Ideas to finish

Third batch of postcard for this year.
Before this, I wanted to put several things on my postcard.

1. Animal
2. People or person
3. Color
4. Black and White
5. One of them shows background and situation.

Missing the person, black & white, and scene, I pulled some ideas for the backside image.

Then these are the selected and finished!

These are done by photoshop, which is not something that I choose all the time.

However certainly it was fun process. 

Z for Zebra, Y for Yak

The recent completion! Alphabet chart.

Z for Zebra

Y for Yak

B for "Bathing suits are on"

#2016ABCsummer

I think this series can be a book, though I expect the process will be slow.

#ABCsummer "Air is hot"

With starting of Summer, SCBWI Carolina illustrators started the series of #2016ABCsummer.
This is my participation pieces. My intention in this project is, of course, practicing and having fun.
I want to see playing with various medium with new techniques, and typography.

My score for SCBWI Carolinas Art Contest!

Early this year, I submitted this piece for SCBWI Carolinas Art Contest. The theme was creating my version of Charlotte's Web. It was fun and challenging to work on this. Picking color palette, working with typography, and creating an powerful image even from the distance were the problems to solve.

Anyway, this is what I got from Chad Beckerman. Whether you might notice this blog or not, I really appreciate your opinion. It could be really nice if I could have comments. but it's okay. I can see you are busy from facebook. 

Artwork#5 ( I guess mine was #5)

1-10 (1 is low, and 10 is high)

Choice of image: 8 

(I don't know what exactly this would mean.)

Suitability for marketing:7 

(Hmmm... I guess it was not clear enough and not powerful enough. I can admit that the usage of typography is not strong enough.)

Understanding of design:7 

(Hmmm... well.. I really like this design. I wanted to viewer to see more as they come closer and everything is about the pig.)

Confident handling of style:7

(It's disappointing while this is truly from my style except new trial of color palette.)

Technical Competence: 6

(... Very disappointing. I can cry on this.)

Appropriate for market: 8

(So... is this mean still somewhat sellable???)

I guess overall it's mediocre okay. Clearly, I am not the winner. 

Okay... book cover is not something that I have confident, but I love to work on those.

This will help me to improve my design and illustration skill for book cover, posters, cards and things. Now I am going to work on Banned Book illustration. Yoo hoo! I am not a huge reader but still a book nerd. Aren't I?

Do you want to see what others did?

Go here: http://scbwicarolinasart.blogspot.com/