Bubbly Bubbly Whale Portfolio Folder

Many sleepless nights and nervous panic attacks this coop search is causing me, .... I better get a damn good coop position. I especially worked like umm... busy worms (?) for Kessels Kramer, Scholastic, 3:AM Design and Globe and Mail positions. Shouldn't I be drawing and painting more instead? Like I said, I better get a DAMN good position.

Among many things, I am very proud with the Scholastic portfolio folder. It's all handmade by me. Yesh, it took me too long, but I love the result. I mean, what kind of evil and twisted fucks would dislike a whale? (...George Bush?)
Poor whales, they now living in toxic sea, eating garbages and being hunted by...
Anyways, Scholastic doesn't return the portfolio, so I had a hard time letting this folder go. I rarely give up originals, but I made an exception this time. I better get a goddamn good coop position.

Raw Carrot Cake Recipe

This is a part of the recipe series. I illustrated Raw Carrot Cake Recipe from Freshtopia. Visit their video blog! Good time guaranteed :D These nice people will show my illustrations in their blog.

Raw Apple Chowder

Recipe assignment for Joe Morse's class. There are no instructions, I omitted them because it's very simple to make! All the ingredients are shown in the illustration... pretty much... I think.
In a blender, blend following:
1/2 cup cashew butter
1 tbsp maple syrup
water to thin (add till the mixture is creamy consistency)

Then chop an apple or two. Pour the cashew cream mixture on top. Chop peacans and walnuts and toss them in to the mixture. Sprinkle raisins (I prefer dried blueberrries myself), and sprinkle all spice, cinnamon and mace.

It's so very good. *drool*
Oh, I learned to make this from Freshtopia video blog.

The Night of Frozen Bunena

An invitation I made for the night of frozen bunena, watching Arrested Development.
I want bunenas! Properly ripen bunenas have freckles. Soft, creamy, very nice.

Young Bride

My only remaining highschool friend, Yulian (okay, I didn't have any friend in highschool, but nonetheless) told me she's getting married. *sniff* I can't believe Yulian's getting married... Time really flies by. She made me a maid of honour which made me panic in fear (I do not know anything about marriage ceremonies. Must research!) but also very honoured. We had a dinner together, chatting and brought her home to do this painting tonight. Painting to celebrate her marriage announcement.

Yulian's favourite colour is pink, thus I tried to use it everywhere I can. The painting took three hours, which she patiently sit still for me. I like the way it turned out, but wished there were more negative space. I think I should've gotten a bigger canvas. It would've been really nice with huge vast vertical space (with patterns) on top. I also didn't explore the full potential of 'wooden' canvas. I wanted to carve and scratch and sand more... but didn't have enough time. I mean, it's mean to make her sit all night. D:
Mixed media on wooden canvas.

Subway

On my way to meet my old friend, I got to draw very interesting looking person. Drawing makes subway riding so much fun and fast.

My New Years

My mom fell and broke three bones. On the New Years Eve, I had to stay in the hospital with her from morning till night. What a dreadful experience... Although I was thankful & impressed with Canadian hospital system, this added more reason for me to despise the holiday season. This is a quick sketch of my mom in the dingy hospital room.

Bunnies & Xocolat!

I just really really like this painting because bunnies are always nice. They are fluffy and so (oh-so) nice. This was suppose to be rough for the infamous flipbook assignment. I went to the final with these small rough paintings. It was not a very good idea to paint the whole 60 something page flipbook. After many nights of missed sleep, I started hallucinating, seeing creepy dust bunnies everywhere.

The flip book was on Dagoba Organic Hot Chocolate crystals. Fair trade and vegan! Hallelujah!
This beautiful hot chocolate crystal has these little chocolate nuggets that stay solid in the hot solvent (preferably soymilk), and they softly melt in your mouth. It's fun to fish them out during drinking hot chocolate or eat sunk ones after drinking. I think this hot chocolate has chili powder in it. Yum.
Even though it's organic with no artificial fillers or anything, I still think it's negative on health. It is a sugar bomb.