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Our cultural illustrations are infused with the power of First Nations storytelling
Yirra Miya’s Cultural Illustration services are a testament to the power of visual storytelling drawing on intuition from our ancestors, knowledge from our Elders and guidance from our communities. We take you on the journey from developing the story, colour palettes (if required) and sketch development through to the digitalised illustrations ready for you to embrace. Created by our First Nations Cultural Designers, our cultural illustrations are more than just designs – they’re bridges between past, present, and future.
Custom illustration capturing the story of the business which we develop with you. Includes the following:
Intended use of artwork can be for brand or program identity and used for printed, digital collateral and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
Business/organisation purposes for brand or program identity, for printed, digital collateral and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
Business/organisation purposes for brand or program identity, for printed, digital collateral and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
File deliverables and inclusions are reflected in our Services and Pricing Guide in our Welcome Package. All artworks and elements intellectual property rights (IPR) are retained by Yirra Miya with exclusive perpetual licence for the agreed intended use.
Our Cultural illustration artworks and element packages are rooted in your business/organisation’s core values, which represent vital pillars crucial to your key messaging. Within the individual elements that are designed, each one is embedded with layers of deep meanings and significance related to what we discover during your onboarding & brainstorming session with us. You may already have ideas of the story you would like to tell, or different pillars you would like to represent however we can also support this development to aid our understanding.
Depending on our creative calendar capacity, we like to explore the opportunity to have two First Nations Cultural Designs to develop a concept sketch to present for selection. This is presented as a non-coloured and non-digitalised concept and focuses more on the story development. This is in recognition that our Cultural Designers may draw upon your key messages with different approaches when translating this into their cultural art style. This will be provided with a colour palette that is conceptualised during the time they develop their sketch. If you don’t have a brand colour palette established or required for the illustrations, we will develop colour palette options during this stage.
Once you select/approve a concept sketch, your selected artist will move forward into the next stage of digitalising your artwork or elements. This is where your story will come to life with colour with 2 revisions included for colour changes. For cultural artworks, once the colour variation is approved, we will pull out a selection of elements that we refer to as ‘pulled elements’ and share their meanings to pick from.
Once the full-colour artwork or elements are approved, depending on your package inclusion we may need to share through one final PDF presentation for review. This final PDF showcases if the elements are reserved-out and set up in monochrome (single) colour using the selected brand/artwork colours. Once this final step is approved, our team packages them up into the files agreed upon within the scope of work and package. This will be provided with an Illustrations Overview PDF reflecting the designs, their meanings and insights into what is deemed as appropriate use whilst maintaining their integrity and the intellectual property rights retained by our team.
We offer digitalisation of artists’ cultural artworks to allow them the opportunity to be shared in a commercial setting and meet client needs for ‘vector’ artworks.
This service is subject to approval by our Creative Director for requests from businesses/organisations requiring this scope completed for a commissioned artwork they have received from an artist. Yirra Miya prioritises leading with respect and integrity, as we want to ensure cultural protocol and practice considerations are in mind. Therefore, we will require written confirmation on who owns the Intellectual Property of the artwork or licencing terms before quotation.
We require written permission and consultation with the artist when intellectual property rights are retained by them, we however also strongly encourage this consultation when the artist has transferred the rights in acknowledgement of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).
Our goal is to replicate the artwork to the best of our ability to be a close duplication of the works, including all the finer details, colours and working through the layers. Therefore, we require to see the full artwork before quoting. This can be a timely process as we do not use an ‘image tracing’ tool in our digitalisation process, we find the ‘pen tool’ allows an appropriate form to ensure we individualise each element and shape and ensure the cultural artwork authenticity remains.
Hover over the images to see before and after vectorisation
We would like to acknowledge the Nations of which we come from, live upon and create within. We’d like to acknowledge and pay our respects to our Elders past, present and future emerging. We’d also like to extend our gratitude for the gifts from Mother Earth, our Ancestors, our Creators and our communities. We thank them for the knowledge and guidance we embrace as proud First Nations people embarking on our creative journeys and having the space to share through cultural storytelling and design. We therefore, would like to say GAWAYMBANHA ‘Welcome’ as you join us in YIRRA MIYA ‘growing together’.
