Explore — Waverly Huang

coding, painting, 3d-modeling, & more.

My love for creating across mediums originates from living room walls ❏ as a child, my house = my canvas. sorry mom!

Recently, I've been experimenting within this new digital age.

00 — Spotlight

Digital painting about teenage life during COVID-19 quarantine, New York Times featured finalist

New York Times Featured Finalist

A work exploring what it was like to be a teen during quarantine. 1 of 35 New York Times featured finalists from over 5.5k entries.

Digital Painting · 2021

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Acrylic painting of a cloudy perspective scene, featuring the head of a woman appearing overlayed atop the clouds, displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building

U.S. Capitol Building

Capitol Exhibition

A painting selected for one-year display in the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Acrylic on Canvas · 2020

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01 — Coding Explorations

Poetic Vision

Poetry Computer Vision Machine Learning

A website exploration of p5js's hand & facial recognition libraries, each movement intertwined with poetry.

things we carry

Poetry Fun & Frustrating UX Random Chance

A poetry website about grief. Includes hidden, frustrating, & fun UX. Explores code as a visual tool.

02 — Illustration

Colorful illustration of an axolotl in a surreal environment

Expressive illustration exploring grief and emotional pain

Detailed portrait drawing with emotional emphasis

Pen plot style illustration of a sky composition

Surreal illustration of a figure with a fragmented or torn head

Artist working on a large-scale mural

Completed large-scale mural painting

Painting depicting an abstract or symbolic exit scene

Illustration representing balance and exchange between figures

Illustration exploring repetition and the passage of time

Conceptual illustration about identity and suffocation

Illustration depicting a symbolic or cultural way of life

03 — 3D Work

3D CAD model of a ceramic pot design

3D model of playful shark-shaped slippers

3D render of multiple wristwatch designs

Fully assembled 3D board game prototype

3D render of board game packaging design

3D modeled characters for a board game

Layout of 3D modeled board game components

04 — Photography

Chinese Lion Dancers performing a stack (the top or 'head' person is jumping, atop the 'tail' person's chest)

Candid street photo of a woman's face looking off into the distance, wistful lighting, her face just visible through people crowding each other on a busy bus

Couple holding each other, dressed in traditional Chinese Opera clothing and makeup during a Xi'an play performance

A somber-looking statue of a woman clutching her robes to her chest in Newport captured in natural light

Blue heron standing on a wooden pole by a calm lake with a boat right behind it

The silhouette of traditional Chinese dancers performing in Xi'an play, seen through a white curtain

Candid urban moment of a man leaning down looking at his phone captured during travel on a subway

Koi fish swimming in a man-made pond in Beijing