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Cai Tse
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📕 Author/Illustrator of LION DANCERS (Simon & Schuster)
🐉 Lion and Dragon Dance Team IG@cylladda
🛍 Shop: http://theseventhlion.com
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Inspired by this post by @zachpogrob on IG
white text on black background. Obsession is greater than discipline. You don't force yourself to start. You force yourself to stop. The right work doesn't feel like work. It lives in your mind like a separate entity. Always on. Always hungry. Never letting you quite the game. This is not about showing up. This is not about 'consistency'. This is an unrelenting, uncontrollable addition to craft. It's intensity meets iteration. It's a religious devotion to the details. It's an art, a sport, a pursuit - that feels too good to be true. But it is true. Your one job in life is to find work that feels like a miracle. Some find it early. Some find it late. Some never do. But once you do see it - there is a before and after moment. It all makes sense. And then, the mission becomes simple.
March 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance. Caption reads, "It's an art, a sport, a pursuit." black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mis-movement. Caption reads, "Some of it find it early. Some find it late. Some never do. But when you do..." black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-swing. Caption reads, "... it all makes sense. And then," black and white, manga-inspired drawing of boy's face, looking forward, tired, determined. Caption reads, "The mission becomes simple."
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-movement. Caption reads, "Always on. Always hungry." black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-swing. Caption reads, "Never letting you quit the game." black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of lion dancer as he turns mid-movement, cropped on half his face. Caption reads, "An unrelenting, uncontrollable, addiction to craft." black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance, a shot of the lion dancer's legs in mid-movement. Caption reads, "It's intensity meets iteration. It's a religious devotion to the details."
March 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A lion dance thing.

#art #comics
black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a Chinese lion dance. Caption reads "Obsession" black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Caption reads "An obsession so strong that, you don't force yourself to start," black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Caption reads "You force yourself to stop." black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Shot of lion dancer's concentrating face as he performs. Caption reads "It livessin your mind like a separate entity."
March 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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We're making a game about lion dance!

It's a story driven visual novel dating game, where you take the role of the leader of a once-thriving, now disbanded, lion dance troupe. DANCING HEARTS is from game designer and product manager Tessa Touchette and creative director Cai Tse.
March 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Woo! Got an interview on Publishers Weekly Fall Flying Starts! A spotlight of the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.

Thank you Publishers Weekly!
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Authors! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. Here is mine.

LION DANCERS 🦁🧨
Lion dance, rivalry, teamwork
December 3, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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4 panel comic. Panel 1 has a bunch of kids patting a chinese lion dance head, saying it's so cool and fluffy! panel 2, a kid is at the butt of the lion, lifting it's tail. Panel 3, the kid pokes the lion's butt. Panel 4, underneath the lion blanket is the person playing the lion tail, making a face.
November 27, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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A whole bunch of lion dance creatures I drew!
chinese hoksan lion dance creature design drawn like a puppy with white fur and red body, orange paws. chinese hoksan lion dance creature design drawn like a puppy with yellow fur and black body chinese futsan lion dance drawing drawn like a dog creature, with black fur and green body traditional hong kong futsan lion dance drawn like a dog creature, with purple fur and big doggy paws
November 20, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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Hello! I'm Cai, making comics about the traditional sport of lion dance
November 15, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Hello! I'm Cai, a Chinese Australian author/illustrator, designer, and lion dancer. I make all things lion dance.

✨ Visit my shop and website here:

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November 15, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Follow me if you like lion dance 🤷
November 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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October 31, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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(3/4) #art #comics #graphicnovel
October 31, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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sombre purples, pinks and muted blues cover this comic page. panel 1 shows an elderly man arriving in the village. Caption reads, "... a wise old man arrived at the village". panel 2 shows the villagers pleading to the elderly man. panel 3 shows the elderly man's face as he hears the villagers' please. caption reads, "hearing the villagers' pleas, he set out to drive the beast away." panel 4 takes up half the page, as the elderly man goes around hanging bright lanterns and decorations around the village, caption reads, "as the villagers fled their homes, the man stayed behind and decorated the village in bright crimson." comic page, panel 1 shows the beast arriving at the entrance to the village once again. Evening colours of reds and purples. Caption reads, "The beast arrived at the village that night and was surrounded by vibrant reds and loud firecrackers." the following panels show the beast walking through the village seeing bright red lanterns, firecrackers being lit, sfx PA PA PA, scaring the beast
October 25, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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lion dance comic

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illustration of mountains with lush green purple and blue trees against a bright blue sky and white clouds. Caption reads "Living deep in the mountains is a fierce and powerful beast." illustration of a mythical beast creature with a long golden horn and sharp black claws, sleeping peacefully as the orange morning sun shines across its face. Caption reads "The Nian Beast" comic page, panel one shoes the beast's foot stepping out of the cave, caption reads "once a year at the start of the lunar cycle". Panel two shows the beast leaving its cave high up in the mountains looking across a vista, the early morning sun drowning the mountains in an orange glow. Caption reads "the nian beast would leave its home to search for food". Panel 3 shows the beast ripping up and eating leaves and vegetables. Panel 4 shows the beast baring its teeth, ready to eat a chicken its caught. Caption reads "it raided villages, feeding on crops and livestock" comic page. Panel 1 shows the beast approaching the village, roaring at villagers who are fleeing. Caption reads ".. and even sometimes the villagers themselves.' panel 2 shows a family, inside their humble home, packing things into bags, getting ready to leave, "the villagers had no choice but to flee their homes for safety." panel 4 shows the villagers leaving their village, muted yellows and greens against an orange sky. panel 4 shows robed feet, stepping into frame, captionreads 'Until one year..."
October 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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lion and dragon dance #art #liondance
rainbow of purples, bright reds, yellows. Four lion dance lions in a line jumping through clouds behind them a dragon soars
October 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Hello, Bluesky!
illustration of a lion dance jumping poles against a turquoise green background and the orange light shining behind the lion between buildings, birds flying behind them.
October 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM