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Andy Wang
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🍒illustrator ✨book designer 🐥howdy!
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Sappho went to the Frick (and seen the Islands of Man)
A digital illustration of a group of woman observing a levitating, angelic figure within a ruined courtyard setting of Greco-Roman columns around an overgrown fountain that resembles the atrium of the Frick Museum in NYC. It is falling dusk, and the scene is colored in a dimming purple, sunsetting haze. The angelic figure is a trans man with long red hair and top scars bearing a torn out heart and a halo of guts. He floats by a living bronze statue of another angel mounted ontop of the fountain with hands clasped in prayer. From behind a column closer to us, a mysterious trans woman with one glowing eye dressed in a modern dress and cardigan and a moon halo over her head observes us while holding onto a crystal cane. In the middle, under the promenade of collapsing marble, a group of three woman look out at the angel - one seated who I imagine like the poet Sappho, her attendant raising an ornate fan, and another modernly dressed trans woman with devil horns. At the right, one woman walks away carrying a bloodied bag dripping over her dress, while at the furthest wall to the right sits a woman playing a Bull-Head Lyre such as one found from the Royal Tombs of Ur in modern day Iraq. These two woman are also dressed in regal Mesopotamian garb. There is no indication outside of the columns and doors of the courtyard of where we are, or what time or space this is. Standing on ground level, we are simply among women.
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Ponder thine cube
Me looking down the sucker of a chunk of kraken tentacle (its a cardboard box under white paper wrap with a plastic cone lol) at Royoko Kui's manga and illustration exhibit in NYC.
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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PSA for my NYer friends Early Voting is now open. Let's come together to elect Zohran!!
Photo of me holding a "Brooklyn Votes Early" sticker above a "Vote NYC" arrow sticker applied on the sidewalk.
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Gazing 🌸
Screen capture of an in progress line art drawing in Procreate. A group of three women are gazing out from an opening in between columns. Two women are dressed regally in ancient Greco-Roman style costume, with one seated holding a flower and the other, her attendant, standing above lifting a fan in a gesture of grabbing attention. The third younger woman stands behind, on the right, and is dressed in a modern puffy sleeve blouse, skirt with a bow on the back and sneakers. Who they're looking at has yet to be inked in.
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Hey #portfolioday! I'm a #KidLit book designer by day and an illustrator by rest-of-the-day savoring any chance they can get to make personal art :') Love drawing lots of details, academic art, and costumed ladies ✨
A vibrantly colorful digital illustration of Kouyou, Kyouka, her Demon Snow avatar, and Yosano from Bungo Stray Dogs drawn as the regal beauties in traditional Chinese femme costume after the painting "Lingering Melodies from the Xunyang River" by Chen Yifei. The additional background is also very ornate, with a mother-of-pearl inlaid cabinet topped with a golden portrait of a woman based on a Singer Sargent painting. There is a richly decorated Islamic-floral motif style tile pattern runs across the top of the scene. Yosano is holding a fan that says "Rattle, Rattle, Rattle!" Kyouka is sitting on the floor petting the head of a white cat, and instead of the rabbit charm she wears around her neck, is wearing a dragon charm that looks like a certain wizzard lizzard. The colors are primarily pink, blue, white and red. Yosano's outfit is decorated in a way that suggested the Trans Pride flag. She has an added mole to the right side of her face. A super detailed digital illustration showing an interior courtyard scene based off of the architecture of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s courtyard arches and ornament, broken up into different sections arranged in non-linear and isometric perspective (sort of in the tradition of Persian and SE Asian miniature painting). Various femme human figures of different sizes and colors (natural white and brown skin tones but also colored blue and red) are scattered around this space- they are all based off of women from different paintings within the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Gardner Museum (including John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, who here is dressed in a way that references the character design of Jolyne Cujoh). In the bottom left, electric blue tigers race under arches in a starry-void space. At the top right, a mysterious woman stands under a painting with aa living parrot, and next to an another parrot on a chair. She is standing upon a coil of thread that weaves throughout the painting, and terminates in a box at bottom left which is guarded by a fancily dressed woman in parrot couture costume, in a miniature “room” with different paintings of other woman, and a mirror that reflects a color field of pink, blue and white. A pink nude woman is seated above on a fabric drape that flows down from a red woman above her who is holding a flower looking out from an ornamented arch. At center is a large blue woman who is smelling a stand of roses, while below her is a smaller ballerina doing up her flats on marble stairs. An outdoor nighttime scene set in a back alleyway mixed-with-a traditional Chinese garden pavilion where multiple characters from the Final Fantasy video game series are gathered around in a little garden courtyard surrounded by houses and walls. In the grass yard