Illustration CHIH-HSUAN YEN
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Chih -- Hsuan Yen Creation is a regulator in my life, I am full of vitality that it explores my inner world and nurtures the soul. Successfully bringing my works to life is also a main reason to make me happy. Of course creation and painting are ndispensable in the world, you can see them everywhere. They add more color to people and I wish any corner can be moved by my creation. AWARDS
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National Student Picture Book Creation Award National Tax Administration Art Exhibition International Bookplate Merit Award Level C technician for advertisement design
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Do not wait me back The dusk at my grandmother’s house Strawberry and cake
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CREATIVE PRINKS
Heart 2016 Happy New Year 2015 Happy New Year Running girl
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OIL PAINTINGS
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Nuwa created heaven and earth Midsummer night Different types od blue hair girls When I like you The 100 thing I think Dryad Daily life Nuwa created heaven and earth Own shadow Wear my hair in braids too serious The way to feed fighting fish The first kaleidoscope Adventure with my kaleidoscope Give me your heart Paris romantic
CHILDREN’S BOOKS 79 44
The journey of mr.tomato looking for friends Unconfident Mo-Mo
Dancer Something I lose Alternate day and night
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SKETCHES
Fall
Fruits Mosa
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SPECIAL STUDIES
creative illustrations Nuwa created heaven and earth Midsummer night Different types od blue hair girls When I like you The 100 thing I think Dryad Daily life Nuwa created heaven and earth Own shadow Wear my hair in braids too serious The way to feed fighting fish The first kaleidoscope Adventure with my kaleidoscope Give me your heart Paris romantic
Sketches of Nuwa created heaven and earth.
Nuwa created heaven and earth / 2017 In Chinese mythology, Nu Wa was a goddess who repaired heaven and earth. For this reference, it was changed so that she is mild and calm in disposition, even created of heaven and earth by herself.
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midsummer night / 2016 North coast series. Depicts a city girl who lost heself and arrives accidentally to the north coast in Taiwan. She gets close to their local life and also gets closer to nature. The sea holds the girl just like her mother. She gets psychological salvation from the city pressure only for few days in this journey. The works placed in Taiwan North Coast art restaurant.
Sketches of midsummer night.
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Sketches of midsummer night.
midsummer night / 2016 North coast series. The city girl who wears inconvenient formal wear tries to be closer with the ocean.
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DIFFERENT TYPES
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Blue means melancholy and mysterious. The picture depic
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BLUE HAIR GIRLS
cts people with vivid stories blue hair and charming eyes.
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Sketches and color selection process.
when I like you The 100 THINGS I tHINK / 2017
People usually have 10 thoughts in a day but it is different when you fall in love. What did you have for lunch? You are going to bed late or not? Can you love me just like I love you? Complicated colors with complicated triangles. Warm and cold colors represent different moods. These dizzy colors which add to my gray life and also find my different self.
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Sketches and color selection process.
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Drya / 2016 Dryad means Irrational and wild, she can get along with nature and wild animals. Dryad possible to be both femine and spiritual, so she is a dreamlike presence in my mind.
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DAILY LIFE / 2016 Different appearence of a girl’s daily life.
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Nuwa created heaven and earth / 2015
It was the first edition adapted from the China mythology. She change to not only repair but also create heaven and earth. Originally, she has power to bring soil people to life only by her blowing, but I change it to be she can use her breath to create the universe. Possible to be both goddess and mother in the story.
Reference and sketches of Nuwa.
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Wear my hair in braid
Own shadow
The way to feed fig / 2015
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ds too serious / 2016
The first kaleidoscope
ghting fish / 2015
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Give me your heart / 2015 If I have a heart, my body could not be broken; leaves could not be withered; also air can be cleaner with my power. I have more accurate technology and more mercy than humans. Just give me a heart. Practic for color pencils.
Adventure with my kaleidoscope / 2015 My father gave me a kaleidoscope, I decied to go on adventure with it. Get inside the forest,there are many different green squares along the way, sometimes can see some blue squares when I look up. But I can not walk anymore, some brown squares come into view. I think I find the treasure.
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Paris roma
Romantic cultural customs in Paris at dusk. M are flashing, even the trees on the streets ar the city is singing.
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Many floating flowers on the River Seine, lamps re dancing vivid. ’Night is coming!’ ‘Night is coming!’
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OIL PAINTINGS Do not wait me back The dusk at my grandmother’s house Strawberry and cake
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DO NOT WAIT ME BACK / 2017 Sketches and processes, the idea comes from the peony flowers.
