it can't be dadu

2011-08-14T14:07:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone just want to let you know I moved my blog over to tumblr.

http://dadushin.tumblr.com/

Thanks for looking!

2011-07-21T20:55:00.002-04:00

new post on idontlikeclothes blog: http://idontlikeclothes.blogspot.com

2011-07-18T11:06:00.006-04:00

sketchbook stuff!

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Also I've started another blog just for small fashion illustrations I'm doing. I started doing these to force myself to draw more often. I feel like fashion illustration is a good vehicle for that because I don't have to think about a deep concept, and I have a consistent subject matter. Consistent subject matter really helps because now I can comfortably allow myself to work in different techniques and aesthetics. So no excuses not to draw right?

Please check it out here. Thanks for looking!

2011-06-28T13:17:00.028-04:00

Here are some random bits of work from various things. I really just need to get into posting regularly. Expect that to happen when my scanner arrives! I'm going to be binge scanning.

Here is some of the work from the show at Gallery Nucleus. We were asked to illustrate different idioms. These were the first paintings out of the sketchbook I had done in a year. It was definitely a struggle and a bit frustrating. But I guess that is why I enjoyed painting in the first place. However I've started using traditional media again a lot more since the show. It was a good wake up call. Unfortunately I was unable to get good photos or scans before I had to send them off so I apologize for the small images. You can see the rest with some close ups here. Big thanks goes out to Lin Shi for inviting me to participate in the show.

"Over the Competition" , Idiom: Dark horse.

"The Other Side", Idiom: The grass is always greener on the other side.

"It Wasn't Me", Idiom: I smell a rat.

"Sick Day", Idiom: Feeling under the weather.

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Here is something I did for the NYT OPED Letters page. You can read the article here. Big thanks to Alexandra Zsigmond and Aviva Michaelov.

Sketch:

Final:

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Here is my small contribution to the Vend Send Mend show. Definitely check the show out, it's for a good cause and there are a lot of great artists contributing.

"Rain Man"

2011-06-25T23:13:00.009-04:00

This was a commission that I recently did. After a round of sketches the client decided that they wanted to go with a couple of China inspired landscapes. I did another round of sketches and these are three sketches from the group. They decided to go with the first two sketches in the color of the third.

Here are the finals. I tried to keep them really simple, I wanted a grand yet serene feel to them.

2011-06-07T19:39:00.009-04:00

Tiny tiny update. Gallery Nucleus did a little feature on me for the upcoming show Baker's Dozen. Read it here. I'll come back later with more about the pieces I did for the show.

I'm also in the process of investing in a nice scanner so these iphone pictures will have to do for this update. Some sketchbook stuff from in the last 2 months.

2011-04-08T12:28:00.010-04:00

Been really lazy about updating the blog. So to get back into habit of posting, here is some old/new sketchbook stuff. I'll be back soon to update with more work.

2010-11-09T10:23:00.004-05:00

Another thing I recently did for SooJin. This prompt for this was "Having a lot to consider/decipher through". Again, thanks so much to SooJin!

Sketch:

Final:

2010-11-09T10:12:00.010-05:00

Long time no blog update, so here is something I did a while ago. AD: SooJin Buzelli. My favorite pieces always end up being the ones I did for SooJin. Here it is in layout: http://www.pseuropedigital.com/pseurope/autumn2010#pg34

Sketch:

Final:

Fairy-tale

2010-08-31T20:29:00.007-04:00

Here is my small contribution to the Fairy Tale project. Each artist writes and illustrates what happens next in the story. Here is the illustration, you can read my written part on the site.

Prints

2010-08-07T01:32:00.006-04:00

I've been getting a lot of requests for prints (thanks for your interest everyone!) and finally I'm having some released by INPRNT.

Here's the link to my page: http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/dadu_shin

I know a lot of people were wondering about "Upgrades" and "Inside or Out", right now I'm trying to get those as prints as well and will announce it when they finally get out.
(EDIT: Inside or Out is now available on INPRNT)

Speaking of "Upgrades" here it is in PLANADVISER. Thanks again to SooJin Buzelli, I really love the final layout.

Back to the blog

2010-07-16T03:23:00.008-04:00

So graduation happened! I'm back at home (moving to New York soon). Thankfully i've been keeping busy working on different projects. This was one of them. Last month SooJin Buzelli called me and asked me to do the cover for the july issue of PLANSPONSOR. Well needless to say I was pretty excited about it. I looked through the last couple covers and came across the work of Chris Silas Neal, Jillian Tamaki, Shout, Yuko Shimizu, Chris Buzelli and a few others. Yeahhhhh, pretty awesome but also a very hard act to follow. I had just moved back home and my brain was kind of scattered but here's what I came up with. I want to thank SooJin for taking a chance on me. Thanks so much SooJin!

Final sketch:

Final Image:

Final layout, flipped to fit the title better:

I'm Almost a Real Person

2010-05-25T17:41:00.002-04:00

Personal piece. I'm graduating soon (congrats to everyone who already did!) and there are a lot of things going on. It's been super nice out lately and senioritis is at an all time high right now. However I keep telling myself to stay on course, stay focused and work straight through the distractions. So that's what this is about. That said, I'm going outside to enjoy the beautiful weather today.

Tree

2010-05-15T21:43:00.005-04:00

Reworked an old thing for an article about the "Last One Standing". I might come back to this one later, but for now, I'm moving on to the next piece.

still sketchbooking

2010-05-10T18:25:00.005-04:00

Hello. here are some sketchbook pages i've been able to squeeze in during busy times. RIP Frank Frazetta.

New Things

2010-05-09T00:22:00.017-04:00

hello. here are some new pieces. I'm making more use of my Ohger blog now, but will try to keep on posting here as well. some sketchbook pages coming soon.

So I'm kind of redoing my entire portfolio and trying to constantly make new work. I've been choosing random editorial articles and doing illustrations for them. This one was about "getting an upgrade".

Illustration inspired by the book "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. When I was in elementary school my teacher read it aloud to my class and it immediately became one of my favorite books. It made me want a dog so bad and when I did eventually get one many years later, I was always afraid of losing him in the woods surrounding my house. Some of you might have seen another version of this...but I decided to go back into it and clean it up a little bit.

I want a cat now though.

Box Man!

2010-04-27T03:20:00.002-04:00

One of the new things i've done. Box Man!

Long time no post.

2010-04-04T23:39:00.013-04:00

Haven't posted in a long time so i thought i'd throw up some sketchbook pages.
*i don't know why but you have to click the images to full view them...

Getting closer.

2010-02-12T20:19:00.010-05:00

Few more sketchbook pages. Graduation is soon.
Yeaaaaaa. Thanks for looking.

Quick.

2010-02-05T17:43:00.006-05:00

Quick update of more sketchbook stuff. Been doing a little bit more fashion stuff for my apparel design class.

1. Paint every day.

2010-01-30T18:12:00.010-05:00

Some pages to escape from the craziness.

Back

2010-01-22T19:28:00.012-05:00

Long time no post! After two months of not having a sketchbook i finally bought a new one yesterday. It felt goooood. Will post some finished stuff up soon so stay tuned. thanks for looking.

Giggly

2009-12-12T18:29:00.006-05:00

Going to start a series of mock book cover illustrations soon.
Here is something new.

Random word assignment.

2009-12-04T21:24:00.009-05:00

Had to do an illustration based off 3 random words. My words were: concession, klondike(which is a river in the Yukon also, not just the bar!), and barracks. This is what i came up with. I like the simplicity of it and had a lot of fun drawing and painting it and I defintely feel like i'm starting to bring more of my sketchbook work into my "finished" images. However I feel it's a little too close to Mr. Weber for comfort. That is something i'm struggling with but I try not to dwell on it too much and believe it will eventually work itself out.

