tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60762705484777432932024-02-22T06:13:54.383-08:00helenyoon.com bloghelen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-8094663702600921002019-01-04T14:22:00.000-08:002019-01-04T14:22:26.877-08:00skies and suchSome images for a calendar I made last year. <div>
<br />I like them. I also like staring up into the sky. So there's that. </div>
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I am just returned from <a href="https://www.scbwi.org/events/17th-annual-scbwi-winter-conference-in-new-york-ny16/" target="_blank">this wonderful thing</a>, where it was cold and glorious and cold and uplifting and awe-inspiring and cold and fantastic and freezing and fun and COLD. </div>
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The mind-numbing temperatures, the <a href="http://www.michellethies.com/" target="_blank">great</a> <a href="http://www.spurgeonart.com/" target="_blank">company</a> of <a href="http://www.mollyruttan.com/" target="_blank">old friends</a>, and the <a href="http://www.heidieystemple.com/" target="_blank">serendipitous meeting</a> of<a href="http://janeyolen.com/" target="_blank"> amazing new friends</a> prompted this post. The image above is some artwork to promote <a href="http://reneeahdieh.com/" target="_blank">Renée Ahdieh's</a> YA debut, <a href="http://reneeahdieh.com/books/" target="_blank"><i>The Wrath and the Dawn</i></a>. </div>
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See it in action <a href="https://twitter.com/rahdieh" target="_blank">here</a> as her Twitter banner! </div>
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You can also go to our <a href="http://helenyoonillustration.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">respective</a> <a href="http://rahdieh.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">tumblrs</a> to see more artwork in the same vein (with more to come).</div>
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Also be on the lookout for the sequel and conclusion to <i>Wrath</i> coming out 3 May 2016 under the intriguing moniker, <i><a href="http://reneeahdieh.com/books/" target="_blank">The Rose and the Dagger</a></i>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">medium: watercolor and gouache, some marker on that sketch (though the text and watermarks are pretty digital)</span>helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-88529636058400047332016-02-10T19:30:00.001-08:002016-02-28T17:14:50.499-08:00self portraitSo the past few posts were basically me throwing a whole lot of stuff at the internet. I find I'm at peace with that. <br />
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It gets easier by-and-by, but that first time is pivotal because now you know it <i>can</i> open and <i>you</i> can open it. You're not just a clumsy oaf who can't open puzzle boxes.<br />
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-49374955645840766342016-02-10T19:13:00.001-08:002016-02-10T19:13:09.144-08:00twinkle twinklePosting a few old portfolio things to begin making way for new portfolio things! Part 4/I-don't-know.<br />
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-68696914298250779432016-02-10T19:10:00.001-08:002016-02-10T19:11:03.705-08:00untitled: that starry nightPosting a few old portfolio things to begin making way for new portfolio things! Part 3/I-don't-know.<br />
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A turning point in a father-son relationship:<br />
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-17145262005241693722016-02-10T19:04:00.003-08:002016-02-10T19:33:29.226-08:00chicken littlePosting a few old portfolio things to begin making way for new portfolio things! Part 2/I-don't-know.<br />
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-35528487845823092572016-02-10T18:57:00.002-08:002016-02-10T19:01:22.734-08:00the boy who cried wolfPosting a few old portfolio things to begin making way for new portfolio things! Part 1/I-don't-know.<br />
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In writing (the commercial stuff at least), they say if you can't summarize your epic story in one or two sentences then even you probably don't know what your own story is about.</div>
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Given my geographical bearings, even a stodgy old lady such as myself gets to do something ridiculously cool every now and then. Via a <a href="http://ileenonthewall.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">ridiculously cool friend</a>, I got to attend an early screening of Big Hero 6 and it inspired this bit of ink and watercolor as a thank-you gift for letting me tag along.<br />
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To me, this is the story in a nutshell. Spoiler-free: it's Baymax softening the hard edges of Hiro.<br />
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As a social-media-stunted shame to my generation, I don't use <a href="http://helenyoon.com/" target="_blank">my tumblr</a> as a tumblr so you can go to Ridiculously Cool Friend's <a href="http://ileenonthewall.tumblr.com/post/101808049360/my-extremely-talented-artist-chemist-friend-helen" target="_blank">tumblr</a> to get in on this tumblring action (am I even using real words anymore?) and see more great fanart from the event in question under a very official #BigHero6MeetUp tag.<br />
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Figure drawing is foundation bread and butter. No matter how skilled you are, this be hallowed ground -- tread and retread often. The way is well-worn by the footfalls of its many faithful. </div>
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You go through reams of paper learning this stuff which, I think, is by design -- can't be too precious with each iteration: the objective is the skill, not the Mona Lisa. At least, that was my takeaway. </div>
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But, every now and then, a sketch or two rises from the reams that pleases even me. Here were a few surprises from Art Center (maybe even pre-Art Center, I can't remember). I like these. I don't know why. </div>
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I remember this, specifically, because that was the class that I learned of Repin.<br />
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Painted traditionally (watercolors, gouaches, acrylics, inks....acrylic inks. I was very adventurous). </div>