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DO NOT WAIT ME BACK / 2017
Coast series of graduation exhibition.’What’s the definition of happine still love each other. The male sucks at a cigar which symbolizes wealth holding a ravaged fragile peony that she is gripping too tightly, also the with the reality of the now. Different life aims become an obstruction to
Ice-cold pictures cause strange hue. despite this, they still smirk at us fro
The coast serise from the idea, color selection process to the exhibition.
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ess?’ We are getting farther away because of different aims, even though we h and social position, it‘s burning smoke with gold color. The female who is e peony flower’s meaning is rich and love never faded. Memories are fading o love, only limited by the endless black frame.
om the picture. So they said to each other, don’t wait for me.
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the Dusk at my grandmother’s house / 2016 There is no network nearby my grandmother’s house, because she lives in the countryside. Every time I go there, I spend much time at the house doing nothing. I like watching the change of the sky when it is dusk. The beautiful and changeable sky with many colors, red, orange, yellow...these colors mix together and become something amazing. Also the mountains and buildings. The world is so colorful when dusk comes.
strawberry and cake / 2016
The best partners must be strawberry and ca
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OIL PAINTINGS
ake.
Oil painting practice.
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CREATIVE PRINKS 2016 Happy New Year 2015 Happy New Year Running girl Heart
2016 happy new year / 2016 For Chinese, ‘New Year’ is an important festival, especially in Mainland China and Taiwan, It symbolizes the beginning of a year. People wear new colorful clothes and exchange New Years wishes to each other during the ‘New Year’. There are flowers and a kid of this heliotype. Peony represents rich and prosperous, and the girl is a typical Chinese kid.
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The first three colors of heliotype.
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2015 New Year ca
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2015 happy new year / 2015 The acrylic consists of four colors CMYK. I use festive red to be the backdrop color and put some lucky words on top, then printed it for New Year cards.
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running girl / 2016 Screen printing. A chubby girl who is rhythmical.
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HEART
Copper plate etching. The heart rab ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ . preparing to announce something t
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bbit, the inspiration from the story . The soldier is blowing a horn and to everyone.
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS The journey of mr.tomato looking for friends Unconfident Mo-Mo
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the journey of mr.tomato looking for friends. / 2015
Mr.Tomato is curious and lives in a village. One day he leaves home to search for what he wants. He meets many kinds of fruit that he has never seen before. They make friends and are influenced by different colors to each other. Finally, he becomes the most beautiful tomato in his village. Mr.Tomato brings children to touch and to know the different colors. At the same time, he encouraged children to go out and see the world, there are many things waiting for us to find. So, no matter what you meet, good or bad, all will make you strong and better.
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Unconfident Mo-Mo / 2015
There is a mushroom named Mo-M not like to go outside. One day, hi He doesn’t know how to refuse his other mushrooms when he is on th to be the most beautiful and spec
Many children are like Mo-Mo, The tale encourages us to make more also find you can be more wonde
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Mo who lives in Mushroom-Kingdom, He is lacking in confidence and does is friend invites him to take part in a party at the castle in three days time. s friend, so he accepts this invitation. After three days, Mo-Mo meets some he castle road. They take him to sunbathe and drink dew.Finally, he becomes cial mushroom in the party.
ey don’t know how to show themselves and interact with each other. This e adventures in life and the world, you will find a different side of yourself, eful than you ever imagined.
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SKETCHES Dancer Something I lose Alternate day and night Fall
Dancer / 2015
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something i los
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Alternate day and night
fall / 2015
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SPECIAL STUDIES Fruits Mosa
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fruits mosa
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Many children eat fruits that were peeled by knife. They know little about fruits’ appearance and color, but seldom go to find more detail about their characteristics and growing environments. They even do not understand how suitable Taiwan is for growing fruits. I turned the map of Taiwan into a jigsaw puzzle and included a toy train for travelling around the island in order to play, children can find out Taiwan's superior cultivation methods and improve the successful fruits.They also can find more data from the book, it could be funny and Interactive with parents or friends. Now recognize fruits are a part of kindergarten teaching materials. Take Monopolyas as reference, children can compete with each other with Interactive map and illustrations.They try hard to arrive at the end and find the answer in the book, also they can have more fun when they are learning.
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Merch Front and back covers of book.
May,2012
Story
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handise
badge
Postcard
Illustrations inside.
Toy train and track.
y draft.
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CHIH-HSUAN YEN
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