Today we’d like to introduce you to Eve Liu.
Hi Eve, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
When I was in high school, I was very confused about what I would do in the future. I chose the path of art by accident and came to scad Atlanta to study illustration. In my sophomore year, my family stopped funding me. , so I started to push myself to look for commission work to support myself. At first, I was just drawing storyboards for some director students on campus for their graduation movie. Later, I started to post my works on social media, and surprisingly got some attention, from that point I start to get more and more interesting personal commissions, and at the end of my college life in Atlanta, I got my very first commercial job from RIMOWA and that’s how my freelance illustrator life start.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It’s been a struggle at the beginning when you are out of college, all the benefits you got while you be considered as a student just suddenly disappear and you still need to support yourself as usual also I’m having confusion about how to balance your career and self – satisfy and of course, all the artists are always so dead in art blocking…
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
As an illustrator and visual designer, Over the past 2 years of freelancing while following these principles, I’ve gathered diverse clients, some of which include the commercial field and editorial fields. Clients such like Netflix/new yorker/Microsoft/believer magazine etc.
A lot of my works experiment with visual storytelling through the usage of image-making, materiality, and motion. My interest lies between design, animation, and fine art, and in general, I am exploring a way to combine all of them so that the work gets to an emotionally appealing level.
Normally my work is always considered “traditionally girly”; pastel pinks, greens, and poised dainty silhouettes often take centre stage in my flat digital drawings. A label like that can have its downfalls, an illustrator can become pigeonholed or misunderstood with such a term that’s riddled with negative connotations. But for me, I see it as an opportunity to question why some subject matters are easily dismissed or deemed of lower significance. I don’t think there’s a need to explain or justify my feminine expressions, They are something that happens naturally.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
I think my life has been kinda smooth and I haven’t taken a lot of risks. If I have to say is that I continue to choose illustrations without support from my family and I don’t know what the future will be like at that time. But honestly, I think It’s never dangerous to do what you actually like to do.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.eveliu.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1111orb1111/
