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Tannie Dương

(tan-ny, yeung)

I was born in the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital on January 1. I currently live in wine country, Southern California. Or what I say, the middle of nowhere. I can’t believe how hard it is to find green tea ice cream. The closest I get is a Starbuck’s green tea frappuccino. And soy ice cream isn’t all that delicious.

I am blood type O+; which I am proud of being able to save everybody.

Hobbies: I like to sew and cosplay, but due to financial circumstances, I cannot really sew super extravagant outfits. So if anything, I’m not really good. I can sew clothes for my stuffed animals and sock puppets! If I had an alternative careers other than illustration, I would either like to be a psychologist, patisserie or chef, or maybe a puppeteer (or in games I’d be a puppet master ). I like to cook with peppers and spicy stuff as often as I can.

The types of style I try to achieve is cyberpunk, steampunk, fantasy, techie, historical, sci-fi, art nouveau, Japanese-esque, androgenous, yin energy or yang energy. Most of the time I think in black & white, but sometimes things end up “androgenous.” And even so, I like to have different variables at all times or else I’d feel uncomfortable and unbalanced.

My future goals: work in a really cool project and be a part of a team that is innovative and unique, i.e. (Shadow of the Collossus), become a comic book artist, and traveling on the off chance.

When I am old, I hope to settle down somewhere rural and private and be a fine artist.

I try not to check astrology stuff, but my mind often wanders into the mysterious facet of life.

Favorites and things:

Favorite Artists and Illustrators: Howard Brodie, Robert Fawcett, James M. Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Ayumi Kasai, JC Leyendecker, Hayao Miyazaki, Tetsuya Nomura, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, Hiraoki Samura, J. Allen St. John, Michael Whelon (And there’s more, I know! I just can’t remember them all…)

Movies & shows:

• Ashes of Time
• Billy & Mandy’s Grim Adventures
• The Bride With White Hair
• Butterfly Effect
• A Chinese Ghost Story 1 & 2
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Donnie Darko
• Grindhouse: Death Proof
• Heroes
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• Iron Chef (Japanese version)
• Johnny Quest
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
• Kung Fu Panda
• Legend of the Condor Heroes 1984 (drama)
• Return of the Condor Heroes 1985
• The Matrix
• Monsters Inc.
• Mystery of the Twin Swords 2
• Toy Story 1 & 2
• Sailormoon
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Spirited Away
• Anything Stephen Chow
• Zoolander

Games:

• Castlevania
• Chrono Trigger
• Final Fantasy series
• Kingdom Hearts I & II
• Ogre Battle 64
• Okami
• Onimusha
• Secret of Mana 3
• Shadow of the Collossus
• Tekken 5
• Zelda series
• And the Blizzard universe indirectly

Comics & opinions (index key:* = art is okay, ** = art is pretty good, *** = art is very nice!; + =story is okay, ++ = story is pretty interesting, +++ = story is very cool):

• Air Gear +++***
• Alichino +***
• Berserk ++++**
• Blade of the Immortal by Hiraoki Samura +++***
• Claymore ++**
• GANTZ +++**
• グラスのかめん [Glass Mask] +++ *
• Homunculus +++
• Naruto ++*
• Neon Genesis Evangelion ++*
• NHKにようこそ! [Welcome to the NHK!] ++*
• Marvels by Kurk Busiek
• The One [獨領風騷] ++
• Persopolis by Marjane Strapoli
• Tenjou Tenge +***
• Trinity Blood ++****
• Skip Beat! +++*
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito ++++*
• ヤマトナデシコ七変化 [The Wallflower] ++

Books & Stories:

• Battle Royale
• The Blue Sword
• Eragon
• Eldest
• Harry Potter Series
• His Dark Materials
• Jane Eyre
• The Little Mermaid
• The Thirteenth Tale
• Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne