Hello, thank you for visiting. My name is Matilda, I am an illustrator.

Welcome to {ready to eat}, here is a blog that I would like to share interesting things within daily life.
Please also visit Matilda's illustration website : matildahuang.moonfruit.com ; thank you!

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!



FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS! we wanna FIREWORKS!! ( ...childish! @_@)

Merry Christmas and happy new year!



MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIENDS!

每年年底,瑪蒂兒妲都會跟神祕友人吸血猴先生開 "年底精神檢討會",因為屬於祕密集會,以往一直都呈現沒有公開的狀態,不過今年比較不一樣(有嗎?)所以把結論提出來跟大家分享一下。(順便說明一下,神祕友人吸血猴MK是西班牙人但卻只會講英文,會的中文不多而且不可思議的帶有香港腔,原因無解但喜歡吃香蕉。)

今年雖然遇到比較多阻礙,讓許多應該完成的事都遲滯不前,但是阿瑪也學到很多事情,反省之後也知道自己需要學的還很多,希望下一年可以進步更多,謝謝爸爸跟家人們一直在支持我,還有朋友們跟鼓勵我的人們,阿瑪真的很感謝!希望大家接下來都有一個往自己目標勇往直前的新的一年!

Although Matilda was straggling during this year, but I have learnt a lot, also feel there are lots of things that I need to learn and hope myself can move forward in the future. Thanks for my dad and family, friends and anyone who support me, wish you have a nice year to come.

K & HIS FISH

K & HIS FISH / storyboard
K lives on the hill, the mountains are green, the sky is blue. His room is purely white, and there is only one window in his room...



K & HIS FISH / collage + 3D animation/ 03'04 / 2005-2006



If I got a chance to make it again, there are lots of stuff that I wanna improve! and I will be more careful about tempo and sound effect...

困 (Besieger)/ film + frame by frame animation / 2003
This was the second short film that my classmates and I made while studying in BA. It's a low budget and almost without after effect, but I was really enjoying the process at the time, and one of these guys is going to have a new-born baby next year... (wow)

只能說、歲月不饒人那!

Echolocation system of whales

Echolocation system of whales / hand-draw animation / 2006
It's about echolocation system of whales...

It's time to have some fun!

It's time to have some fun!

My father sent me the old animations that I made in BA, then I found this...

IT IS SO STUPID!

( ...still don't understand why did I make it, maybe I was a crazy girl before. =_=b )

Serious life drawing! ioi {YAPPE!)



Mr. Bear and Matilda went to life drawing workshop today, and I draw serious drawings.
today's topic is about an observation of positive and negative space on human body.

ASKR DECA



To see a collection of ASKR DECA, please visit ROOM 2 on Artflung

REVIEW:
ASKR DECA is a monster that feeds on human sorrow. He inhales sorrow and spews fresh air from the mouth behind his head. However, humans don’t like ASKR DECA, they blame him for eating their sadness completely and leaving nothing but emptiness. People therefore have no reason to feel sadness, and also no energy to pretend to feel sad. Even though they don’t feel sorrow anymore, they also cannot feel joy. The only thing that remains is tiring vacancy.

Fortunately, there is a lonely girl who feels sorrow most of the time. She does not have any human friends, because they think she is quite strange. Only ASKR DECA knows that her brain is full of fantastic imagination, just like living in a poetic world, and he admires her for that. So they become friends and have some fun. However, there is no reason to feel sorrow for her anymore, since the little girl has ASKR DECA as a friend. Day after day, ASKR DECA starts to feel hungry for sorrow. A demand for satisfying himself motivates ASKR DECA, ‘because in life it is impossible to be so propitious, there must be something wrong, and I am going to teach her this’ he thinks. He leaves the little girl back with her loneliness and feels sorrow finally, but there is one thing ASKR DECA did not consider: that humans can turn out fairly weak without the care of each other, and the weakness of humanity is able to kill almost anything.

Consequently, ASKR DECA can only inhale the sorrow that comes from himself.

Thanks Gavin for emendating the text.

