Dow Yuan-Yu Portfolio by DOW YUAN YU

Dow Yuan-Yu Portfolio

2016

DOW YUAN-YU +886928506989 emily820102@gmail.com instagram.com /dow820102

Illustration

ANIMATION

Movie Characters 6 Little Bubble's Dream 10 My Dear Watermelon 18 Little Girls Gallery 26 Children's Dinner Table 28 Miscellaneous 30 Doodles & Sketches 32

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GRAPHIC DESIGN Cover Design Book Layout

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Illustration Movie Characters Little Bubble's Dream My Dear Watermelon Little Girls Gallery Children's Dinner Table Miscellaneous Doodles & Sketches

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MOVIE CH A R ACTE RS ( 2016) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been a movie lover, and sometimes those movie characters do become my sources of inspiration. In this project, I attempt to portray those movies characters which I love. In addition, I highlight the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personalities and their features in order to make people recognize them easily.

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The Parent Trap ( 1998, dir. Nancy Meyers ) | colour pencil, watercolour Hallie and Annie are twins; however, they live in the States and the Great Britain respectively due to their parents' divorce. In this illustration, I want to show the distinction between the UK and the USA so the colour and the types of clothes would be different. During the process, I drew the British character who wears calm colour women suit. Furthermore, I drew casual clothes with brighter colour for the American one and I also created some details, such as some bottles of wine and the Big Ben in order to emphasize the difference.

Toast ( 2010, dir. S. J. Clarkson ) | colour pencil, watercolour. Nigel has been fascinated by baking He used to try making Mrs. Potter's lemon meringue pie back in his high school days. Mrs. Potter is good at creating different pies. She holds a competition of baking when the teenage Nigel shows an emerging interest in baking.

MOVIE Looking first at my left draft, I drew some characters in different position. In the end, i thought that the middle one was the most suitable position in the illustration due to it could strengthen the connection between baking and Nigel. In terms of the right one, I painted a soft colour dress on it; however, I thought that the character had a strong personality so I changed it with a colourful dress in my finished work.

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The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001, dir. Wes Anderson ) | colour pencil, watercolour Margot, adopted by the Tenenbaums, is awarded a prize for a play that she wrote in the ninth grade. I sketched two characters in the beginning but I chose Margot as my final work eventually. The reason why I did it was because I thought drawing Margot had more challenge than Agatha. Although two characters both had special appearances, it was more difficult for me to illustrate the Margotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scene because in this movie it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a representative setting. The Grand Budapest Hotel ( 2014, dir. Wes Anderson ) | pencil The character is called Agatha, who is a professional pastry chef and proves to be very resourceful.

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Chungking Express ( 1994, dir. Wong Kar-Wai ) | pencil, watercolour Faye works at a snack bar and falls for a policeman. She goes to the man's flat in her fugue state. She think she will wake up when she leaves the place. But for some dreams, you never wake up.

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AmĂŠlie ( 2001, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet ) | colour pencil, watercolour Growing up, AmĂŠlie develops an active imagination and a mischievous personality. Her best friend is a suicidal goldfish.

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LITTL E BU BBLE ' S DR E A M (2016)

The design concept is from a Chinese novel, "I Am XU LIANG-LIANG" which is written by a Taiwanese author called LI WEI-JING. One of the short stories in that book, decribes a girl who can not achieve her dream of becoming a princess and she learns it the hard way. It is a story filled with a sense of helplessness and sadness.

I was captivated by this story because I used to dream of being a princess; however, real life has taught me differently. Therefore, I decided to adapt the plot and draw this story as a picture book. When I was drawing, I felt the process to be very enjoyable and was passionate about painting those characters. However, it took me a while to draw a dragon so I search different kind of dragons as my references. It was difficult for me to depict the shape of dragon. I was not sure about drawing either a cute dragon or a scary one. During the research of many kind of dragons, I decided to create a cute one because the aim of the project is to target children.

Bubble wanted to be a princess. She wore her hair in plaits and dressed like a doll.

