Lady Yumiko

2012-02-11T20:18:00.002-08:00

Elephant Balloon

2012-01-19T20:00:00.003-08:00

2011 Sketch Journal

2012-01-01T22:32:00.016-08:00

One of my favourite personal projects of 2011 was my 2011 sketch journal. Each day, I tried to draw something meaningful that happened to me. Now that I can look back on the entire year of sketches, I'm surprised how eventful and noteworthy it was!

It retold me of old friends moving back into town, so many babies being born, getting to be a hand model (ha!), learning the ukulele, getting stuck at the border, Japan's earthquake/tsunami, milestone birthday, a Canadian shift in politics, first time freelancing full time for the whole year, working on my first commercial(s), Vancouver Island's little earthquake, deaths of major leaders, Canuck's Stanley Cup run, the devastating riot, the Wall of Hope, a handful of meaningful vacations, revisiting the past, 2 major colds, breaking my wrist(!!!) and a milestone anniversary. There are SO many stories in this tiny 2.5 x 4 inch sketchbook.

I'm not one who has warmed up to being too personal online, but here I share with you some random pages from my sketch journal:

(If Blogger opens the image too small, just right click and "open link in new tab".)

I hope you enjoyed some of that. I'd love to hear from you all who frequent my blog and show up on my blog stats ;) Please say hello and I wish all of you a very happy and meaningful 2012!!!

Here's my new 2012 sketch journal.

2011-12-25T22:15:00.001-08:00

A rush job for the children. Too bad they didn't post the HD version. Merry Christmas!

I Make Children Cry

2011-12-19T00:48:00.002-08:00

Here are a couple of animations I did for Super Simple Learning with Franfou Studios.

From reading the Youtube comments, I've apparently I've made a bunch of children cry with the animation of the elephant and the clock. With over 2.5 million views, that's a lot of children crying.

I love some of the comments though: "My son cried too, and I had to laugh and tell him its ok...he still yells everytime we watch it when the elephant comes out. He says, "No elephant, you too heavy!"" ~trethoma

"My daughter starts screaming as soon as the elephant shows up, I think it's the way he's announced, "AN ELEPHANT?? OH NO!!!!" with that menacing change in the music, lol!" ~FRANKYMOOK

"My 16-month-old signs "help" when the elephant gets on the clock. So cute!" ~pir4te4lyfe

Kids are very cute indeed.

2011-12-03T17:36:00.002-08:00

I found some doodles on my desk.

2011-12-03T17:11:00.002-08:00

I sculpted a pair of earrings this summer and I totally forgot to wear them until now.

2011-12-01T00:28:00.002-08:00

I usually try to avoid medication but after taking a flight home with a fever, cough and sinus infection, my body was pretty much done for. Here's hoping the antibiotics do their thing.

Design for Social Change

2011-09-11T19:22:00.017-07:00

A few weeks ago, I finished up a short course I had been eyeing for quite some time, called Design for Social Change with Kara Pecknold. Although it was pretty intense and fast paced, which left me feeling frustrated at times, (Kara adamantly forewarned us we would! We only had 6 classes.) it was definitely a good challenge and it took me out of my comfort zone and made me broaden my design thinking.

Our mini version of Dinner with a Side of Design

photo courtesy of Kara Pecknold at Olivelife

Springboarding from IDEO's Human Centered Design Toolkit, we began digging through the concepts and methods for designing with social aspects in mind. I learned that social change is not the same as raising awareness - social change has to be measurable, with units in social metrics (like job creation, training, improved health) as opposed to just dollars.

One team's concept and research shown with candy!

By the third class, we were split into groups that chose three different sectors. From there we learned and executed multiple design research methods. My group, which focused on the sector of health, tried a unique text prompting method where we texted participants the same question twice a day, for two days to get an immediate, in-the-moment-type of response.

Research Method: Text Prompting

photo courtesy of Kara Pecknold at Olivelife

My group ended up concentrating on health within the workplace, while another group

researched systems for socially responsible procurement methods with businesses in the DTES. Another group chose to rethink the transient space at Georgia Street and Granville.

Rethinking the space at Georgia and Granville

photo courtesy of Kara Pecknold at Olivelife

Our last class ended with a mini version of Dinner with a Side of Design, where we ate and brainstormed about a city of the future amongst fellow classmates and guest designers. During this last class, we also pitched our final prototypes to the guest panel.

Hunchback Bob before the wonderful posture improving product, SitFit

photo courtesy of Kara Pecknold at Olivelife

My group (we had a student industrial designer, Ben, in our group, yay!) prototyped a product that encouraged better health in the workplace, by creating a Wii-like device that could monitor posture and prompt one to drink water or take a break. It was pretty silly but thankfully it was the idea, the journey and the execution that mattered. We presented a story of Hunchback Bob who demonstrated the benefits of this product. I wrote and illustrated the story while Sue super powerpointed the research to bring it all together.

Not all designs for social change is a physical product. One group came up with a procurement system, executed on a website.

Another group conceptualized a community space and structure.

I think I would have enjoyed having more time to read case studies and examples of design that worked for social change, and learned more about the execution methods, funding options or where one goes after the pitch, but alas that's a lot to cover.

All in all, it was a very challenging course, but it gave me something to think about in regards to how my animation can incorporate aspects of social change. I'm not exactly sure how just yet, but it's always refreshing when animation can be more than mere entertainment.

I took a lot away from this one quote, which I like very much:

"Fail often to succeed sooner." - IDEO

*edit*

Here's how the giraffe on SitFit topples over if your posture is next to dismal

photo courtesy of Kara Pecknold at Olivelife

2011-08-29T23:29:00.005-07:00

Here's a TV commercial for Smirnoff Rocket that I helped design and animate a couple of months ago. We were told to reference the styles of Roy Lichtenstein and Shepard Fairey. I animated the liquid pour, some characters and designed the last group of people in the party scene.

I've updated all the videos on my blog to be sourced from my Vimeo and be in HD. So embed codes and links in past posts have changed and they are now supposedly iPad, iPhone, and Flash friendly. Huzzah!

2011-06-14T23:36:00.004-07:00

Here are the other two HST animations I helped with. I animated the top one, and I helped pose the 2nd one.

2011-06-05T02:56:00.004-07:00

This month, we are having a referendum to vote for or against our controversial Harmonized Sales Tax here in BC. This is an animation I did for HSTinBC.ca, with Anik from Dancing Line Productions.

Do you know how you will vote? I'm still doing my reading and research. If you have any links to share about the HST's pros and cons, please let me know!

Burger Love

2011-05-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

A wedding gift for my good friend Karen. They love to travel in search of good food.

2011-05-14T12:53:00.008-07:00

Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Fundraising Update!

Total donations raised as of today from print sales: $3907!* $4907!

(*update: Oops, I forgot to include the $1000 that ING Direct matched)

Being that it's just a little over 2 months since the disaster hit Japan, I thought I should update you all on how much my cousin and I have raised so far in donations. She is up to $2000 USD, which has gone to Mercy Corps via Artists Help Japan, and I'm at ~~$1907~~ $2907 CDN, which has gone to the Canadian Red Cross. Thanks so much!

Here's a picture taken by Sota from Crane for a Dollar at the VIVO fundraising event in March 2011. Sota has been selling buttons for a dollar and is going around local elementary schools here in the Lower Mainland, to teach kids about what happened in Japan and what it means to be compassionate, alongside button making and crane folding. He has partnered with local businesses to raise funds for Japan. Check out his website for the great work he's doing.

As for my prints, there are still some available online at my Etsy store, or at a couple of places like Blim, Blim's monthly market, and supposedly the Nikkei Centre's gift shop.

