Helen's Fantasy

Helen Huang

Helen currently lives in Los Angeles, but priorly was born and raised in China. Having this heritage helps her to apply different ideas and views to her pieces. She established a pseudonym of CQcat. although art has always been a factor on Helen's life, pursuing a career in art or as a designer in China was seen as an unfulfilling job. This lead Helen to graduate college with a degree in law. Post graduation, Helen received her visa and moved to the Unites States and graduated grad school with a degree in Advertising. This landed her with an office job in which she did not find challenging enough. She began to experience with a program called Flash in her spare time, which in turn resulted in her new job and a digital artist.

Helen is a digital artist with an expert knowledge in Adobe Illustrator. In her works, her use of Adobe Illustrator is inherently clear. Her main focus is on digital fantasy, fashion, and editorials. She starts by sketching on paper, scans her work, and transforms it on Illustrator to create her ideal image. This allows for her to create her lines digitally after establishing what form she wanted them to take through hand drawing.

Most of her images are fantasy female characters created from vector images. Her female focus stems from her past admiration with fashion. Her passion for fashion is prevalent in her work displaying many different styles. Her use of color expands her work because each piece contains a very attractive color scheme. All pieces flow together greatly due to her use of color, mainly pastels or somewhat vibrant colors.

Fun fact, Helen Huang's favorite Illustrator tool is the pen tool.

http://www.helen-huang.com/
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