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He had thought me one of his fold. I corrected his assumptions and confessed to him my sins. He patted my head, pitied my youth, and I walked away humbly absolved. I'm afraid to report that, years later, my dereliction continues and has degenerated further still in its deliberate delinquency. Call me cheat, scamp, lady of the night. If you ask me, I bet Da Vinci would've happily (and readily) digitally edited his sketches, particularly before committing them to paint -- to very expensive, hand-mixed paint. His purity was less from piety, I think, and more from a lack of resources. </div>
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Here's where you take the photoshop lessons, the digital matte painting lessons, <br />
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Carnivores.<br />
This is just vector art. From adobe illustrator lessons alone.<br />
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A painted desert. Pft. See what I did there?</td></tr>
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-70061066862305431592014-10-01T10:09:00.000-07:002017-04-24T10:12:57.636-07:00mythological thingsSome paintings from a project from way back when.<br />
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These served as a series of illustrations for a <a href="http://www.theeloquentsoul.com/" target="_blank">friend's website</a>. Each character was to have their own personalities and traits which I attempted to capture through watercolor and gouache.<br />
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I'll post a few of them here (I forget how many there were). I may post the rest some day. Who knows. My feelings towards blogging wax and wane irregularly. What are you regulated by, O Feelings o' Mine? The moon? The sun? The vengeful spirit of Pluto?<br />
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Not that long ago actually, lol. But I'm in a bookish mood because I just came from my first day at <a href="http://www.scbwi.org/">this amazing thing</a>. So I share with you this bit of fanart from way back in 2011 for a book I immensely enjoyed, <i>Leviathan </i>by Scott Westerfeld. <br /><br />
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Even after all these years, this piece really stayed with me. I edited it quite a bit--with watercolor, of all things! It was originally in oil and acrylic, but it just wasn't catching the brightness and skyiness I wanted Deryn to be surrounded by. I loved her freedom and her solitude. It was equal parts liberating and restricting, and I found that dynamic fascinating!<br />
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The inspired Mr. Westerfeld was wonderful enough to feature it on his weekly <i>Fanart Friday </i>blogposts and you can see the original version <a href="http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2011/12/fan-art-friday-xmas-edition/">here</a>. You can also see the Broadway musical poster version of it <a href="http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2012/01/faf-with-radio-interview/">here </a>(lol!) as well as a few cutesy, chibi versions of the two main characters I did back when I was experimenting with photoshop.<br />
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I think that's part of the magic of illustration sometimes. You don't know why something's working, it just feels right. So you just run with it and see where it goes....<br />
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Self portraits from Art Center's Portraiture class with D. Luce.</div>
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Paintings from Art Center. I forget for what class and for whose class and who was with me in the which class. </div>
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This baby we christened <i>Octobook</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://jackiehuang.com/">Jackie</a> came over one day with this beautifully-engineered little thing and entrusted him into my care.<br />
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He was....challenging. Stubborn. Refused to submit to my authority. Sigh.<br />
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You reasonably expect your progeny to see clearly the path you've laid before them and to reverently partake of the wisdom you freely give--until, bit-by-bit, your carefully laid plans unravel and the wee little thing takes hold of his ever-strengthening faculties, dismisses your unsolicited assistance, and (by the power of his own fierce conviction) becomes a thing you could not have foreseen, could not have contrived, and would not have wanted to try to foresee or contrive if you could do it all over again because that would only ruin the delight of the surprise.<br />
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The quote is from <i>Moby Dick</i>.<br />
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I pitched it to <a href="http://www.jackiehuangstudios.blogspot.com/">Jackie</a> and she approved. I think it appropriately embodies the paradox of a character being led on by Fate while retaining his agency as a Hero--ever-willful and carving his own path; Fate be damned. It sounds contradictory and yet there it be. We demand that the Universe be linear, and the Universe, in turn, says "Screw you, puny human."<br />
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Who can fathom it.<br />
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We only cared to make 50, signed and sealed. You can purchase them here on Jackie's <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/jackiehuang">etsy shop</a>. Object is smaller than it appears (a 3.5' square) but a warning: this is a very serious pop-up--not for the faint of heart.<br />
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<i>Update</i> (14.08.02): as of this week, <i>Octobook</i> is sold out (Comic-con 2014 was its fated last appearance). Alas! It's time has come to an end. They've all found good homes, I'd like to think, and I hope for their bright futures.<br />
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medium: watercolor scanned and re-printed to cut, folded, and packaged between two slices of book board.helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-13984341553766882182014-01-12T23:10:00.000-08:002014-01-12T23:43:45.501-08:00holiday vii: christmas 2014 and some miscellany<a href="http://jackiehuang.com/">Illustrious Colleague</a> and I repeated <a href="http://helenyoon.blogspot.com/2013/01/holiday-v-happy-christmas.html">last year's endeavors</a> for this past Christmas' warm and fuzzy sharing and holiday cheer and all that crap.<br />
