About Me
Hi! I'm Helena Leechiu
I'm a 2nd year student at the Parsons School of Design in New York for Design and Technology . Currently, I am not the most experienced when it comes to technology, but I have a whole lifetime of experience with art and design. I have skills with both traditional and digital art.
My art is heavily inspired by emotion, nostalgia, and personal experiences. I love the idea of immersion, movement, textures, and capturing moments in my art. As a future worker in the technology industry, I find myself drawn to creating projects relating to nature and tradition, building bridges between the natural and industrial .
Skills
- Sketching
- Acrylic Paint
- Watercolor Paint
- Gouache Paint
- Clip Studio Paint
- Procreate
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe In Design
- Portrait & Landscape Photography
- HTML
- CSS
- C++
- Javascript
- Fluent in English
- N2 Level Japanese
- Conversational Tagalog
Projects
Traditional
Starry Night x Christina's World
Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
Perspective Drawing
Pencil, 2025
Gandalf vs. Balrog
Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
Siblings Sketch
Pencil, 2025
Kabukicho
Gouache & Watercolor, 2023
Digital
Experience
Sticky Studios 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of friends and I decided to make a sticker business. My role was to research on the trending fandoms, sayings, political issues and to design the stickers based on them.
Merchandise Developer in BENCH 2023
In 2023, I interned as a merchandise developer in BENCH, the Philippine’s leading clothing brand. My task was to design t-shirts for their Summer 2024 anime collaboration.
Family Day Props Head 2023
For my senior year in high school, I was appointed to be the Props Head for my school team of 250 people. I had to lead a team of 12 and together we designed nine unique costumes, crafted 500 pompoms, painted two 4x9ft banners, and many more.
A Symphony in Flight and Flora 2025
In 2025, photos I took in Tokyo of birds and cherry blossoms were displayed and auctioned in Singapore as a charity event for children with learning disabilities.
