Communication Arts 51 Winner!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
This was for Tiger Beer. They invited me to be a part of their "Tiger Translate" artist series that they have every so often. It is the biggest physical size i've ever done. it's 3 feet by 2 feet. Printed out this is a beaut. This year's tiger translate theme Change/Society. This piece is about losing culture. Here is my little statement: "Since I’ve been living in China I have been attracted to tiger hats and tiger toys for children because these representations of tigers are very different than western interpretations. In Chinese culture the tiger hat is meant to protect children from evil spirits and other bad things. I thought the tiger hat would be perfect for this concept because it is supposed to protect the boy yet it needs the boy to protect it from becoming another forgotten tradition. This made me think about how culture is always changing resulting in old traditions being lost. As an artist I am saddened by the loss of visual culture, such as these tiger hats. The orange tigers represent some of the ways culture is lost. A lot of my friends' immigrant parents withheld their culture from their children to westernize the children thinking it would give them a better life. Some people reject their culture or it could be forcibly taken and outlawed. It could be bastardized, commercialized or watered down. These are represented by different tigers in this illustration. Behind it all this piece has a positive message. The hat is a cultural icon that you can physically see but it also represents the boy's culture as a whole, a symbol of what he needs to protect. It's tied firmly to his head, giving us hope that he will be one of the few that preserves his cultural heritage."
I'm working on 3 more of these to make a nice series. they take a long time so we'll see how far i get into this. I brainstormed on this piece for weeks so i had some other really good concepts that I wanted to do as well.
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Comps for BM Savings
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
These were black and white comps done for BM Savings in the UK. They were done Via DLKW, and agency in London. After they first round they came back and said they wanted to commision a new set of comps with older guys, 30, 40, and 50 yrs old, dressed more smart casual rather than slick suits. I never heard the results even after asking. I looked today and saw that they ended up going with the agency's comp which was exactly the same red carpet background with a black clipart silhouette of a guy walking. How sad. Thus is the world of advertising. Thanks Marion for calling me though.
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Even More new 2010 work
Monday, March 01, 2010
spot for the Radio Times in the UK for a play called "Not Bobby". its about a mum and her son and a rabbit that he brings home that can complete crossword puzzles. the son is played by Mackenzie Crook (The Office, UK version). i am glad the art director went with my crazy off the wall idea with the giant rabbit.
spot illo for Network world about becoming a data center top dog.
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More New Work in 2010
spot for the monthly rules guy column about the ball landing in a pile of fire ants
full page for Risk magazine in the UK. about exciting things like collateralised trade and uncollateralised trade. With an S no less.
a full page for Airtran Go magazine that you find in the back of the seats on Air Tran flights. this was about how st. louis is a man's city filled with steak houses, barber shops, go kart racing, and was the stomping ground for Lincoln and john Dillinger the gangster.
spot for the same St. Louis is a man's city story.
this is the sketch i wish they had gone with.
and Chris if you see this can you post the other new post with the giant rabbit instead of these illos? thanks!
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So new illos in the new year
Sunday, February 07, 2010
A fun assignment for Virgin Hotline Magazine which is the magazine in the backs of the chairs of Virgin trains in the UK. you can cut these out and punch out the eyes and wear it as a mask. this is David Attenborough, the narrator of BBC stuff such as the amazing Planet Earth series. So if you're in the UK and ride on Virgin trains check for my illos!
A fun assignment for Virgin Hotline Magazine which is the magazine in the backs of the chairs of Virgin trains in the UK. you can cut these out and punch out the eyes and wear it as a mask. this is Lewis Hamilton, F1 race car driver and boyfriend of pussycat doll lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. well i just saw that they split in the daily telegraph so there you go.
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Some Work from the end of 2008
Friday, January 22, 2010
full page illo for associations now magazine. its about generation Y'ers having trouble being heard in the workplace
bigger than a spot illo for the cover of the business section of American Medical News. its about hospitals trying to make a connection with doctors or something, actually i forget..
full page illo for the Milken Institute Review about how china is hording US dollars and all that stuff.
kind of a half page illo for the Milken Institute Review. about China vs. the US dollar.
double page spread for "The Scientist" magazine this month i think. story was about how vaccines are the next big money making thing for the pharmacutecal industry. since this article was written i see in the news that everybody is cancelling their H1N1 swine flu shots cuz its not really a problem anymore. This was ...the illustration that i finished and then went running and got hit by a taxi and woke up in the hospital not remembering anything and was freaked out to see that it was already done and that i was going to make the deadline afterall.
