My Study Room – A Cyberpunk Way
The weekend was what I’m looking forward to, especially at midnight, the busy hour of the day was finally lost in the darkness. Not a sound was heard. And I lost track of the time as I lost thought while I stared at the blank paper. Brush in hand, my mind was already filled with color and lines when the notes of the piano bounced out of the canvas.
每逢期待的是周末午夜，彼时忙碌的一天似乎在黑暗中终于彻彻底底的懈怠了下来。万籁静寂下，我望着空白的纸发呆，时间也似乎停止了挪动。提起画笔，在有限的画布空间中，随着钢琴的弹跳，脑海中早已是色彩斑斓、线条各异。
“The Warmth of Love” was a concept art that I painted last year, which was collected in the Chinese Yearbook of Illustration Art 2022. And I was honored to be awarded the “Chinese Illustration Art Award”. As an important document, the yearbook showed the current level of the artwork of Chinese great illustration artists. Having been carefully selected from numerous participants across China, only 70 illustration artists of their excellent artworks were collected in the yearbook with various styles of art, including commercial and children’s illustration, conceptual art, comics, etc. The yearbook was aimed to help promote the development of Chinese illustration art, which not only provided important study and reference research for domestic illustration but also had a certain collection value. It soon would be displayed in major art institutions, libraries, art galleries, etc.
《爱的温暖》是我去年创作的概念艺术，很荣幸这幅作品被入编《中国插画艺术年鉴2022》，个人荣获“中国插画艺术入编作品奖”。作为反映当前中国优秀插画师创作水平的重要文献资料，该年鉴从全国众多参与者中，层层选拔精心挑选后，收录了70多位插画师的优秀作品，涵盖了商业与儿童插画、概念设定、游戏原画、漫画等各类风格，旨在助力推动中国插画领域的发展，不仅为国内插画提供重要的学习与参考研究，也具有一定的纪念珍藏价值。未来可在各大文艺机构、图书馆、美术馆、画廊中欣赏这本年鉴。
We all know that Cyberpunk is kind of a dystopian futuristic world of highly advanced artificial intelligence and cybernetics, featuring a combination of lowlife and high tech. Usually, it was starkly juxtaposed with unique and exaggerated color aesthetics, especially the strong light and shadow that display the technological light or reflections. It was often mixed with black, red, yellow, blue, green, and purple, presenting a grandiose visual impact.
说起赛博朋克，大家或许并不陌生，在先进科学技术下，人工智能与低端生活的融合，演绎着一个高度人机文明的反乌托邦世界。其中非常具有特色的是一种独特而夸张的色彩美学，尤其是那强烈的光与影，无论是科技光感、折射倒影，往往以黑、红、黄、蓝、绿、紫进行搭配，呈现一种浮夸的视觉冲击。
CD PROJEKT RED, one of the famous game companies, offered us the chance to be an insider of the Cyberpunk world by presenting us with the visually stunning Cyberpunk 2077. I was very impressed by the design of high technology, architecture, vehicle design, UI, etc, in which the Night City had it all. Having completed all the missions, I still had a feeling of unsatisfied, as if I had enjoyed a cup of coffee the aftertaste came endless from the bitterness. Then, “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners”, a TV series animation, finally boosted our feelings to a new level. We all felt the same way about the moon and the two young lovers. Hope one day, we might end up with a wonderful ending — seeing the moon together.
而世界知名游戏公司之一CD PROJEKT RED向我们呈现了赛博朋克2077（Cyberpunk 2077），我们有幸可以在虚拟世界中感受这一未来的视觉盛宴。对于这一高科技、建筑、载具、UI等设计，我非常欣赏，夜之城画面设定也让我赞不绝口，通关后，还有一种意犹未尽，仿佛品味了一杯咖啡，苦涩之后回味无穷。加之延伸动画《赛博朋克：边缘行者（Cyberpunk: Edgerunners）》的点缀，让多少人感同身受，引起了共鸣，一轮圆月，二位年轻情侣。期望那天是一个美好的结局——一起去看月球。
The game and the animation triggered me to paint a cyberpunk concept art with a strong feeling of the urge as well. So, I intended to transform my study room in a cyberpunk way. I tried to get inspiration by observing the lights and shadows of the room at night. With the help of rainy nights and the help of light effects for my surroundings, including light strips, mouse and keyboard, monitor, etc., I could feel the changes between various materials of lights, shadows, and reflections.
