MA Illustration

XinyueYu

Illustration of mouth blowing bubble containing flowers and person blowing another bubble

This is my master's project. Through dreamlike images, it takes us back to our childhood. Let us recall the joy of childhood and get some warmth in our tired adult lives.

My name is XinyueYu, an illustrator from China. Some people tell stories with words, some people tell stories with music, and I like to tell stories with brushes. I love discovering myself and the stories around me, and I'm addicted to communicating emotions through painting. I have always been attracted to life stories and hope to convey my feelings to the audience through illustration.

The theme of this project is childhood. Explore the childhood memories of Chinese children represented by Millennium Toys and the utopian world they look forward to. Using painting as the medium, it evokes the audience's forgotten emotional experience, allowing them to find a moment of peace in the suffocating adult world by embracing these memories, hiding for a moment in that safe and familiar old time, and experiencing a sense of healing.

Illustration of hands in space around human figure made of light
Illustration of human figure made of light on swing in playground in space
Illustration of someone looking at snow globe containing house and tree
Illustraiton of woman in riverboat
Illustration of woman cuddling cat in riverboat
Illustration of hands holding photo of girl with ballet trophy
Illustration of ballerina dancing
Rope skipping in the universe. Combine rope skipping with handspring rope. By combining the park with the universe, the park becomes a planet for children. We're looking into a crystal ball. We're living in a crystal ball. Maybe someone's watching us through a pane of glass. A woman drinks coffee on a boathouse. A girl in a houseboat takes a nap with her cat. The mother in the story looked at a picture of her winning a prize as a young woman and cried. At the end of the story, Mom puts on an apron and dances, giving her dream a curtain call.