sits an ornate, classical American style table holding a blue-gold tea pot and cup set, along with chairs, and a small, green-marble topped side table that’s holding two vases with flowers and a blue-gold pitcher. Behind the furniture and courtyard rise tall, white birch trees. In the background close by is the tall side of a house with an open lit window and hanging laundry on the roof top above. Set into the house wall is an open window through which a cute FF9-style Moogle peeps through. In the further left background is a classic-Chinese style covered pavilion, with curved titles and green-red lacquer sides. Standing by, and sitting at (or on) the table, in the left foreground are Beatrix, Freya and Eiko (who is trying to read a book) (FF9), along with Terra (FF6), Fang (FF13), Rydia (FF4) and Fran (FF12), the three of whom are sat close together, shoulders touching in deep gossip/discussion. To the left, by the courtyard wall and entrance is Garnet/Dagger (FF9) who is sitting by herself on an ornate bench seat cradling a cat in one arm while Yuna (FF10) is stepping through the courtyard entrance, right arm outstretched and mid-saying something. Another orange cat is strolling across the grass in-between both groups. The scene implies that there is both lively discussion and leisurely resting amongst all the different parties, with the fun for the viewer getting to see all these different game characters together in one scene. The art style is based on clean, thin line art with solid, bright colors composed in a muted, yellow tinge since it is nighttime. Above the characters heads are little dark boxes with colorful gold-green borders with colorful bars displayed within, like video game status bars. Photo of an imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.
October 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Willingly used perspective 😔✨
Screen capture of an in progress drawing on Procreate of a fantasy scene in a ruined hall with a fountain and Greek columns, based on the indoor courtyard of the Frick Museum. A regal seated lady and her attendants gaze out at a floating, nude archangelic-like figure with a gut-halo bearing a heart in their hand while a mysterious woman with a bleeding eye and crescent moon head piece gazes out at the viewer in the front, from behind a column.
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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sticker sheet 👁️🔺👁️
A sheet of 13 illustrated sticker designs by myself of different funky creatures/characters in bright bold colors. Featuring: a wizard pin design, a Catholic lemur with a knife, a unicorn fish, a heart with guts spilling out, a hypnotic flower, a polka dot cat-seal, a girl waving a Trans pride flag in a conic-jewel costume, a cowboy dinosaur with another dinosaur inside it, a flaming quarter, a Sphinx on a laptop, a lemon with a grub in it, a test-tube dragon, and a white rat-rabbit guarding a mysterious oozing box.
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Just the cover!
An imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Drawing + designing the cover for an imaginary literary thriller (a chance to look pretty, an opportunity to be spooky)
Photo of an imaginary book cover for a novel titled “Big Fig Wasp.” The cover art depicts a "main character,” which is a self-portrait of myself femme presenting, and dolled up with ribbons and jewelry and sitting on an iridescent pedestal while a mysterious, color-chromatic webbed-hole emerges from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a glowing dragon-creature is coming into being in an ornate mirror behind me in the top right corner. At the bottom-left foot of the pedestal if a black-panther dressed in an ornamental harness. Flower decorations and ornament patterns accent the bottom and other corners of the cover. The type is painted in iridescent colors and come in and out of focus.
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Trying new Procreate brushes and getting fussy with line art :')
In-progress line art on Procreate. Self portrait of myself femme-presenting dolled up in cute ribbons and jewelry, but with some kind of mysterious webbed-hole emerging from my torso as my gloved hand pulls it open. A shadow figure wrapped by a dragon-creature is coming into being in a mirror behind me.
September 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Self portrait 🙂‍↕️
Capture of an in-progress illustration on Procreate of an imagined book cover. There is a "main character" on the cover which is myself all dolled up with ribbons and jewelry. A mysterious shadow figure is coming into being in the back, and some kind of fantasy tiger creature is seen at the bottom. The text, partially cropped out, reads "Big Fig Wasp"
September 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Nonagon infinity opens the door ❤️‍🔥🪄✨
A hyper-colorful, chromatic fantasy scene divided into three panels. The middle panel depicts a group of angelic sorceresses with staff and sword appeasing a large fire goddess in a landscape embedded with swords and crumbling runes with mosaic and pattern decorations while a waterfall in canyon rift cuts through the landscape. A 4th sorceress in the middle activates a runinc-stone structure while a girl in a blazing fireball descends from the sky above. A modernly dressed femme character sits in the foreground sketching in a book. On the flanking side panels are depictions of the Moon and Sun rendered as a transfemme and transmasc human persona respectively. The Moon presides over a sword embedded into the rocky landscape that conjures a pouring out of blood, and the Sun is sipping from an overflowing goblet while at their feet is a decorated ceramic urn-vase emiting a magical glow. Flowing throughout the landscape and connecting the panels is a kind of amorphous dragon creature with sparkles inside its liquid magma body.
