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Heekyoung Yum

HeeKyoung Yum is an illustrator. She studied Fashion Design at the Otis College of Arts and Design, 3D modeling at Gnomon School, and animation at Concept Design Academy. Yum has created and designed illustrations fo a number of extremely popular children’s picture books and illustrated poems. Yum is currently working on an animated short and a series of web comics.

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