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02. Ethnic Totem 014-023 Birth-date: 1994.06.04 Tel: 86-18352534331 E-mail: 383573653@qq.com
Having majored in Public Art as an undergraduate in Jiangnan University, I would now like to pursue further studies in Illustration. Such studies will help me fulfill a dream that I have had since childhood: to be an excellent illustrator.
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Toy Design
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I got quite familiar with the basics of painting
me to think as a painter. I have been exposed to illustrations from home and abroad, which fascinated me so much and gave me different perspectives, like an eye-opener. I got inspired and full of imagination.
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and acquired the necessary skills. And the most important thing was that it has trained
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TRAVEL WITH
FISH RIDING
This series of works comes from one of my dreams. I Dreaming that I am riding a shark through the forest without knowing where to go. I wake up and write my dream down.And it gradually becomes to be the first work of this series. I don't remember since when I became so intrigued by fish. Their beautiful-grained texture and smooth skin always draws my attention. We all talks about protecting animals, but we always ignore the feelings of the fish when we make reference to the cruelty of hunting animals. No one has ever considered that the fish have feelings. They have no feelings,do they? Global warming and commercial overfishing have been greatly threatened the survival environment of fish. I have been sparing no time to give publicity to and appeal to people for protecting sharks since I watched “No Shark’s Fin” video five years ago. I convinced relatives and friends to give up eating this kind of food used for showing off and satisfying their own vanity. Five years ago,I was a high school student.What I only could do was to make defense for sharks with my mouth.However, now,I have an ability to catch these beautiful sea creatures with my own panting-bush,and make more people pay attention to them,knowing that they also have their own life and feelings. How interesting looking at them! Let’s ride a fish and go traveling!
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I got the fish-riding idea from the cartoons and myths I was exposed to in my childhood.
I thought they could ride horses, wolves, birds; why couldn't I ride a fish?
With riding a salmon on the trail of the concrete city the air of whole city is filled with the smell of ocean. Thus I got inspired and finished this drawing.
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Magic Journey to Mushroom Village
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Hey！Do you like Fish burger？
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It is just the start of this series of my work. I planned to complete it this year. It’s composed of 20 pieces of drawings. I hope there’s stronger interaction between the works and space when exhibited since public art was my major in the university. My advisor and I are now working on the final exhibition form. This is my latest plan of the latter half year and also the only one of my artwork collection which is in progress.
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02. 民族图腾
RESEARCH AND STUDY ON FOLK ART
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Course name: National Art Design and Investigation
My research interest: Innovative Design of Ethnic Totem This course is about living in a minority area for half a month to study ethnic characteristics of art and do innovative design about it. China has 56 ethnic groups. They have different customs and their own belief and totem worship. I studied their totem patterns and their living utensils. Combining this with modern elements, I did my own innovative design. I hope it can help promote their unique culture in modern society.
There’s not only one totem worship in one ethnic group. For example, Tibetan ethnic minority worships
yak and sheep which are very important animals in their daily life; and conch which are extremely rare in
We went to the northwest of Sichuan Province to watch and learn local customs. We were inspired by the difference exhibited here from the city life.
the mountainous area. After half a month of observation and research of the three ethnic minorities, I got their most representative totems.
Yi -- black tiger spirit Tibetan -- Yak Totem Tiger family is the ancient
Yak is an important totem worship in Tibetan history. They consecrate yak head
ancestors of the Yi people
in Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
whose biggest characteristic is that they have been in a worship of black tiger until now. Many Yi people still call themselves
LuoLuo
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Qiang - Sheep Totem
means tiger family. They
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which is celebrated every year. They offer sacrifice to tiger progenitor and pray for
Beichuan ancient Qiang is sheep-raising nation. Due the important role of sheep
blessings on this big day.
in social and economic life, Qiang gradually formed the worship of sheep.
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The black tiger spirit --
Yi Design Description
Tiger God is the most efficacious God in Yi people’s heart.
I did the innovative design based on
the black tiger image as souvenirs
packaging graphic design without copying the ancient totem. The main
color is the traditional color pattern
in Yi which are red, black and yellow. And I used traditional graphic pattern to maintain the ethnic characteristics.
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Descendants of sheep --
Design Description
Beichuan ancient Qiang is sheep-raising nation. Due the important role of sheep in social and economic life, Qiang gradually formed the worship of sheep.
