ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN BLOG: Karen Justl

BIO: Karen Justl is an illustrator and graphic designer. She holds an MDes (Masters of Design) from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Ontario. She is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba where she received her BFA Honors in Painting at The University of Manitoba. She is also an interdisciplinary visual artist researching caricature, facial expression, body language, illustration techniques and Freud's theories of slapstick humour & the uncanny. Her illustrations have been published across Canada in Applied Arts, subTerrain Magazine, Chesterfield, Kiss Machine, Herizons MB, Pilot Project and Crow's Toes. She teaches in the Digital Lab at the Toronto School of Art and in Continuing Studies at OCAD University.

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Doll_head | 3d scanned image
the plan for this scan is to create large 
facial expressions on molds of this face 
constructed in the fabrication lab at OCAD


I am also collaborating with Alexei Vella on a sculpture called, "The Vessel"
our process photos are here: click link
We will replace the papier machier face with a plaster cast of this Doll_head
Here are more process photographs: click link





New Work
process photographs, click link
1. skinheads and girlgang














New Work
process photographs, click link
2. the dolls in the playground


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