Thanks again to all who are supporting the relief efforts in Japan. We wish the victims in Japan the best in their recovery. There are daffodils growing amongst the tsunami ruins. Spring has arrived.

2011-05-06T19:19:00.002-07:00

I sewed a ukulele bag a couple of weekends ago. I modified a box pouch pattern to create a tapered case. It's a pretty snug fit. This blog makes it look like I like to sew, but I actually don't... I realize I keep doing it cuz it's an easy way to create things in styles I like... yar... you win sewing.

2011-05-01T22:14:00.002-07:00

Sketching at a waffle shop this weekend.

Bake for the Quake

2011-04-18T14:21:00.009-07:00

Do you like cake? Go get some baked goods at Bake for the Quake this Wednesday April 20th, 2011 from 6-830pm at the Roundhouse! Some of my prints will be there and all donations will be going to Doctors without Borders for Japan. Cake... nom nom nom nom.

***UPDATE: They raised $7136 that evening! Awesomes!

2011-04-16T14:32:00.006-07:00

I helped a tiny bit with the hand drawn inbetweens, clean up and coloring of this animation. More specifically, the last scene with the family in the doorway. Click image to view. Produced by my friend Guillaume's animation studio, Yeti Animation.

2011-04-15T00:36:00.005-07:00

Here's a trailer I helped animate last spring. I did the two scenes that follow the text "FLIGHT".

2011-04-07T12:45:00.016-07:00

Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Fundraising Update!

Total donations raised as of today: $2310!!!

Thanks for your support for Japan! You guys are amazing!!!

$1300 USD: The portion raised by my cousin Emika in Seattle, has been donated to Mercy Corps via the Artists Help Japan Fund. We've boosted their fund to go over the $2000 mark! Yay!

$1010 CDN: The portion we've raised here in Canada is going to the Canadian Red Cross as promised!

Extra thanks to those who've passed along the prints, given me contacts and printing help, came down to the fundraiser, posted on their websites, blogs and social media, and have sent me encouragement. And the Financial Literacy Counsel Inc for funding the prints!

Japan's recovery is far from complete, and today's 7.5 aftershock reminds us of the uncertainty ahead.

Prints are still available at helloyumiko.etsy.com or email me to get one directly

$10 minimum donation

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Upcoming local fundraisers where you can find my prints:

April 16, 2011
FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON: Japan Disaster Relief Dinner (100% tix sales to Red Cross excluding tax) 6-930pm with speech from the Japan Embassy ***UPDATE: They raised $7000 that night! Nice work!

April 24th, 2011

BLIM'S COMMUNITY MARKET: I Heart Japan Table (100% donations going to Red Cross) 12-5pm

May 5th, 2011
ART AUCTION: SAKURA SAKU NIHON E (To the Land of Cherry Blossoms) Waterfall Event Building 4-9pm

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Here are some links to artists fundraising for Japan!

- Crane for a Dollar by United Front animator Sota Yuyama

- BC Japan Earthquake Relief Fund: Calendar of Events

- Bake for the Quake: Bake sale at the Roundhouse

- Worldwide Sketchcrawl: Benefit Drawing Marathon for Japan

- Artists Help Japan - Toronto (kinda jealous there isn't one in Vancouver!)

- Artists Help Japan Movement

... feel free to leave links to other fundraising projects in the comments below :)

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If I can say one more thing: We can't negotiate or reason with the earth to stop shaking. Let's learn more about how to be prepared for earthquakes so we can be useful to others when disaster strikes. Vancouver has free workshops here and here to get started.

2011-03-30T15:37:00.008-07:00

Nippon Makeruna! prints for sale:
100% of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross.

Please continue to support the relief efforts in Japan by purchasing a print for a minimum donation of $10!

All proceeds will go to the Canadian Red Cross.