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Totem uses a sheep's head as main pattern with watchtower graphic. I didn't use pure original Qiang embroidery patterns and colors, just combined a little ethnic elements with my innovative creation together. I got the inspiration from the original facial make-up in Qiang watchtower and finished the middle part in the sheep head with a modern touch.
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Zang (Tibetan people) Design Description
Yak is an important totem worship in Tibetan history. They consecrate yak head from generation to generation.
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I used yak head pattern as a carrier combining with the color of red, black and white instead of traditional navy blue which pervades in Tibetan area. The traditional decorative pattern was kept with refining.
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Authoring tool / oily color pencil 1. Tom is a naughty boy who has stolen the eggs laid by the neighbor’s elephant. 2. He has grabbed the wireless signal through the zoo. 3. He was fishing shark from a pond in his grandfather's. 4. No matter how naughty Tom is, in the mother's arms, is still the mother's favorite child lying in mother’s arms. This course was an elective course at my sophomore year. We needed to finish 4-6 short picture books. I did many sketches but without complete story due to the limit of the length. And I failed to save all the drafts. Now I just picked this one which is brief and sweet. And each one tells its own story.
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These two pieces are the design sketches which I gave up finishing a story with for that it couldn't make a whole story within six pieces.
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The subject of my mural is my univer-
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sity---Jiangnan University. The unique
Jiangnan University is quite beautiful, located near Tai Lake,
artistic effect is created by the use of
next to Li Lake scenic area.
different materials.
Beautiful mountains,limpid streams and misty rains.it's what Chinese Jiang Nan is like.Chinese Jiang Nan is as tender and soft as water,with soft inside and tough outside,which shows the best part of the spring of Jiang Nan.
The design elements are: university north gate, library, Qushui bridge. Design sketch shows buildings standing on the surface of the water. It demonstrates
Production process
static and dynamic contrast.
1. Data collection 2. Draft
The main material is iron nail. The relation between virtuality and reality is
3. Material preparing
demonstrated by different sizes, positions and density contrasts of iron nails.
4. Board making
And the beauty of the texture is fully expressed by lighting effects.
5. Drawing on board 6. Nails pressing 7. Lights display
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2. Preparation / Draft Make a draft of the outline of Jiangnan University with its distinctive buildings.
4. Board making
3. Material preparing Four kinds of nails with different lengths are selected to highlight integrity and layering of
The thickness of the board is the key since the nails are
the drawing.
the main element. I use the wood plate as the base and then stuck foam board on it , and finally covered it with KT board. Choose the appropriate thickness to make a solid foundation for the three-dimensional effect of the nails.
5. Drawing on board Put A4 draft on 90*120 board.
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7. Lights display
South (Jiangnan) in the Rain I consider this as an experimental experience in ways of drawing. I try to display the beautiful rainy Jiangnan through different materials and lighting. It took me three weeks to finish and made me more confident and open-minded in choosing material.
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I’ll show the illustrations I did in my spare time.
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《Chaos》 Chaos, from Greek mythology, means the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos. Now it refers to a state of extreme confusion and disorder. This illustration shows the chaos between heaven and hell, the complex between good and evil. God might be naughty; small ghosts might have their own simple happiness. Or does this also apply to the world we live in?
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This is a picture poster I did for Annual Basketball Game in my university. I did a combination of our favorite basketball stars and the basketball court of Jiangnan University. I put the characters ”Jiangnan” on the basketball which
Ch i nese ch a r a cter i sti cs i s sh own b y usi ng traditional Chinese “回” pattern
suggests the host place.。 The bottom of the picture writes “YOU KEEP TALKING I KEEP SHOOTING”; and the very left side writes “Fight Me”. Those two slogans express the spirit of sports” Go fight & Never say never”. Basketball spirit is the soul of the fighters. They are shouting “We stand alone together!”
The most famous Chinese basketball player—Yao Ming
The symbolic building of Jiangnan University—Central Stadium
不服 来战
In the centre is NBA big name---LeBron Raymone James
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Everyone goes through ups and downs. You feel anxious, gloomy. Sometimes bad mood comes at wrong times. I am a Gemini. Another me, the evil one occasionally pop out disturbing my good times. I drew this one afternoon when I felt very gloomy. I want to find out this witch and illustrate her by drawing.
