The last project before christmas!

This uni project was the most interesting, but the most time-consuming one so far!!

EGAKU, Japanese charity committee

There will be a christmas craft fair by University of Arts London on 4th of December at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and I will be there selling some art works contributed by Japanese illustrators. Our group, EGAKU, is a charity committee for 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and 100%of the profits will be donated towards the charities.
So is you are in London, please please come to visit us there!!

See more info here.
xx

Christmas break is coming in one month!!

Just got flight tickets to Japan for Christmas break! Yay!!
It will be so nice to spend christmas and new year with my family and old friends... cant wait!!
But before, I have to face the real. I still haven't finished many of projects our class went through... Today, I was trying a lot of different compositions for the Kelpie (water horse) project. To convince people that this creature really exists, I thought a poster of circus could be nice. In a circus, all the impossible things can be possible. I was really excited and took long time for the first one, thinking it would work well as a poster. But then I did different images and felt that the first one might be too busy. It's funny, the more I did experiments, the simpler those images became... As you can see from the last image...it is...minimal.

My Little Business Cards!

I attended an international book fair in Serbia for 6 days!! Before going to Serbia, I created more business cards with new design. This time I used double sided print, folded the card into half and cropped the edges on top to make a shape of roof. It's a handmade cards with low cost, but hopefully it gave people an impression of something more personal than normal business card, rather small gift from me...

second project of this year

They are my first experiment for the second project in uni. I have been asked to choose one of those mysterious creatures and make an image of it. I decided to pick the Kelpie, water horse in celtic myth. To show its mysterious characteristic, I am thinking of making cutout and shadow play.  This is my first time to try shadow play, and I am having fun! The only problem is how I should tell the audience the texture of water by using paper and shadow....

The first project

This is one of my final images for the first project this year...

The project was about editorial illustration for an article, which was about problem of educational system for students with disability. The article says when a student with disability goes to a college, it is difficult for him and his family to find the way to keep same level of support as they got in previous school. The government tries to offer support, however it's too complicated to understand clearly. Education for students with disability is like the cliff edge for them, and once their education ended, it is very hard to find further pathway. 

My idea was: a student isolated in the sea, wanting to go back to the main land but doesn't know how...

In the second image, I drew someone trying to save him, reaching out his arm form a boat. I liked the idea of a piece of ice floating in the middle of the sea, but it was really really hard to make it visually good. I am not very happy with the result, to be honest. Tatiana, my class mate, told me my problem is that I never know when to finish drawing and eventually over do it. I think she is right!! To make it simple is more difficult than to make it too much.... My drawings on worksheets looked much better than "finished" image. The second image was worse. Because I did not practice compared to the first one, it simply looked "unfinished"...

Uni started!

Good to see everyone again :)