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Artist blogg #4

Helen Huang or otherwise known as CQcat was born in China then later moved to the U.S. and is now residing in Los Angeles. Her original life path was to become a lawyer, but that was obviously changed as she now is a well known vector artist. She uses her vector skills for fashion illustration, editorial design, and character designs. Currently, her full time job is designing Ads for an interactive Ad agency in LA. In her free time she enjoys designing dresses for red carpet Oscars as well as weddings.
      Her artwork has a continual theme of accentuation of the eyes and detail of the clothing. She also keeps a simple background to help the viewer focus more on the clothing she designed. Also the simplicity draws you into the figures eyes. At first glance I always notice the eyes because Helen uses vibrant eye shadow along with dark thick strokes. Having huge eyes creates an illusion of an innocent or sweet human being and also gives a cartoon feel. Big eyes can be used as a way to express emotion and I see that in her artwork as well as some of the eyes are red and some are colorful. Another common trait in her work is the dark strokes in the hair. In addition, each picture has a hair accessory to fit the clothing Helen designed. Her thick and simple strokes in the hair also help bring the viewer to the figures eyes. Her artwork also has a few colors throughout the picture, but the colors have various shading and lighting to make it have a more realistic affect.
  One of the reasons why I picked her artwork was because of the way she put a lot of empathises on the eyes and I for one like eyes as they can tell so much into what someone is feeling. Also eyes are beautiful. In addition to the eyes, her clothing design is so simplistic and adorable.  Her artistic style will be similar to mine as in thick hair strokes, detail of the clothing, and relatively simplistic colors.

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