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Cactus and Moon Festival

2015-09-25T11:53:00.001-07:00

I bought a cactus last week and named it Mei.
I'm really excited to see its growth. Hope it will survive under my hand...

I really want to have a pet, but I am afraid that I don't have the ability to take care one. Therefore, I decided to paint myself a cat, which is inspired by my cactus.

And by the way, it's Chinese Moon Festival Holiday this week.

The News said that cause the coming typhoon, people live in Taiwan may not see the moon on the Moon Festival. Therefore, I painted this piece that I hang up a ball with a fishing rod to instead the Moon that we may not see.

Happy Moon Festival!!!

p.s. My cactus cat is with me~~~ :D

Fan art for Fausts Alptraum

2015-09-21T08:52:00.002-07:00

I want to try something new.
This is a fan art for Fausts Alptraum (an Taiwanese RPG game)... and I noticed that I've never done an fan art before!!!@@ And... My last digital artwork was done on last December, half years ago?!!!

This is Elizabeth, the main character of the game. There are three special secret clothing for the people who gave high funding support when the game was in the process of making. They are The Little Match Girl, Cinderella, and Alice in wonderland version. And in this case, I decided to create a new fairy tale clothing for Elizabeth, which is the Little red riding hood version!

My sister asked me to add an axe or a French baguette as a weapon.

So I did both!

Don't Worry, I gotcha! (birthday card)

2015-09-21T08:35:00.002-07:00

Here's the birthday card for my best ex-roommate plus best friend!
Well, she is a really good girl; unfortunately, she is still single. Therefore, I painted an imitation about how my friend will meet her TRUE~ LOVE~~~!!!XDD
In the library!XD

So this is how the story goes.
Linde, my lovely friend, was looking for reference for her assignment, and carried all related books at once. She slightly slipped when she took a turn on a corner, and the books were almost going to fall. An handsome guy showed up and saved her day. 'Don't worry, I gotcha!' he said.
And my friend fall in love, and they will be in relationship, and will get married, and will be happy ever after, Pin said. XD

I added some magic of Photoshop effect for this piece!

illustrated by watercolor, ink and Adobe Photoshop

And of course, I didn't forget to include my noted birthday greeting into the card!
Because I focused on the theme of this piece more this time, the greeting is really subtle. This is where the secret greeting is hid.

King's Breakfast (birthday card)

2015-08-31T09:13:00.001-07:00

King style's birthday breakfast for my mom!

(Can u tell the message from the organization of the food? It's Happy BirTHDay!)

Thanks to my mom who made millions of yummy breakfast for us.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

illustrated by watercolor and ink

p.s. I add some flavor on the egg in the end!

Buy you a drink, or drinks! (birthday card)

2015-08-31T09:08:00.002-07:00

Buy you a drink, or drinks!XD

One of my friends loves wine so much! Therefore, I painted a wine card for her birthday!

I am so proud of my skill of painting glasses! :D

illustrated by watercolor and brown ink

Detective Conan

2015-08-07T10:19:00.003-07:00

One of my friends gave me a really adorable make up headband of Kiki's Delivery Service as a birthday gift. Somehow I put it on my neck and took a photo with wearing black frame glasses.
My another friend saw the photo and told me that I look like the Detective Conan in that photo. And it just gave me the idea to paint myself as the Detective Conan!XD
Here the result!

Peter Pin

2015-08-07T09:22:00.002-07:00

Peter Pin is coming to take one of her best friends to the Neverlands for her birthday!!!
Happy Birthday, Cindy!!!
(And yeah, it's Peter Pin, not Peter Pan!XD)

You've Never been Alone

2015-08-03T08:15:00.002-07:00

I painted this for a non-commercial event, which topic is Dragon!
We need to hand out the introduction for our dragon too, so here it is:

The Dragon had his duty to protect the forest, but at the same time, he also wanted to be friend with the human. However, human was terrified and would yelled at him whenever they run into him. He has always been upset when that happened, but the forest and its inhabitant would come to cheer him up at that time.
'You've never been alone,' they said.
This is a story of a Dragon in forest.

illustrated by watercolor and poster color

And here are the picture of work in process!

Some close-up shots!

Presidents+1 (Birthday Card)

2015-08-03T08:05:00.002-07:00

Once again, birthday card!!!
The birthday girl this time is a special miracle to me! She survived from a fatal disease!
Therefore, I came up this idea that she is as important as the Presidents which are carved on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States!
Presidents+1 !!!

Nine Blocks of Mood

2015-07-29T09:22:00.001-07:00

I made a painting called Nine Blocks of Mood for a sticker giveaway event I held!
The event was held for celebrating that my Facebook page reached 1,000 like and thanking my fans to repay!

So which mood are you in now?

Paper Cut for Mother's Day

2015-07-29T09:09:00.003-07:00

Gift of Mother's Day this year is Paper cut!
I always want to try the paper cut, but I got lazy and annoying that I need to find a right color in the store but cannot done by painting one.

But anyway, I was on it this time!
So I bought a bulk of paper, prepared my scissors and glue, and here we go!

I decided to do a scene that my mom goes to the salon, which is the place always make men or women look wonderful!

After 5 days of cutting and gluing, I finally finished!!!

And my mom loves it, so Happy Mother's Day!!!

The hair dryer definitely is my favorite part!

Customized card for a client

2015-07-29T07:19:00.000-07:00

So... sorry that I haven't posted anything here for a while.
Somehow I abandoned there. Probably because I didn't see much of visitors; therefore, I got lazy... I know. But the most important thing is that I'm back!!! (Even probably no one cares...)

I probably will spam the few posts to let 'you' catch up the works I have done for the time I have been disappeared from here.

Sorry for the mumbling, I just want to make sure I still have my skill of English writing.

