Wallpaper* Graduate Directory

Wallpaper* magazine's 2010 Graduate Directory's been published on their website and I got listed!

So nice to be written about along with other amazing designers/artists. My dear course mates Ally Haigh, Richard Carey and Joe Wood also made it there. Happy :)

Please have a look from here!

I wish i had a computer with a bigger screen!

Unfortunately I had to cut the image of my work there at the bottom. I know I know it's nothing but still very very slightly heartbreaking to see my work cut like this. How naive am I...??

Paisley

Another new piece just completed a couple of days ago! It always feels nice to let my dear child go into public after a long long private time together!

I'm calling it Paisley...I know it's not quite what paisley looks like, but it's my interpretation of paisley thank you.

My work is normally black and white. I like the aesthetic of it and am naturally more attracted to black and white image. But I thought, wait, maybe I'm restricting myself only to black and white and not "expanding my horizon" enough! Huh huh such an art student I still am even though I'm officially a "graduate" now. It's done with colour pencils and pens on paper and it was nice to get back into using pens again after so long time of befriending only with pencils. Oh my Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.3 was as nice to me as a year ago!

From The Woods

This is the new piece I've just finished and successfully scanned this afternoon!

It's called 'From The Woods'. I had this phrase in the poem The Gyres by Yeats in my mind while working on this piece which goes

Out of cavern comes a voice,

And all it knows is that one word 'Rejoice!'

I think the women are looking into the cavern. They want to embrace the voice but are also skeptical to the voice from the outside world. It's a bit like, they never thought about something like 'rejoice' in their lives because for them life's all about getting on with things they've got to do. Now all of a sudden this concept of rejoice gashed into their lives and they're a bit like, what are you talking about...?

It's on my main website now too. I did have a very productive day! (Have you noticed it's the second post of the day!!)

Stereohype Badges Arrival!!

Today I received the badges I designed for Stereohype in the post!

So nice seeing my work made into a product. Yes they are just badges and I might be making too much fuss about it but you know. It's something special for a just-starting-up-freshly-out-of-University-freelance-illustrator such as myself! Of course I took out my new favourite gadget of the world Olympus Pen (thanks to my dear mother I would never ever be able to afford it otherwise) and took some photos.

I went to a print shop this morning to scan my new piece but their large format scanner was broken..... such a shame. I was going to dedicate my morning to updating my website with some newly drawn ladies of the woods but well that has to wait until this afternoon...

But let this be a lesson. I'm going to ring the print shop before I leave this time to make sure the scanner is fixed! Ha! Humans are the animals that can learn from mistakes!

Badges for Stereohype

A set of 3 badges I designed this summer is now on sale from graphic art and fashion boutique : Stereohype.

£4 for all 3 of them or £1.50 for 1. What a bargain!!!

Other than that, I've been working on a new piece of pencil drawing. It is very loosely based on one phrase in The Gyres by Yeats which goes,

What matter?

Out of cavern comes a voice,

And all it knows is that one word, 'Rejoice!'

I'm starting to draw the frame now which is the final part of the illustration! This piece is my personal work but it's making me re-realise how much I love drawing. Oh I do love drawing. Oh I do I do!

it's nice that is so nice like that!

it's nice that wrote about me today thanks to lovely Alex!

it's nice that are at Portobello Dock as part of ‘The Dock’ exhibition this week. You can buy it's nice that 2nd publication there like I did yesterday! (Possibly the best £10 spent this year too!) You should definitely pay a visit there... the whole thing is amazing. It's massive and has so much space with lots of fantastic exhibits.

Yes yes I went to London yesterday and saw lots of inspiring stuff including the Dock exhibition. The day made me want to create more and more! I'm working frantically on a new pencil drawing piece on women of the woodland!!

Girrrrrrrrrls...

I came across this ffffound user. She seems to be an illustrator originally from South Korea currently based in NY. I'm an illustrator originally from Japan currently based in the UK. Hmmmmmmm just switch and stitch here and there and me and her could be swapped around the globe! I hope she won't find out, or if she does, won't mind my little blurb hehe.

The photos she finds are amazing.... I can't stop looking at photo after photo of beautiful girls... Very inspiring indeed.