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I borrowed some techniques from northwest peasant paintings, such as the simple bright colors. Cattle and sheep are vital in northwestern daily life. I add “farm” touch into it; many straight and strong lines in the character “食（Food/Eat）match the upright and honest character of northwestern peasants.
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Food is the paramount necessity of the people. China is known for its rich
cream almost every day in the summer. One day she
food culture. I used modern graffiti font to display the character “食（
got sick and no cold food allowed but still fancied an
Food/Eat） combining with Chinese traditional patterns. I chose
ice cream saying to me” I want an ice cream
northwest cuisine in the plate which I designed according to the
though”.. I drew this “ocean” ice cream for her.
characteristics of northwest culture.
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This course requires finishing a toy design. I decided to make a monster Garage Kits for I’ve been interested in game models and Garage Kits. I chose Super Sculpey which is not widely used at home but common abroad as material. It was a challenge though for it’s different from traditional clay sculpture. It took half a month through trial and error to finish this.
I love animals very much. Therianthropy came to my mind when I thought about making a Garage Kits. Rabbits always impress people as delicate and cute. Then I think” All right I want to do something different!”
I have a special forces of animals in my mind. The captain should be a gorilla, strong and sharp; The investigator should be a hound dog, smart and quick. The strongest one should be a tiger. So what about the rabbit? It’s small but strong with striking long ears and big front teeth. I imagine one of its hands having special power, like a powerful fist. The rabbit warrior was made gradually in my mind and this I finished my manuscript.
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The finished clay model needs to be put into the oven for 15 minutes to fix. Due to the time limits, I didn't do the color it or do any other refining. I'll finish it if time allows. And I want to do more about the images of animal special forces in my mind.
Course / Handicrafts Field / Metallic Craft
Metallic Craft
his course needs us to make spoons
Spoon
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Copper Plate
copper. Through doing this, I was familiarized with different properties of metal. It was a good practice and made a foundation for metal use in future public sculpture.
This course needs us to make spoons by stainless steel and make plates by copper. Through doing this, I was familiarized with different properties of metal. It was a good practice and made a foundation for metal use in future public sculpture. Experiment
I tested the properties of stainless steel with a stainless steel bar. It turned out it can’t be made curly ideal shape with hammer. The spoon made out of it was far from satisfactory. Through the experiment I have learnt about the stainless
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Design description
The spoon is made of 304
stainless
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whose shape is the shape of a water drop. The arc of the spoon I designed allows a user to feel excellent fit.
It took one month to finish it. The seemingly simple shape of a spoon in fact contains a lot of subtle production techniques. I chose 5mm thick steel plate to ensure the quality.
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Handicraft design
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The second phase of the course requires the use of copper to do a plate. Considering copper’s property-soft and bigger ductility, I fancied making a plate of one kind plant shape.
It was autumn; the campus was covered with falling leaves. I picked one up, nice shape, similar color with copper. I decided to make the plate copying this.
The leaves I picked in the garden.
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Lotus Design philosophy
08. Glass Art
I design this container with the lotus theme and colored glass
stands erect in water, fair and graceful. We’d like to refer it as lofty moral integrity in
as the carrier.Lotus grows in mud, yet never contaminates
Chinese culture. Bear this in mind, I used the blue glass to highlight the mystery and pure
with it; floats on waving water, yet never dances with it;
effect. It seems like it can only be appreciated afar but cannot be played arbitrarily
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09. P H O T O GRAPHY I will show some of my photographs which I took in the past two years. I love photography. I love recording everything beautiful and impressive. When looking back at those, it gives me so many flashbacks that I can’t help putting it here.
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Upper left –Riverside near China-Russia border
This is my father’s birthplace here---Heilongjiang Province (Northeast part of China). My whole family visited it in 2013. I was so impressed by the place that I took those precious pictures. And this was the highest latitude place I have ever visited in China. Bottom left--- Yi Autonomous Region of Sichuan Province, Meigu, Liangshan
We went here to watch and learn local customs doing national art investigation. It was an isolated world. It took us eight hours to get here driving from the city on the rugged mountain path.
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T h o s e p h o t o s s e r v e a s a dairy of the places I visited: Venice, Swiss Alps, Japan, China Academy of Art‌
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