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Sketches of Japanese People
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
a girl with a guitar on her way to shimokitazawa and a bourgie woman going home in a fur jacket.
new illustrator buddy Boojil. Her website
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2 big Yahoo! Singapore illustrations
Saturday, January 09, 2010
2 large illustrations for Yahoo! in Singapore. It was done through Kult, and agency in Singapore. The only requirement was that I use the Yahoo! pantone color and include their big purple idea chair. Other than that I had total creative control. So i went and did a lot of stuff i've been wanting to do and used a lot of inspirational references from my inspiration folders that i've been wanting to use. These are 17" x 24" so they took quite some time to do, probably around 35 hours each.
after my brother gets his PHD in a few years we are going on a trip to India, Darjeeling Limited style and hopefully I will get to see some decorated elephants. The sunflowers in the back idea actually came from an amazing photo I found of some kids riding on an elephant through a field of sunflowers.
I've regret not being able to get to the one last place on my list of places to go in China, the bamboo forests where they filmed House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other movies. This illustration will have to do for now, someday I will get there. It was a challenge trying to use the Chinese ink for the bamboo and combine it with my atmospheric style. A giant panda is holding a cage up in the background.
I liked the idea of this elegant older chinese gentleman chillin' in the forest enjoying the fineries of life, the birdman.
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More Karasu Art
Sunday, January 03, 2010
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Movie Inspiration - Masaaki Yuasa's "Mind Game"
Monday, December 28, 2009
I can't believe I forgot to post screen shots for the movie that probably inspires me most. This might be my FAVORITE MOVIE. "Mind Game" written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa and animated by Studio 4°C, which is my favorite animation studio. Check out their other offerings like "Tekkon Kinkreet" and Genius Party which i have posted before on this blog. They have an awesome line up of talent at their studio. This is not like other Japanese animation you have seen. This is fresh, crazy, and funny. they use famous japanese comedians as voice actors. They switch styles up a lot of times. I have never been in love with background paintings more in my life. When i saw this a few years back it just smacked me in the face with inspiration. Don't sleep on this movie, get it somehow and watch it! this movie is not only inspirational for artists, but its theme is also inspiration for your life. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
rotoscoping galore, but im ok with it in this movie.
i love the sloppy in the right places backgrounds with lines on top
love the sloppy/exaggerated animation and drawing, its like they maintained the fun loose experimental feel but still made and awesome looking product.
clever color shifts means super eye candy. violent red vs. calm green
crazy styles get thrown in.
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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
This christmas is a special one for me, and not for good reasons. I was hit by a taxi last week when i was jogging somewhere in the streets of tokyo. I don't remember the accident or even the day prior. I had a deadline for a magazine and was worried that i wouldn't be able to make it only to look on my computer and see that it was done already. I escaped with only 4 days in the hospital, a black eye, and a tiny skull fracture that will heal in 2-3 months on its own they say. I didnt even have any bruises on my body. of course my neck still kills, It feels like how your neck feels the next day after getting punched in the face by a big guy in sparring class, only this time i got punched in the face by a 2 ton vehicle. When i look at that windsheild though i just cringe. So this holiday make sure you love your family, love your friends, and make sure you are doing things your way, because you never know when you're could leave this earth. I almost did.
In Japan its traditional to send a new years card. It usually features the asian zodiac animal for that year. 2010 is the year of the Tiger. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Acrylic, colored pencil, chinese ink, brush pen. This was my original idea, the crow representing the bad, with the tiger vanquishing the bad and leaping into the new year ready for 2010. I edited it out for the final holiday/new years card. You are supposed to mail these to your friends and fam and the post office in japan delivers it ONLY on January 1st cuz its bad luck or something if its before or after.
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