8.5 x 7.5" digital print on 12pt cardstock, coated on one side

Please purchase through my Etsy store: www.helloyumiko.etsy.com

or email me directly at helloyumiko @ gmail.com

These prints have been made possible by a generous donation from the Financial Literacy Counsel Inc. who so kindly paid for the printing costs. www.flci.ca

I initially drew this drawing because I felt quite distraught and useless in the days following the disaster in Japan. Drawing surprisingly made me feel better as it expressed how I felt from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Requests for prints have turned into a fundraising effort and I thank you kindly for your care and support for Japan. This is the least I can do to try and help Japan, as I watch in awe of the stories of courage, leadership and spirit that come from that country.

(A little 3-4 year old boy who clung onto his mom, was interviewed on NHK. He showed his drawings of the tsunami that had chased after him. They were drawn in black and blue crayon with swirls and sharp lines. He probably feels a hundred times more distraught than I did, but maybe drawing made him feel a little better, as it did for me.)

***Update: I have been invited to sell my prints at the Friends Across the Pacific: Japan Earthquake Benefit tomorrow at the VIVO Media Arts Centre on March 31st. Maybe I'll see you there :)

http://bc-jerf.ca/friends-across-the-pacific

2011-03-15T16:04:00.010-07:00

"Nippon! Makeruna!"

I guess that loosely translates to, "Japan! Don't give up!"

Thank you for caring about Japan. My relatives are all okay but my brave uncle is helping to restore the electricity so our prayers are with him, as well as the rest of the country.

My mom saw a moving story on NHK last night of a boy in junior high who has, despite either losing or is missing loved ones, rounded up people to create a big banner and hung it in his high school, which is now an evacuation centre. It reads, "Gambare! Ikiteru koto o yorokobo!"

Japanese is so hard to translate the emotion behind the words, but it says (excuse my unjust translation), "We can do it! Let's all be joyful in knowing that we are still alive!"

I can't find a link about it, but if I do, I'll put it here because I'm no news reporter.

***Update: I am selling prints for a $10 minimum donation. 100% will go to the Red Cross. To purchase, please visit www.helloyumiko.etsy.com or email me directly. Thanks :)

2011-03-15T15:58:00.006-07:00

Here's the last of them. More bank talk... blahblahblah....

2011-01-26T00:50:00.003-08:00

Scotiabank Spot #2. Can you guess which ones are my drawings?

2010-12-30T00:19:00.004-08:00

Here is the first of a series of webmercials we are doing for Scotiabank, which I'm helping to design, draw and animate :)

2010-11-24T23:41:00.007-08:00

Choose a Cat! Draw a Girl!

I don't know Harvey James but this sounded too fun to pass up. Check out the rest here!

2010-11-01T19:36:00.012-07:00

When I saw those pretty Canadian Mounties during Michael Buble's ridiculously over-the-top performance at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies, I decided I wanted to be a Mountie for Halloween this year. Although it would have been fun to replicate the red dress-like costume the dancers wore, I found a great red blazer at Value Village which made the rest of the costume pretty easy to sew together.

All in all, I think it turned out quite well!

And guess what! I found an old school $5 bill in the pocket of the blazer when I got home! Win! :D

2010-10-28T19:31:00.014-07:00

This summer I animated on PBS Kid's new Loop Scoops, which are shorts that educate kids on sustainability and the environment. It's a show created with Annie Leonard, who did the wonderful Story of Stuff, in which she visually explains consumer culture and it's consequences.

We at Global Mechanic storyboarded, designed and animated Loop Scoops which can be found below. I animated on the first four (Challenge of the Sphinx), and the last four are done by my coworkers. For the most part, I animated all the scenes that don't have the Sphinx.

It's a great way to get kids thinking about the environmental impacts of the choices we make. I think my favourite is the Happiness Store, and but I had the most fun animating the African claw frogs. What do you think?

Orange Juice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CTUk6-0Ve8

Electronic Game Device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXjk6nYMNIA

Juice Box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajLBVquQo0

Magazines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRHddupslM0

2010-10-28T19:30:00.002-07:00

Speaking of animating about the environment, here's another video I animated last year for Discovery Channel's Planet Green called Waste Not, Want Not.

Illustrated Journey Exhibition

2009-09-25T22:15:00.001-07:00

This is a repost of an entry I wrote on www.illustratedjourney.ca:

A big thank you to all who came out to the Illustrated Journey Youth Project exhibition last Saturday! We had such a fantastic time celebrating the comics that we created and it was definitely rewarding to share them with you all. Thanks to all the youth for the laughter, the stories and the friendships! Keep on drawing and storytelling!

What a beautiful day for an exhibition. Pear, Dergie and Jordon made some wonderful speeches!

We made even more comics at the comic making table. Los Castorcitos performed for us too.

If you have any stories or photos to share from the exhibition, or would like a copy of our comic book by donation, please write to illustratedjourney@gmail.com

2009-09-23T23:53:00.006-07:00

Every year, our studio sends an end of season gift to our clients in Boston. This year I was asked to make plushies of our Fetch characters: Ruff Ruffman, Blossom and Chet. They finally received them in the mail today so I can now post them to show you!

*edit*
Some more pictures :)

2009-09-14T22:27:00.001-07:00

This is a repost of an entry I wrote on www.illustratedjourney.ca:

For our last Illustrated Journey Youth Project session for the summer, we had a bbq at Kitsilano beach. We ate lots of food, played ball, did handstands, jumped around and had a sunny day of fun.

2009-09-10T15:28:00.011-07:00

This summer I have been involved with The Illustrated Journey Youth Project, where I help newly immigrated and/or refugee kids draw and make a comic of their journey to Canada. After three months, the kids have now completed their comics and we are publishing them into a book and presenting their artwork in an exhibition. If you are in the area, please feel free to visit us at the youth exhibition! ;)

If you'd like to come for a preview of the comic and meet the kids from past and present projects, we will have a booth at Vancouver's Comicon this Sunday, Sept 13th from 11-5pm.

Here is another invite and more information, about the project if you'd like to forward it to your friends. Designed and illustrated by me :)

3 panel Brochure:

2009-08-22T00:21:00.002-07:00

Hey Kids! Fetch with Ruff Ruffman Season Four is premiering with an animated special on September 11th on PBS Go! I didn't animate on this episode, but my colleagues sure did! (My stuff will be in the episodes following) Go Fetch! ;)

2009-07-28T02:41:00.007-07:00

Art School Reviews is featuring an article I wrote for them about my experience in the Commercial Animation program at Capilano University. Check it out!

A kind thank you to Mike who runs the site for asking me to contribute and being patient and keeping me accountable to finish the review. It's a great website and I wish I had something like this to help me when I was researching local art schools.

Just to warn you - the review is quite long because I felt Capilano was under-represented and thus there were a lot of details to cover!

Did you attend an art school in Vancouver? Write about it at Art School Reviews :)

2009-07-09T10:00:00.004-07:00

New animation reel! Enjoy!

2009-06-17T00:36:00.000-07:00

2009-06-17T00:34:00.001-07:00

I'm teaching this summer and I had to make a three panel comic about myself.

2009-03-12T23:25:00.004-07:00

Global's 16:9 (Episode 106): Rays of Rash and Dirty Energy

2009-02-24T23:51:00.008-08:00

Rainbow cake!

2009-02-08T17:39:00.003-08:00

A few of us attended a luau themed Dr Sketchy's life drawing session last week. It was a bit hard to draw in theatre seats, but it was entertaining nonetheless. Especially the ukelele singer. For more drawings from the night, check out May Waaaaa, Sarah and Meghan's posts! :)

To sensitive viewers: Please note that this post acknowledges we are quite naked underneath our clothes.

