JIA Future Artists Award

Discovering future talents globally and collecting illustrations from children all over the world.

2024 Winner List：Age 13-16

Gold Award

Ema Yamazaki

Silver Award

Liang Yiru，Tang Yiming，Fu Qiyun，Flora miao，Ivan Babyshev

Bronze Award

Wang Qingrong，Wang Zelin，Riko Inasaka，Yukiho Saito，Saori Sorimachi，Ema Yamazaki，An Yuelin，Flora miao，Jasmine Wang

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GOLD AWARD

GOLD AWARD

Ema Yamazaki （Japan）

The Peach Garde

Digital Illustration

I draw a lot of things that I like.

Mayuko Utanishi:

Many of the entries are of a very high standard, this work presents a unique tone, showing the young artist's unique artistic perspective. The figures are in the same hue as the background, but the viewer's eye is drawn to the figures in the frame, a composition that has clearly been carefully thought out.

Mai Zi：

The control of the overall style, the selection of composition, the detail processing of the picture and the characterization are excellent. The creativity of the picture in the picture and the protagonist are very attractiv.e. The child is skilled and has a high degree of completion of the work, and his creative ability is already excellent

Chuo Quan：

The painting technique is very mature, the characterization is very accurate, the background is also handled very vividly, and the expression is very strong. The picture elements are rich, but not messy. The composition is full, the picture is full, the use of color is very skilled. The author has a strong ability to create series of works. Demonstrate a love and commitment to art.

SILVER AWARD

SILVER AWARD

Liang Yiru （China）

SILVER AWARD

Tang Yiming （China）

SILVER AWARD

Fu Qiyun （China）

Dream Back To Ancient Shu

Freehand

With the melodious sound of the lute, the members of the expedition revealed the secrets of the desert. The huge mecha suspected of the ancient Shu Sanxingdui civilization stood like a dream, as if stepping on the long river of history...

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work shows superb artistic skills, meticulous painting and the use of strong and weak lines are just right, and the world view presented by the painting is also excellent.

Mai Zi：

This work requires children's strong imagination and understanding of the logical structure of machinery, delicate and patient handling of details, and the majestic momentum of the picture is expressed in place.

Chuo Quan：

The main body image modeling is very wonderful, the details are very rich. The picture is clearly primary and secondary, and the visual impact is strong. The whole show a magnificent momentum.

The World of Mountains and Seas

Freehand

The stories of gods and strange beasts in the Book of Mountains and Seas in China opened my imagination and yearning for the ancient world. In this world, those scattered clues and broken events support a fantasy of the ancient world, mountains, seas, wilderness constitute all of her, gods, monsters, heroes, sages, plants and trees live in them, their respective interpretations are wonderful, and close contact with each other, triggering a variety of legends, and finally jointly write a song of Chinese ancestors, pioneering and forging forward. The Chinese civilization sprouted and expanded, blossomed and scattered leaves of the great movement.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work has caught my eye with its exquisite Chinese style painting, and the watercolor painting technique is excellent. The light colored background is well balanced with some bright colors, while the work shows vitality.

Mai Zi：

This work shows the charm of traditional Chinese stories, and makes the viewer feel as if they are in the scene through the delicate and soft picture. The characters in the picture have a unique charm and rich emotions, and we can see the children's deep understanding and love of traditional images.

Chuo Quan：

Gorgeous colors give people a relaxed and lively feeling, with bright colors, vivid pictures. The scene sense of the picture is very good. The visual center of the composition is eye-catching, and the rhythmic layout of the flying crane in the painting has a visual sense of flying out of the picture.

Weathering With You

Freehand

I painted it from the theme song of the movie "Weathering With You". This movie tells us that we need to face the challenges of the world bravely and chase our dreams regardless of everything. The painting mainly uses the open sky and the dreamy sea level as the background, and uses dark colors to highlight the main objects. The two figures, one gray and one white, are the two protagonists. They fly in the sky around the star in the middle, and the overall strokes of the painting are more delicate. And then express the inner longing

Mayuko Utanishi:

The story presents a beautiful world view and creates a unique atmosphere through abstract representations of the sky and sea.

Mai Zi：

A fantastic piece of work, using color to make the romantic and mysterious atmosphere on the paper, the excellent control of the grand scene, as if hearing the cry of seagulls in the distance.

Chuo Quan：

The works give people a very beautiful and romantic feeling, generating infinite reverie space. The colors are soft and full of variation through delicate brushstrokes. Like a dream.

SILVER AWARD

Flora miao （中国）

SILVER AWARD

Ivan Babyshev （Russia）

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The 1st artwork is about the emotion of us, the bright side (happiness, love and brave, etc.) and the dark side (e.g. sadness, lonely, disappointment, etc). The first artwork is about the emotion of us, the bright side and the dark side.... but together it makes our colorful life journey to experience the world, together it makes our colorful life journey to experience the world. The 2nd artwork tell the importance of diversity, although we might look different, color, age, religion, but we all share same values such as kind and love, by nature.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work has a strong visual impact, which catches my eye. The use of color and technique is exquisite, and the theme is clearly expressed.

Mai Zi：

licate modeling, psychedelic color matching, backlight processing to see the children's solid basic skills and excellent shaping ability.

Chuo Quan：

The author uses electronic painting to represent the portrait of a girl, and the light and shadow processing of the picture is very artistic. The eyes are vivid and story-filled.

Horizon

Acrylic

It was the impression on the circumstances in 2022.

Mayuko Utanishi:

It presents an impression of the situation in 2022, and it is remarkable that the images themselves can fully convey emotions without much explanation. The work has a unique personality and I think it is of high quality and suitable for use as a poster.

Mai Zi：

The characters make the picture unique story through simple color matching and modeling outline.

Chuo Quan：

The picture is very simple, but it does not affect the expression of the work. The contrast of the two colors makes the picture form a strong memory point. The expression of the character is very simple to depict, showing the inner world of the character.

BRONZE AWARD

BRONZE AWARD

Wang Qingrong （China）

BRONZE AWARD

Wang Zelin（China）

BRONZE AWARD

Riko Inasaka （Japan）

Memory

Watercolors, pencils, markers

I still remember when I was young, standing on the high mountain overlooking the village of my grandmother's home, with a ray of sunset in the green, warm and healing, the lake flowing and mixed with a hint of coolness, but also become the deepest memory in my mind. Watercolor, pencil and marker are mainly used in drawing, and watercolor highlights the hazy sense of mountains and water; The pencil highlights the texture of the mountains and water, while the marker blends the shadow of the landscape and the overall picture, and also highlights the trace of warmth. It's still one of the most healing and beautiful memories in my mind.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The works show strong traditional Chinese aesthetic characteristics, and the light and elegant tones subtly convey the nostalgia for the past.

Mai Zi：

My thinking and personal understanding of Chinese landscape painting have captured the charm of landscape painting, and the delicate and soft color matching makes people relaxed and happy.

Chuo Quan：

he picture depicts a landscape painting in a freehand way, with green mountains and green waters, which has a certain personal understanding in traditional Chinese landscape painting. The use of color is appropriate, the style of the picture is unified, and more details will be better handled.

Growing Pain

Coloured pencil

The wet wings of the butterfly grow the red color of maturity, and the soup of decomposed worms in the cocoon quietly forms a beautiful creature. The apples smelled a little sweeter and their colors were a little brighter than yesterday. As for me, I am growing quietly again today.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work draws attention to its unique worldview, and the delicate strokes of colored pencils accentuate the mysterious atmosphere.

Mai Zi：

A very stylish piece of work, see the child's excellent color matching ability and unique aesthetic taste, local delicate details without losing the solid basic skills and observation of life.

Chuo Quan：

The picture uses peaceful colors to express a girl's mental state, or facing growing pains, or other unhappy things.

FANTASY

Acrylic gouache

The overall color palette is more vibrant, creating an atmosphere far removed from the real world.
In addition, the color of people's skin is also very particular.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work has an interesting and mysterious surrealist worldview. Elegant taste, high quality. The pattern fusion is also quite clever.

Mai Zi：

Have a certain modeling ability, rich imagination, character texture processing is very personal style.

Chuo Quan：

The composition of this work is very bold and full of visual tension. Full of imaginative elements, make the work unique.

BRONZE AWARD

Yukiho Saito（Japan）

BRONZE AWARD

Saori Sorimachi（Japan）

BRONZE AWARD

Ema Yamazaki （Japan）

Shire And UNI

Colored pencil, Pigment, Crayon, Pencil

The model is my dog season's Shire.
There are two things I want to convey in this work.
The first one that I represented with my work was unipue. In English, the head plus uni means one.
Second, future dreams don't have to be decided "now." Even if you force yourself to set a dream now, the values of the future will be different from the values of the present. The most important thing now is to take action and accumulate a lot of experience and knowledge.
All in all, what I want to tell you is that by cherishing originality and focusing on what you want to do now, you can open up endless possibilities.

Mayuko Utanishi:

Great theme, showing a positive attitude. The expression of the characters is optimistic and positive energy is felt when viewing the works.

Mai Zi：

This is a piece of work that makes people happy, you can't help but smile when you see it, innocent romance is everywhere in the picture, lovely shape and beautiful color can make people forget their troubles for a while.

Chuo Quan：

A lovely work, the expression of small animals are depicted very vividly. Cleverly integrate the subject into the whole environment.

Goldfish

Digital Illustration

Painted in bright colors.

Mayuko Utanishi:

Many of the entries are of a very high standard, and this work covers a variety of elements, showing a charming artistic charm and beauty.

Mai Zi：

Excellent picture performance, a high degree of completion of the series of works, the expression of the details of the character modeling elements are very in place, skilled, commendable picture.

Chuo Quan:

The painting technique is very mature, the characterization is very accurate, the background is also handled very vividly, and the expression is very strong. The picture elements are rich, but not messy. The composition is full, the picture is full, the use of color is very skilled. The author has a strong ability to create series of works. Demonstrate a love and commitment to art.

The Mind Is Overwhelmed

Transparent watercolor, Opaque watercolor, Acrylic paint

It means that the words and thoughts you want to say are drowning in your body. Most of the thoughts are drowning in the depths of the body, even if well spoken, drowned in the mouth can not be expressed in words. In a world where no one, including myself, can say everything that I want to say, I would be happy if the meaning of the painting was conveyed to anyone other than myself.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The way the characters are left blank is impressive, and the overall use of color and balance show high taste. The theme expression is precise and accurate.

Mai Zi：

It is a very personalized work. I hope children can keep their own personality and feel the emotions conveyed by children through the picture, just like every adolescent child.

Chuo Quan：

The work has a good display in creativity and expressiveness, so that the emotions of the characters are full of tension.

BRONZE AWARD

Ema Yamazaki （Japan）

BRONZE AWARD

An Yuelin（China）

BRONZE AWARD

Flora miao （China）

A Corner Of The City

Chinese Painting

The beautiful Shanghai is known as the International Exhibition of architecture, where you can see buildings of different styles everywhere. When you take a pleasant stroll in the city center, you come across Spanish style buildings. This work shows the beautiful shadow of Spanish architecture in the sunshine.

Dining-table

Digital Illusltration

It's very deep.

Mayuko Utanishi:

Many of the entries are of a very high standard, and this work covers a variety of elements, showing a charming artistic charm and beauty.

Mai Zi：

Excellent picture performance, a high degree of completion of the series of works, the expression of the details of the character modeling elements are very in place, skilled, commendable picture.

Chuo Quan:

The sense of scene is very wonderful, the sense of space is very strong, as if the smell of food is spread out of the picture, a very vivid work. The painting is delicate and the use of color is very skillful. It shows the author's strong creative ability.

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Procreate APP

The 1st artwork is about the emotion of us, the bright side (happiness, love and brave, etc.) and the dark side (e.g. sadness, lonely, disappointment, etc). The first artwork is about the emotion of us, the bright side and the dark side.... but together it makes our colorful life journey to experience the world, together it makes our colorful life journey to experience the world.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The way of expressing the theme of the work is very interesting, and a variety of styles are integrated into the work in an orderly manner.

Mai Zi：

The eerie and funny images are hilarious and adorable, and a child's imagination will never let you down.

Chuo Quan:

Bizarre and interesting works that combine images from various famous paintings into a single work and are treated with exaggeration. Make the picture imaginative.

BRONZE AWARD

Jasmine Wang（Australia）

The Olden Days

Freehand

I drew this because, I could express the way that the 20th century people lived, their culture and clothing. It was very fun to draw, and I hope that people understand that this is the way 20th century people live.

Mayuko Utanishi:

The work has a unique balanced layout and elegant taste. By suppressing other colors around people in the 20th century, it successfully shows what it wants to convey.

Mai Zi：

The picture is clean, the expression is clear, the composition is reasonable and the narrative is strong.

Chuo Quan:

The design of the work is novel, the characters are vivid, and the balloons light up the color layout of the picture. Open the relationship between the character and the background.

To Check Out More Winner Groups

Age 6-8

Gold Award

Han Ziyu

Silver Award

Hou Yuehong，Qian Yuexi，He Yichen，Zhang Lutong，Li Jiamu

Bronze Award

Hou Yuehong，Chen Qinran，Yiqiao Hao，Barinova Eva，Victoria Burton，Karissa Chen，Jin Yiling，Hyman Chen，Eva Mu，Isa Xia

Shortlist

Wang Ning，Gong Yuezhen，Annabelle Cheng，Kathy KEXIN Xiao，Aiden Jyun-Yu Yang，Sarah Pagano，Xu Ruilin，Phoebe Lin，Candice Yew Eng Ngu，Zicheng Lucas Huang

Age 9-12

Gold Award

Vasilisa Nazarkina

Silver Award

Ren Yinuo，Zhang Hajing，Fu Sihan，Wang Yuxiao

Bronze Award

He Yichen，Athena Yi，Ni Yijia，Wang Shuyao，Qingchu Xu，Zhu Li Aisha，Wang Yunche，Wang Yuxiao，Zhao Jiabao，Athena Deng Wolski

Shortlist

Wu Yimo，Lu Shiyue，Shuhao Jeremy Zhang，Li Hanqing，Isabel Liu-Zhang，Jiang Haokun，Lai Pinru，Wang Yuxiao，Wang Taoxiang，Joanna Zhang