Don't try to fool me. You are going to put that harness on me, aren't ya?

A creature design I've done during spring break. I never get serious about drawing a dragon before, so I screwed up drawing the traditional dragon, and ended up going this stylized dragon. I hope this is a good start. 

Sneaking Snack Time

Dinner will be served real soon, but these little puppies just can't wait any longer!

I came up with this piece soon after I become obsessed with Pembroke Welsh Corgi.  It was so much fun working on this piece because it involve so many cute stuffs, especially this cutey dog breed. 

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" 

Bookart : Postcard container book

It's been two years since I joined Postcrossing project. It is a great community where you can send and received postcards from a random person around the world. This project is perfect for a postcard-lover like me.  Two year has past; I got a hugh stack of postcards, notecards, and greeting cards. The postcards was sent from around the world; The top 5 is Finland, Netherlands, Russia, Germany and China. 

Bookart class is a great opportunity to do some kind of a treasure box to keep it.  Here comes the postcard keeper in a box!! 

It's so much thicker than I thought it would be. It took a lot~~~of paper to assemble it; not including the dummy testing book that I did to figured out the structure. The good thing this class offer me almost all of the paper and equipment. 

Thank you Crist Rolik for such a gorgeous stamp.

I cheese to do this structure because it look like an envelope parade with a lot of fun detail in it.  

See for how long it is!! This is only just a half of it!!

I leave the backside for the paper's pattern. The letter, handwriting and envelope pattern match perfectly well with this project.

Too much postcard~~~!!

I pick a colorful postcard to make the book looks more fun.  So most tourist postcards are not included; except for the illustrated one. 

I received a lot of food postcards and art postcards, which always make me drool and thinking of pastry shop.  I'm so happy for having a chance to do this piece of art. I felt that I just combine a small piece of art around the world together. Each postcard carries a story in a form of handwriting, postage stamps, image on the back cover, or even an ink smudge or tearing. I still do postcrossing as a hobby; it always give me a big smile to see postcard sit in my mailbox.

Bookart: five random words art piece.

This is a small book project that I had a hard time thinking because of the weird (but fun) concept. The concept is five random words. I randomly opened the dictionary and then randomly pointed anywhere on the pages five times. I must put that five words into a book.  I got...1.complimentary 2.long-headed 3.Morpheus 4.blue ribbon 5.sophistication.

Morpheus is a Greek god  of dream. Dream is pretty easy because it could be anything. I wrote down some quote about Morpheus by anonymous writer to indicate the content "Dream"   

I read the description "long-headed" it says " having a dolichocephalic head"...I was like "What~~??" I searching for more meaning and found out that this word relate to human anthropology and some scientific stuff that hard to mix with other words. I ended up paste this long headed gentleman which I randomly found on Google into the back page.

This is why I love this book structure! It could be either a home decoration hanging from the ceiling or an art piece on my shelf.

Thank you Martha Stewart paper puncher for all these awesome pattern once again!  

Dream could be anything. It could be abstract images, ideas, or memories, and this red flowing dotty circular shapes are really matching with the content dream.

I put green spiral paper on the other side for a first word complimentary "colors".  It's a scrap paper I found in a class's drawer which I luckily found it. This book has a good feedback from both my instructor and classmates. l would says that's this book represent the fifth word "sophistication".   

Bookart: The carousel of Benjamin Franklin

The Benjamin Franklin bookart was created by carousel structure. I finished this book during class just for fun, but it turn out to be a great one. 

I got all these vintage images from National Geographic magazine during 1970s-1980s. I can't remember exactly what year it is. The magazine had a special topic on Ben Franklin as I see it contains so many images and story, which mean a great material for an art piece!

Ben Franklin's side story at the back page of carousel.

Three layered of carousel structure.

I really like to turn the book into the carousal like this. The book look like a small art piece or a vintage toy this way.

Text: "The charming science", Franklin called music. After he heard water glasses played in London, he had glass hemispheres blown and ground to produce 37 tones and mounted in a case.  Seated, he played the moistened revolving edges with his fingers.   

Text: To thwart counterfeiters, Franklin designed currency containing the prints of actual leaves, since he had observed that no two are alike. At 42 he took David Hall as his working partner and retired to a King George II, he fought for the people's causes: military defense and tax relief.

Bookart: Book of sweets

A book of sweets

This one made by using a sewing method and glue between two Anthropologie's bags. 

The assignment is "smell inspired". I had to create a content which inspired by one of the random smells in class. I choose a smell of spun sugar plus vanilla to create this book. Thanks to the Martha Stewart's paper puncher for such a cute detail on each page.  

The content is international sweet. For example, french pastries.

Japanese pastries that I like.

It took me pretty long for all content was done by hand. But google the reference and information to write took longer.

And of course! a sweet from my country is a must-have:D

Here another work from bookart class:D I personally love this book's structure the most. I wish you guys love it too!!

Bookart : A series of miniature ducks

A cute little thing in a slipcase.

How it's look like when you flip through it.

How it's look like when you unfold it.

This assignment is to create a book by only folding, no glue or sewing.

This is one of the books I made during summer in a bookart class. It's a small book that carry a lot of patterns in a duck shape. Thanks Paper source for such a cool duck shape paper puncher.