Pretty Pictures

I am busy working on a number of projects behind the scenes which are taking up a lot of my precious time. So while I am busy hacking away at those - here are some gorgeous images/illustrations and graphics for you to oooh and aaaah over. They are all taken from my illustrations and grapics Pinterest board - where you can see plenty more like it and link backs to the original sources.

Bon apetit!

Josh Cochran

Some of the works of Josh Cochran - a Brooklyn based illustrator who grew up in both the USA and Taiwan. His artwork has been commissioned by a variety of clients including Kiehls, Harper Collins, TIME magazine and MTV. You can read about his daily life on his blog or buy some of his prints and ephemera from his online store. 

How to draw cute...

Found at Hold on

treasures from Japan

Awesome Zack went to Japan. He brought back some treasures... 

(my little blurry-the-internet-was-down-and-i-had-nothing-to-do-impression of Japan)

Zack's treasures - green kit-kat (yes, that's correct.) Chopsticks and beautiful chopstick stand and amazing little origami swan made from subway map - super cool.

thanks zack :)

lovely lovely

I love this style. SO beautiful! 

Check it out at Vibeke Hoie

Show and Tell

Remember this friend?

I drew him for the Fall 'Edutainer' Musical show Imagine That! at English Village - (English Theme Park - where I work in Korea) The fabulous director Zack Bass asked if I would help out and draw some scenery. So i did.

A few days ago I went to see the new show and tried to get some snaps of the actors - but i didn't want to use my flash and distract them from their stellar perfomance so i just got a few motion blurs:

This is the hazy motion of The Dangerous Dragon (Mark Kuroski) and the Dragon Slayer (Jenn Wells Rowan). (I'm really good at taking pictures.)

The story is about Elliot (hilarious Blake Pfeil) who is sent to Serious School - where he meets the Serious Teacher (fabulous Modestina Fernandez) and has to abide by the Serious School rules:

NO LAUGHING.
NO FUN.

NO IMAGINATION.

Elliot tries to convince his classmates (including Christian Zonts and David Steriti) that using your imagination can be a good thing. Slowly he convinces Simone (Marvelous Marvelyn McFarlane) to change her serious attitude but can Elliot win over the Serious-Stickler Sasha (Magical Meredith Gifford) and change the rules of serious school for good?

Unfortunately I don't have more pictures of the action going down - but here are some pictures including some of the set design that I did for the show - pop-up storybook vibe:

Wise words

(source)

Go ahead... Tell 'em what you think!

a wall post

So this is some of what is on my wall:

I made them just before I came to South Korea. 

I (heart) photoshop.

ings and me and bright colour

self-portrait

me and some wings and some swans and the Kubla Kahn - (fave)

The Jackal and I on graduation day. (a happy day)

and how they look altogether on my wall :)

family, friends, happy colours and lovely design. my favourite things.

patrick morgan

*obsessed* with Patrick Morgan's design style. fresh. bright. colourful. sketchy.

Check out more of his stuff HERE.

in my REAL life...

I'm an english teacher in South Korea at the Gyeonggi English Village - kind of like a theme park for learning english. We change themes and classes every three months. Our next theme is change and I'm currently illustrating a story-telling class (written by my lovely friend Kristi) about a girl called 'Fantastic Freya' who develops an alter-ego super-villian persona and changes things from good to bad... Here's a sneak peak, just for fun...

This is Fantastic Freya in all her glory...

This is what happens to Freya's mom when Freya changes her yoga music...

Tell a story to a child.

A smoking Peacock

I love this Smoking Peacock illustration! The colours and vibrancy are awesome. I found it at a site called "Lost at E Minor" It is a creative/inspiration site which showcases interesting architecture, illustrations, design, websites, trends, films, places, food and music. 

Check it out Here.