Sarasota Arts & Culture Magazine - September/October 2007 - (Page 30) RawlynFarley Photo by Ryan Prado “My dad told me that ‘only an artist would say their favorite birthday presents were crayons and pads of paper’,” laughs Rawlyn Farley, illustrator extraordinaire. “Every kind of art was my favorite thing to do growing up.” Not much changed since that box of crayons triggered the Cheshire cat-like smile lighting up Farley’s face in the first grade. Paintbrushes, acrylics, pencils and sketchbooks were always the first things unpacked through all the Navy brat years of moving from state to state. Knowing full-time artisanship lay in her future, she attended a portfolio night in Washington, D.C. that she thought would confirm her desire to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. Instead, the line crawling out the door for Ringling College of Art and Design changed her direction. Her portfolio of life drawings—still life, figures and blind contours—opened the door for acceptance to the school, and her early drawings of beach scenes and palm trees must have been the illustrative premonition for Sarasota, Florida. As with any young artist, Farley’s style evolved immensely in her four years at Ringling, first with “the cliché of wanting to work for Disney, but that ended after six months,” she says. “Then I became obsessed with fashion illustration; anything that had to do with fashion, all that girly, magazine stuff.” Dovetailing with Farley’s determination and unwavering mindset, her most influential teacher, Shawn Barber, advised, “Decide what you want to do and become obsessed with it.” Check. Perspective already concreted, Farley’s junior and senior year transformed her method from hands-on painterly to all computerized. “I forced myself to do everything on Adobe Illustrator for my senior thesis,” Farley says, “instead of drawing sketches first and scanning them in.” Themed ‘guilty pleasures’, Farley’s thesis was a graphic depiction of her innate fashion bent and contemporary style. “I incorporate trends in everything I do—trends in society, music, fashion—in 30 : : arts and culture magazine
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