery Thumbnail - An open comic book spread. there is a long panel stretching across two pages showing a blonde man in a purple hoodie and jeans walking on a dark street at night. the windows on the buildings are boarded up, and the pavement looks dirty. a smaller panel in the bottom left corner shows a gas station at night with two cars parked outside. a panel in the bottom right shows a close up of the man's face looking surprised. the captions of the pages read: "Walks one block to the all night station, and steps into a Gallery Thumbnail - An open comic book spread. the left hand side has a full page panel of an excited-looking shop clerk standing at a shop counter. There are shelves of ciugarettes behind him. He has dark skin and lots of curly hair, and is skinny. A caption above his head says: "The clerk, relived says", and then a speech bubble leads from his mouth to the next page, which reads: "You're a hero man, and you shoukld stick around 'till the cops get here, maybe you'll make the morning news." On this page, the speech bubble is a The DCA, pictured over lockdown from the second floor flat across the street as people tried to get in. Submitted as part of the 'Others' project for the portraiture module, Winter 2020. Artery Leaflet This project was created to be shown as a 4-page booklet, with our only prompt being the word artery. As this was one of the first projects I did whilst working from home, I felt like the cables powering the devices in my room that I was using for my art were almost as equally important as the arteries channelling blood through my body. Gallery Thumbnail - A portrait black and white drawing of a piece of paper stuck to a wall. There is a plug socket just below, one cable runs up behind the piece of paper and connects to a smart device attached to the wall above. A second cable dips off the page and returns to run up the right hand side and connect to a small switch, then continues on the other side off of the page. The piece of paper reads 'Arteries (and the subtle complexities of attempting to work from home)' Below this, in small font, it says Lauren Young. Gallery Thumbnail - A portrait black and white drawing of a pile of tangled cables, linked through two extension cords plugged into a double socket in the middle of the page. There are 6 plugs in total, each with a cable that winds around the page and exits off the right hand side of the page. Gallery Thumbnail - A portrait black and white drawing of a hand holding a smartphone over a laptop keyboard. six cables run from the right hand side of the image and wrap around and under the hand. One white cable dips into the wrist and curls like a vein, and exits again at the base of the hand to plug into the bottom of the smartphone. There is a large block of text on the phone, it reads: "Look, its been a long few weeks. I’ve only just gotten my hands on a chair thats actually comfortable. I’ve had my printer for a year a Gallery Thumbnail - A portrait black and white drawing of a girl sitting at a desk on her phone. The phone is casting a beam of light into her face. She is wearing a hoodie and joggers, and has a bored expression on her face. Abive the desk is three shelves, cluttered with plants, books, a small clock, and some winding fairy lights. A laptop sits on the desk, screen bright, and a tangle of cables hands off the desk and disappears on to the floor. There is another plant and a printer behind the desk; the printer also has a cabl Book cover design for the Penguin Student Design Awards 2022 A small selection of my work is available on Etsy and more will be added over the summer as the Degree Show winds down. You can also find me on Facebook at Lauren Young Illustration Dundee, or Instagram at @laurenjyart, where I regularly run commissions and sales through my shop, as well as publishing new works. Connect Email Access my Etsy shop here! Previous Edie Urquhart Search Search Jobs Events Stories 中文网站 Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram University of Dundee Nethergate Dundee Scotland, UK DD1 4HN Contacts Privacy Accessibility Modern slavery statement Top Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096. © University of Dundee
