About

Hi, I'm Cindy Fang, an illustration student currently attending Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada.Art has been my biggest passion since I was a wee child and I will be forever grateful that I get to continue expanding my illustration practice in my post-secondary years.Outside of school, I enjoy making polymer clay earrings, having meaningful discussions with my cat, and finding new music to add to yet another playlist.To contact me, DM me on any of my socials or email me at [email protected].Thank you for stopping by, have a slice of cake 🍰

Illustrations

CHARACTER DESIGN

Acorn Postal Service

Deep in the forest is a small post office run by a creature dressed in green, a flower who aspires to become a great performer, and a human girl and her trusty pet dog.Together, they provide a postal service for the critters in the forest and deliver all sorts of mail, from envelopes filled with pine nuts to heartfelt letters sealed tightly with tree sap.

Grandpa

An unusually old cave dweller with a mysterious past that has been long forgotten.
He suffers from severe memory loss, but has a knack for storytelling.

Created for a class-wide worldbuilding project

Grandpa's introduction, continued

Long, long ago, an unexpected cave collapse brought death and fatal injuries upon a great number of those who lived in the caves. Among them was a young cave dweller who, if he had only taken a different path that unfortunate day, would've never been caught in the chaos that left him trapped and unconscious beneath the rocky debris. No one had ever noticed he went missing, thus his disappearance was never recorded.Half a century before the present day, a group of scouts was surveying the paths in the caves when one of them saw a frail, old man laying against the cave wall. Quickly, they brought him back to the villages and within months, he regained his strength. Although he was able to communicate, he had severe gaps in his memory and nothing he remembered was helpful in identifying who he was and how he managed to live to his unusually old age. He became accustomed to modern cave life, brewing teas and tinkering with crafts and musical instruments during a typical day in the caves. He became known as "Grandpa," as the children like to call him. And surprisingly, though he suffers from memory loss, he is an exceptional storyteller, recalling tales he had heard during his youth. From whom these tales came, he could not remember, but he has a feeling that it was his own grandfather who had shared them with him.Due to his old age, Grandpa has mushrooms growing on his body, with a bigger colony on his head and smaller colonies on his ankles and feet. Where his eyebrows would be, there are two bodies of mycelium that have grown so long that they sweep the ground. He wears a linen shirt and cotton pants, a shorter inner cloak, and an outer cloak made of a strong inner layer of netted fungi and a thick outer layer of moss that mushrooms often grow on. To help him walk, he uses a wooden branch as a walking stick.

FAN ART

Traditional media

Oh, crystalline heart (2023)