Chunying Liu

Not Enough! is a children’s picturebook project developed through character design, visual storytelling, sequential illustration, and final spreads. The project explores themes of desire, friendship, and contentment through the story of a little spider who constantly feels unprepared. The artwork combines traditional drawing, collage, painting, and digital processes, with an emphasis on expressive characterisation, texture, composition, and narrative pacing.

• Book Illustrator
• Character Designer
• Children’s Book Illustrator
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Shadow is a self-authored children’s picture book exploring the tension between personal desire, secrecy and social boundaries through visual storytelling. I developed the project from initial research and sketches through character design, visual experimentation, sequential illustration and final book production. The work combines pencil, crayon, charcoal and mixed-media textures, using a restricted black, grey and orange-red palette to create a dramatic and expressive visual language. The final outcome was produced as a complete physical picture book.

• Book Illustrator
• Character Designer
• Children’s Book Illustrator
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I AM HERE is a self-authored children’s picture book exploring identity, belonging and self-recognition through character-led visual storytelling. I developed the concept, character design, visual narrative, sequential imagery and final artwork, combining pencil drawing, rough-paper textures and digital painting. The project was recognised by HiIllustration insert exact award/category], and was developed as a complete 32-page picture book. The project demonstrates my experience in picture-book development from early visual research and character design through to final sequential artwork and book production.

• Book Illustrator
• Character Designer
• Children’s Book Illustrator
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