Psychoanalyse


My big hairy bear, my blue-eyes Husky, my poor little young man. /gouache

I remember Foz always says 'I hate people consider that illustrations are all about illustrators themselves.' But for me, the thing to personalise drawings is quite important somehow, because that's the main motivation to keep me draw and feel. Well... I am not going to tell you what's it about anyway, cause it' s kind of personal. (But I can use big wash and colour background now, Foz. :P)

Wheat paste graffiti - A girl with magnifying glass



LOOK! I forgot about this ... almost, haha ~"~
It was a old stencil graffiti I did this year, and it already disappeared. However there is the thing I do really like to make more wheat paste graffiti in the future, because it is more environment friendly, and also the speed of wheatpasting is much better for a girl with 155 centimetres high like me. Strongly suggest! (to who?)

DRAWING!




喜歡MATILDA的舊作品 - 潔癖感嘛?請購買本月 'PPAPER' 介紹CSM特集那本(抱歉啦、又在宣傳同樣的東西,我會繼續加油畫出比潔癖感更好的作品來的!)

Like Matilda's old work, 'Mysophobia' ?
Please buy 'PPAPER' Magazine this month, thank you! (The one with introduction of CSM MA course.)

Layout of hand-painted wallpaper --- Amatory


Layout of hand-painted wallpaper

Amatory
In the early spring,
Branches spray,
leafs grow and petals fly.
I stand over there,
To wait,
An amatory conversation,
Between
Flower and butterfly.




Colour-way detail


Colour reference

Design | Song Wen Matilda Huang 2008
Production | Dai Textile Ltd.
All rights reserved.

Traditional War III


When I came back to Taiwan, it seemed the main political two-party, KMT (blue) and DPP (green) were still the same, the opposite of political arguments, malversation, tragical-hero-like speech of Chen Shui-bian.

However it always makes me laugh about the language translation. KMT means Kuomintang, it is actually translated directly from mandarin pronunciation, that means if you are someone who cannot speak any mandarin, you can still say 'Kuo-min-tang' (the same with Chinese pronunciation). But who knows what that means?? I just don't understand how come they don't want to change it to 'Chinese Nationalist Party of ROC' in English version on the website. it is nothing about unpatriotic or anti-Chinese culture. Just it is more easy to communicate at least. (but somehow it can be a benefit that forcing western people to learn mandarin.)

MATILDA IS BACK IN TOWN!
with fully charged energy and start seeking a job! ioi

My flatmate is now having a holiday in Switzerland, I wish can go somewhere apart from London this year or next year.

SKETCHBOOK

Although spend a lot of time doing digital drawings and lovely explosion, but I still like hand drawing more than others.

Traditional War II


The idea of this pattern comes from a subgroup of the Han Chinese people, Hakka (Mandarin: Kèjiā). They are commonly found in the southern Chinese provinces, such as Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian in China. In Taiwan, Hakka people comprise about 20% of the population and are descended largely from Guangdong: they form the second largest ethnic group on the island. Taiwan's Hakka are concentrated in Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, and around Chungli in Taoyuan County, and Meinong in Kaohsiung County, and in Pingtung County, with smaller presences in Hualian and Taitung County. In recent decades many Hakka have moved to the largest metropolitan areas, including Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.
Many people in Taiwan are of mixed Hoklo, Hakka, and formosan aboriginal heritage. Approximately half of the population of Hakka in Taiwan also speaks Taiwanese, and it is highly likely that many Taiwanese-speaking households were descendants of Hakka families in Taiwan who lost their language a few generations back because of the lack of practical environment.

Traditional War I



明眼人一看就知道這次花紋主要取自阿嬤的紅花布,客家花布有著鮮豔的丹紅色跟牡丹花,象徵喜氣跟富貴。南部的客家人,以藍染技術著稱,客家服飾以「客家藍衫」為主,北部的客家人,偏愛以花布製作衣褲,原因是客家人很節儉。

網路上查到關於客家花布說法:一是客家人以前很窮,只能撿一些別人家剩下的布來拼湊成衣物、背包……等等,而從各家聚集而來的布料自然成了花花綠綠的用品了形成客家花布;另一種說法是花仙娘娘為了感謝客家人的辛勞,便利用許多花的色汁來染成花花綠綠的頭巾、笠巾等飾品來裝飾客家人,因此客家才會有花布的文化。

這個塗鴉是以前在台灣做過的 ' Love and Courage' 紙模原稿還在台灣,於是我用以拉重畫了一遍,也把比例修正了。

A Lovely Explosion



Matilda's new installation in work progress - A Lovely Explosion

[ Illustration Publication - EXPLOSION - Creative Brief]
The aim of this project is to explore new uses of illustration and free ideas from only using pencil on paper, take works to the real world, anything you can image that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary illustration story.

[ Explosion - A Lovely Explosion]
Media used: bubble wrap, ink, and paste
Name: A Lovely Explosion
Size: A0 (841 × 1189 mm)

In terms of reflecting to the main idea of this project to explore the boundary and idea of illustration, I tried to express ‘A Lovely Explosion’ via materials. The function of bubble wrap is protection by explosion of air bubbles, but the word ‘Explosion’ is a violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something. To show the contradiction of dangerous and protective, sweet –coloured inks were injected in to each bubble and constructed a hand grenade shape by water pixels; different colours also dissolve each other from time to time that present a slow and lovely explosion.

Four for a Boy



“TRI·FLE” |ˈtrīfəl| n.

1. Something of little importance or value.
2. A small amount; a jot.
3. A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.

‘NO ONE IS INTERESTING IN YOUR TRIFLES!’ a friend told me one day.
At that time, I was doing research about human cells, because to compare with the whole universe, my life is just tiny as a cell that we rarely really consider about it. It is a composite thing combined with a lot of small events, a cellular something, which cannot be seen easily.
After that, I was started to observe friends surround me, those ordinary events happen within daily life. That was how the stories began, combined with the quote:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told.

Then drew stories on Japanese calligraphic paper scroll as a continuous drawing. Each story has its own style, material and stand by itself, but when you see the whole scroll, they thus become a whole, associated with many individual stories, as the same with the research I did about human cells. The scroll format also presents a ‘secret’ atmosphere, it is extremely private, to open it slightly then able to see next image, like traditional Chinese painting.

This is the four story. (but I actually thought to link three and four stories together before) I would like to play around with strange typeface :)

Bling Bling!



The special edition of 'A shiny love story of jellyfish' now on sale!
For more information please check Permanent Bookshop
'what are you going to do after you sold out the jellyfish books, Matilda?'
'Buy a DIY screen printing set!' ( <--very sad with cannot do screen-print anymore after finish the course...)

CSM Final Show in the Mall gallery



Yeah~ after (super tired) final show and (super busy) immersion week, now I finally can have a bit of break (...one day?). I went to Radiohead concert this week, it was fantastic! despite too many drunk people XD and tomorrow, I am going to Linkin Park concert. ioi

Finally I can start to write my silly diary again! yohooo---

And JOB HUNTING!! GOGO!Matilda! (on fire...) <-- seems I finally had a good sleep yesterday O_O

...well... maybe one more day-off will be better...

Small Book Art -Touch the poem in a foreign city



A Braille book - it is functional! These dots are cut out by daily newspaper, so they looked very colourful. It represents not only read the actually text in newspaper, you can 'read' a poem in another way.

A short story



He asked for SEX.
She said NO.
He slammed the door and left.


well.. it is a real story (= _=b)

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl




Because I draw on a scroll of Japanese rice paper, the format of this story is continuous drawing.

[Left: page2]
The owner is a successful old man, who is running pigeon racing business.
[right: page3]
He provides her a beautiful cage, luxury food, but he is always too busy with his pigeon racing business.

Seven for a secret never to be told - Cycle town



1/4 image of the seven story. There is a cycle town, carried by a giant sea turtle, every road called psychopath, everyone live in mental house, if you follow the roads, you can find the biggest secret in cycle town.

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl



The book pages, eight pages, French folding. Draw on print.

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl (daytime)




A Pigeon Girl is the first story of my project, it is a sad story. This is the A1 poster for the book.

[page 1]
There is a pigeon girl, was born to be racing. She flies away in morning, and flies back in evening.

so I made two version, one is daytime the other is nighttime. The one shows in gallery is daytime, nighttime version will be sell in ‘Gifted’ charity art auction in west during summer.

