MDes Communication Design School of Design
Yuxin Wang

Yuxin Wang is an illustrator specializing in traditional media such as watercolour and pencil to create comics, book covers, and other illustrated publications. She is dedicated to storytelling through visual art, creating works rich in emotion and delicate brushstrokes. She is currently working on her comic “The Soft Toy Companion’s World.”

The soft toy-companion world
This is a graphic novel that combines a manga spinoff plot with an illustrated book style, the story is about a girl living in the city, who at the end of a busy and stressful day, is brought into a dream world by a stuffed bear bought at a random shop that makes her feel good. What I wanted to convey is that young people nowadays lack sufficient emotional support and relationships in modern society, while facing a variety of pressures, so they turn to stuffed teddy bears as a way to relieve their stress and heal their emotions, and although the end of the story was handled in such a way that I wouldn’t change the girl’s state in real life just because they had gone through the dream world, what I wanted to convey about this experience was that Stuffed bears are one of the ways that young people in today’s day and age relieve stress and make them feel good about themselves. One of the ways that young people relieve stress and allow their ego state to be balanced between reality and the dream world.