Made a quick Earth Day poster in Illustrator last night

Earth Day 2012

Here’s another abstract retro-atomic style design I made in Illustrator. I really like how this turned out!

Art 009

Made these the other day in Illustrator. I really like how they turned out!

Art 008a

Art 008b

Art 008c

This turned out better than I thought. I made it in Photoshop and learned some tricks to give the image a somewhat painted look. I’m hoping this will be the first of many of this style

Art 006

I made this a while ago in Illustrator, but never got around to uploading it to my site. I like this abstract style a lot, and have many sketches of ideas I’m going to try to make into art

Art 005

Laundry Day

The fifth in the Classic Comic Series of statues has been released. This time it’s another Uncle Scrooge statue called Laundry Day, which is based off the cover of Uncle Scrooge comic #5. I still haven’t picked up the previous Scrooge statue, Cash Register Concerto, or the fourth release (Comic Book Companions). I’d like to pick up both Scrooge statues to add to the other Donald and Uncle Scrooge statues I have, but need to save up some funds first for the wedding and house in the future. But maybe I can use some money I earn from selling things on eBay?

5번재 옛날 만화책 시리즈의 동상이 나왔다. Uncle Scrooge 동상인데 Laundry Day라고 부른다. 지난 Uncle Scrooge 동상과 4번재 옛날 만화책 시리즈 동상도 아직 안 샀다. Uncle Scrooge 동상 둘다 사고 싶은데 먼저 결혼 돈과 앞으로 집 돈을 벌어야한다. 그런데 어떤 물건을 eBay로 팔면 그 받을 돈으로 동상을 살수있지?

우리가 디즈니월드에 있었을때 여러 가게에 많이 들어가봤는데 내 제일 좋아하는 가게가 다운타운 디즈니에 있는 더 아트 어브 디즈니 가게였다. 거기에 내가 포스터 2개 샀는데 드디어 오늘 IKEA에 샀던 액자에 넣었다. 내가 이런 옛날 스타일을 아주 좋아하니까 더 많이 사고 싶었지만 좀 비싸서 사지 않았다. 이 포스터들이 제일 좋다!

Enchanted Tiki Room

Jungle Cruise

어제 eBay에 있는 고양이들을 봤는데 아주 많이 사고 싶었다. 윤주에게 보여줬는데 윤주가 아주 예뻐! 그리고 너 오리와 같이 있으면 더 예쁘다고 해서 내가 샀다 ㅋㅋ 그 고양이 모습과 스타일이 아주 좋다!

Metal Cats

Wooden Ducks

It’s been a while since I last posted on my blog. I’ve been fairly busy with things. I’ll see if I can cover everything without being too lengthy:

Christmas 2011

My girlfriend, Yunjoo, visited from Korea! She stayed with me at my parents house and enjoyed Christmas with the family. It was a lot of fun and she really enjoyed the holidays as well as the family. After Christmas, we went on a trip to Las Vegas, Utah, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Sacramento, and then back to Washington. It was fun, but tiring, and we both got sick. We did some more local touristy things and made a lot of Korean food together that we and my parents enjoyed a lot.

Disney World 2012

While Yunjoo was still here in the US, we, my parents, one of my brothers and his family, and also my sister and her family took a week trip to Disney World! It was a lot of fun! Though with all the walking all over the four parks, our feet and legs got very tired and near the end we were pretty exhausted. Everyone but Yunjoo and myself got sick around the last day, and suffered during the week after we got back home.

The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World

Family @ Animal Kingdom. Yunjoo made the t-shirts for all of us

Donald really liked Yunjoo...

Donald really liked Yunjoo...

Getting married!

So, before Yunjoo headed back to her home in Korea, we decided to go look for wedding rings Well, we first decided to get married hehe. I wanted to propose to her in a pretty peaceful setting, and thought of the Portland LDS Temple area, but it was closed for some renovation work. So then we went up to Seattle before she flew home, and visited the Seattle LDS Temple. It was raining really hard, but we already had the ring for a couple of days, and so we just found a nice tree in front of the temple that blocked off the rain. I proposed there and after Yunjoo jokingly said “no,” she said “yes!” (I messed up the Korean and more or less said “maybe I should marry you?” oops….) We were planning a September 1st wedding in the US, but because of the crazy process times and rules with getting a Fiance Visa, we decided to go with our original plan of getting married on November 4th in Korea. After Yunjoo gets her Green Card, we’ll have a reception in the US There is a lot of time still to plan everything, but it’s also much less stressful going this route of having a reception in the US after.

New job!

After Yunjoo left for Korea, I started really focusing on finding a job. A day or two after updating Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com sites, I was receiving many many phone calls from job recruiters. But the majority of the job requirements did not match my skills, or the job was far away for just a few months contract. I did happen to receive an email from CDI IT Solutions for a Web Author position. I pursued that and was able to get a phone interview, then an in-person interview, and then I started just last Tuesday It all happened so fast, and I know God was helping out with the timing of it all. So far I haven’t been able to do any work quite yet because of the training I’m still going through, but it will be a good opportunity, and good to get working again after two years of Korean language study, and a year of freelance, job search, and vacationing

Still designing

I’ve made some new poster designs and holiday designs that I’ve added to my site over the last months. I still try to squeeze in some creative time to help relax. And, like always, I have a lot of ideas I’m working on, but just haven’t started or finished them yet. After the wedding stuff gets all planned out, I hope to get more design stuff finished, as well as more updates to my website hehe