Experimenting day!

I got inspried by Antonio Frasconi's "See and Say" and started experimenting with textures, colors and line work. I really really love how the pencil line came out. I think I'm going to experiment more with this kind of grany, organic look. Antonio Fransconi does wood cuts and his use of shapes and colors are amazing! Especially when he layers colors with textures, his work really grabs me. Mmmm, now I need to do some printmaking!

Holiday cards!

Happy (late) Thanksgiving! Since I got 5 days of free time, and my family is too far away to visit, I worked on holiday cards. Usually, having time doesn't help me but this time I got to really work on ideas, composition, line work, colors, and textures. And I found out using tracing paper to figure out the composition helps me more than I thought. I need to work this way more often.

So here are the steps...






And final! (skipped the color and texture experiment part) There's more inside the card but it's a secret;)

Otter project

Couple of days ago, I finished a project for Georgia Aquarium. The illustrations was used for a presentation on Otters. There was apperantly people (scientists, biologists and so on) from all over the world to see this presentation. The otter basically pee on que into the cup. This way, it's easier to collect pee sample for various tests. I never knew otters are so smart!

So the project started with thumbnails to sketches to some color samples...


After few tweaks, below are the final images used for the presentation. I had so so so much fun with this project! I am secretly an aquarium nerd. I used to study about dolfins, did a overnight stay at aquariums, and probably visited more than 10 aquariums in 3 years. I am looking forward to visiting Georgia Aquarium soon and meet these cute otters!

This year's Halloween costume was...

For this year's Halloween I decided to make my own costume. And I though hand sewing everything was a easy, good idea (wrooong!) It took a while but... this is what I made!
Got it? It's MAX from where the Wild Things Are! I tried make it look more like a book than the movie.
And I wore it at work. (for an hour)

I love who I work for because...

This Thursday my office decided to do pumpkin carving after work. In the past we did gingerbread man decoration and Halloween costume at work and so on but I did not expect to have 15 big pumpkins at the office! It was so much fun, this is one of the reason why I love working for this company. So here is what I carved...
And this is what it looks like when it's lit up.And this is the master piece(s) created by coworkers. All of them turned out great don't you think? :)

Editor's choice for IllustrationMundo!

I got an email from IllustrationMundo.com couple of days ago saying that I have been chosen as an "Editor's choice"! I have been a huge fan of IllustrationMundo and have found so many great artists there. My profile image is on the front page right now so go check it out:)

My work displayed in "Sex in Art" website!

I am soooo happy to know that my work is displayed at "Sex in Art" website! It's still kind of funny that this image was the piece my college chose for their alumni show. And it was displayed in a college building for a while. Anyways, I am especially excited about this because I have been trying to break out of the "innocent look" shell for a while. I am still learning and trying to make art that is sexy but not overdo it or make something meaningless. Hopefully I can create more of it to enhance my "naughty and bitter" section;)

Here is the direct link to Shiho Hoshino's "Sex in Art" :)

http://www.sexinart.net/2009/09/04/shiho-hoshino/