Fluke

Hello,

So I drew this the other day and I like it because I feel like I learned a lot about myself when I finished.

Most of the time when I draw I just learn about my deficiencies but this wasn't like that.

Autumn is coming. Call your parents and say hello.

Monkey King or just Monkey

This was a piece I made for fun.

Converse Ad(vertisement) Assignment

Here is an ad I'm working on for Converse-All Star shoes.

I also have to give credit to Craig Bowers for teaching me how to color things in photoshop.

From sketch to near finish:

Recently I've been really digging into Yuko Shimizu's work and so I felt inspired to try working a different way. Something about getting to do the drawing by hand and color by computer seems like a comfortable spot for me. I'm trying it out.

In addition to Yuko I've been looking through American illustration annuals, finding images I like and copying them into my sketchbook. It works well as a method of documenting what I like and I often find that redrawing images I like helps me explore different ways of handling medium (since I have to imitate the original artist's hand).

I have a few flies in my sketchbooks too which I keep from decaying by covering them with tape. This is a good way to track the number of flies that you have murdered with the pages of your artwork.

If you don't already know them, check them out:

Yeji Yun

Liz Lee

Patrick Takashi Shiroishi

I put drew these for you Patrick actually they were for a class sorry.

Click on the images to enlarge!

These are from my current sketchbook, studies from American Illustration 27 and some drawings from when I was taking a walk in a Mount Vernon neighborhood.

Hobgoblin

For my concept art class we had to read "the snow queen" (the first story about the looking glass) and then come up with character designs for the hobgoblin mentioned in the story.

The image below is my version of the hobgoblin. He is about 3 feet tall and makes a lot of noise in the form of grunts and scoffs. He has four arms, two of which he uses to make inventions and the other two he usually uses to scratch his head or gesticulate in frustration.

I haven't posted anything in a while and I feel a little funny about it.

So I will post more often then, I suppose.

I ran over a rat this summer with my friend Michael in a pick-up truck.

flying monkey

yea

Cosmic Connections Ltd. Brochure Cover

It is summer and I sit and watch the bees steal the pollen from flowers... My flowers.

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Somebody very close to me is planning on starting up her own astrology/numerology business.

She asked me to come up with a cover for her brochure and I regurgitated this:

This figure in this image if very close to another illustration I posted a few months ago. Well, the reason for that is very simple: I based this figure off of that other one.

So that's that.

Thanks everyone!

Also, I am planning on drawing a tiger eating kimchi soon!

Quasi-Chinese, Pseudo-American

What happens to me when I'm in Los Angeles is I end up eating a lot of asian food, working odd jobs with my father, and trying to hang out with as many people as possible but failing to do so.

For the past few weeks I have been feverishly working with my father to clean out the house we have lived in for the past 14 or so years while working on electrician-esque projects at the local Hilton where my father also plays piano two nights a week. I have been speaking a lot of bad mandarin and eating all the Hilton mints which I can get my hands on.

I have noticed the abrupt shortage of illustrative posts amongst my peers and it pains me.

Well, okay, it doesn't pain me, I just start to feel bad for some reason.

So here is my contribution:

Its supposed to be a clock guy who is always late because I guess then its more ironic that way.

I swear I have been drawing other things too... I will show you later.