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Just finished the amazing scifi show Pantheon and really thinking about how these works (and there are more!) reflect each other in such a lovely way. I think it's how they invite you to a vantage point that seems so vast and beyond any realm of possible embodied experience
September 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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working on something inspired by Canada 🎀✨
Screenshot of an in progress illustration in Adobe Procreate (inking lines over blue pencil drawing). A fantasy scene showing a group of angelic sorceresses appeasing a sun goddess in a landscape embedded with swords and canyon-rifts and old mystic runes. A modernly dressed femme character sits in the foreground sketching in a book.
September 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Visited the Frick for the first time yesterday. Got told off for taking photographs ✨
Mirror photo of me in my going-out-to-a-museum outfit and makeup The indoor courtyard of the Frick Museum. Has some lovely lighting
August 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The source material ✨
The painting "Lingering Melodies from the Xunyang River" by Chinese artist Chen Yifei.
August 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I can see everything / I can be in the music!
A vibrantly colorful digital illustration of Kouyou, Kyouka, her Demon Snow avatar, and Yosano from Bungo Stray Dogs drawn as the regal beauties in traditional Chinese femme costume after the painting "Lingering Melodies from the Xunyang River" by Chen Yifei. The additional background is also very ornate, with a mother-of-pearl inlaid cabinet topped with a golden portrait of a woman based on a Singer Sargent painting. There is a richly decorated Islamic-floral motif style tile pattern runs across the top of the scene. Yosano is holding a fan that says "Rattle, Rattle, Rattle!" Kyouka is sitting on the floor petting the head of a white cat, and instead of the rabbit charm she wears around her neck, is wearing a dragon charm that looks like a certain wizzard lizzard. The colors are primarily pink, blue, white and red. Yosano's outfit is decorated in a way that suggested the Trans Pride flag. She has an added mole to the right side of her face.
August 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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color TK :)
Line art illustration of Kouyou, Kyouka, her Demon Snow avatar, and Yosano from Bungo Stray Dogs drawn as the regal beauties in traditional Chinese femme costume from the painting "Lingering Melodies from the Xunyang River" by Chen Yifei. I have expanded the background to include an ornate cabinet with a portrait of a woman based on a Singer Sargent painting study, and Kyouka is a new addition as she sits on the floor petting a cute cat. An richly decorated Islamic-floral motif style tile pattern runs across the top of the scene. Yosano is holding a fan that says "Rattle, Rattle, Rattle!" Kyouka, instead of the rabbit charm she wears around her neck, is wearing a dragon charm that looks like a certain wizzard....lizzard...
August 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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😔 going through my planner
Black and white photo of a cat with the text "beep boop" over its head
July 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The Ladies!!
Blue pencil drawing in-progress fan art of some of the ladies of Bungo Stray Dogs: Kouyou, Yosano, and Kyouka petting a cat while her Demon Snow avatar is playing a reed flute above her.
