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Joy Ang
@joyang.bsky.social
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NYT best-selling illustrator. Concept art, comics, animation & gardening ✦ Freelance ✦ Cover artist for WOF ✦ Past: Adventure Time, Valve, D&D, BioWare

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Joy Ang @joyang.bsky.social · Nov 13
A little intro pack of my work : )

(1st-last: personal piece, Valve Chinese New Year banner, Monsters & Dames for ECCC, D&D DM board)
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🍦🐛🫐🌰
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I grew up reading and loving the books of fellow Canadian, Robert Munsch. So excited to now be working on this 🍑💨💨💨
Screencap of an announcement from Publishers Weekly that reads, "Tundra Books has acquired world rights to a new edition of Good Families Don't by Robert Munsch (l.) (Love You Forever), newly illustrated by Joy Ang. The picture book tells the story about a girl who finds a big, colorful fart lying on her bed. Publication is planned for summer 2026; the author was unagented, and Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented the illustrator." To the left is a photo of Robert Munsch and next to it is a photo of me.
May 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Yeah!!
May 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Some years do be like that! Nice! Nursery plants can be great. Got some late zucchini starts last year and they gave me tons of produce for almost no work 🙌. Hope you're able to get some tomatoes this year : )
April 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The garden is coming alive 🥰

(L-R) Pansies, freshly planted basil I grew from seed and rhubarb stalks that are ready to be harvested
Picture of my garden where the morning sun back-lit pansies with various beautiful colors - purple ones with a yellow and black center while others are shades of lilac, pink and aubergine. A picture of newly transplanted basil starts. They sit in fresh dirt in a medium-sized terracotta planter in the garden next to other larger black planters with roses that are just starting to put on leaves and a brown metal raised bed. Close up photo of a rhubarb, highlighting the long red stalks amidst lush, large and verdant leaves. New leaves emerge near the base of the plant.
April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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So gorgeous 😭😭
April 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Oh wow, hah! Love that roof 😮‍💨
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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If you see this, post something 🌸 pink 🌸
April 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My current interior design style is ~ squiggly ~
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Thank you ☺️
March 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Thanks, Nicole 🥰
March 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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😂
March 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Aw! I wouldn't be able to sell prints of this
March 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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A piece I made for the 50th anniversary edition of Magic The Gathering's Monster Manual.

Thanks to AD, Fury Galluzzi - @furygalluzzi.bsky.social, for this very fun assignment!
A digital painting set in a dense forest with light sparkling through the trees shining on the following chibified monsters: - A Red dragon near the top left - A flying Monodrone Modron with a Rust Monster hanging on to its legs - An Owlbear hanging on top of a beholder - A Flumph looking surprised - A displacer Beast - And a Mimic with a dumb, open-mouthed smile and its purple tongue hanging out The monsters are all looking over the shoulder of a young girl wearing an archer's garb as well as a boy in a wizard's hat holding a staff with a purple gem at its top. The children have a glow on their faces as they excitedly look at a massive tome bound in red dragon scales.
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Thank you, Fury ❤️!
March 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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That's exactly what they taste like 🥰
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Aw, thank you !
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Thank you 🥰 !
March 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Excited for when the garden will look like this again
March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Aw, thanks, Trevor! I didn't realize it was out 😆
March 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Such a great palette of hellebores 😭🙌
March 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A Moonbow

12x16" ink on claybord
a black and white scratchboard drawing of a mountain range at night in the foreground, bright moonlight shines on rocks in the background tall rocky mountains are illuminated by moonlight and between the foreground and the background there is a faint moonbow and raindrops shimmering in the light
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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lol nope !
March 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Me: ho cookies??
J: no cookies
March 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Revised the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture. 1/2
Text: TANGENTS In geometry, a tangent is when a line touches a curve at a single point. (images illustrating this, with a curve and a circle touching the lines) The point where they touch is called the tangent. in a drawing, this is what I call a “bump-up” tangent (more on that later), but the term “tangent” is a bit more flexible when applied to visual art. When an artist (or art critic, or art teacher, etc) mentions a tangent, they’re generally referring to any relationship between lines (or elements) in a drawing that interact in a way that the artist didn’t intend. When I was a teacher, I found it helpful to differentiate the various offenses that fell under the catch-all term “tangents” and give them each a name, to make identification of problem areas in a drawing easier. An earlier version of these examples was published online in 2011 under the title “The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents.” Text: Long-Line Tangent The “long-line” tangent is when the line from one subject in the drawing leads into the line of another. (image where the line from a figure's wide-brimmed hat"becomes" the line of the roof) See how the hat of this fella runs into the line of the roof? that’s bad! (image where they do NOT intersect) Not so bad! Try to avoid near-tangents, too! Even if a line doesn’t actually connect with another, “close” isn’t great, either. (image illustrating this point using the same iconography as above) Text: Bump-Up Tangent A bump-up tangent is when one element of a drawing bumps up against another. (image where the outside a figure's elbow touches a wall) When the bump-up is the result of different subjects touching, correct it by making one clearly overlap the other. (Same image repeated twice, but in one the elbow is in front of the wall, and in the other behind it) Either of these works just fine! Sometimes using the principle of “what’s closer?” overlap won’t always be the best solution. you can do that (like the nose in the example) or you can just redraw the offending lines (like the lapel). Images: a drawing with tangents, and that same drawing with the tangents eliminated Text: Beyond just the drawing itself, make sure to avoid bumping your image against the formal components of the comic: word balloons, sound effects, panel borders, etc. They’re in the image, therefore, regardless of what stage they’re introduced into the art, they’re PART OF THE COMPOSITION, and need to be treated as such. (Image: example drawing where the balloon and panel borders are creating bump-up tangents with the drawing) There are many publishers who insist on live (editable) balloons and dialogue text to make easier foreign sales and online publishing; I vehemently disagree with this approach, because it makes flexible what should be the sole purview of a cartoonist: the intersection of lines in the art, and lines in the art, like it or not, iNCLUDE the lines that surround a word balloon. For this reason, LETTERiNG SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE iNKS. Then your inks can accommodate the balloons. This was standard practice until the advent of digital lettering, and while there’s nothing wrong with digital lettering, its placement in the pipeline order generally results in a poorer overall comic than would be the case were it done between the roughs/pencils stage and the inks.
February 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM