
This illustration celebrate male beauty, and he seems to critique the idea of a digital vector image via his use of colour and quivering linework,” enthuses Lizzie Finn, course leader in MA Illustration and Visual Media at London College of Communication, UAL, from which Duan graduated in 2015. He’s also won acclaim for his contribution to the 36 Days of Type project, which combines characters from the alphabet with famous celebrity images in a way that seems immediately iconic and familiar.
Tianju Duan is an illustrator, Graphic Designer and a Printmaker, He is riginally from China and currently based in Copenhagen, Duan works as a freelance illustrator for clients worldwide, helped by the fact that he speaks English, Spanish and Chinese. He describes his style as “fun, colourful, sensual and emotional; I usually hand-draw shapes with markers and then colour them digitally.”