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.”

Contact
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Y.Wang45@student.gsa.ac.uk
Works
The soft toy-companion 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.

 

book coverI

book coverII

Sketches

The sketch produced in other periods

sketch

the soft toy companion world

This book (the first one) is about a realistically lonely commuter girl who uses her stuffed dolls as her only emotional support. She carries her dolls around with her and relies on them for comfort, whether she's squeezing into the underground or at the office, and one day stumbles upon a doll bear that she's been buying all along.

the soft toy companion world

This one (Book 2) is transported to another fantasy world by the stuffed dolls she bought. They travelled through a wooded area and arrived in a tree house with the dolls, enjoying a delicious biscuit with the dolls, a biscuit that brought back happy memories of being a child with the dolls as they sat around the fireplace listening to a story, a world where the girl enjoys warmth and companionship.