Disney Girls Illustration

The thing I love about Disney characters is that they are very iconic. 

Cinderella's blue dress, Minnie's polka dots, Belle's rose, Ariel's red hair, and so on.. 

I also love seeing the iconic characters done in different styles.

These sketches below are my twist on Cinderella, Minnie, Tink, and Alice's iconic outfits, done in fashion illustration style! 

Zoobles Castle Playset

I'm always excited to see the product that I designed out in the stores! 

Here is the Zoobles Princess Castle playset that I designed for Spinmaster!

This castle looks like lots of fun!! :)

You can see the original sketches of the castle below. 

I love the little Zoobles Princess! 

She's so adorable!!! =)

Start Line Exhibition collaboration

Back in August, I participated in a collaboration project with the Coolrain Studio.    

Coolrain is the most famous figure artist in Korea, well-known for his 

NBA figure series by Mindstyle. 

The artists of the Coolrain studio create their own characters and bring them to life by turning them into collectible figures, all made by hand! 

At their 2nd exhibition, "Start Line", "Running Horns" figures created by the artist, UpTempo, were shown, along with the collaboration pieces done by other Korean artists, including me! =)

These are the "Running Horns" characters by UpTempo.

And here's my collaboration piece =)

I call it "Little Horns" =)

Please visit Coolrain and UpTempo's page and give them big support!

Pop Belle

Pop Belle artwork is now available through Acme Archives website! 

The background color has changed to purple =)

Here's the link!

Pop Ariel - Second edition

A second version of Pop Ariel with pink flower is now available 

through Acme Archives website! 

Here's the link!

Ariel Reflection

Just want to post some artwork that are now available in prints 

through Acme Archives website! 

This piece was published in the Art of Disney Princess book, and many people have been asking if this will be made into prints. 

So I'm so glad this became available online!

Here's the link!

Disney's Princess & Me Dolls

Disney Princess & Me dolls from Jakks Pacific are perfect dolls for the girls who always wished to have a Princess friend!

I was in charge of designing these dolls from the very beginning, so I'm so happy to see these come to life!  

They are so cute! :)

I will have to say, that the most satisfying part of my job is to see the product I designed being loved by kids. 

Pop Belle - Work in Progress

Pop Belle piece coming soon! ;)

New Rapunzel Sketches

I'm currently working on Pop Rapunzel piece, and I've been going back and forth on so many poses already! 

The good news is, that I think I've finally decided on "the one" from today's sketches! yay!

This is the one I'm going to use for Pop Rapunzel.

Hope everyone will like it once I'm done! ;)

 This was another option, but I would like to turn this one into something more graphic :)

And just some random sketches..

I love her big eyes and the flowy hair! 

Ariel Reflections Shirt-Available at Disney Stores!

Pictures of the Ariel Reflections shirt from Disneystore.com

The style of the shirt itself looks a little different than the one below, but it still looks cute! =)

Ariel Reflections - Disney Couture shirt at Vault 28!

I found out that my Ariel Reflections artwork has been made into a Disney Couture shirt! These are sold at Disney Vault 28 store at Downtown Disney. 

So cute! :) 

Shake it Up!

Disney and Mattel created fashion dolls of Bella Thorne(Cece) and Zendaya Coleman(Rocky) from Disney Channel's "Shake it Up" show, and I did fashion illustrations of them :)

Here's the Cece Doll

And my illustration of her :)

Rocky Doll and my illustration on the bottom :)

These dolls are are so cute and very detailed. I want one for myself!

The making of these dolls will be shown on Disney Channel and my

illustrations will be shown there as well! yay!

Bella Thorne also tweeted and shared her photos holding the doll and my illustration!

(Photos from www.dis411.com)

Yay! She looks very excited and it's so cool to see her actually holding my illustration! :)

"Ariel Reflection" Prints

I'm so happy to say that my Ariel piece - "Ariel Reflection" is going to be available as prints through ACME!

I signed them specially with gold pen, so hope you enjoy! :)

Needle felted maltipoo bichon, Chibi

It's been a while since I needle felted, and this time, I made Chibi!

Chibi's been a great inspiration for me to make things with these days since I miss him a lot.. =( But soon, I will be able to bring him to Korea and live with him again, so yay!

Anyhow, here are the steps on how I made Chibi.

First, I made simple shapes of the head, body, and the legs all separate.

Then, I attached the legs to the body and made sure they are pretty firm, so they stay in position.

I added the snout to the head and attached it to the body.

Added the ears and some indications of the face.

(And I changed his pose to sit)

Added eyes and the nose. I didn't have the plastic eyes and the nose, but I've seen some of the needle felted dogs that used the plastic ones and they look more realistic.

Added more wool on top of his nose and trimmed along the mouth to resemble Chibi's hair.

Add little bit of light pink for the mouth.

I added one more layer of wool all over to make his hair look more fluffy.

It can look a little messy, but you can lightly brush the hair with a comb.

Here's my finished Chibi!

Do you think he looks like real Chibi? =)

Chibi as Pop Art

It was my sister-in-law's birthday a few weeks ago, and since we live across the ocean, I had to think of a nice gift that I can get online.

And I found out that you can create customized iphone cases from case-mate.com with your own pictures!

All you need to do is upload your image, and you can scale and position the image however you'd like!

I created this artwork using our dog, Chibi's photo to put on the iphone case.

I started with this photo of Chibi, and it's really easy to create a pop art look in photoshop!

Isn't he cute? =D

To create a pop art style image like I did, you need to select along the image using the lasso tool, and delete the background.

Then add another layer on the bottom and fill with any color you want.

Go to "Filter- Cut out" and you can see that your image is stylized into a simple cut out image. You can select how far you want to push the cut out

to make your image more abstract.

Then I decided to add initials on the bottom to make it more personal =)

Ta-da!

I sent it using my account in Amazon, which was very convenient, and my sister-in-law received it in about a week! She was so happy with my gift!

And Chibi likes it too =)