Lizzy Choi @lizzychoi - Tumblr Blog

a comic about drug addiction, and boys that tell me what to do

#illustration #art #comic #artists on tumblr #queer art

(acrylic)

Illustration done for a column about living with bipolar disorder. “Supporting and Understanding Someone with Bipolar Disorder” by Calyse Tobias for City on a Hill Press. (pen + watercolor)

#illustration #watercolor #bipolar disorder #mental health #column

Illustrations done for City on a Hill Press. “Distorting Asian American Identities” by Elena Neale. (Digital)

#asian art #cartoon #model minority #illustration #Digital Illustration #digital art #yellow art #asian american

How my phone makes me feel. (acrylic)

#painting #art #acrylic #cartoon #phone #millennial #queer art #yellow art

eternally salty about the whitewashing of yellow roles 🤔🤔🤔 (acrylic)

#yellow art #yellowface #ghost in the shell #scarlett johansson #asian art #traditional #acrylique #digital painting

self-portrait....(charcoal)

#self portrait #selfie #charcoal #drawing #traditional #art

i hate those really mushy and soft 🍓s. they've gotta be pretty firm, but not too much that the 🍓 is all bitter inside and i feel that (finger-painted in acrylic)

#painting #traditional #art #cartoon #strawberry #illustration #queer art

Stay away! My skin is sharp. (Digital)

#digital art #digital painting #fish #blowfish #puffer fish #cartoon

잘 먹겠습니다 ! (acrylic)

#korean food #painting #acrylic #art #asian american art #bibimbap #yellow art #banchan #yum #traditional

Please Look at Me in That Way! (decostructed postcard + poem)

#art #poetry #poets on tumblr #poets #writing #collage #queer art #queer asian art #queer asian

Something about my mental illness. (colored pencil + pen + marker)

#traditional art #traditional #queer art #mental illness #anxiety #overthinking #gore #tw gore #tw body horror #body horror #cartoon #illustration

Beautifying Something That Scares Me (Wire headpiece with dried orchids)

#sculpture #wearable art #conceptual art #panic attack #mental illness #anxiety #queer art #queer asian #queer asian art

demon. (marker + watercolor)

#traditional art #queer art #demon #watercolor #cartoon #art

“home” is where my heart is. (marker + watercolor)

#queer asian art #queer asian #political art #traditional art #queer art #identity #asian identity #korean american #korean-american

Chinese Take-out Box

(Acrylic on cardboard, wire)

I am not Korean, nor am I American—I am Korean-American. Being caught in the middle of two cultures but not actually wholly belonging to either of them can be very alienating, to say the least. Noticing that I am a product of western assimilation, that I am unable to even speak the language of my parents’ families, is something that is hard to describe to someone who has not experienced something quite as similar. Being fetishized for a culture I am unfamiliar with is also hard to describe to someone who has not experienced something quite as similar.

Noticing the commercialization of actual cultures in everyday life is something that we do not often think about. But I invite you to think about this: where was the stereotypical “Chinese” take-out box even designed? What do we think of when we think of “Asian” food? What is “Asia?” Is it a take-out box of orange chicken from Panda Express?

So, no “Thank You.” Fuck you.

#sculpture #art #political art #queer asian art #lgbtq pride #apa art #APA #korean-american #racism

Self-portraits. (marker + watercolor)

#nude #self portrait #watercolor #watercolor illustration #illustration #self-portrait #study #traditional #traditional art

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