IF-phenomenon

It’s an assignment to create an illustration for Greenpeace calendar. Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global issues such as the threat of global warming, destruction of ancient forests, deterioration of our oceans, and the threat of a nuclear disaster loom large. Greenpeace is actively working to address these and other threats.

Such organization as Greenpeace help us understand these world wide issues and what we need to do to help this planet. It is also quick scary to believe that some people does not believe in global warming. It has been happening for a long time and today it is hard to pretend that it is not.

Postcard

It is part of a contest to create a postcard for the minors that my school is promoting. I picked the Japanese Minor. I decided to use digital to create this traditional watercolor painting of Koi fish. I want to have this Japanese theme and not to be confuse with Chinese painting, so I added the cherry blossom there.

St. Partick's Cathedral

I visited the St. Patrick’s Cathedral between 50-51Street and 5th Avenue. It's my first time visiting this cathedral and it's really huge. The architecture and the design are really amazing. This is a great place to show you a sense of scale between the people and the architecture. Since the design of the Cathedral is very detailed, this helps to train you in your composition. This help you to decide which parts of your drawing need to be detailed while the other areas can be less detailed.

IF-prehistoric

A fun day at the Museum of Natural History. We looked at the dinosaur section and draw from it. The assignment was to turn the dinosaur skeletons into robot-like, referencing James Gurney. I feel like this assignment matches this week IF’s topic. It is amazing to think that these giant creatures exist once on this planet.

IF- old-fashioned

Nowadays people own many pairs of shoes and we can easily replace our old shoes with new ones.

But…what happen if it’s the shoes that you love or those shoes that cost you a lot of money? Will you still throw it away? Well, you don’t' have to, you just have to do it the old fashioned way. You can always go to a shoe repair shop. You don't have to feel like you waste a lot of money when you have to throw away a very expensive broken shoe. You can pay a reasonable price to a shoe repairer and he can fix your shoe like it is new again.

If their craftsmanship and skill, you will be amazed that it cost you that little money. This person is a shoe repairer at my neighborhood in Brooklyn. He sets up his shop outside on the sidewalk. He was really immerse into his work and craftsmanship. Many passengers also stopped and took a look.

IF- old-fashioned

The topic for this semester's painting is “emotion.” I didn’t want someone to pose the same-old facial expressions to express happiness, sadness, anger, etc. I want it to be candid and genuine. I was lucky to capture this man in his (probably) 60s or 70s helping a woman fix her shoes. I have taken another shoe repairer before him but I find him more interesting, probably because he is much older. I admire his concentration, craftsmanship, skill, and his strength. He was really immersed work that he didn’t look up once or notice that I was taking pictures of him. His craftsmanship also attract many passengers to stop and take a look. I like this sketch because it was the moment that he was about to hammer the nail into her shoe. He shows his skill, strength, concentration, craftsmanship, and professionalism. My “emotion” painting is about a man who is in the moment of doing what he does best, simply a shoe repairer fixing a shoe. Just like an artist is at the moment making art. That real and true feeling.

IF- Caged

It was one of my projects where I have to come up with a concept about freedom/Iraq War. The professor has a paper with few pictures on it and you suppose to select 3 items and a theme. My items are the cage, American eagle and Iraq flag on the Eagle's face. The eagle was caged and now it's free.

Landscape

It's one of the final projects I have to do in my digital painting class. We could paint any thing we want and I really like to paint landscape, so I came up with this scene. A place that is beautiful, peaceful, and calm, yet it can be fun if there are people.

IF-trail

In my Book Illustration class, we have to do a book dummy for our own story. This is the copyright and dedication page. Rex is leaving a trail of footprints and pieces of eggshell.

Book Illustration

These are some of my sketches from my book dummy. My book is about a boy named Christopher who found what he thought to be a rock but actually it's a dinosaur egg. When the egg hatches, a baby dinosaur named Rex is born. They quickly became friend. Christopher tries to hide his new friend from his father (an engineer) who is busy building his machine for the big air race. Christopher juggles between taking care of Rex and helping his father out for the race. Will the father and Christopher win the race?

Linocut_Time Statue

I really like this composition because it looks simple and　elegant. I find it interesting that both the elements, butterfly and time. are moving elements but because they are statue, their beauties just froze there for us.

Linocut_LUCK

For this piece, I want to come up with a simple composition. I also want it to be Chinese theme. So I decide to draw two koi fishes in a pond with lily pad flowers. The Chinese character mean Luck. Koi fishes is said to be good luck. My professor joked that the two Koi fishes represent my twins and me and that we are lucky to have each other.