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Also for anyone interested here's a good article that one of my IA teachers aka Sterling Hundley wrote about the subject. Read it here.

News

2009-12-02T12:37:00.001-05:00

I'm on Ohger now. It's a new site for illustration students and graduates one year out of school. Made by the same guys who run Drawger, it's just starting to take off. Check it out.

http://ohger.com/dadushin

I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish...

2009-12-01T23:50:00.006-05:00

Another experiment for fun.

FFF

2009-11-21T14:44:00.003-05:00

For Fun on Friday.
Small experiments.
I have also realized I cannot cut things straight. at all.

Last Pages

2009-11-12T22:55:00.004-05:00

The last two pages of current book. Last half is a portrait of me by Doug Chayka.

word.

V_V

2009-11-07T20:19:00.009-05:00

This is something I did for Chris Buzelli for "Hot Off the Presses" in Soojin Buzelli's PlanAdviser. He liked it, but unfortunately when he showed it to Soojin, she said it was too creepy. Damn! the one time I didn't do a pretty girl it backfires on me haha. Disappointing, but i'm going to do another one and see how it goes!

Also some sketchbook pages. Been using my crappy nibs as "palette knives" to move the inks around.

AHHHH.

2009-10-26T00:56:00.006-04:00

Some new sketchbook pages.

88 apples

2009-10-10T20:51:00.033-04:00

27/88 apples. other 61 coming soon.
Arches 140 hot. 5 x 5 inches.

oh for real?

2009-09-17T22:27:00.019-04:00

So i'm back at school and can finally scan some stuff. I have more to scan but the lab is closing so i'll do that another time. Also i'll try to put up some finished work, especially some of the work i did during the illustration academy. Anyways this is what i've been doing this summer. However i've changed the way i work in my sketchbook. I used to just go page by page but lately i've been jumping around a lot. I've also been painting over things...but not just things i didn't like...but over things i did like, which i guess is kind of stupid but i feel like it helps me move forward. So there are some repeats here, some obvious, some not (if you look really closely you can see some things underneath from earlier posts.) Anyways, that's it for now. peace and love!

sketchbook

2009-07-09T22:50:00.005-04:00

some of the sketchbook stuff done at academy. i'll post the rest of it later.
i'll also post finished assignment pieces later.

Posting

2009-06-10T12:08:00.010-04:00

New sketchbook pages.
the illustration academy has been pretty awesome so far.
thats all i have to say about that. FOR NOW.
take care yalls.

Yea. I have a Twitter.

2009-06-09T23:40:00.002-04:00

So, i'm "twitting" now. don't hate on me please.
will post some artwork soon.

http://twitter.com/dadushin

YEA!

2009-05-28T03:04:00.005-04:00

I have sketchbook pages to show but no access to a scanner since i'm no longer at school. but i'm heading down to the Illustration Academy soon(like 2 days?) and i'm sure they'll have a scanner down there somewhere. hopefully i'll be able to keep everyone who asked up to date on all that's going down while i'm there. hopefully it's gonna be epic. real talk. so stay tuned.

"Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks."

Overdue

2009-05-18T15:50:00.005-04:00

Some sketchbook stuff i've been able to squeeze in during finals time.

Progress

2009-05-11T22:28:00.006-04:00

I haven't updated in a while so I thought I would post a in progress piece.
lately i've been doing a lot of experimenting/working out techniques.
but i've failed way more than i've succeeded, for surrreeee.
so after rubbing my painting out in frustration and going home to lie down in bed and stare at the ceiling for a bit, i thought about what i actually LIKE doing and what works for me. Such as drawing(which comes way more naturally than painting). When i look back at a lot of the stuff i've done, there really isn't anything i'm too excited about mostly because everything seems like it's a hit or miss (which was funny because Frank Stockton said he felt the same way about his student work in one of this blog entries). which isn't really SO bad, but right now, there are way to many misses. Also there are too many influences and too little dadu. Thats why i like sketchbooking. it's easier to be dadu. YUP ramble ramble, i apologize for wasting your time. take it easy everyone. PEACE.

so, starting off with a drawing (keeping in mind that the paint is going to come next). kind of what i did in high school, when my art brain was still a little ignorant piece of....brain.

