{"id":53603,"date":"2026-05-19T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53603"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:12:34","slug":"how-an-architect-is-healing-hongkongers-inner-child-with-free-sketches-figurines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=53603","title":{"rendered":"How an architect is healing Hongkongers\u2019 \u2018inner child\u2019 with free sketches, figurines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/19\/559b1a6b-4a60-4ef9-a856-459b6f26b5c1_1c3d51c9.jpg?itok=6aqPy2uh&amp;v=1779164938\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI want to remind people that, even when you don\u2019t feel it, you are loved, and you are seen,\u201d says Cherry Yeung, the founder of Cute Soulz, a fledgling art and wellness project that has amassed more than 112,000 Instagram followers to date.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The brand\u2019s signature character is a small, flower-like doll that Yeung calls the \u201cLittle Inner Child\u201d. It lives in everyone\u2019s heart, she says, but is too easily neglected when life becomes a blur of deadlines and commutes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cute Soulz products range from keychains to figurines and come in different colours or emotions aside from its classic sunflower-yellow: healing, hopeful and courageous.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yeung\u2019s mission is to coax a little more emotional honesty out of one of the world\u2019s most fast-paced cities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But before there were products, the project was much simpler: a pencil, a sketchbook and a girl walking up to strangers with a drawing.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">\u2018I was mentally prepared for criticism\u2019<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On the MTR, in a bustling market or outside a restaurant, Yeung sits with her sketchbook, scanning the crowd. She spots a stranger, often someone not smiling or lost in the grind of work, and starts to draw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3353949\/how-architect-healing-hongkongers-inner-child-free-sketches-figurines?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want to remind people that, even when you don\u2019t feel it, you are loved, and you are seen,\u201d says Cherry Yeung, the founder of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23021,2071,14052,1147,5292,8985,23022],"class_list":["post-53603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-architect","tag-child","tag-figurines","tag-free","tag-healing","tag-hongkongers","tag-sketches","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}