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

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!

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:


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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"

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Things

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!

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

Long time no post.

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.

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