el niño mariachi

This is a personal project:

it's supposed to be a children's book.

I delivered my character designs.

More will be delivered soon.

I keep feeding the writer

in hopes that he will

cough up the story.

So far it hasn't happened.

like any other day

i would say
such wonderful things to you
there would be
such wonderful things to do
if you were the only boy
in the world
and i were the only girl

she moves

it's alright, it's alright
alright
she moves
in mysterious ways

bolero: Jacques Fath vintage
bandeau top: Gilly Hicks
shorts: Banana Republic

fish terrorist

In my former life

I liked playing with goldfish.

The goldfish did not enjoy it

as much as I did

Boo.

nerd.

hoodie by Nerd Machine

pencil sketch
colored in Photoshop

the man in black

*at goorin bros, larchmont village

I keep a close watch
on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open
all the time
I keep an eye out
for the ties that bind
because you're mine,
I walk the line.

angry rice cooker

Based on a true story!

sita and the golden deer | sinta gandrung

First post of the new year is an illustration from the Ramayana: where Sita, wife of Rama meets the golden deer in the forest. This deer is pure evil and is designed to lure her away from the safety of her cottage and the magic circle of protection around it, so that the demon king Ravana can abduct her while her husband is away looking for the exact same deer... anyway I think that's the story.

I grew up with a Balinese statue of this where the woman and the deer were carved from the same piece of wood and she was almost kissing it. I don't know what happened to this statue. I think we didn't ship it to America.

My dad is getting a print of this for his (Chinese?) New Year's present, but he totally has no idea.

summer, good night!

 

I've been in denial about it for a while, but summer is over.

It's the best summer I've had for a long, long time, because for once, I did not have to go through summer completely broke :)

Also I wore that sundress a few times, which made me happy.

Hopefully this will be the first of some what-I-wore posts. And the beginning of more regular posting.

Happy Friday everyone.

tokyo olympiad

Color/image script, study from the film Tokyo Olympiad, directed by Kon Ichikawa.

it's tea time somewhere...

Orangutan & walrus having tea together. There is something I still need to fix but I'm not gonna tell you what it is.
I love orangutans. Their eyes are amazing. I used to love drawing them at the LA Zoo.
Damn I haven't gotten to the zoo in ages.