Anyway, back to the topic. I received a case that a student want a customized card for her 3 best friends for memorizing their friendship. So here the dream house she hopes to have with her friends. Chatting, having tea time, playing around.

Poker Heart 5: The Peaches are all mine!

2015-03-11T09:18:00.001-07:00

There is an activity in Taiwanese illustration field that asks 53 artists do one of the 53 poker cards (include the joker) to celebrate the Chinese New Year. And luckily, I got a spot!

We also need to choose one of the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodia into the painting. And what I got is Heart 5, and I picked monkey as my subject.

I used the peach shape to imitate the heart shape.

Well, I don't know why I ended up painting blue hair for the monkey girl, but I guess I need to try something new in my life... YOLO!!

The Sweet Sleep of the Pea Princess

2015-03-11T08:49:00.000-07:00

I participated an competition hold by YKH Essential Oils on February. The subject should be about fairy tale with animal character(s) and the natural source of essential oil.

Since I've already known that I failed to be chosen in that competition, it doesn't matter that I publish this painting, right?

Well, I chose to do the Princess and the Pea as my subject. We know the Princess in that story has a very sensitive body that can feels the little pea through 20 mattresses. And my concept is using the orange essential oil to help the princess to sleep tight at night.

Even though I didn't make it in the competition, this painting was still an enjoyable piece during the process.

I personally think the cat princess is so adorable and pretty! <3

Sing with me when you hear the Birthday Song~ (birthday card)

2015-01-26T08:37:00.001-08:00

Well, I haven't done watercolor piece for a long long while. I god damn miss watercolor!!
Lots of thing are going on and I just can't handle them at the same time.

Anyway, let's talk about the concept of this card.
It is inspired by the legend of Pied Piper of Hamelin.
My concept is that when the girl Tina sings the Birthday song, all animals will follow her
unconsciously. Just like what Pied Piper did to the children, except this is a happy version with various animals.

Attack on Poodle Dogs

2014-12-29T18:06:00.002-08:00

Well, sorry that I haven't done much personal work recently.
Here's a new painting for a friend. The idea is based on and revised from an incident what my friend ran into.

I think the title has explained what happened, so I don't need to explain more! XD

I tried to use Photoshop instead of Illustrator which I used to use. I hope to add a paint brush texture into the painting.

Xmas Blessing in Bottle

2014-12-04T09:47:00.001-08:00

Somehow I want to try the illustration without the ink outline this time, so here it is.

The concept for this card is to collect all the lovely Christmas elements and put into a bottle, which you can give someone you love this warm Xmas blessing bottle!

I personally think the Santa and the reindeer are so adorable!!!

Without the ink outline, it took longer time to finish but it is worth it.
I used the watercolor and colored pencils for this card.

The Shadow of Fairy Tale (Sleeping Beauty)

2014-12-01T02:59:00.002-08:00

This piece is born because I bought a few new inks! I saw some special handmade inks made by Taiwanese artist Blaze Wu.
I hope to use those inks very well, therefore, I came up with the shadow of fairy tale idea. This might come up as a series. I hope at least I can go through 5 pieces.
We'll see...

The ink I used for this piece is called Dragon Scales. It is pretty much a dark warm green with gold powder.
I guess the word of 'Dragon' probably influenced me to decide to paint the story of sleeping beauty for this one...
Anyway, love and enjoy this illustration!

Tea Party with Bear (birthday card)

2014-11-13T22:13:00.002-08:00

I LOVE THIS BIRTHDAY CARD!!!!!!!
I really enjoy the card for this time!!! Desserts, flowers, tea party, lovely animal, beautiful dress and elegant elements!! All my favorite theme to paint!!

It is inspired by Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau style.

The text is shown surprisingly pretty well this time! Love it!

My LINE sticker has been released officially!

2014-11-10T04:26:00.002-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen~~~ Let me introduce you, the Best Gift Ever!!!!!!!!!!!
I received the notice from LINE Creators Market, said that my stickers has been approved!!!

I have waited for this for like 5 months!!!
And now, it noticed me on MY BIRTHDAY!!! What a wonderful birthday surprise!!!
I'm so God damn happy!!!!

Thank you for everyone who has supported me so far!!!

The link for purchasing my LINE sticker:
http://line.me/S/sticker/1014229

Mobile phone users can go to the LINE store and search for the "Fluffy Ball".

Happy Zombie Halloween

2014-10-30T10:19:00.001-07:00

Happy Zombie Halloween!!!
I don't know why, somehow I'm really fascinated by zombie this year. I even want to dress like a zombie this year! lol
Anyway, zombie became my theme for this year Halloween!

The PIN logo for this time.

WANTED for being so nice

2014-10-23T09:39:00.003-07:00

Haven't painted with watercolor for a while. I miss the smell of watercolor so much!!!

The card for this time is an alternative thank you card. The concept for it came from WANTED poster.

So it's like "You are WANTED, because you are too nice!"

Cats Festival

2014-08-24T16:31:00.002-07:00

Cats Festival!!!!
Okay, I used the Minions idea I did last year again, because I ran out of the ideas again.

This card is for a friends who loves cats so much as I do; therefore, I organized the cats to pose the text 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'!
Oh~~~ they are so adorable!!! I love CATS so much!!!!

Do you want a bite? (Birthday Card)

2014-08-22T15:16:00.001-07:00

So this birthday card is made for my dear mother.
I illustrated a sexy elegant lady to stand for my mother's young and beauty.
And I added the text by Adobe Photoshop in the end.

Instant Camera Puzzle

2014-08-05T14:53:00.001-07:00

Inspired by the concept of selfie and instant camera. The photos are arranged to be the text HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
The way I did is to draw the whole characters first, then put the photos on the characters and arranged them to be the text HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Regardless of the result, it's quite fun during the illustrated process.