#adobefresco

[akayuu13]

Grandma

[daohanfu]

Hi everyone,

I am back.  Sorry for "abandoning" this blog for so long. The past two years have been very fruitful but busy, and so, it was hard to juggle a day job, an active art practice, while running various social media platforms. On the bright side, from my real-life art practice, I’ve gained a lot of new research materials and stories, as well as hands-on knowledge of sewing & hanfu pattern making. 

Therefore, the "revival" of this blog comes with a few directional changes & additions. The Dao: Hanfu 3.0 will focus on the intersection of fashion, art history, and literary traditions, while the contents will stay fun and visually engaging.

Specifically, we will explore the meeting points of literature, fashion, and art history through flora or floral fashion, from the perspective of Chinese culture and beyond.  

Overall, this is an exciting experiment: can we use flora to tell stories and overcome linguistic and cultural barriers, or to bridge our 2D subculture/fandom with the 3D world?

Finally, I’d like to thank the Toronto History Museum’s Artist Mentorship for initiating this hybrid project as a physical exhibition in 2023, as well as the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario for funding support in the past two years. As a result, this new series has grown into a truly multicultural and multilingual project. 

As of 2025 , I would like to thank my collaborators for their past & future contributions (listed chronologically with their cultural/lingual perspectives):

Alaina Shah - Pakistan & South Asia

Ange Loft - Kanien'keha:ka  (Mohawk; indigenous Canadian)

Rana Khattab  - Egypt w/ Arabic

Niloufar Salimi - Iran w/ Farsi (Persian)

Veronica Spiljak -  Poland w/ Polish 

Emily Gong - Mandarin Chinese

Thank you,

Eric Chengyang

Note: Image Context

Left image features an old artwork from the “Zanhua & The Floral Men” series. The illustration depicts a historically accurate Tang-styled hanfu attire with dogwood adornments. All garment layers, motifs, palette, and styling are based on historical relics from the High Tang period of China’s Tang dynasty, or the first half of the 8th century. On the right, as a real-life exploration of the illustration, I recreated and reimagined the same hanfu & zanhua style but with a little contemporary twist. Medium: hand-painted digital watercolour in Adobe Fresco

[fenris64]

San Josef Bay, Vancouver Island. Tiny human figure at left for scale. Drawn in Fresco on iPad from a photo I took in February 2024.

[nicknaysayer]

Adobe Fresco's latest update is ... something 🫠

[sourleo]

Made a lil guy listening to tunes

[landonnn]

My newest piece. Please like and reblog if you save.

Adobe Fresco. iPad, Apple Pencil.

[radhiahanis]

Sushi Set

[eliskakacvinskyjudova]

Luskoun louská knihu

Digitální kresba