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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The fusiform face area (FFA)  is a part of the human visual system  
which might be specialized for facial recognition, although there is some evidence 
that it also processes categorical information about other objects, 
particularly familiar ones.

here are some new images of a face and a house (found object)
please click this link for web-site   of my process photographs

The Monstrous One
a collaboration 
Alexei Vella | Karen Justl
OCAD Graduate Gallery
2010

some past work

The Five Temperaments
New Work

puppet puppeteer
click image to go to animation