2009-02-08T17:06:00.001-08:00

2009-01-27T22:51:00.002-08:00

Congrats to the Okapod i team for receiving an Oscar nomination last week for Best Animated Short! It must be amazing to be up there with contenders like Pixar! I had the honor of seeing their gradshow debut two summers ago at the Gobelins summer school, and we were so blown away by their talent. The team was so kind to give us a class talk, even though they were in the middle of finishing the film. I wish them the best of luck!
Check it out here :) http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/film2007-Oktapodi.htm

2008-12-31T00:08:00.013-08:00

Shirley Valentine, at the Gateway Theatre, was my absolute favorite theatre piece this year. Lois Anderson did such an amazing monologue that it made me go to the library just to reread the script. I don't think I've ever been that drawn into a local performance since 7 Stories.

The Drowsy Chaperone, at the Vancouver Playhouse was another fun surprise to watch and the concept was brilliantly charming.

Cirque du Solei's Corteo was another impressive highlight. It was my very first time seeing a Cirque performance and I'm very glad I went!
Hope you enjoy my 2008 theatre doodles :)

2008-12-29T01:49:00.002-08:00

Kk is right. Patterned inner linings are delightful.

2008-12-25T17:01:00.001-08:00

For Christmas I decided to dress exactly like my sister.

2008-12-24T19:34:00.002-08:00

It's been perfect weather to walk around with an ice cream cake these days.

2008-12-05T01:49:00.003-08:00

Animators talking politics.

2008-08-25T22:52:00.002-07:00

A message from an unknown someone, who sat at my desk before me...

2008-08-02T00:12:00.001-07:00

2008-05-16T17:22:00.000-07:00

2008-05-15T21:39:00.000-07:00

2008-04-09T23:01:00.000-07:00

2008-04-07T01:25:00.007-07:00

Thanks VIDF for another annual 3 weeks of free life drawing! They turned out kinda coffee shop sketchy cuz I drew them in my sketchbook instead of the usual newsprint pad. I loved how I could just walk over, from the studio to the sessions, during my lunch hour this year :)

2008-04-03T22:51:00.003-07:00

I don't know what the fad is with this sewing plush toy thing so one weekend in January I sewed some of the characters from the show I've been animating. They turned out pretty not bad and now they sit together at the studio.

2008-02-19T00:44:00.005-08:00

I went to a play last week and I sat beside this old couple who must have (must of?) had an argument before they arrived. I couldn't figure out what the old lady was bickering about, but wow, was she uber bitter. She didn't take her jacket off the entire night and kept her purse clenched and on her lap the whole time too. I keep making up stories of what it could have been about. Here's a sample of her remarks, but I couldn't make sense of it.

2008-01-22T23:59:00.001-08:00

Yumiko's Animation Demo Reel ~ Capilano College April 2007 on Vimeo.

2008-01-22T22:16:00.000-08:00

They paved a highway right through my grandma's farm in Japan. There's also a new shinkansen line in the background.

This is supposedly a fire hydrant cover, which warns drivers not to park here.

2008-01-13T00:18:00.000-08:00

It was Masterchief......

2008-01-13T00:15:00.000-08:00

2007-10-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

Cruising on a ship...

Free juice from San Francisco! Check out the vitamins! :O

2007-08-13T23:19:00.000-07:00

Been freelancing for a fashion designer. Here's the cover for her look book. We can't show you any of the designs inside though, because they're confidential until the fashion show :)
www.lovedeming.com

2007-07-23T22:37:00.000-07:00

A big thank you to Eric and Benoit, the program head and coordinator at the school, and the amazing teachers who taught the master classes. Additional thank yous to the studios, professionals and students who came to inspire.
I am glad to have met you all.

it was awesome.

2007-07-09T00:35:00.001-07:00

writing from Paris...

Today begins the second week of summer school here at Gobelins. There are 36 of us, representing (and misrepresenting) 16 different countries. Thus far, it has been an amazing experience, being taught by fantastic teachers and being surrounded by fellow animators that remind me of my classmates back home. From the first day here, we all got along instantly, just like the first day we had at Cap. Even though we are from all parts of the world, it was almost surreal to see us all flipping paper and scribbling with colerase, in pretty much the same way.

