Mama's carving instruction

Carving lesson.

 Fruits/vegetables carving was the most popular food decoration in Thai classical period. Choices are varied from watermelon, half ripe mango, pumpkin, cucumber, finger root, and etc; Basically any carvable veggies. A talented carver could carves a whole watermelon into a very delicate flower bouquet. 

This technique is not so popular among the commoners because it takes so much time and effort to learn and carve the fruit, so only the rich, the noble, or royal family members could enjoy food with such a delicate decoration like this. This technique was developed and passed down for generations among the palace women who served the royal family.  I had some difficulty to find reference how they dressed and what did they do, but I enjoy the process as usual.  

  

Shiba-mama's new year

The mother's concept is still based on the first one. "It's not ready yet!" 

The housewife series continues! This is the second of my housewife illustration series. The first one is here. This time I choose Shibainu because this specie is a well-known local dog from Japan, and I personally love it too!
This illustration depicts Japanese housewife during new year. The housewife would prepare a set of New year bento called "Osechi".  This one took so much longer than I expected because of the Osechi Bento part. There were a lot of references and researches before I could add any detail to the bento. Each food in each slot has its own blessing, such as Kamaboko means protection, Black beans mean hard work, and etc. The most helpful site is the made-to-order-Osechi website because they have such an elegant image that show how beautiful the Osechi could be.

First version sketch. 

Creature Animation

An update on creature animation: polishing animation, remove pops, add texture + details, snow, and footsteps.

Renegade Craft fair 2013 - Poster and Flyer campaign

This is my most favorite piece of all - the poster! 

The owl's face by Jan Brett. Her detailed owl is fit perfectly to the flyer because I don't like messy advertising so I modified it a little and put it in to be a contrast to the background. 

The flyer - back side. 

Here's my midterm project for digital painting class. The assignment is for a software practicing; I need to created a poster and flyers promoting any kind of event that I like, so I choose Renegade craft fair- San Francisco because I was really enjoy the show last summer. The owl is Renegade's mascot, so I put it in every piece of works. 

Printmaking - Thermofax - Circus Horses

"Circus Horses" Thermofax screen printing 1/1 edition. I like that I can have as many horses as I want on the page. Seems like I have too much fun that there are too many horses on it though.  Can you count how many horse on it?

12.21.2012 Happy the end of the world with Baby Emperor.

So finally it's 12.21.2012!... and I'm fine. There's no flood, no rumbling ground, no mighty solar ray and etc as some people scare the crap out of themselves. Now here's my Final printmaking project "Baby Emperor"by aquatint technique. Surprisingly, aquatint is the most enjoyable technique I had learned from printmaking class, even though it is so hard to control the values and absolutely unpredictable for an amateur like me. Well..unpredictable is the fun part of aquatint, so I'm happy with it for now.

Printmaking - Relief

This is my first time with Linoleum cut. It pretty hard to control at first, but I get used to it eventually. This one is my "Smiley Whale". Hope you guys like it.   

A combination of Zebra, Plesiosaurus, and Cheshire from Alice in Wonderland.     

A color relief print "Circus Elephant"