A-Line Magazine Illustrations

       A-Line Magazine is a Syracuse University publication that caters to Asian and Asian-America culture and news interests. Their most resent publication should be distributed throughout campus in the next week or so. I happen to be friends with their art director so he gave me a small illustration job to do for an article on food, particularly dumplings and rice cakes! I was only supposed to make two illustrations for them but I might have gotten a little edit-happy and ended up sending my friend about 15 variations. Anyways, since they were fun to do and only two of them will be shown I figured I'd post some of them here for funsies. 

  

...the octopus one was a joke to my friend...mainly I just did it since I was told to turn it in very last minute and I wanted to troll him...possibly one of my favorites just because of the silliness :3

Scroll Sketches: Peview

A preview of what I am currently working on and what I'll be spending the next semester working on: a several foot long lithographic scroll print. All about the vastness of the universe we live in and how there's more to the world than what we can see or comprehend. :3
These are only from the beginning of the scroll since that's where I've gotten most of my line work filled in.

Starting to Weave

Yep, I'm taking Intro to Weaving :]

It's actually a lot of fun and I quite like it...however, I quickly discovered that I have a tendency to like a lot of the hand manipulated designs and that I'm rather slow at it...so it takes me a bit of time to complete my pieces....

This is often what my station/loom looks like while I'm working...

Here is the first weaving we did which was really just to get us used to using a loom...

This pattern with these colors remind me of watermelons...

This is our newest project that we've been working on...

First our sample/experimental section (1 yard long):

And the actual piece (28 inches long):

yes, I stitched in two doe...

buttons! hand stitching! :D

The stitching still needs to be done on the other end of the piece so expect some -complete- photos of this project to appear soon...

Publicity and Goodbye to NYC Dirndl Ambassadors

My hat got featured on the Austria Travel Info website!! :D

Check out the article here!

I'm so glad that everyone liked it and that I had the opportunity to make it this summer!

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The Dirdle Ambassador group for NYC has now come to an end. Since the sweepstakes has ended and summer is over there are no more events for us to participate in so we held a last get together the other week to celebrate a successful run. I made a lot of great friends with my fellow Ambassadors this summer and had a lot of wonderful experiences. I only wish the best for everyone at the Austria Travel office and to the other Ambassadors! I'm sure we'll run into each other again!

A Completed Hat!

I finished the hat I was making at IDA just before my internship ended! Here are the photos from the process. There are a few process shots missing since I did three of the construction steps (all the steps involving the sewing machine) on a day where I didn't have my camera.

And there it is~! The first hat that I've made start to finish!! :D

Book Drawings

At the AAAC (Asian American Art Centre) we would often get books from Taipei sent to us from the museum there. We only had use for this edition's book in English so I stole this Mandarin version before it was thrown away and have been using it as a sketch book. Most of these are the result of going to sketch night at the Society of Illustrators.