Scribbling his way to the top

A graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, Ye Yongqing draws birds using a unique method. A solo exhibition now running in Beijing has dozens of his works produced over the past year. Lin Qi reports.

He is well-known for painting quirky pictures of birds using scratch lines. But this distinctive style, which Ye Yongqing began using in 2000, also invited ridicule.

The criticism, however, comes largely from an ignorance of how Ye works.