Shelly Chen Illustration

Hi, I am a illustrator who specializes in character design, watercolor painting, and storytelling. Official Site: shellychenstudio.com

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After years of working in animation industry I finally save some time for personal work. Perviously me and my friends had some good tome in a bar, so I did this piece, cheers!

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Sunny day drawing in Grand Park.#gallerygirls #thebigdrawla #shellychen #weekendwarriorpainters https://www.instagram.com/p/B3U4rJnhc_F/?igshid=njrnwtq037jd

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A drawing of an ancient Chinese warrior. I found the costume very interesting. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JO7VrBIkV/?igshid=2647axcisl0l

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Drawing of a ancient Chinese solider. I found the costume very interesting. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JN_IWB2W9/?igshid=1uc2pcdjicu6j

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long time no see ppl, I have been working and dealing with stuff in my life. 

I took online character design class with talent Rachel Xin! 

Here is one of the practice I did in the class: 

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Ghostbusters 2016

character study.

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<<五鼠鬧東京>>, ” Five Rats in the Eastern Capital” AKA "The Three Heroes And Five Gallants" is an ancient Chinese story about the adventure of five musketeers. 

The rat’s name is 錦毛鼠, the Furry Rat; the monkey’s name is 金寶, Jin Bao, (a snub-nosed monkey).

 WIP

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Painting for my dear aunt. : p

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Hi everyone, it have been a long time since the last post, I was working for couple animation movies for the past year. Anyway,I’m glad to announce that Ledgend of Novo- Samural Rise(book2) is out! As the colorist, I had a great time working with talented writer Amir Avitzur and Sage Einarsen (http://rakurakukakikaki.tumblr.com/). 

For purchase, check out Legend of Novo official LINK and TUMBLR !

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A space dinosaur.

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At last!! I am happy to post the first page of The Legend of Novo - Samurai Rise (book 2)

I Can’t be more grateful for the amazingly talented Team Novo, Sage, the lead illustrator (check out Sage’s work at rakurakukakikaki.tumblr.com) and Shelly the lead colorist (check our Shelly’s at http://shellychen-illustration-blog.tumblr.com/). Thank you!!!

Much more to come soon!

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If you had the power to change history, would you? 

Hi everyone, I’m glad to announce that I am working as colorist for Ledgend of Novo- Samural Rise(book2)! Every new page would be updated every Monday, Check it out on Ledgend of Novo official Tumblr and Site!

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I did a spread illustration for Freedom Magazine quite sometime ago. 

The article is about water pollution in Kenting, its funny that I was there yesterday. 

Check the full article in here: http://www.freedommag.org/issue/201503-reading/world/kenting-park-rivers-polluted-drugs.html

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The new Animal Farm text guide is out and is available ONLINE. I did the cover!!

Check out the original illustration in my Offical Site

Also, sorry for the lack of update, I just get into a animation company and have been busy this couple weeks. New pieces will coming soon!

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some new character and prop designs.  

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comic "Noobs" is now on SPERA SITE! 

You can also find it in the newest issue "Spera: Ascension of the Starless Vol.1" in nearby comic store: )

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HaloGen #1 is out in stores today! Here are the full credits, showing off our amazing team for the project.

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Check out the first issue of Halogen in local comic stores, I colored the inner pages~!

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Sorry for the lack of any updates but here are the first few pages of HaloGen. You can check out Beat’s preview here.

Writer: Josh Tierney

Artist: Afu Chan

Co-creator: Giannis Milonogiannis

Colorist: Shelly Chen

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Sorry guys, I was busy moving and working on this new comic as a colorist. there will be more update soon!