Human Cells screenprint on japanese moon paper



It's a super long roll...
I was printing this for whole week. (Foz: you are wasting your time, Matilda. M: ...)

Human Cells screenprint on japanese moon paper



阿爸、我現在在玩的絲網印刷就是這個啦!

A flower is the leaf mad with love -Goethe



This work will to be distributed on ElBosque illustration magazine in 2008.

El Bosque
www.45treinta.com/elbosque/html/inicio.html

Trifle -Seven for a secret never to be told



'Trifles' on the small roll.

CSM MACD work in progress show



The day before working progress show:
Everybody were busy with putting on works, our tutors Foz and Gary were walking around to help us.
"Matilda, what the hell are you doing?" Foz.
"I'm trying to hang the kitchen roll below the stair... by this plastic string..." Matilda.
"OKAY, let us help you!" Foz and Gary said
"thank you..." Matilda
"like this?"
"nope!"
"...or this?"
"no..."
"well...let us try this..."
"NO!"

(15 minutes later)
"Matilda, I think the best way is screwing the roll on stair!" Foz said with a bit impatient
"...but ..." Matilda
"give me the turn-screw!" Foz
"noooooo, it's I borrowed from Angela..."
"JUST GET A NEW ONE!"
"...but..."
CHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

"O K A Y ! IT'S DONE!" (Foz and Gary walked away)
"... my ten pound" Matilda (crying} q i _i)


Left side: ED's work.
Right side under the stair: Matilda's work.

CSM MACD work in progress show



Oven aquarium, and small books of a love story of jellyfish.

photograph: Chih Wei Wayne Wong
flickr.com/photos/wongdog/
www.waynewang.co.uk/

CSM MACD work in progress show




CSM MACD work in progress show, jellyfish in oven.

SECRET SCENE



A Secret Scene - Fake death

He was killed in her shell,
distress made her blind,
in the middle of the night.
Antique frame,
stale bread and
wine spread.
Crab is whirling
in washing machine,
like a dervish.
He was pretending
a fake death.
She was blamed
for something undone.
Their attitude forced her to grow up,
she was killed thousand times,
but no one knows.
What was the latest excuse?
Fog covers ice ground,
does spring over yet?

Designers gouache on Indian hand-made paper / 2008

Trifle in sketchbook



The cancer cell is dead, a fibrous cytoskeleton remains

Pen, designers gouache/ 2008

Mysophobia - organic wall decoration



Photography : Song Wen Matilda Huang
Women's wear: Abee Chang
Make up artist: Barbie
Drawing: Song Wen Matilda Huang

Mysophobia - organic wall decoration



Photography : Song Wen Matilda Huang
Women's wear: Abee Chang
Make up artist: Barbie
Drawing: Song Wen Matilda Huang

Mysophobia



{ Mysophobia =潔癖感= Keppeki shou }
Mysophobia is a compulsive disorder, a reflection from mental to physical. In terms
of represent a metaphor for the contradiction of subject matter,
using abstract jellyfish to show beautiful appearance and dangerous in substance,
cleanness and dirtiness. The organic wall covering was cutting by several A0 size
Japanese rice papers. The action itself presents mental territory through physical
behavior.

The set of organic wall covering was connecting two rooms and a corridor from
clean to dirty.

Mysophobia - Organic Wall-decoration



As a collaboration exhibition, Matilda did a set of wall decoration for the topic, mysophobia. The working process had changed through a different aspect of metaphorizing this compositive disorder as jellyfish. Because jellyfish is a danger, clean and beautiful (appearance) , composed by 70% of water (person who has mysophobia washes his hand frequently). Using different brushes to change the concept from clean to dirty. At first, abstract jellyfish was drew on A0 size paper, through the process of cutting small pieces of circle by scissor, the action itself become a deconstruction, which means each circle was a single piece of jellyfish. The way of display in the space was from clean images (entrance and the first room) to dirty (the corridor and the second room).

Mysophobia


In the [SPACE] gallery

Sketchbook



Collage of my sketchbook images.

LAST HOURS - Isy



Illustrations for columns of a quarterly magazine, Last Hours: issue 16 in September 2007. this magazine is about punk, hardcore and indie music, politic and culture issues.
www.lasthours.org.uk