#80

/June Digan

// Philippines

⟶ BIO / PROCESS

June Digan is a designer and illustrator specializing in traditional and digital mediums. A graduate of Fine Arts and Design major in advertising arts at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, June's work focuses on moods, emotions, and storytelling using delicate characters, whimsical landscapes, and lettering. She specializes in digital and traditional mediums such as watercolors, gouache, and acrylic. Her works have been featured in various exhibitions, design blogs, and print publications.

Today, she works as an independent graphic designer and illustrator. She has served as a member of the Jury for ADC Young Guns 18 and the New York Festival's Bowery Awards 2020. June's clients include Hewlett-Packard, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Chewy, Toblerone Asia, Facebook PH, and the Embassy of the Philippines Berlin, amongst many others. She is represented internationally by Illo Agency.

Floating blimps have always intrigued me. I decided to use and merge it with
the Philippine Jeepney, infusing a bit of my heritage into the project.
I didn't want to make things too complicated, as this was my first time utilizing
an AI image generator. I started by coming up with a concept: a blimp pulling
a jeepney. I used a few prompts on Dall-e 2, and it provided me with some
intriguing images. I was able to collect four works of art from the platform.
Having artwork that I didn't draw felt strange, so I decided to use them as a
mood board and create artwork from scratch. I made some adjustments to the
mood board colors and then created thumbnail ideas of how I would integrate
the four pieces of art. After sketching, I colored the entire thing in procreate. It didn't feel quite like me at this point, so I tried to steer clear of the mood
board's imagery. I experimented more with the details and drew a jeepney with
traditional Filipino elements. The final step involved adjusting the lighting in
Procreate and exporting the result in Photoshop.

⟶ TOOLS USED

DALL-E

⟶ PROMPT

A colorful Filipino jeepney suspended on modern steampunk blimp flies in the sky with a beautiful sunset as the background.