Greeting Cards

About 2 years ago, I had an opportunity to work as a greeting card designer. These are some of the samples of my cards.

Rock Stars

These are illustrations of John Lennon and Stevie Wonder. I originally painted these with acrylics, but I wanted to give them more graphic look, so I redid them using Illustrator.

Memoirs of a Geisha II

This is my second book cover for the "Memoirs of a Geisha". I wanted to make the umbrella fade into the background, in which I wasn't very successful.. I know it looks a little weird, and it could've been better, but I'm happy with the figure. Unlike the first one I did (posted underneath), this time I worked with Photoshop just to start off and used the Corel Painter for the most part.

Fantasy Oil Painting

This is my second oil painting that I did over the past few months. I wanted to create a peaceful, fantasy atmosphere. I had a struggle with the texture of the elephant in particular, and it could've been worked on more, but overall, I'm happy with how it came out.

Conceptual Illustration

The theme is "the difference between what we assume to to be true and the reality of what is true". I wanted to show how people can be superficial, as if they are wearing a mask.

Storyboard

This is a storyboard from one of my favorite movies "Fight Club" It was my first time to make a storyboard and although it was more time-consuming than I thought (you can tell by the posting time -it's already 5:30 in the morning! Birds are chirping outside...), I enjoyed the creating process.

The Beatles

These are illustrations inspired by the songs called "Blackbird" "Strawberry Fields Forever" "I'm Only Sleeping" by The Beatles. I wanted to make them look simple using only lines and dots.

Memoirs of a Geisha

This is a book cover for "Memoirs of a Geisha Part 1" in Painter and Photoshop.

More sketches

More daily sketches from the subways except for the elephant (obviously). There's something about elephants, their eyes in particular, that makes me feel ...gentle.

Skeches

My daily sketches on subways, etc.

Garden of Evil

This is an illustration of a story "Garden of Evil"
Didn't really spend much time on it and I think it shows... oh well.

Of Mice And Men

This is a scene from "Of Mice And Men" It was supposed to look like a serious graphic novel, but it came out pretty cartoony...!

Edward Norton

This is the Photoshop painting of my favorite actor, Edward Norton :)

Manhattan walk

An illustration I drew about a year ago.

Cafe girl

This is an illustration I did for the cafe/restaurant I work at. This is going to be on the take out menu.. once I finish making the whole menu!

Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays everyone :)

Silence

My first "official" oil painting.

Story Book

Here is my "story book" project from my Photoshop class. I used Photoshop for the most part, but I should say it's a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. In spite of how much work it was and how much time I spent for this, I enjoyed the creating process. Most of the photos are from my personal photos that I took, not off the internet! (Except for a couple.. but you get the point.) The story is not so new and unique (I know :p) but I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

Winter

This is my "winter" illustration.

Fall

This is my "Fall" illustration. There's a hidden message that I'm not going to tell anyone :)