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Anqi Cheng
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I am … having the hardest time in my life so far. 

I will follow up with more explanation soon…
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Yejin Park
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Loosely collecting ideas around censorship and restraint. I do enjoy having a bit of a playful element to pieces! Incorporating the hands to be a little busier and involved too. Layering and mixing impressions. I find the last two (the ones that feature the crane scissors and the chicken) the most personally compelling but would like to explore a few more compositions for them while I work.
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Vera Liu
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Nouns: twin/parasite, fox(may change later on), mirror, void/surreal space, reflection

I’d like to play around with the interaction between identities, while the host being “taken away” or in a passive state. I’m aiming for a detailed manga entry page with dramatic light and shadows.
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XIoahan Tang
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Nous: conflict， hidden， surreal monster， myth, crisis


I‘d like to play around with lighting and conflict. I like to create conflict in the picture or hidden crisis—a conflict between people or a lingering connection between people and things. Relationships are lurking between people's reactions.
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Lin Jiang
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Definition of Nouns as Prompts：

A girl, a cat, a moment, staying at home, rest. 

The reason for choosing these nouns is because of the stress and anxiety I am having in recent years, which makes me have a sleep disorder and it causes more anxiety. I hope that after achieving the goals I’ve set, I can have a good rest, just like the girl curling up in the cat's cave, sleeping with a smile on her face.
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yuki 
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I am having 2 ideas of which illustrations should I create.

Title of the 1st : self portrait 

Title of the Second : Stop thinking 
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Xinyi Zhao
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I asked some of my friends about my works. Then summarized the nouns to: Golden fish, ancient Chinese building/technological tower, datura flower, Buddhist(pic 4). I decided to do a combination with old and new values. I have done three sketches and still testing color palette. Also I would like to put a variety of elements together as a decorative illustrator to show my ability for depicting possibilities. 
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Ryunosuke Kikuchi
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I've compiled my sketches and composition into a single large image for easier viewing on how they relate to one another.

Trying to expand on my idea about Cthulhu Punk

I'm going for a chase scene to incorporate some sort of dimensional hound creatures in the city.
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Kit Liu
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Questions answered...posted for posterity...? Essentially, the thoughts behind my sketches.

PART 1: Reflection + Research

  1. Watercolour paintings. A dreamlike innocence of a nondescript time. The cheery warmth of childhood nostalgia. Light macabre.
  2. Printed matters such as greeting cards, stickers, and prints, editorial illustrations, and children’s books.
  3. My illustrative work appeals mostly to eyeballs of the cute-inclined, whether kids or kids-at-heart.
  4. Contextually, I think my work can be universally understood. I would very much like to bring local points of interest into my work, especially those from the neighbourhood I grew up in (and continue to live in…for now, at least).
  5. Strangely enough, my absolute dream job would be sports illustrations! I am still trying to blend my, what some would consider, “childish” or “soft” aesthetics to the arena of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. In the meantime, I am in pursuit of children’s book illustration work.

  6. I am very interested in the ideas of origin, of home, and nostalgia, and I think often of the blend of cultures and spaces I pass through. As a child of immigrants, I try my best to honour my background and traditions. Especially in thinking of children’s books, my goal is to approach, with tenderness, cultural and racial diversity, as well as socioeconomic equity. It feels daunting, but it also feels important to me.

  7. I find my work and my style is indistinct and inconsistent. I find that my work is spread thin over too many and too different of themes, and ultimately lacklustre in each. I’m not overly heartbroken by this, because it is what it is. I think I just ought to pick one, which is more difficult than I need it to be.
  8. Similarly to question 7, my work is on a meandering path. Either to nowhere or maybe somewhere? Not sure, but this lack of direction is an obstacle to forming a long term plan. I follow my own whims a little too much. I think of it as experimentation, but I’m not confident that’s what it is.
PART 2: Keywords

  1. From your answers create a list of 5 to 10 keywords that reflect your work and define your practice.

    • dreamlike

    • lighthearted

    • childhood

    • nostalgia

    • macabre

    • blue-and-white pottery (conceptually)

    • diaspora

    • immigration

    • cultural exchange and blending

    • found family

PART 3: Definition of Nouns as Prompts

For this illustration, you are being asked to choose:

  • one person: spectre
  • one animal: slug
  • one thing: glass orb
  • one place: underground
  • one idea: symbiosis
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Daryn Logan
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I'm working with a theme of regret (of past mistakes) and regret over lost opportunity, using the idea of the 5 of Cups and an upturned ewer, chiefly.
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