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Dongyan Xu
@dongyanxu.bsky.social
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Illustrator, artist, cat admirer. She/her.
dongyanxu.art@gmail.com
Web: www.dongyanxu.com
Ins: www.instagram.com/dongyanxu_art
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(2/3) Just three snakes wearing hats!
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#RedEnvelopeShow #RedEnvelopeShow2025 #harmanprojects #yearofthesnake #art #drawing
Three snakes tangling together, each wearing a mini hat, with the largest snake carrying a large pile of hats on the center of its body and one smaller snake on top of the hat pile.
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Human Artists!

QRP with your work!
(Here's an editorial illustration I did for Washington Post Home & Garden section earlier last year!)

Before /// After
Very rough pen thumbnail sketch of a cat considering pushing bottles down from table; there are two small figures on the back of the cat. A black cat walking on a crowded kitchen table filled with bottles, knocking down salt & pepper shakers, jam jar, and vase. A man is sleeping on the back of the cat, attempting to deny reality by not waking up.
March 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Here is 1/3 of my red envelopes for this year's Red Envelope Show at @harmanprojects.bsky.social curated by Grumpy Bert
Available at Harman Projects Shop till end of this month.
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#RedEnvelopeShow #RedEnvelopeShow2025 #harmanprojects #yearofthesnake
A woman sitting on a chair, one hand feeding a cat under the chair a fish while the other hand feeding a snake coiled around her body a skewered rat. At the lower side of the image is the silhouette of a snake with a rat running in its belly.
March 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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artists, qrp your 2 sides

I want to pet a cat🥺
#art
A 3-tailed mermaid sitting on a giant footless tiger monster A woman sitting next to a really long yawning tabby cat
September 29, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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If you see this post ghost👻
An old man is sitting on a bench in a flower filled garden, sharing a book with a ghost holding a ghost cat. They are surrounded by sparrows and a cardinal, and there is a black dog sleeping under their bench. In the background there is an angel statue.
September 29, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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Been not active for a while but anyway here’s a bird from a park
A male something duck from a local park; I think it’s possibly a mandarin duck somehow lost its feather collar?
May 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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I so look forward to sleeping tomorrow afternoon after mailing these envelopes out

They’ll be at Red Envelope Show 2024 next month at Harman Project in NYC!

#drawing #art #illustration #RedEnvelopeShow
3 red envelopes with ink drawings for Red Envelope Show 2024
January 25, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Finally fixed the details of this drawing!
It was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf." The story is weird and dark; there are 🐸&🐍&🍞; it counts as a 19th century fix-it fanfic. Naturally, it became one of my favorite fairytales.
#art #drawing #illustration #darkart
A girl stands on a loaf in the center of a marsh, frozen with one foot lifting up in the air for the next step. A snake and several fat toads nest around her happily. "But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the Marsh Woman’s brewery, and that they were covered with mud; a snake had also fastened itself in her hair, and hung down her back, while from each fold in her dress a great toad peeped out and croaked like an asthmatic poodle." -- Hans Christian Andersen, "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf"
January 13, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Quote with red art 🍎
Two girls shelter themselves from rain under a broken umbrella, sitting over a strange sentient rock tower. Two snake monsters are climbing up towards them. A big mean goose-like bird bullying a girl in black dress
January 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Hey #PortfolioDay ! I'm Dongyan, a freelance illustrator. I also do GIFs and surface design. I enjoy depicting emotions and animals in different sizes🐈

I'm currently open for work! Contact me through
📧dongyanxu.art@gmail.com
🖼️www.dongyanxu.com
January 10, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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wip of a red envelope for Red Envelope Show 2024!
Haven’t been drawing traditionally for years! I am trying brush tip pen now and I find it makes the experience much more interesting than micron pens.

#wip #art #drawing #illustration
Unfinished drawing on a red envelope showing seven girls cosplaying as a dragon
January 7, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Unfinished WIP of a new drawing! Next step would be adding details and textures.
I think I redid sections of the grass today at least three times; lessons learned about the necessity of studies, sketches, and planning from top to bottom.
#drawing #art #illustration #darkart #artistsofbluesky #wip
A Song Dynasty lady wearing a giant dragon mask takes a walk at night, holding the severed head of her latest victim
January 2, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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I spent a long time on this head and I feel moderately happy about how it turns out
January 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Still Inking
#wip #illustration #drawing #art
January 1, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Working on a new little drawing of some made-up sheep!
🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

#illustration #drawing #art
November 20, 2023 at 4:43 PM
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Posting an old drawing! This is a drawing done in this summer based on a sketch 2 years ago during the pandemic. It was inspired by tarot card "the Fool."

#illustration #drawing #art #illustrator
October 20, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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I made a gif of two ghosts hanging out
Check it out on www.instagram.com/reel/CylPfJ5...

I still hope to add a little mouse out there...
#illustration #art #drawing #ghost #halloween #cat
October 19, 2023 at 4:51 PM
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Hi Mallory! I'd love to be considered! You can find my portfolio at www.dongyanxu.com
October 17, 2023 at 3:44 PM
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Hi! I'm Dongyan, an illustrator looking for work.

Here's a drawing of polar bear!

Thank you @brianlarossa.com for the invite! Looking forward to connecting with the #illustration and #kidlit communities here ✨
A polar bear floating in a melting ocean blue popsicle, surrounded by a school of Arctic cods.
October 14, 2023 at 2:04 PM