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Victoria Ying

@victoriaying.com

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Senior VisDev artist at studio MDHR Harvey award winning Author and Illustrator of Graphic novels. HUNGRY GHOST, Artist for DC and Marvel. Film Credits: Tangled, Frozen, Wreck it Ralph, Big Hero 6, Moana. Views are my own Linkin.bio/victoriaying

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Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Oct 18

Extremely excited to see a more active bluesky! Hi 👋 I’m an author and illustrator doing graphic novels and concept art for games!

Girl with a tower of books and a cat

Girl catching a falling star

Cover of Diana Princess of the Amazon’s by Shannon and Dean Hale and Victoria Ying

Painting of a knife thrower in front of a crowd

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 21d

beautiful!

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 21d

that would actually be kind of amazing. The DePalma one is the most unique!

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 24d

Now that all of the Mission Impossibles are done, I can safely say that Ghost Protocol is the best one.

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404 Media @404media.co · 26d

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

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Chris Oatley @chrisoatley.bsky.social · Sep 10

“You’re a better artist than you were when you started.”

@victoriaying.com

More from Victoria at: linktr.ee/ChrisOatley

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Is this the future you saw in your dream?

X/1999 🗼🌸✨

Illustration of Kamui from CLAMP's comic serial, X. He poses with his shiny sword, wrapped dramatically in flowing red fabric and cherry blossom petals, in front of the abstract geometry of the Tokyo Tower and city skyline.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Sep 8

Great new article from Comics Beat about the differences between Manga and American comics. www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-th...

The story that should terrify the American comics industry

A profile of Shonen Jump reveals that US publishers have no systems in place to generate the same kind of success

www.comicsbeat.com

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

Seriously, I miss the blog era!! We don't need the platforms, just an RSS feed

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

Eeep, the Covid vaccine always wipes me out for at least 24 hours

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

I'm convinced all the folks who passed out were just lightheaded from the smoke inhalation and probably some late night partying in Vegas the night before mixed in with all of that strong suggestion.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

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One weird thing in the middle section is where Rachel Weiss's character's husband who she is separated from dies (possibly by suicide) and everyone in town blames her for it even though he had pulled a gun on her in front of everyone just the night before. weirdly misogynistic

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

Back on my bullshit and writing in my blog again. Why the fuck not.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

I watched Wong Kar Wai's english language film "My Blueberry Nights" a few days ago and even though I thought it was a middling film, I still can't stop thinking about it. It's beautifully shot, melancholic, episodic and something I think is worth a view.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 19

That smoke machine was no joke either, I felt dizzy from it

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 18

I went to Zac Bagan's haunted museum recently as someone who is a major skeptic and not into this stuff at all. It is bonkers. They had their "most" haunted doll "hooked up" to a spirit box so it could "talk" to us.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 14

Our kitten had to be quarantined after her spay surgery and today is her first day coming back out into the house and she's TOTAL REVENGE CHAOS ENERGY

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 11

I've gleaned helpful stuff from everywhere, but more than any book, I think that just keeping a journal and being honest with myself about when I'm most productive and which things stand in my way was most helpful! I think Atomic Habits by James Clear has a few useful tips too!

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 8

Tiktok is advertising bags to me like crazy, but all of them are like "Fit your whole life in here!!" and I'm like "WHY?" that shit is heavy!! All I need is a bag that can fit my ipad and I'm good.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 8

Help, I made my WIP for work too pretty and now I don't want to touch it because I might ruin it, but it needs actual gameplay stuff in it ;__;

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Aug 8

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 8

I wanted try and make a toy that looked like a PS1 polygonal character and found it SO MUCH HARDER than making anything else.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 7

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Aug 7

Rae's advice was CENTRAL to my successful querying process. Listen to her!

Rae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · Aug 5

OKAY

I've been slacking on re-transcribing my craft threads, so gonna bang one out today

COMMON QUERYING/WRITING MISTAKES I SEE IN THE SLUSH

(for the new chickadees around here, I've worked as a lit agency assistant for 9 years, so I have read . . . a LOT of slush. Like approx. 60,000 queries)

Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · Jul 14

Thank you so much for taking the time to search and read!

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Jun 21

If you’re thinking of diving into graphic novels, I’ve been sharing these two resources a lot lately:

@victoriaying.com on scripting: www.victoriaying.com/blog/2019/11...

@hellocookie.bsky.social on pitching and outlines: stephaniecooke.ca/resources/

Then buy their books to say thank you!