Artist Gao Youjun Creates Clever Illustrations That Are A Joy To Look Through

• By Umer R
• December 2, 2021
• 6 minutes read

The concept of optical illusions can allow our brains to perceive the image in various ways which can become more like mind twisters, but at the same time, the creativity is very interesting to see. Such is the Chinese artist Gao Youjun, more popularly known as Shanghai Tango on social media who uses impeccable ways of various techniques to turn doodles into such beautiful illustrations which surely never fail to impress us.

His majority of the work is done expressing in forms of people, objects, animals, and others in such a sequential way that is minimal yet intriguing which one does not see coming. I’m sure it might be confusing for you to understand what I’m talking about. Wait until you see all these illustrations of pure art. The deformation of lines, shades, and shapes creates a completely different story in a split second. It includes the current trends of the world, cultural criticism, and sometimes politics with metaphorical illustrations to present his take on the issue. Running his own advertising agency currently, his passion for this has been in the making since 2010, a friend challenged him to draw quirky cartoons and asked him to post them on Weibo, a popular social media site in China. The challenge was to create and post one illustration every day that specifically pokes fun at the oddities of modern life.

1. From fishing to a piano?

2. From making tea to a graduation cap.

 

3. Waiting at the edge of the cliff or a face trying to rely upon something?

4. Music and phones, to safety while driving.

5. The true love triangle.

6. All raise up and high.

7. Channel or Under Armour.

8. 2021 was spoiled and isolated due to the Covid Olympics.

9. Cat wanting to play or create an entire face. So artistic.

10. Nurturance is key for the ultimate sophisticated growth.

11. The penguin really knows how to turn itself into a cat, or does it say more?

12. Cats and photography can be passionate.

13. Order and patterns, the journey from childhood to the grave.

14. Congratulations on the just engaged couple.

15. The cute cat just completed the picture.

16. 2021 was a lot for everyone, so much happened, so many got sick.

17. You don’t always need a human companion, could be a pup too! What a cute date.

18. Barcode was the old times, it’s all about scanning the QR codes.

19. What and how would you perceive this, it’s very hypothetical.

20. Hold the breaks tight.

21. A cat sitting next to you or your dress?

22. One or two people? Portrait or facing one another.

23. let us not cause harm, play ball instead.

24. Same place, different angles, a different story to tell.

25. A man can also become a lion, raise the glass just high enough.

26. Enjoy your life till you get strangled by that ring on your ring finger.

27. Do UFOs exist or are the missing parts of your headphone?

28. Superman or a cockroach in disguise?

Was I the only one amused by such incredible work? My head surely took a good spin after trying to perceive the picture from his point of view. Did you think it the way I perceived or I’m sure you might have different takes on all of these illustrations? let us know what you think of this and share it with us in the comments.

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