As an illustrator, my communication design practices are usually in the form of children's picture books and illustrated books. Observation and imagination are the basis of my creation. Most of them come from my daily life and the world I observed. And I care if the world I live in can change for the better. In my design practice, telling stories with visual language in traditional illustration is what I keep learning and improving. I especially pay attention to compositions, sequences and narratives in my silent picture book, A Package for Lily. By depicting a Courier delivering a package, I would like to show the reader a new world in harmony with animals and nature. Also, I am interested in how psychoanalytical theories guide the illustration practice. As an imaginative designer, I am curious about the boundary between dreaming and imagination, and I study that further in my critical journal. In my studio work, I mainly draw in watercolour, and I combine different materials, such as colour pencils, ink, brush, pen, tissue, etc., to enrich the details of the picture.
Yanxi Li
Illustration

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The Glasgow School of Art