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Digital painting of a bunch of cats in the garden. The style is textured and shapes are very stylized, while the overlaps between the cats and the background are coloured so that there is an almost ghostly effect. The main colors are teals and pinks.
Ongoing

Feeding Time - Picture Book

A picture book project that I am in the process of conceptualizing, about people who feed the neighbourhood strays.

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Book cover design (english version) of the third book in the series, Shan Shan and Big Brother Myna. It shows Shan Shan happily flapping her arms and singing along with Big Brother Myna amongst a grove of heliconia.
Ongoing

Growing Up With Shan Shan - Children's Book Series

This is a Chinese children's picture book series that I'm working on as both an author and illustrator, one of two that will feature a spirited and nature-loving young girl named Shan Shan along with her animal friends. "Growing Up with Shan Shan" is targeted at children 4 years…

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A two-page spread from 'Shan Shan Has No Friends?' (english version), showing Shan Shan playing with Little Sister Kitty, who is sitting a top her head, and telling mom that Little Sister Kitty is her friend.
Ongoing

Shan Shan and Friends - Children's Book Series

This is a Chinese children's picture book series that I'm working on as both an author and illustrator, one of two that will feature a spirited and nature-loving young girl named Shan Shan along with her animal friends. "Shan Shan and Friends" is targeted at infants and toddlers…

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Digital painting of a cover for a children's book, titled 'The Fox who wanted Nine Golden Tails'. It shows a stylized red fox with its back arched downwards and its nine sparkling golden tails waving above its head and back, shimmering gold, pink, blue, and green. In the background a dark scaly shape with red har looms, and an eye can be seen. The title is written in gold on the cover. The style is textured with streamlined shapes.
Ongoing

The Fox who wanted Nine Golden Tails - Storytelling Performance and Picture Book

This is a story I adapted into a version for Mandarin storytelling based off an early 20th-century American children's novel of almost the same name. The novel is loosely based on Japanese mythology and is already in the public domain. I initially wrote and performed the Mandarin…

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Digital painting with chalk texture and batik-inspired style and motifs, of the young girl facing the viewer and breathing in the fragrance of herbs she is holding in her hands with her eyes close. The title is written in gold letters above her, and a colorful scent cloud wafts across the page, and there is a garden of plants in the background. A white cat with a red harness pokes its head from behind the scent cloud on the left of the page.
Ongoing

Whiff - Wordless Picture Book

This is a wordless picture book series that I am working on in an experimental style that combines chalk-textured representaional rendering with batik lines and motifs. The story celebrates the fragrance and flavour of Southeast Asian cuisine and the herbs and spices used in it…

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Symmetrical Chinese papercut showing two kittens and two rabbits standing amongst blooming flowers admiring a butterfly mid-flight. The kittens are looking at the butterfly playfully.
Ongoing

Chinese New Year Papercuts

This is a project and a ritual I started in 2020, which was the The Year of the Rat and the beginning of a new cycle of the Chinese zodiac. I make it a point to create Chinese papercuts every year before the new year for decorating the house. I am also slowly building up, year-by…

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Digital painting of characters from a webcomic about my adventures in Japan, featuring me and my cast of friends, two astonished Japanese salarymen, a senbei-hungry deer, two drunk Osaka dudes (one of whom has transformed into a whaleshark), a cute, fat seal from the aquarium, a shiba inu, a Japanese streetside chef, a sunfish flying through the sky, against a dusky backdrop with a torii gate

I Went to Japan - A Webcomic

I created this semi-autobiographical webcomic about my adventures in Japan after graduating from university. It features my friends and I and a whole cast of quirky characters, as you can see from the cover art. You can read the full webcomic at https://i-went-to-japan.tanjunqi…

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