David Downton - new book

David Downton is one of my most favorite fashion illustrators. I was in Chapters yesterday and happened on his new book Masters of Illustration It was sooo gorgeous and gave a good beginning of the world of fashion illustration as well as one third of the book was devoted to his own art. My only complaint is that I wish more of his collection was there. For more information on him and the process there's a great interview here.



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Oooh so cute!

Please check out one of my new obsessions - Nancy Zhang - a concept designer from Berlin. She does the most adorable fashion illustrations that she pairs side by side with herself in a pseudo fashion shoot. OMG this is like my two most FAVORITE things put together. Read more...

Book cover - The Truth about Unicorns

I've been going through some older jobs from the summer and I have a lot of things I'd like to show!
For a project I really enjoyed, I finished a book cover for a story, The Truth about Unicorns, which is about a family and the occult happenings which deeply, darkly effect them for Wing Ko.
The premise of the cover is a mysterious force, one of the more stranger female characters, shrouds the forest in which the story takes place in.
The medium I used was a mix of ink, watercolor and digital. The style suggested is a simple, flat and Muchas-esh feel.
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Fan Expo Clean and update one

I was one of many participants at this year FanExpo but haven't a chance to post any of my new images. I'm a big fan of Vertigo's/Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, especially one of the Endless characters, Death. The series was introduced to me from my friend Kim. This particular print I did was on a t-shirt that ended up selling out at the con. I used ink and a little bit of digital touch up. Read more...

A week of new designs!

Since I've been practicing some more screen printing work, I've also come up with some pretty cute designs for upcoming spring season. Here is my contribution throughout the week of new screen printed designs and illustrations! Little Red Riding Hood and Here's to a Tree



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Submission for the 7 Sin Contest!

Spring is in the air and so love, or weird rendition of it. This is my entry for the 7 Sin Contest - http://www.7sinscontest.com/ It's a theme that I always like to explore, two opposing forces, life and death, which are deeply attracted to each other. Let me know what you think!




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Illustration updates

Since there are some new shows coming up in the near future, I've been fairly busy designing both t-shirt and screen printing pieces. Most have been put on my website - www.yienyip.com/illustrate.htm. But I will also be posting them bit by bit on my blog. Hope you enjoy!

First one - love within the flora! An ink piece with some light colouring in the background!




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Business Card icon

Since Christmas is wrapping up right now, just thought I'd clear up some unposted items. Just finished a business icon for the lovely Mia that fell under my expertise, pretty girls and fashion! Thanks again Mia!



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New tapestry project

Along with a big group of classmates and other fellow illustrators. I was one of the participants of New Tapestry project - http://www.newtapestry.org/HD300/home.aspx. I was part of week 17 where swine flu and many political summits were the key events. The wall will be released on Jan 8, 2010 so check me and all of us out!



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Playing with my Outsider Illustration

When I was working on my Outsider piece for my mailer, I had a few other interpretations for the front piece. These ones were not my favourites since the character is hiding more than standing out but I liked the results enough that I wanted to post them to show. Thanks and enjoy!

Outsider - version A

Outsider - version B

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New images for my two sided mailers

It is mailer time again! So I've been busy doing images for both my e-mail and postcard images. This time I've decided on a two sided mailer and used the theme "outsider" on both images. I've always wanted to do detailed images with contrasting silhouettes in each piece. Both pieces started with an ink underline and some experimenting with watercolour.

Outsider in the Crowd

Outsider looking Out

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The Love Goddess

Love Goddess - Colour work

It's a bit early for Valentines day but I decided to take another look at a piece I did earlier last month - love goddess. I liked the watercolour piece I did earlier but thought that a bit of playing around with some ink and photoshop would help me get a brighter and richer piece. I definitely was not disappointed!

Love goddess - Line work

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Ah, memories

Colour - MemoriesInk verion

It's a bit of an experimental week! I had an old sketch lying around - memories - which is my interpretation of what happens to a person when they look at old photographs and other nostalgic items. So I re-inked it and re-tooled it with some watercolour textures and voila a new piece with a bit of a softer feeling that I really like! Read more...

How technology can bring us together

I just did a quick illustration roughly based on an article I read - crackberries.
I was observing some of my friends their significant others and was wondering, wow, when you're tangled up in all that technology, may it be a blackberry, an ipod, nintendo DS etc, do you even have time for a chat with each other? This is my playful interpretation and possibly my own future in it! Read more...

Promos and other to do things

Had a pretty busy week self promotion and all that jazz. The result: some hand made envelopes with some screen printed fun! Now if only the post cards were here too...



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