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She imagined ......

she was a princess and trapped by a horrible dragon.

she was waiting for a prince to rescue her.

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She went to school......

'' Who is the princessShe ? ''realises that she is normal.

Bubble felt really upset because she couldn't be the REAL PRINCESS.

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''They don't know that I am the real princess.''

Bubble sat on a chair and tried to cut her hair. 16

Bubble's dream was broken. She realised that she was not one of a kind.

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MY DEAR WATE RM ELON ( 2016)

I like to draw the topic about love as well as people's inner world. The inspiration of the project was from a book called ''Le champ d’amour d’Anton'' which is drawn by Marion Duval. In this project, I use those images to convey the feelings of people over the course of falling in and then out of love. ''My Dear Watermelon'' is about a girl and her precious watermelon which is also a metaphor of people's lover. During the drawing process, I drew the drafts first and then I tried to draw on my sketch book via watercolour and colour pencils in order to ensure the colours are suitable. In the final stage, I drew on different textured papers to show the change of character’s emotion. In the beginning of the story, I use Canson® Lavis technique papers which were smooth. By contrast, I drew on Canson® Montval® papers which were quite robust in the latter story. The use of smooth and robust papers symbolized happiness and sadness of the love. Although the results did not present what I expected, I thought it was a nice painting experiment for me.

Lily got a lovely watermelon. She saw it as her precious.

paper type: CansonÂŽ Lavis technique paper

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Lily liked to do everything with her lovely watermelon.

paper type: CansonÂŽ Lavis technique paper

They stayed together all the time from spring to fall. Lily started getting used to her watermelon's accompany.

paper type: CansonÂŽ Lavis technique paper

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However, one day her dear watermelon disappeared. Lily tried her best to search for it.

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She was so worried about her watermelon. Luckily, she found its stalk.

paper type: CansonÂŽ MontvalÂŽ

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She found her watermelon was with other girl. Surprisingly, she saw a worm on it. Suddenly, she didn't care about it anymore. 24

paper type: CansonÂŽ MontvalÂŽ

Lily knew that she was not alone. She had more things than she thought she had.

paper type: CansonÂŽ MontvalÂŽ

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LITTL E G IRLS G AL L E RY (2016) I tend to draw different types of girls. Sometimes I observe real-life girls' hair styles and their eye expressions so that I can easily depict my characters' emotions. All of these works represent my emotions and what I want to express to viewers.

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1. Escaping Madeleine | watercolour 2. Um... | watercolour, colour pencil 3. Fairy Tale | watercolour, colour pencil 4. Unhappy Princess | watercolour, colour pencil

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C H I L DREN' S DI N N E R TA BL E ( 2015) These children look forward to their meals everyday. Their mother cooks a variety of dishes, dessert for them. I want to show the simple way of illustrations and convey a subtle happiness.

The idea of “ The Children Dinner Table” was from an instagram account, y_444. The account owner is a Japanese mother who loves to share her children’s daily life, especially the meals for her children everyday. Those lovely pictures are cure for me when I am overwhelmed by work.

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MISCELLANEOUS ( 2 0 1 4 - 2 015)

Snail | Adobe Phototshop

Congrats | Adobe Phototshop 30

Rotten innocence | Adobe Phototshop Adults always think they hide their secrets carefully, but children can easily perceive these things.

Greeting Card | Adobe Phototshop, Corel Painter

You're Aurora, I'm Your Owl | Adobe Phototshop, Illustrator My friend, Daisy loves Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty, so I made the birthday card for her.

International Women's Day | Adobe Phototshop

Love = Infinity | Adobe Phototshop In Taipei, there was a dust explosion in 2015, when I drew this work. Many people were scalded in the tragedy, but they persisted in recovery because of their family's support. 31

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DOODLE S & S K E TC HE S ( 20 1 3 - 2 015)

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Animation Cyborg / Graduation Project

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My partner and I had made this short animation for one year. We spent about three months on writing the original screenplay and modifying it again and again. The inspiration was from a incident called “2014 Taipei Metro attack.” Some of people were attacked because they focused on their smartphones and were not aware that something happened. Therefore, we decided to make a film about smartphone obsessions. In the project, I created all of the film’s characters and

also made them in motion. Moreover, I also edited the animation by using Adobe After Effects. Through the process of the work, we wanted to change the traditional way of playing video so that the film was played on three seperate iPhone and iPads. The most challenging things was that I had to draw three separate scenes and they had to be consistent so I spent a lot of time on drawing.

