Yukomich.co.uk update

My main website has been updated!

Now it's got more detailed information (development of the work etc) on each piece in the portfolio section.

I haven't been able to visit a print shop to make fine art prints of my work for a couple of days now because of this heavy snow... maybe tomorrow.... fingers' crossed!!

*** HAPPY NEW YEAR ***

The very first entry for the year 2010! It's snowing so much outside!

I've been working on a commission by Liberty through the christmas and new year, but finally it has been done and I'm having a little bit of time to catch up with my blog and website. Yes yes I am updating my website soon with new projects/more images/more of everything in general!

In the meantime, I've been looking at this shop called Labour and Wait online lately. I first ran into this shop of my dream a couple of years ago in Shoreditch and absolutely loved it! But then I forgot about the place until last month I paid a visit to ever so fantastic Dover Street Market and found that they have a corner right next to the cafe on the top floor!

The photos are from their shop. Huhhhhhhhhh I'd love to live in a place like this....!!!

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!