Faculty of Design

Illustration

Joy Zhang

The Whispering Woods

I want to illustrate a tale of curiosity and magic unfolds. Deep in the heart of an ancient forest, a lizard for its love of knowledge, sits engrossed in a book. The forest, alive with mysteries, watches over this unusual scholar. As the lizard turns each page, its thirst for knowledge sends ripples through the woods, awakening the plant fairies — ethereal guardians of the forest's secrets. These fairies, drawn to the lizard, swirl around in a dance of light and shadow, each movement bringing forth a cascade of colors from the layered watercolors. This piece is a celebration of the magic that resides in learning and the natural world's deep wisdom.