tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1654697888320584392024-02-07T19:12:50.491-08:00Wesley TsangWesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-57335933973077653852020-06-02T10:28:00.001-07:002020-06-02T10:28:14.169-07:00Skin Deep Minimalist Art Prints<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes less is more. I was never truly happy with the original version of this piece because I felt that the background took away from the actual girl; so I took out the background :)<br />
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I'm really happy with how clean and minimal this piece turned out.<br />
If you're interested in these art prints click below!<br />
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Frame stock photo designed by rawpixel.com/FreekpikWesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-45463764991490031952020-05-25T10:51:00.001-07:002020-05-25T10:54:01.318-07:00Tribute Art Prints<div style="text-align: center;">
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I recently revamped my Etsy shop to sell art prints and I figured I would sell these guys. It's funny how certain art pieces you make have the ability to follow you again and again. When I originally made the first of this series (Christopher Reeve), I had no intention to make the other two. But the style, process, and reception of the painting was so good that I couldn't resist. </div>
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Maybe one day I'll do another Tribute series of other iconic actors/actresses. </div>
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If you're interested in these prints click below :) </div>
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Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-76748411703982426012016-10-31T06:43:00.002-07:002016-10-31T06:45:45.282-07:00Happy Halloween!<br />
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I recently had an amazing opportunity to do a series of Halloween illustrations for a friend and his advertisement agency, Crucial Interactive, and here they are!<br />
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A student recently asked me for some advice about love and relationships and I laughed; not at him but at the way I felt about the idea of love and how much it has changed. If the student had asked me the same question a year ago, I would have jumped up and had a huge heart to heart about the pursuit of love and all its grandeur. Yet at that moment, all I could do was laugh and remain sunken in my chair, defeated and surrendered. After we had our talk about relationships and the hardships they can entail, I realized that somewhere down this path of mine I've grown so much and so has my idea of love and all that I thought it was supposed to embody. </div>
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This illustration, for me, is my last and final installment of the series. I initially began the series to explore the idea/concept of beauty and love. I thought to myself, "what makes women beautiful?" and for me - in all my bias - it was hair, freckles, and stars. (Hair brought a sense of smell and touch, freckles because they add a touch of innocence and nostalgia, and stars because they provide a feeling of the unknown) This illustration was left incomplete to add a sense of brokenness/heartbreak. I didn't include hair because when a person leaves you, there is no longer a sense of touch or smell. All that is left is the memory of what used to be and what you thought was real. Unlike the previous illustrations, I decided to place freckles all over the face to mirror the chaos of stars found within her hair. Because this is the final installment of the series, the freckles are a subtle gradient of all the hair colours found in the previous pieces. </div>
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I began this piece while I was seeing someone and at first, things were really good. We had grown extremely close in a very short amount of time and there were things about the relationship that I had never experienced before. She was great and I was honestly so happy but after a couple of months things got harder and harder and we grew bitter. Time ran its course and she couldn't do it anymore. And I thought she would eventually come back but when she started seeing someone else, my heart shattered while my world crumbled and I stopped creating art. However, time continued to move forward and while I was in the process of rebuilding myself, some amazing things happened to me along the way and I finally feel complete in ending this series, even if the final is incomplete. </div>
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My Etsy shop is officially open for my buttons! Click <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Westartdesigns?ref=hdr_shop_menu">HERE</a> to check it out!<br />
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I remember creating some of these for Fan Expo many years ago and the joy it brought me by seeing so many people liking the designs and quality. I know I should have opened this shop a long time ago but it's better late than never! I hope you stop by and buy some!<br />
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Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-29434685427634643272015-04-08T12:29:00.000-07:002015-04-08T12:29:36.945-07:00Colour My World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all get lonely sometimes, even if and when we have family, friends, and significant others close by. I think it's because people, like everything else, become routinely. But every now and then change can happen. And whether or not we like it, it rocks our world.<br />
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While I was working on this piece I found that my life had become somewhat stagnant and repetitive. Ever since I returned to Toronto from Shanghai things have been busy and great but I found that there was no progressive change happening. After being in school for so long and adapting to a lifestyle of constant struggle (managing a life of work, school, projects, friends, family, love, and personal endeavors), I found myself a little bored with the way things were going. Basically - to make things short - nothing was pushing me.<br />
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Instead of wallowing in how my life had become routinely, I decided to take a risk. I had developed a bit of a travel bug from Shanghai and there was someone that I wanted to travel to. In all honesty, I didn't really know what I was looking for. I didn't have any solid plan but all I knew was that I would probably find what I was looking for by going. I thought I knew this person because we had shared something in the past and for me it was special. We had been discussing the idea and the possibility of me visiting her for a while and there was no real reason for me not to go - so I did. It's a very long story but I didn't end up seeing her. However, what's more important is that I went and that I did it - not for her or anyone else - but for me.<br />
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I backpacked throughout Europe on my own for two weeks and I experienced some amazing things that words simply can't express. It started out in Germany, made it's way to Amsterdam, and ended in Switzerland. I am so grateful to have met the people that I did during this trip and for the ones that helped me go on it in the first place.<br />
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It's hard to know what the future will look like for any of us because life is so uncertain. I had imagined a trip so different from the one I had gone on and I can try to look back and feel bitter for not having the trip I had intended on but I can't because I got one so much better.<br />
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We all need to be uncovered and discovered. For me, you coloured my world. </div>
Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-51584793921322483862015-01-19T21:36:00.002-08:002015-01-20T08:10:30.673-08:00Some Things You Never Forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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different things. I find that a gaze can tell us so much about a person’s past
