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Joy Ang
@joyang.bsky.social
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NYT best-selling illustrator. Concept art, comics, animation & gardening ✦ Freelance ✦ Cover artist for WOF ✦ Past: Adventure Time, Valve, D&D, BioWare

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · Nov 13
A little intro pack of my work : )

(1st-last: personal piece, Valve Chinese New Year banner, Monsters & Dames for ECCC, D&D DM board)
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🍦🐛🫐🌰
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I grew up reading and loving the books of fellow Canadian, Robert Munsch. So excited to now be working on this 🍑💨💨💨
Screencap of an announcement from Publishers Weekly that reads, "Tundra Books has acquired world rights to a new edition of Good Families Don't by Robert Munsch (l.) (Love You Forever), newly illustrated by Joy Ang. The picture book tells the story about a girl who finds a big, colorful fart lying on her bed. Publication is planned for summer 2026; the author was unagented, and Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented the illustrator." To the left is a photo of Robert Munsch and next to it is a photo of me.
May 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The garden is coming alive 🥰

(L-R) Pansies, freshly planted basil I grew from seed and rhubarb stalks that are ready to be harvested
Picture of my garden where the morning sun back-lit pansies with various beautiful colors - purple ones with a yellow and black center while others are shades of lilac, pink and aubergine. A picture of newly transplanted basil starts. They sit in fresh dirt in a medium-sized terracotta planter in the garden next to other larger black planters with roses that are just starting to put on leaves and a brown metal raised bed. Close up photo of a rhubarb, highlighting the long red stalks amidst lush, large and verdant leaves. New leaves emerge near the base of the plant.
April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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If you see this, post something 🌸 pink 🌸
April 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My current interior design style is ~ squiggly ~
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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A piece I made for the 50th anniversary edition of Magic The Gathering's Monster Manual.

Thanks to AD, Fury Galluzzi - @furygalluzzi.bsky.social, for this very fun assignment!
A digital painting set in a dense forest with light sparkling through the trees shining on the following chibified monsters: - A Red dragon near the top left - A flying Monodrone Modron with a Rust Monster hanging on to its legs - An Owlbear hanging on top of a beholder - A Flumph looking surprised - A displacer Beast - And a Mimic with a dumb, open-mouthed smile and its purple tongue hanging out The monsters are all looking over the shoulder of a young girl wearing an archer's garb as well as a boy in a wizard's hat holding a staff with a purple gem at its top. The children have a glow on their faces as they excitedly look at a massive tome bound in red dragon scales.
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Excited for when the garden will look like this again
March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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A Moonbow

12x16" ink on claybord
a black and white scratchboard drawing of a mountain range at night in the foreground, bright moonlight shines on rocks in the background tall rocky mountains are illuminated by moonlight and between the foreground and the background there is a faint moonbow and raindrops shimmering in the light
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Revised the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture. 1/2
Text: TANGENTS In geometry, a tangent is when a line touches a curve at a single point. (images illustrating this, with a curve and a circle touching the lines) The point where they touch is called the tangent. in a drawing, this is what I call a “bump-up” tangent (more on that later), but the term “tangent” is a bit more flexible when applied to visual art. When an artist (or art critic, or art teacher, etc) mentions a tangent, they’re generally referring to any relationship between lines (or elements) in a drawing that interact in a way that the artist didn’t intend. When I was a teacher, I found it helpful to differentiate the various offenses that fell under the catch-all term “tangents” and give them each a name, to make identification of problem areas in a drawing easier. An earlier version of these examples was published online in 2011 under the title “The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.” Text: Long-Line Tangent The “long-line” tangent is when the line from one subject in the drawing leads into the line of another. (image where the line from a figure's wide-brimmed hat"becomes" the line of the roof) See how the hat of this fella runs into the line of the roof? that’s bad! (image where they do NOT intersect) Not so bad! Try to avoid near-tangents, too! Even if a line doesn’t actually connect with another, “close” isn’t great, either. (image illustrating this point using the same iconography as above) Text: Bump-Up Tangent A bump-up tangent is when one element of a drawing bumps up against another. (image where the outside a figure's elbow touches a wall) When the bump-up is the result of different subjects touching, correct it by making one clearly overlap the other. (Same image repeated twice, but in one the elbow is in front of the wall, and in the other behind it) Either of these works just fine! Sometimes using the principle of “what’s closer?” overlap won’t always be the best solution. you can do that (like the nose in the example) or you can just redraw the offending lines (like the lapel). Images: a drawing with tangents, and that same drawing with the tangents eliminated Text: Beyond just the drawing itself, make sure to avoid bumping your image against the formal components of the comic: word balloons, sound effects, panel borders, etc. They’re in the image, therefore, regardless of what stage they’re introduced into the art, they’re PART OF THE COMPOSITION, and need to be treated as such. (Image: example drawing where the balloon and panel borders are creating bump-up tangents with the drawing) There are many publishers who insist on live (editable) balloons and dialogue text to make easier foreign sales and online publishing; I vehemently disagree with this approach, because it makes flexible what should be the sole purview of a cartoonist: the intersection of lines in the art, and lines in the art, like it or not, iNCLUDE the lines that surround a word balloon. For this reason, LETTERiNG SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE iNKS. Then your inks can accommodate the balloons. This was standard practice until the advent of digital lettering, and while there’s nothing wrong with digital lettering, its placement in the pipeline order generally results in a poorer overall comic than would be the case were it done between the roughs/pencils stage and the inks.
February 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Just finished inking my first graphic novel 💃. Very excited for this book that I'm doing with @caseyzakroff.bsky.social !
Screenshot of my worksheet with all the inked pages marked off as finished
February 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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with bloom & rage out in the world, it’s finally time to start sharing some of my art ✨

