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fanartey sketchcards

shing — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Two things – first, I actually am drawing again. Second, I’m even drawing fan-art.

I drew and coloured and painted a bunch of sketchcards this weekend in anticipation for Anime Expo.

I keep on forgetting I don’t really like drawing people, but I really love drawing monsters.

I think these three are my favourites of the batch. From left to right – Totoro, PenPen from Evangelion and Mothra from Godzilla!. I’m pretty sure Mothra’s my favourite because of that derpy moth face.

There’s a picture of all of them over at my DeviantArt page!

By the way, I will be at table D28 as Sawdust Bear Makes Things at Anime Expo’s Artist Alley! Come visit me if you’ll be there!

monster medley

shing — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:59:30 +0000

I made myself a desktop wallpaper, because I was feeling a certain lack of monster on my desktop.

Maybe you want it too! It’s only 1024×768 for now, but let me know if you need a different resolution.

Right click>save as to download!

hand drawn type

shing — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:37:05 +0000

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type is the book sitting by my bathroom sink right now, and I’ve been reading it quite a bit lately(it’s the antibiotics).

Anyway, it got me inspired to draw these little cards. They’re sort of little conversation cards that you can hand out to people, or just place wherever you’d like something a bit life affirming.

And – if you would like to print them yourselves, the high res .jpg files are below!

high res: [love everyone|you're awesome|love your smile|you are so pretty]

They are 638×1088 pixels at 300 dpi, which is business card printing sized at Overnight Prints. I’m going to print a batch for myself soon! They can make them with adorable little rounded corners, really nice, thick cardstock, and cost about $5 for 50 cards(and $2 for 25). If you do that, Google a discount code – they always have them.

Today, I love you!

This work by shing yin khor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

earthworm wedding

shing — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:07:48 +0000

The past two weeks from me have been filled with somewhat grueling travel, and I think I’ve seen more snow in the past 14 days than I have in the past 14 years of my life.

I’m pretty much dying to get back to sculpting – I read an article on carnivorous plants in Nat Geo on the plane and now my mind is filled with pitcher plants and sundews and flytraps…

In the meantime, here’s a quick sketch of an earthworm wedding I drew while sitting on the tarmac at LAX for what felt like forever…

barnacles and pebbles

shing — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:05:51 +0000

I’ve been playing with organic shapes lately. I’ll be moving on to weird things in petri dishes once I figure out the best thing for fake agar. Meanwhile, there’s gonna be weird things in test tubes…once I get stoppers. No, I’m not sure why I can’t just order all my supplies at the same time. Also, I bought a whole bunch of 3x3x2 boxes instead of 3x3x3 boxes in my last supply order, which is annoying. Fortunately, it seems like the majority of my specimens actually fit just fine in the smaller boxes. But you don’t want to hear about my shipping woes.

penny farthing+love

shing — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:07:37 +0000

I drove a linoblock carving tool into two rather essential fingers, and all I got was this stupid print.

I like linoblock prints. It’s like grown up stamping.

bunny squid loves you

shing — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:47:35 +0000

and you, and you and you. But not you, if you’re laughing at his tentacles. He’s just a little bit sensitive about it, that’s all.

preview: specimen 7 holiday card.

shing — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:37:53 +0000

…And by “holiday,” I actually mean “Happy February”, because that’s about as long as it takes me to get holiday cards together.