Third-year Graphic Design student, Sabastien Pillay was recently crowned regional winner of the Redbull Doodle Art International Competition, beating hopefuls from other African countries. Pillay will be jetting off to San Francisco on 20 June 2017 to join other winners were the final global winner will be selected and announced.

The RedBull Doodle Art Competition is an annual competition titled: ‘Where does your mind take you’, where more than 50,000 students participated. The competition allows students to translate their inspiration and imagination into art and with no rules so it´s a freedom of expression in order to find the best doodlers in the world. It started with the regional rounds where a template was provided for entrants to doodle and submit their entries. Pillay did that and qualified for the voting stage. From the voting, he was chosen as the regional winner.
The topic for this competition was “where does your mind take you”.

“With this topic, I created a doodle that depicted my mind, which is chaotic. I showed this in a freestyle manner that was illustrated around the word ‘hi’. I chose the word ‘hi’ since I wanted to make it a personal affair as it deals with my mind,” he added.

In the illustration, Pillay added elements that his interests lie in and gives you a look at his thought process. He also said that overall there was a core message that was ‘focus, love and creates’. “Focus, regardless of the challenges in life, work hard and get work done. Love since everyone is searching for happiness, and with love, one can be happy and create situations in which we can shine and do our best,” he said.

Pictured: Sabastien Pillay is the regional winner of the Redbull Doodle Art International competition.

-Sthabile Gwala