Annalemma Magazine Received

I was glad when receiving this copy of Annalemma magazine in an airmail posted from America, because of my contribution as an illustrator last year.

Many creative writings and images in it.:-) You can also have a read of those stories on their website.

Old Drawings

The player happened to play Daydream's piano music. The very past burst to my mind.When I was in uni, I hated accounting as my major. At that time I skipped classes to stay in the dorm to draw. With music, I kept drawing different portraits one after another, sometimes with tears dropping. My heart continued to be sensitive. Drawing was the way to let my sentiments out. It was my way to heal. I couldn't help looking back at some old drawings drawn at that time, about 5-6 years ago.

Once there was a girl,

You've no ideas what she'd been through

You don't know she was such something blue

a bird singing gloomy songs

The first time her wings broke

she realised she actually had them in two

The first time her heart broke

she believed her feelings were so true

that others could hurt but could never deprive

From then on, she started the long trip seeking home

Rather suffered than numb

--- Robin





















listening to Dreaming

Get Summer Back

It snowed again, heavily. I'd like to get more warmth a bit through thinking of some summer colour. So I did these.

The End of Autumn

With the first snow in Shenyang, I realised autumn has really ended. Here's a little piece of autumn colour for you all, from my sketchbook.

Frost

Many eyes are covered by the splendid world

not be able to see the truth

The truth lies in the heart

only if you listen to its rhyme

you could be free

 

Listening to Chris Garneau's So Far

Tree Bark

Bleak wind, visits the hollow wilderness

Whistling an lonely tale

It was recorded on a piece of tree bark

You peeled off remember?

It was a promise on behalf of leaves, stars and squirrels

Beautiful flowers grew on the tree

But it's never told how long it lasts

The next autumn, I was left alone

around the tree where the bark's from

fallen leaves, full of the memory trail

----Robin



Inspired by  Ólafur Arnalds'  Ljósið

The Horse

Listening to Ladytron's White Elephant 

Nature Healing

The world is always a big drama played everyday

silently, insolently, subtly...

An Old Tree

One night I dreamed of a tree

An old story was revealed

That was hundreds of years ago

A girl heard a constant call from a tree

and came a long way to it

She realised that there was something she needed to see

So she was waiting there under the tree for years and years

until one day a young man travelled here

Then they knew

More Paintings of Miao People

Peking Opera Roles- Qingyi

Qingyi- refers to young or middle-aged women with gentle and refined dispositions

Featured on Creative Crossing

One of my work from the series "I'm Here You're Not There" is featured on Creative Crossing- an online platform for artists, designers and all creative people. Thanks! Click the image to go to the article.

Those Women

I think those people who are studying art at school as they love it, who have opportunities to pursue art abroad as they love it, who are doing art as their career as they love art, are admirable.

我觉得那些在大学里学习艺术的人，那些出国深造艺术的人，那些有机会把艺术作为事业的人......是令人羡慕的。

Chinese Painting of An Old Miao Woman

Inspired from travelling in Miao villages. I like the people there, their costume and their lifestyle.

Farmers from Shaanxi Countryside

These Chinese paintings are inspired by travelling in Shaanxi.

Desires Are Like Shadows

Do you think it's hard to shake off the desires?



Chinese ink and wash

Peking Opera Roles -1

Peking opera or Beijing opera (Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century.

--- wikipedia

This is a new series of illustration I'm working on. In Peking opera there are  four main characters- Sheng(生), Dan(旦), Jing(净), Chou(丑). Read more about it here.



Hua Dan- a young girl full of vivacity and innocence.



Jing- which means all kinds of painted-faces and acts as the male role that has a particular personality or appearance.

Those Women

Cartoon Portraits Commission

These old photos are found in my hard-disk back to the year of 2006 (I know I was quite fat at that time). I was still in university. I worked for a sports  shop during National Holiday for their marketing campaign as what they called "Dalian Young Comic Artist". My job was to draw quick cartoon portraits on T-shirts for the customers who consumed over 400 yuan. It was quite fun. That was my first time to earn money from art.







 

Summer Trip- People

A Miao woman sewing in Langde Village, Guizhou



A woman resting in Renmin Park in Chengdu



A silent old man on Zhongnan Mountain, taking an afternoon nap



A man relaxing from drinking tea in Renmin Park, Chengdu



A grandfather and his grandson resting on the ground in Langde Village, Guizhou



And... the two travellers under each other's pens