- Sketch

- Drawing on Illustration Board 9" x 12"

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The Society of Illustrators Student show was last Friday.
it was crazy. crazy awesome. very inspiring and very humbling.
really great meeting other students too...really cool peoples and artists.
unfortunately i didn't get to stay and meet and greet all of my heroes, and others who hold celebrity status with me. A big thank you to the society and Scott Bakal, and my teachers, especially Susan Doyle and Fred Lynch. All in all, it was a great night, makes me want to do it again!

Digital??

2009-05-03T21:29:00.009-04:00

So, these are basically my first digital paintings ever.
done in corel painter. which was actually quite easy to get the hang of, i guess cause its basically paint.
the assignment was to do two portraits of Isaac Newton.
i'm still trying to catch up in photoshop and all that jazz.

Two

2009-04-29T17:07:00.010-04:00

I'm starting to work out a technique that I like.
it involves a lot of wiping, painting, drawing and more wiping.
oh yea! most importantly, more fun than frustration.
but don't get me wrong, frustration is good too.

oh! and i'm officially going to the illustration academy this summer.
WORD.

2009-04-28T00:04:00.005-04:00

Drawing of one of those print sketches.
haven't drawn like this for a while.

- Love Bait, 8" x 11" pencil

Blah blah? blah blah.

2009-04-26T22:15:00.002-04:00

I should have been writing a paper.
oh well.

Sketchbook love

2009-04-25T21:40:00.008-04:00

- quills and ink are awesome.
- white acrylic gouache is my new best friend.
- it's good when my hands get covered in art supplies.
- mess up? who cares?!

In motion

2009-04-19T22:30:00.004-04:00

My next few weeks.
Actually for printmaking class, but I decided to do them as paintings as well.

WC

2009-04-19T19:21:00.004-04:00

Went to the park the other day and did some watercolor.

Found a red pen

2009-04-14T23:48:00.006-04:00

More stuff from the moleskine.
i included the drawing of the girl, because i way prefer the drawing over the paint.
actually i usually like the sketches/under drawings of paintings more than i like the finished paintings. which probably is not a good sign?

!Rawr!

2009-04-11T15:33:00.005-04:00

just one.
oh! and i also think i'm going to the Illustration Academy this summer...well, that's if i get accepted. hopefully!

take it easy everyone!

Pens

2009-04-08T02:11:00.005-04:00

People have been asking me what pens i use.
so...i give you....

The Pentel R.S.V.P ball point pen. FINE.

People also ask me if i've tried the famous James Jean SKB pens.
i have. and i don't really like them. they are really great pens but i'm attached to my Pentels.
go Pentel!!!!!

too few

2009-04-08T02:03:00.004-04:00

What i've been able to squeeze out between all the work i've been doing.
TOO FEW.

sketchbook therapy

2009-04-01T18:14:00.007-04:00

more stuff.
wish i started painting in my book earlier.
very therapeutic, nice to lose track of time and get lost for a little bit.
all watercolor except girl with the megaphone (oil).

Lifeboat

2009-03-30T01:28:00.003-04:00

The sketch for the next painting.
this one is a bit larger so i'm giving myself the rest of the semester to finish it. the sketch is 7" x 10" and the final painting will be 21" x 30".

got to draw

2009-03-18T20:06:00.010-04:00

Well since i feel like i've been slacking on sketchbooking. i decided that i would force myself to draw everyday. it's only been three days but i don't feel like i'm "forcing" myself anymore...more like just drawing. for some reason on the last page, my pen kept exploding everywhere, especially when i was doing eyes. so all the eyes are deep black holes. which is really creepy looking.