and whether or not there are signs of pain and regret. For me, the past has
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this piece, I chose a vibrant, vivid, and somewhat
violent red for her hair in order to allude to a feeling/idea of hatred,
passion, lust, and desire. I wanted to combine different emotions into one area
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want you to look
at her eyes and immediately sense anger and pain; but if you stare long enough,
you start to see and feel something deeper – a story of a past life that soared
and danced and loved with everything possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There is something extremely raw and perfect in a love that
could have been but never was. Too many
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For this piece, I really wanted to create messy and somewhat chaotic hair to represent confusion/indecisiveness. The hair was to represent beauty in the unknown - how we all question and wonder what the future holds for us. Whether it be with love, friendship, and family, I think we all would love to know how the future will turn out.<br />
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I think it's a very romantic and bittersweet thing to leave something important behind in order to understand how important it truly is once it's gone. I think about the past and I wonder how my life would be if I did things differently - if I never said goodbye.<br />
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Regardless of what the future holds and who we have to leave behind in order to grow - I promise, some days, I wish I could go back to you... Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-50409634898645721582014-09-14T12:00:00.002-07:002014-09-21T20:06:06.546-07:00New/Old Style<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever since I came back from Shanghai there have been a lot of thoughts and emotions circulating around me. I wake up some mornings and can't believe that I'm back home already. It feels as if it was all a dream - a really, really good one. Although it's great to be back, it's still sad to say goodbye to a life that was so carefree and adventurous.<br />
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Ever since I entered the realm of teaching, my pursuit in art and design has taken a serious backseat ride. I think about artists and designers that I admire and the type of style they all possess that makes them unique, and I want that. Five years of practicing different forms of art has made me grow to appreciate so many practices that I would have never understood before, like sculpture and print media. However, I feel it's time to finally start making art for myself and for my own creative soul. What you see above is only the beginning of a series of illustrations in a style that I hope, one day, I can call my own.<br />
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Ever since I started making buttons I have wanted to do Street Fighter ones. I'm really happy with the way these turned out and it's a little sad to say but this may be the last year I partake in Fan Expo Canada. It's been five consecutive years and it's been an amazing run. I've grown so much as an independent artist and I've met so many great people along the way. With the way things have been going lately, it's getting harder and harder to find the time and the means to make fan art. But who knows what the future has in store, right?</div>
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Hope you guys like the buttons and if you're at this years Fan Expo be sure to stop by and say hi :)</div>
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Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-61895969968295638162013-07-28T16:11:00.000-07:002013-07-28T16:11:05.999-07:00TiesI got commissioned to do a piece that focused around the importance of relationships and the ties that we all share with one another. This piece was done for a really great friend and inspirational person that has helped me in so many ways.<br />
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The ribbon-like string was chosen to represent the ties that we share with one another; they represent our past, present, and future with each other. More importantly, they represent our bonds. I liked the idea of ribbon because it reminds me of gifts and presents on birthdays and Christmas. And I think the ties that we share with each other should be valued the same way - as gifts.
I incorporated knots for many reasons - we can view them as strong bonds that will never unravel, or we can see them as life-learning lessons. Whether these lessons are positive or negative doesn't matter. What does matter is what we take from every negative or positive experience to become better people.<br />
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I really loved working on this piece because so much of what it represents is so important to me as well. I feel like I have grown so much as an individual because of the people I have met along the way. They have taught me the value of hard work, dedication, patience, kindness, and being open to new possibilities in every/any form. I wish I could make a list of all the people that I'm grateful for but it would be unfair.<br />
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I made this piece for my friend <a href="http://emmersonsc.com/">Scott Emmerson</a>. Thank you so much for everything.<br />
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<i>Ties - </i>acrylic paint on wood</div>
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Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-22623487385574520252010-06-24T12:13:00.000-07:002010-06-24T12:22:25.356-07:00KogaThis is a small piece that I did recently as my submission to the Paper Place located in downtown Toronto. They gave me a piece of Japanese kozo card and the guidelines were pretty open to anything. I decided to do something related to Judo because I've been meaning to start it for a while now and one of my favourite Judo fighters is Toshihiko Koga. More to come soon.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJyAqTLVZ5MHqKUneEqKyI7s2P6IvZJXgRJ5kC52fqZjLPhTwl4lyTLU3zijVj9QEvEo9BPpNR4odqJbLNuS1deIEU63rVxLIgxQ3ZQs3Rfq2yhDiTGpUHWoB4dAWKawY3QvwngF8ZAGzt/s1600/koga1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJyAqTLVZ5MHqKUneEqKyI7s2P6IvZJXgRJ5kC52fqZjLPhTwl4lyTLU3zijVj9QEvEo9BPpNR4odqJbLNuS1deIEU63rVxLIgxQ3ZQs3Rfq2yhDiTGpUHWoB4dAWKawY3QvwngF8ZAGzt/s320/koga1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486421754831517346" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Koga<br /></span>Acrylic paint and graphite<br />8 x 6"<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div>Wesley Tsanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205553805717077586noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165469788832058439.post-77324734204199154982010-05-09T19:41:00.001-07:002017-04-30T16:38:07.099-07:00New Face of Fiction LogoI recently had the honour and privilege of winning 1st place in the New Face of Fiction logo contest. The New Face of Fiction is part of Random House publishing and they introduce new literature from extremely talented and profound authors. I had the opportunity in entering a logo competition that was brought to the public by the Design Exchange and it was open to all of Canada. At the award ceremony I had the opportunity of meeting some amazing people and authors. I would like to thank Katie Weber (Director of Youth Programs at the Design Exchange), Randy Chan (Director of Marketing for Random House of Canada Limited), Louise Dennys (Executive Vice President of Random House of Canada Limited), Scott Richardson (Award winning book designer and one of the juries that chose my logo as the winning design), and everyone else who was part of the jury that made this amazing opportunity a possibility for me. Thank you thank you!<br />
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