Portrait of Amadeus Vu
Some of my visual inspirations are Saitemiss and Yoshitaka Amano, whose work emphasizes a fantastical type of androgyny, in the case of Saitemiss through nostalgic 90s-anime-inspired, though heavily modernized and stylized, character art in limited palettes. In the case of Yoshitaka Amano, his Vampire Hunter D art with D's long, majestic hair and his slender silhouette strike him as a fantastical, androgynous figure from another century, another world.
This portrait of Amadeus Vu is feaured in my MOTHLILY PROJECT universe, which is a multimedia endeavor encompassing illustration, experimental poetic prose, music, and a visual novel in development.
Xuan Nguyen || FEYXUAN is a fey orchestral music composer, writer-poet, and illustrator-designer. Their recent projects have involved the solo development of aesthetic interactive fiction games exploring the nuances not exclusive to the following: power, trauma, madness, nonbinariness, divinity, and monstrosity. Their debut game and orchestral suite for the game, LIAR, LIONNESS, is coming out Feb 2021 on the FEYXUAN itch and bandcamp. Their chapbooks include LUNG, CROWN, AND STAR (Dec 2020, Lazy Adventurer) and the upcoming THE FAIRIES SING EACH TO EACH (Feb 2021, Flower Press), and their upcoming novelization of their Feb 2021 game is LIAR, LIONNESS (March 2021, Flower Press). Someday, they'd like to create something that makes them feel like Revolutionary Girl Utena does.