Triptych

2009-03-16T03:12:00.003-04:00

Hello! updates have been kind of random lately because i'm working on so many things at once. but hopefully i'll be able to post some more finished work soon. and more sketchbook stuff.
but for now, another sketch...

for an assignment
triptych involving an animal, i chose crows/ravens.
and we also have to include text somehow.

Blogs

2009-03-12T03:31:00.002-04:00

No art but...just so everyone who asked knows
i posted the blog list thing on my other blog.

?

2009-03-07T23:03:00.006-05:00

Progress shot of one of the paintings i mentioned before.
i should really invest in a new camera. or borrow someones phone.
because their phone camera is probably better.

watercolor

2009-03-01T17:24:00.005-05:00

I don't think i've touched watercolor since i was in elementary school and drew dinosaurs all day. But i'm in a watercolor class so here they are.
fun.

crow

2009-03-01T17:20:00.007-05:00

Some sketches for a class. from life.
it was fun to use pencil and go in and render again.
and stare at the details and subtle changes in values.
similar but different mindset from the pen.

beginning

2009-02-28T15:24:00.004-05:00

Feel like i've been slacking on the updates.
so here are two sketches of two paintings (of hopefully three) i'm hoping to finish by the end of the semester. taking less classes to give myself time to do some personal stuff.
the first is 4.5" x 6".
the second is 4" x" 5.5"
just to give you an idea of how large the sketches are.

will post more stuff soon!

sketchbook

2009-02-16T23:14:00.004-05:00

few things.

I miss drawing with pencils.
so i took a break from the pen and went back to hands.
here is a sneak peek.

Runner

2009-02-16T22:35:00.007-05:00

I consider this an older piece now.
not that it's old really, but because i've done so much since then.
there are some things i would change if i were to start this over.
but i'm posting it because i found out this was selected for the SI student competition show and stuff...yay.

- Runner, 10.5" x 11.5" Mixed Media on Paper

Melt

2009-02-10T22:30:00.008-05:00

yup.

- thumbnail sketch, the drawing.

- Melt, 15.5" x 10.5" Oil on paper

At last

2009-01-19T00:11:00.005-05:00

Finally scanned some pages!
i've been finding more and more pleasure in drawing these days.
i feel so relaxed, cliche i know, but quite true!
also my friend claire is doing a sketchbook project.
i've tagged along on a few of her sketch trips to the coffee shop.

title tba

2008-12-23T16:17:00.008-05:00

current piece of ddong.
i am so so with how it came out, but i am happy from what i've learned from doing this piece. feels like my confusion with the the work i've been doing, will be doing and what i want to be doing has gone away, or at least died down a little.
all the pictures came out shitty so i'll just wait until i have access to a scanner to post the final.
for now,

a progress shot.

happy holidays.

magic beans

2008-12-09T23:43:00.000-05:00

i am currently very brain dead. so why not update the blog.
a painting from a series of paintings based on Jack and the Beanstalk.
those silly magic beans.

something

2008-12-05T17:40:00.000-05:00

just a tiny update to keep me on my toes.

rediscovery!

2008-11-17T23:16:00.001-05:00

Oh blog how I have neglected you. I am sorry.
I am going clean you up.

oldies

2008-11-17T23:10:00.000-05:00

old sketches

2008-07-16T22:35:00.000-04:00

portraits and paint

2008-05-31T20:27:00.000-04:00

Claire 22x34 RIVES BFK
all of these got pretty smudged when i threw them into the car coming back home. Vine without fixing + rubbing against bags = weird dots everywhere and fading away

Dadu (10 year old looking version.ha.) 22x34 newsprint

Maryann 22x34 on newsprint
i like newsprint.

paper cups 1, 11x14 oil on board
painting homework, spent like 2 hours on this in the drawing studio by myself, yes it was fun and quite boring at the same time