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Gareth Brookes

Graphic novelist, academic and lecturer

Dr Gareth Brookes is a graphic novelist, academic and Lecturer in Illustration Animation at Kingston University. He has published four graphic novels including The Dancing Plague (SelfMadeHero) and The Black Project (Myriad Editions). His monograph Reading Comics Through the Body is published by Palgrave.

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A digital self-portrait illustration of Gizem. The mood of the image is dreamy and playful. There is a woman with dark brown, wavy hair smiling slightly. Her skin colour is vibrant orange-pink, painted flatly. Her hair is dark blue to turquoise with a spray brush texture. Her big, puffy hair dominates the illustration. From her hair, black abstract wavy shapes are coming out and creating a messy pattern for the surroundings. She has relatively slit eyes and a crooked nose. Her face looks towards the audience while her right shoulder is more visible. There is an empty white space below her shoulders, again patterned by the black wavy shapes that come from her hair, but this time, they look like water waves.

Gizem Güvendağ

A digital collage self-portrait of the artist Sabrina Tirvengadum illustrated in neon green, blue, and pink tones with Photoshop tool icons, on a purple-patterned background. The use of neon colours and details such as the green face and pink hair give the impression of an artificial portrait. Sabrina, a woman with long wavy hair, has her arms crossed behind her neck and looks with a neutral expression. She is wearing a long-sleeved top with an intricate pattern in which details such as flowers, leaves and the sun are recognisable.

Sabrina Tirvengadum

In the self-portrait illustration of Zara, the lines drawn in brush pen, light shadow in ink wash and coloured digitally in pale ochre; the colour of sand. The face is in three-quarter profile, filling two thirds of the frame. Her hair is long, exposing her ear. With chin raised, she looks down, directly at the viewer. Her eyebrows up in the middle, her expression is one of concern.

Zara Slattery

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