通关了游戏，观看了这部动画剧，也让我产生了绘画一幅赛博朋克概念艺术的想法。于是乎，提笔开始创想，决定把我的书房进行一番改造。为了找感觉，我在氛围灯条、游戏鼠键、显示器等外设的围绕下，并常常在雨夜，观察现实环境中夜晚光与影的变化、各类材质光感反射的效果。
In my artwork, the almost 45° overlooking view presented my cyberpunk study room. I created a two stories room, the upper floor was a rest area, and the lower floor was a study room. My bedroom was pretty simple. I added the blue and greenish light line under the bed to create an illusion of suspension. The large vase on the left was filled with small trees and leaves. And the leaves grew taller that touched the head of the bed, implying the concept of nature-loving. High-tech light effects on both sides of the door highlighted the entrance. To save space in the room, the stair was replaced by a ladder that was wrapped in a blue light flexible screen and led to the lower floor where the study room was.
画作中我采用类似45°俯视角来诠释，打造上下二层的独立空间，上层为休息区，下层是工作室。卧室相对比较简约，底部加入光感，让床有着悬浮的错觉，左侧大型花瓶给予装饰，绿叶从花瓶中探出，触碰床头，暗含了崇尚自然的理念。右侧灯柱高亮了进户门的位置。为节约空间，楼梯改为直梯被蓝光的柔性屏包裹，直通下层工作室。
Now, let me take you to the study room. The first thing you saw was some large computer-driven pieces of equipment overlayed one by one to form the shape of stairs. A large screen of aquarium behind the equipment. Swimming fish, flying water grasses, floating bubbles, and the touch of the blue-shining light, eased your mood instantly. There’re bookshelves on both sides of the room. On the second level of the left shelf, there was a harmonica I played lied there. Under the light of the incandescent lamp, the harmonica was shining that showing my passion for music. The grid trim style on the right shelf matched the same decoration style in the bedroom on the left.
来到工作室，首先映入眼帘的是类似电脑驱动的大型设备错落叠加，呈现阶梯状。背后则是一块满屏的鱼缸，鱼儿游动、水草飘荡、气泡浮动，以及蓝色光让心情烦躁的你，可以瞬间安静下来。左右两侧为书柜，左侧书柜一格中我单独画了自己的布鲁斯口琴，在白炽灯的照耀下，侧面突出对音乐的爱好。右侧书柜上面栅格装饰与卧室的栅格装饰风格相统一。
On the right side of the aquarium was a poster of my WeChat sticker to memorize that my beloved dog passed away a long ago. I put my signature and the LOGO of “the Dream & the Moon”. There was an elaborate white ceramic bone ornament on a display table in front of the poster. A’Wang, my WeChat sticker character, opened his mouth as if he was trying to eat the bone, which’s to create a funny moment in the room. A high-tech lounge chair rested on top of the stair-like equipment that was illuminated by a lamp, which indirectly presented a visual center for the viewers. There was a key device controller on the ceiling to be used for video projection, connected to VR as entertainment, and linked with other devices as a power supply.
鱼缸右侧放了一张海报，通过我家已故爱犬“阿旺”表情包形象为题，以此作为纪念，上面有着我的签名和“梦与月”的LOGO。装饰桌上摆放了一个精美的骨头饰品，海报中的他张开嘴，仿佛要啃那根骨头，以此营造一种诙谐的气氛。一张科技躺椅坐落在大型设备上，台灯照射在上面，间接地作为视觉导向，呈现视觉重心。天花板上是一个主设备控制器，既能投影视频、又是供电装置和娱乐设施，连接着VR等设备。
The computer desk was placed in the right corner. The simple electronic screen projected from a holographic device on the desk showed my LOGO as the login page. There was a holographic colorful tree to feel the Spring in the room. In my early sketch, I intended to use the cartoon image of A’Wang emoji as the main character. I would paint him lying on the chair and reading a book, expressing a kind of visual effect of the combination of science fiction and animation. Later, I felt that it was not artistic enough to show my feelings, so I revised it after coloring.
电脑桌摆放在一角，简约的电子屏全息投影而出，以我的LOGO作为登录页面。前面是一棵全息投影树，绚丽色彩为工作室增添了几分春意盎然的气息。在早期草图中，我本想用“阿旺”表情包的卡通形象作为主角，躺在座椅上看书，来表达一种科幻+动漫的视觉效果，后来感觉不够有意境，遂在后期上色后，我进行了修改。
I drew two shapes on the top of the lounge chair to imitate the ears of animals to make it look a bit of cuteness, and it was a hidden surrounding sound device as well. To meet the ergonomics, the front of the seat was designed to be slightly tilted so that would be more comfortable to lie down, The lamp on the right I designed was an industrial and simple style. I made the lamp’s pedestal in the shape of the moon to fit with the concept of my brand name “梦与月（The Dreams & The Moon）”. And the connection of each bracket allowed the lamp to be adjusted from different angles.
躺椅上方我画了2个形状来模仿动物的耳朵，带来一种萌趣，同时也是环绕音响。座椅前方微微翘起，考虑了人体工程学，躺着会比较舒适。右侧的台灯我设计为工业简约风，底座是月亮的形状，与我的个人标志“梦与月”相辅相成，各支架的衔接，让台灯可满足多角度的照明。
I created two center points, one was my poster as the main visual center. The hidden character A’Wang was the protagonist of the painting. Another one was two dogs in the lounge chair where the light shone upon them. At the sub-visual center, “Fortune”, a black labrador, was sleeping sweetly while “Lang Lang”, a small dog that we rescued by the river, was awakened and stared at the front as if there was something disturbed his sleep. At the lower left of the study room, my signature was carved on the floor, which implied who was the owner of the room.
通过构图设计，产生了主视觉和次视觉的效果。主视觉为我的那张海报，隐藏的“阿旺”为主角，其次是在躺椅上的狗子们，他们是我如今的小可爱，一只黑色拉布拉多，一只河边拯救的田园犬。傻大个“多多”睡得香甜，而小机灵“浪浪”瞪大着双眼望着前方，仿佛有什么扰乱了他的安睡。左下方，我的签名以雕刻形式刻在了地板上，隐喻了书房的主人。
This artwork “My Study Room – A Cyberpunk Way” I’ve been working on had many elements and easter eggs to discover, which took me nearly 4 months to complete in my leisure time. Like my other concept artworks, the painting was a 4K resolution. Zoom in, and you could see all sorts of details. Above was the scene of dogs sleeping and the poster, which worked well as wallpaper for both my mobile phone and computer.
《书房里的赛博朋克》这幅画断断续续我画了将近有4个月，内含很多元素和彩蛋可挖掘。该作与我的其他概念艺术一样，依旧为4K分辨率，放大可欣赏各种细节。如上方，狗子们睡觉的场景和海报。作为我的手机与电脑壁纸也很不错。
At the end of my article, I’d like to boost your feelings for Cyberpunk World with a theme song “Shape of My Heart” from a movie, “Léon: The Professional”, which I played with my harmonica. And thank you for loving my latest artwork and appreciate your continued support.
最后，为了强化赛博朋克的感觉，我吹奏了一首口琴曲，电影《这个杀手不太冷》的主题曲“心之阴影（Shape of My Heart）”或许能让你们产生共鸣。期望喜欢我的新作和口琴曲，感谢一如既往地支持。
“Click the music to let the art and heart collide, leading thoughts to somewhere else that far away.”
“点击音乐，让艺术与心灵在此碰撞，牵引思绪飘向远方”