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Narrative & ornamental illustrator.
🎨Art Nouveau Portrait Study — After Alphonse Mucha
A personal Art Nouveau study after Alphonse Mucha’s Moët & Chandon Crémant Impérial (1899), created as a return to detailed portrait and ornamental illustration.
Rather than aiming for a faithful reproduction, I used Mucha’s original composition and silhouette as a framework while reworking the portrait, foliage, jewellery, costume details and decorative elements through my own drawing and rendering process.
The study became an exercise in rebuilding hand, colour and detail — particularly the balance between the figure, ornament and repeated motifs.
Personal study, 2026.
Original reference: Alphonse Mucha, Moët & Chandon Crémant Impérial (1899), public domain. Chase the Stars: A Paid Narrative Wraparound Book Cover Mourning Glory — Rebuilding an Arthurian Farewell Through Colour Vow to Thee, My King — A Two-Perspective Narrative Series