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PU R P OSE

These days, technology has improved significantly but it also made people more isolated from each other. Smartphone is becoming our best friend, lover and family. The main purpose of this project is to encourage people get rid of smartphones and embrace face-to-face communication once again.

The topic is about smartphones so the animation is played on three seperate iPhone and iPads in order to make the interaction. 41

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PLOT

An unknown creature brings a new technology for human. People soon know how to use it. They start calling each other and taking pictures everywhere and name it ''Smartphone''. However, people find that they can not get rid of it and then it becomes a part of their bodies. Eventually, those who use smartphones all turn into cyborgs.

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How this film is displayed. The length of film is about 5 minutes 44

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芥川龍之介

人間失格

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「沒看過的東西，我畫不出來。請在我面前燒一輛牛車，車裡坐著一名雍容華貴的宮女……」 ̶＜地獄變＞藝術至上主義的極致書寫「此時，有人躡手躡腳來到我身邊。那個人悄悄拔去我胸口上的短刀。我永遠沉入黑暗中……」

日本文學史上最具影響力的著太宰治與他的情人三鷹太宰治文學散步

貓與庄造與兩個女人

耽美派文學大師谷崎潤一 (獨家收錄文學特輯)

男性與女性間髮絲般細膩竟無法抹去男子對貓那份兩名女子與一名男性之間日本「貓文學」必讀經典

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此外，本書特別收錄芥川龍之介後期的兩部作品：解讀芥川觀點的格言集＜侏儒的話＞、生前最後自傳體遺作＜某個傻子的一生＞，有別於前五篇創作全盛期代表作給人的知性、犀利風格，從後期的作品，可以看到芥川龍之介在創作瓶頸時力求突破的新嘗試。

擅長描繪男女人性的耽美大師

從︿羅生門﹀原典與芥川版比較，看文豪的創作手法

芥川龍之介名作電影改編版

芥川龍之介與當代文壇

日本文壇鬼才，短篇小說之王

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芥川龍之介的情人們

從︽某個傻子的一生︾，看文豪人生終點的心路歷程

給妻子的情書

給兒子們的遺書

黃瀞瑤譯

田端之王:芥川龍之介

田端文士村散步地圖

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芥川龍之介的書信

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【芥川龍之介創作與人生特輯】

漫遊芥川龍之介人生

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收錄芥川龍之介文學與人生特輯及〈侏儒的話〉〈某個傻子的一生〉

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私人牧場和私

特別收錄《人間失格》

「為了活下去只好不擇手段，否則就會像條狗餓死在路邊。」 ̶＜羅生門＞生死關頭的善惡終極抉擇「任何人都會同情他人的不幸。然而，當對方設法克服不幸後，反而換自己悵然若失。」 ̶＜鼻子＞捕捉人性微妙心理變化

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太宰治最具影響力名著、這是自棄者的灰色告白，世世代代的「人間失格」

與莫泊桑、契訶夫、愛倫坡齊名日本文壇最令人驚嘆的「鬼才」本書精選芥川龍之介創作前後期代表經典作

芥川龍之介在他短暫的一生中，寫了超過一百五十篇小說。他的短篇小說篇幅極短，取材新穎，情節新奇詭異，關注人性與社會的醜惡，本書收錄芥川龍之介最受歡迎的五個代表短篇，完整呈現日本短篇小說之王流麗洗練的文字與如剃刀般鋒利的明晰思想！

羅生門

芥川龍之介

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羅生門

獨家收錄太宰治【文學特私小說〈櫻桃〉】

日本「短篇小說之王」芥川龍之介短篇傑作精選集日本國民必讀經典

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