Tang yau hoong

Illustration, Advertising, Digital Art, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Paint Brush, Procreate, Watercolor, Acrylic Paint

Tang Yau Hoong is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With a passion for creative thinking, the artist employs negative space to create unique pieces. His artworks are conceptual and fun in a simplistic way. Though his illustrations appear effortless initially, they are actually intricate works of art that grab your attention and make you ponder for a moment.

Editorial Illustration by Tang Yau Hoong, via Behance

Personal project by Tang Yau Hoong. The art of negative space. An attempt to tell a story through illustration.

Negative space can be defined as the space around and between the subject of an image. It may seem nothing when seen plainly, but not to the eyes of creative

Kuala Lumpur-based illustrator and graphic designer Tang Yau Hoong produces work that teases the boundaries between fiction and reality. His flat colour-fields and solid compositional skills ensure immediacy, but any initial understandings we have – that a certain form is "light", for example – is playfully and cleverly torn away, as in his _Controlled Efficiency_ illustration. The bright palettes and use of paint-streaks are reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein, and his calculated use of…

Personal project by Tang Yau Hoong. The art of negative space. An attempt to tell a story through illustration.

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Recent work by Malaysian artist Tang Yau Hoong. More Tang Yau Hoong on The Grid via Cuded Tang Yau Hoong’s website