July 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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For #portfolioday here is a triptych of "tiny town" illustrations showing off what I love doing right now: vibrant colors, lots of detail, and fun easter eggs for all kinds of art, anime, and history nerds :')
A colorful, digital, graphic line-art style illustration of a miniature fantasy island made up of hills on stone cliffs under a large Ancient Greek-looking temple. Around the island at different points are non-realistically sized and different representations of Greek pottery, a Trojan Horse and mythical Bull sculpture, and small representations of the Mongolian “Deer Stones.” There are many different animal/mythical iconography decorations from the Scytho-Siberian visual culture. Standing on the island are two nude bathing woman based on Ancient Greco-Roman statue forms. Watching them is a fantastical woman with black eagle wings standing next to a unicorn. She is dressed like the famous Siberian Ice Princess mummy, of the Scythian culture. Jumping in the air above everyone are two modern teenage girls (implied to be descendants of the other people in the illustration) playing basketball. In the middle temple, a strange feline-tiger creature with a bronze-mask head peers out, guarding an inner inventory of hold pottery and golden objects. A vibrantly-colorful illustration of a highly detailed, miniature enclosed world. There are various magical-girl-style costumed femme figures who are posed and moving within a blocky, art-nouveau architecture inspired landscape colored in teal, purple, brass and silver. The scene does not follow standard linear perspective but has a flattend, isometric-abstract perspective (so figures like a mysterious woman observing out from a window in the top left are much larger than the women and girls in front of her. There are 3 central main-character girls in middle ground (color-themed in cyan, yellow and red) who are posed with their magical weapons/tools, such as a fan, sword, and moon staff, and are accompanied by their blocky magical support creatures (I imagine acting like stands or pokemon?). The top yellow-sword girl has pink hair, and appears related to the mysterious aforementioned window-woman. At left is an older magical-woman (the older sister of the cyan-moon girl?) raising a staff emitting ray of light that inverts the colors of the world in it’s path, which is shining on a moody, crouched girl who also has pink hair at the bottom right. Above the crouched girl is another professionally demure, office-dressed woman with hands clasped in prayer (the older sister of the red fan girl?). The humans are diverse and are imagined in a variety of black, brown and white skin tones. Below everyone a black-colored axolotl serpent decorated with stars and sparkles slithers through the landscape and splashes into water, and tagging along is its baby serpent. Many parts of the landscape are decorated with intricate tile work and stained glass pattern elements. Different blocks, piping and wires flow in and out of the different buildings, while two large sails are set in the top right background, above which floats a large, founder like fished decorated with a flower tile pattern. A super detailed digital illustration showing an interior courtyard scene based off of the architecture of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s courtyard arches and ornament, broken up into different sections arranged in non-linear and isometric perspective (sort of in the tradition of Persian and SE Asian miniature painting). Various femme human figures of different sizes and colors (natural white and brown skin tones but also colored blue and red) are scattered around this space- they are all based off of women from different paintings within the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Gardner Museum (including John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, who here is dressed in a way that references the character design of Jolyne Cujoh). In the bottom left, electric blue tigers race under arches in a starry-void space. At the top right, a mysterious woman stands under a painting with aa living parrot, and next to an another parrot on a chair. She is standing upon a coil of thread that weaves throughout the painting, and terminates in a box at bottom left which is guarded by a fancily dressed woman in parrot couture costume, in a miniature “room” with different paintings of other woman, and a mirror that reflects a color field of pink, blue and white. A pink nude woman is seated above on a fabric drape that flows down from a red woman above her who is holding a flower looking out from an ornamented arch. At center is a large blue woman who is smelling a stand of roses, while below her is a smaller ballerina doing up her flats on marble stairs.
July 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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John Singer Sargent's Bizarre Adventure ✨
A super detailed digital illustration showing an interior courtyard scene based off of the architecture of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s courtyard arches and ornament, broken up into different sections arranged in non-linear and isometric perspective (sort of in the tradition of Persian and SE Asian miniature painting). Various femme human figures of different sizes and colors (natural white and brown skin tones but also colored blue and red) are scattered around this space- they are all based off of women from different paintings within the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Gardner Museum (including John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo, who here is dressed in a way that references the character design of Jolyne Cujoh). In the bottom left, electric blue tigers race under arches in a starry-void space. At the top right, a mysterious woman stands under a painting with aa living parrot, and next to an another parrot on a chair. She is standing upon a coil of thread that weaves throughout the painting, and terminates in a box at bottom left which is guarded by a fancily dressed woman in parrot couture costume, in a miniature “room” with different paintings of other woman, and a mirror that reflects a color field of pink, blue and white. A pink nude woman is seated above on a fabric drape that flows down from a red woman above her who is holding a flower looking out from an ornamented arch. At center is a large blue woman who is smelling a stand of roses, while below her is a smaller ballerina doing up her flats on marble stairs.
July 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Let me be her
Turbo Granny chilling, unbothered, in a hot spring.
July 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Just watched and loved KPop Demon Hunters and absolutely LOVED this guy. A picture of serenity amidst the battle for the fate of the world. How does one find peace within themself? Is your trash can knocked over-
The Blue Tiger from KPop Demon hunters perched on a roof looking goofy, while the grouchy demon bird with a hat sits on his head.
June 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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We were blessed by the magical Carroll Gardens realtor cat
Photo of a sleepy, mostly white cat dozing in the window sill of an office. They are dreaming of Stonks.
June 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM