Cai Tse

white text on black background. Obsession is greater than discipline. You don't force yourself to start. You force yourself to stop. The right work doesn't feel like work. It lives in your mind like a separate entity. Always on. Always hungry. Never letting you quite the game. This is not about showing up. This is not about 'consistency'. This is an unrelenting, uncontrollable addition to craft. It's intensity meets iteration. It's a religious devotion to the details. It's an art, a sport, a pursuit - that feels too good to be true. But it is true. Your one job in life is to find work that feels like a miracle. Some find it early. Some find it late. Some never do. But once you do see it - there is a before and after moment. It all makes sense. And then, the mission becomes simple.

Inspired by this post by @zachpogrob on IG

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance. Caption reads, "It's an art, a sport, a pursuit."

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mis-movement. Caption reads, "Some of it find it early. Some find it late. Some never do. But when you do..."

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-swing. Caption reads, "... it all makes sense. And then,"

black and white, manga-inspired drawing of boy's face, looking forward, tired, determined. Caption reads, "The mission becomes simple."

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black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-movement. Caption reads, "Always on. Always hungry."

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance in mid-swing. Caption reads, "Never letting you quit the game."

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of lion dancer as he turns mid-movement, cropped on half his face. Caption reads, "An unrelenting, uncontrollable, addiction to craft."

black and white, manga-inspired action drawing of Chinese lion dance, a shot of the lion dancer's legs in mid-movement. Caption reads, "It's intensity meets iteration. It's a religious devotion to the details."

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black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a Chinese lion dance. Caption reads "Obsession"

black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Caption reads "An obsession so strong that, you don't force yourself to start,"

black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Caption reads "You force yourself to stop."

black and white manga-inspired action drawing of a chinese lion dance. Shot of lion dancer's concentrating face as he performs. Caption reads "It livessin your mind like a separate entity."

A lion dance thing.

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You have no idea how excited I am cuz my whole lion dance team love this artist 💖

My next middle grade graphic novel has been announced!! 🤩🎋 I am so excited to be working on STONE LION, a book inspired by my own childhood summers spent in Taiwan 🇹🇼😌✨

Yay, thank you! Got a lot of work ahead 💪

LION DANCER DATING SIM 🗣️📣!! FROM A REAL DEAL LION DANCER! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

Sorry. Seems I can't add it in after the fact. I will remember for next time. Thanks for the heads up.

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Thank you Screen Australia!!!

We're making a game about lion dance!

It's a story driven visual novel dating game, where you take the role of the leader of a once-thriving, now disbanded, lion dance troupe. DANCING HEARTS is from game designer and product manager Tessa Touchette and creative director Cai Tse.

Hello! I'm a comics professional and published author/illustrator. I'm available to help out!

My email ✉ is info@theseventhlion.com
Here is my portfolio: www.behance.net/artofcai

The industry doesn't excite me anymore as a creator 😞

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨

Today is the winter solstice & the cover reveal of my 1st author-illustrator book, WEIWEI’S WINTER SOLSTICE! Thank you Bicultural Mama for hosting my cover reveal! tinyurl.com/Weiwei-cover (🧵)

Woo! Got an interview on Publishers Weekly Fall Flying Starts! A spotlight of the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.

Thank you Publishers Weekly!

a travel poster of Chinatown. There are zodiac animals hanging around the canvas, a girl is leaning over a fire escape

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Hello! I'm Cai, a Chinese Australian author/illustrator, designer, and lion dancer. I make all things lion dance.

✨ Visit my shop and website here:

theseventhlion.com

Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it

Oh shit that's four words HAHA

Authors! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. Here is mine.

LION DANCERS 🦁🧨
Lion dance, rivalry, teamwork

Cover for DC Comic's Spirit World series. Characters Constantine (lower left) and Xanthe (middle) confront a giant guardian lion holding a jade ball.

✨Spirit World Issue 2 Pride Variant Cover✨

I absolutely loved this one, Xanthe and Constantine teaming up? Yes. 🥰

If you're looking to follow folks who letter and design localized manga, I have a starter pack for you: go.bsky.app/8XNn7Eu

I try to keep it updated as people migrate here, but let me know if I missed anyone!

be less afraid to create clumsy comics. awkward tangents. amateur lettering. weird sequentials and pacing. You Can Just Make it. you dont need to be trapped in a cycle of perfectionism and imposter syndrome when you could have a finished work instead. print that thing out and staple it!!!

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!!
comicsdevices.com
An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
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4 panel comic. Panel 1 has a bunch of kids patting a chinese lion dance head, saying it's so cool and fluffy! panel 2, a kid is at the butt of the lion, lifting it's tail. Panel 3, the kid pokes the lion's butt. Panel 4, underneath the lion blanket is the person playing the lion tail, making a face.

My portfolio is here: theseventhlion.com/gallery
If the project is any way related to Asian culture, that would be so up my alley

𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦!!! The Sunny Bunny plushie is finally released! ☀️🐰🍎🌼⛳️
Link and info below or in bio! ⇣

A Matryoshka doll that resembles a grandmother is seen on a table. We see a farmhouse in the misty autumn. In it, a scarecrow and an old woman (Mariabella) prepare a meal. Mariabella thanks the scarecrow for offering his house for her and her granddaughter Celestine to stay the night. The scarecrow asks the woman "what kind of business does a living person have in Death's domain?"

Mariabella answers that she's here to give Celestine the second chance life never did. We cut to a cute skeleton girl wearing a green dress and a bonnet playing in the field and reciting a poem. She talks to a fly and a butterfly, telling them she doesn't feel like herself ever since granny "woke her up". All three of them hear someone off panel.

Thief Among The Dead 💀🌸

A grandma tries to steal her dead granddaughter from Death and return her back to the land of the living.

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I wrote a guide for graphic novelists looking for agents on my blog for anyone interested! www.victoriaying.com/blog/2019/11...