Qingyi (Eva) Wang
Born in China and living in New York now.
An illustrator, 2D concept designer, and storyboard artist.
As an artist who grew up drawing and has drawn for many years, she shows great talent and passion for it. From hand sketches to digital art, she does both well with solid skills for using software for digital painting like Photoshop, Illustrator, ect.
Besides illustration works, she also does art for animation projects, such as concept design, storyboards, animatic. She is good at making stories. In the pre-production part, she creates things to bring spirits as well as to help the storytelling.
Eva graduated with her Bachelor's degree from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Now she studies in School of Visual Arts, Computer Arts department as a graduate student. She is going to work for an Animation Company or do freelance as an Illustrator after graduation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Animation is a friend of mine all the time. When I was a little kid, I never felt lonely. I could go to Micky’s kitchen to have breakfast, to go on an adventure with Winnie in Hundred Acre Wood, to help Alice fix out those mysteries in wonderland…The TV seems to have a different world from reality that has everything beyond imagination, in which the animations take me to so many fantastic places and brought me so many wonderful memories. Those memories, as I grew up knowing, are actually the stories.
Story is king. When I start to create my own fantasy world I always remember this principle. I realize that even if I don’t write stories like writers do, as an artist, my artwork will also tell everything beyond those recorded words.
I draw characters, I draw scenes, I draw everything in the world I create. Meanwhile, I draw the story, to bring people there, letting them meet all my characters and scenes in it. I want to make my artwork can be read. They may be comics, storyboards, they may be just a few hand-drawn sketches or colored illustrations but can inspire the audience themselves to imagine the story inside.