one of my first tasks on the project was to explore the idea of our girls bonding together in the forest. we considered a number of settings and moments early on - happy this log crossing scene stuck around!
concept art of four girls crossing a stream by walking across a fallen log
February 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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gofund.me/4824d711
Please help me do whatever I can to save my girls, and to make sure the rest of my kitties survive.
Share this link, and kiss your pets on the head and tell them how much you love them because you never know how quickly they might leave.
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Just got some Betamax digitized - here’s baby me. We haven’t seen this footage for at least 25+ years 😮
February 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Hi there! I decided to try this app👋 Here is the art I made in 2019
January 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A few years ago I planted Blue Shift sweet peas. They normally look like the last photo, but I had 1 plant that produced beautifully-mottled flowers. Haven't seen anything else online like it. Just planted seeds collected from that special variety and hoping they produce more of the same 🤞
February 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The Ancient Horfs have helped me get all the descriptions/measurements into the shop so everything is good to go for Sunday! Thanks equine pals! See all the stuff here: heywitch.bigcartel.com
A small herd of wee ceramic horses stand on a laptop, looking at my upcoming shop update.
February 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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You can find more info here, and I’ll be regularly posting about it over the next month!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...
BOTANICA: FULL BLOOM. Tarot in the Language of Flowers.
The record-breaking Tarot classic blossoms into an 111-card Oracle deck exploring the science and sorcery of the world of plants.
www.kickstarter.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Was organizing old photos and came across this comic my kid made.

For clarification, it says "dont swallow gum"
Image of a stapled comic my kid wrote - the cover shows a stick figure looking upset/elated with the words "dont swallow gum" but the G in gum looks like a C
February 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Hourly Comic Day 2025
8 & 9 am
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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a very proud Merychippus! just another one for the early horses.
#paleoart #sciart
A digital drawing of Merychippus, running proudly. It's a male, and he has quite a lot of different old scars. So this one is a survivor. Or a little asshole of the herd - that's up to you to imagine. He's dark brown and white, with some dark stripes on all the legs and tail. The background is dark and simple, and there's a crescent moon above the horse.
December 16, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Happy New Year 🎉
January 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Some OOTDs from 11 years ago :o
January 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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there was a mouse living in the oven mitt on our porch 🍂
January 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Foal studies - I love how gangly they are
January 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The #Yakuza brainrot CONTINUES: "What if Goromi was more in line with Majima's personal style post-Zero and also from the 1980's" was a thought I followed to it's inevitable conclusion last night 👍🏼
Majima Goro dressed up to the nines as "Goromi," though this time it's a 1980's version that's much more in line with Majima's personal style post-Zero. She's wearing a cropped snakeskin jacket over a black leather bodikon dress, just revealing enough in all dimensions to tease the tattoos underneath. She's toying with a gold chain around her neck, and may or may not be staring down a VERY flustered Kiryu just off-screen. Behind her is the logo of the 1980's Japanese men's magazine GORO.
January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM