Liu Yan (artist)

Liu Yan, or sunsetagain, is a Chinese artist and member of the Assassin's Creed community who has illustrated the Assassin's Creed: Reflections mini-series alongside Valeria Favoccia. She has also drawn cover art for Assassin's Creed: Uprising.
==Biography==
===Career===
Liu Yan works as a TV graphic designer by day and draws in her spare time. She creates her digital art using Adobe PhotoShop, sometimes with help from a 3D Max model if something complex is needed to be drawn.
===Assassin's Creed===
In 2015, Liu Yan was commissioned to create a poster for the Chinese special edition of the Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel. In 2017, Yan went on to create cover art for Assassin's Creed: Uprising issues 1 and 2. Later that year she created cover art for all four issues of Assassin's Creed: Reflections with only one cover being a variant. In July, she created the cover art for the Assassin's Creed: Origins prequel novel Desert Oath. In 2018, Yan created variant cover art for the first issue of the Assassin's Creed: Origins comic. Later that year she created a new cover for Assassin's Creed: Heresia, drawing Jeanne d'Arc in her unique style.
==Personal life==
Liu Yan has been a fan of the series since she bought the first game in 2008, spending her very first paycheck on a new computer and the game. In 2010, Yan starting creating an original comic series Cain's Red Sea, inspired and influenced by Assassin's Creed. After looking at her work, a friend of hers suggested that she create Assassin's Creed fanart and comics. Her favorite characters from the Assassin's Creed franchise are Yusuf Tazim and Shay Cormac, with many of her fan-made comics centering around one or the other. Yan is also an avid cosplayer, handcrafting her own replicas of Shay and Ezio's costumes. She ended up taking the outfits to France for a photoshoot. Her favorites fanartists are "clownkid666" and "luulala", and has learnt from them.
==Gallery==
The following gallery contains art Liu Yan has officially created for the Assassin's Creed franchise.
AC_Revelations_Chinese_poster.jpg|Poster for Assassin's Creed: Revelations Chinese special edition
AC Defiance 1B.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Uprising #01
AC Uprising 2A.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Uprising #02
AC Reflections 1A.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Reflections #01
AC Reflections 2B.jpg|Variant cover for Assassin's Creed: Reflections #02
AC Reflections Issue 3 Cover.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Reflections #03
AC Reflections 4A.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Reflections #04
Desert oath.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Desert Oath
AC Origins 1D.jpg|Variant cover for Assassin's Creed: Origins #01
Assassin's Creed Heresia.jpg|Cover for Assassin's Creed: Heresia
Desert Oath unused cover by Liu Yan.jpg|Unused cover for Assassin's Creed: Desert Oath
==References==
==External links==
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*Liu Yan's DeviantArt page
*Liu Yan's ArtStation
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