Poker Heart 5: The Peaches are all mine!

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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!