Gobelins, Paris, animation, and awesome classmates. I couldn't ask for anything more.

Except that I wish you were all here :)

Yumiko

2007-06-28T13:39:00.000-07:00

Off to Gobelins l'Ecole de l'Image....!

2007-06-25T23:58:00.000-07:00

2007-04-30T15:28:00.000-07:00

Gradshow 2007 at Capilano College
http://www.gradshow.com/
2 Year Commercial Animation Program

2007-04-30T15:26:00.000-07:00

2007-04-30T15:25:00.000-07:00

2007-04-30T15:22:00.000-07:00

Special thanks to the Vancouver International Dance Festival for their month of free life drawing and the Harbour Dance Centre for letting me sit in their classes to life draw :)

2007-04-30T15:20:00.000-07:00

2007-04-26T09:41:00.000-07:00

(An oh so ghetto preview for you!)

2007-04-19T21:51:00.000-07:00

I couldn't find my car the other day because it was a symbol and the comp was set to the wrong single frame so it wasn't showing up in the lot. Then I woke up. I have finally dreamt in Flash.

2007-04-01T22:32:00.000-07:00

Flashimation make me go crazy.

2007-03-20T14:15:00.001-07:00

Weekly Illustration: Odd things to Find in Your Toilet

2007-03-20T14:10:00.000-07:00

Weekly Illustration: Stupid

Almost two years ago.

2007-03-13T01:50:00.000-07:00

Look what I found! A drawing from first year!!! 2005!!! Look at the funny hands! This was a piece for Corey, after Jason and him ever so kindly drew me this:

I kept it on my wall the entire year. I wish I still had it...

2007-03-06T00:42:00.000-08:00

Jinshiro ojisan e, hayaku genki ni nattene. Yumiko yori.

2007-03-06T00:40:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Zombie

2007-02-17T01:58:00.000-08:00

2007-02-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

She sat down and drew beside me at the airport the other day.
Her one drawing surpassed the pages of drawings that I had done, because her one drawing had heart.

2007-02-10T23:56:00.000-08:00

My friend cut my hair yesterday.

2007-02-10T23:55:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Paranoia

2007-02-10T23:53:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Evil

It's an evil coat hanger.

2007-02-02T04:09:00.000-08:00

2007-01-30T12:20:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Obsession

Congratulations on fulfilling your lifetime goal.

2007-01-26T03:39:00.000-08:00

Ghetto cover designs. Too sleepy to design. Will sketch the rest later.

2007-01-23T13:03:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Starving Artist: Ode to my Professors

2007-01-22T03:04:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illustration: Self Portrait 070122

2006-12-28T14:28:00.000-08:00

Jumping by Osamu Tezuka

Ideas are everything.

2006-12-20T23:16:00.000-08:00

Final Storyboard: Double-O-Draino

Double O Draino: Go for the kill

2006-12-14T03:24:00.000-08:00

Final Layout

2006-12-12T20:35:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illo: Childhood Trauma

No sleep.

2006-12-03T01:28:00.000-08:00

Weekly Doodle #11 Again: "B is also for..." Black Ice

Driving home tonight at Nanaimo and Victoria...

2006-11-29T18:21:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illo #11: "B is for..." Badical Snowtires.

2006-11-27T00:34:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illo #10: Phobia

I need help with head construction... I don't know how to do the mouth...

2006-11-27T00:31:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illo #9.5: What broke the Water Main?

(The shadow is David Burbank).

2006-11-14T17:23:00.000-08:00

Weely Illo #9: Retro

doodles that didn't materialize.

2006-11-06T01:30:00.000-08:00

2006-11-04T20:50:00.000-08:00

Weekly Illo #8: Gluttony :: Excessive Indulgence

Hide & Seek :: Imogen Heap