"Feng Yitong is a Berlin-based illustrator from Xi'an, China whose comic and hand-drawn imagery addresses migration, cultural shifts and embodied experiences in heavy, tactile forms of oil pastels. Using skills learned from her bachelors and masters degrees in illustration at the Berlin University of the Arts, she sketches her emotive scenes, then scans before using a light table to transfer them onto A4 and A3 paper. Coloured with oil pastels, she achieves her sharp visual effects by using kitchen cloths to remove or mix thick marks to create defined edges and distinct segments of her dense images."
"Exploring how we are shaped by shifts in language, rituals and architecture, her current project is a graphic novel about living between Xi'an and Berlin, navigating two homes through the common imagery of everyday life and scenes from dreams. "I'm drawn to these tiny, real fragments because they shape my life," says Feng. "Drawing them feels like keeping a diary, but also like transforming the everyday into something dream-like on paper." There's a constant play between texts and media, with diary pages and emails making appearances alongside vivid cityscapes, skies and flowers - all things that day-dreamers get lost in."
Feng Yitong is a Berlin-based illustrator from Xi'an who uses heavy, tactile oil pastels to explore migration, cultural shifts and embodied experiences. She sketches emotive scenes, scans them and transfers drawings onto A4 and A3 paper with a light table before colouring. Kitchen cloths are used to remove or mix thick pastel marks, producing sharp edges and distinct segments in dense imagery. The current project is a graphic novel about living between Xi'an and Berlin, weaving everyday imagery and dream scenes. Diary pages and emails appear alongside cityscapes, blending lived experience with imagined futures while preserving an individual visual voice.
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