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This year it was a holiday version of an old favorite.<br />
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Again, Illustrious Colleague did the hard engineering part and I did the fun designing part. She says she prefers the engineering over the illustrating, but, in my myopic microcosm, I cannot comprehend people not liking the things I like and liking the things I don't like.<br />
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It's an "old favorite" because this was our first version. Think of the santa card as "Carriage Pop-up 2.0: the Holiday Edition."<br />
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If you want any of the above, you may go bother Illustrious Colleague about it on her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/jackiehuang">Etsy shop</a>.<br />
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Once a week for the past ten weeks, I had the inordinate pleasure of attending <a href="http://motivarti.org/">Motivarti's</a> summer class <a href="http://motivarti.org/workshops-classes/summer-2013/story-in-a-picture/">Story in a Picture</a>, which was taught by one of my favorite teachers from <a href="http://www.artcenter.edu/">Art Center</a>. </div>
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This was the final I submitted to class: a triptych done with a neat technique I picked up from <a href="http://www.albertocerriteno.com/">another artist</a> that the teacher dubbed 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">½</span>-D.</div>
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<a href="http://helenyoon.blogspot.com/2013/03/wondercon-2013.html">WonderCon 2013</a> was not only my debut into the convention scene: it was the debut of the first official collaboration between <a href="http://www.helenyoon.com/">Helen Yoon</a> and aforementioned illustrious colleague, <a href="http://jackiehuang.com/">Jackie Huang</a>.</div>
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Illustrious colleague goes to her studio and works industriously and illustriously to deliver me something that will function properly in her pop-up vision, like so:</div>
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If you are interested in purchasing our first-ever collaboration, you can go to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/129227980/circus-pop-up">illustrious colleague's etsy shop</a> and bother her about. </div>
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<br />helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-8831884055439660522013-04-10T12:27:00.004-07:002013-10-04T10:35:18.892-07:00WonderCon 2013: behind the scenes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am convinced that 90% of design is problem solving.<br />
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"What sort of problems?" do you ask, friend?<br />
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<i>Is the action reading?</i><br />
<i>Is the color treatment adding to or subtracting from the focal point?</i><br />
<i>Why does this nose look like a mushroom?</i><br />
<i>Is the story clear?</i><br />
<i>Do I need another mouse in the house reading Goethe's </i>Faust<i>?</i><br />
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The problems are approached (and solved) before the piece is begun, while the piece is materializing (be it in paint, paper, or digital medium), and after the piece is finished. This, in whole, is the design process. What separates the professional designer from the tortured artist is the ability to solve these problems in a satisfactory manner in the <i>before</i> and <i>during</i> phases within a given timeframe. <br />
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Is there a point in one's artistic maturity in which one has successfully culminated from tortured artist and metamorphosed into consummate professional? Ask me at my deathbed, but I'm pretty sure the answer's <i>"No."</i><br />
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So for WonderCon (and all future conventions--stay tuned ~_^), <a href="http://www.jackiehuangstudios.blogspot.com/">illustrious colleague</a> and I wanted a pair of banners that both portrayed our respective approaches to illustration and showcased our collaborative work. So it started here:<br />
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We liked the idea of a swooping line connecting our two banners. An idea inspired by <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-gR6SyJkJ9mJu5Kzafm2P_UpU-OD49hGTmFtStL2LWVxiMhtUG6xZ7sVU-oiOt0-zj6nNuddkC-Zemn_ZdsByQc9QH55oeppO97BEjC-CwqpLgDTKfkxPGVedWzoe-3bFeNbn-ZP4JsN/s1600/faith_help.jpg">a previous piece</a>.<br />
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Alas, when it was finally worked up, we felt that, yes, the swooping clouds connected the banners, but the connection felt too fragile. The differences in not just color and material but in the two completely separate stories made our banners feel disconnected.<br />
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The final was pleasing to behold, yet we were still displeased.<br />
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So we moved on to a banner concept where the story of one told the story of the other.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">This one told a satisfactory beat-1 to beat-2 story, punchline and all, and we were ready to run with it, when at the eleventh hour I sent </span><a href="http://www.jackiehuangstudios.blogspot.com/">illustrious colleague</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> a silly email with this attached.</span></div>
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Both of us were like <i>"I like the first octopus a lot, but....oh no, I LOVE the second octopus."</i></div>
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<i>"Should we just go for it? I think we should go for it."</i></div>
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<i>"Totally need to go for it."</i></div>
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<i>"Totally worth doing."</i></div>
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The back-and-forth really was necessary because it really was the eleventh hour, and we were going to take it to print that day. Stinkin' artists. No respect for their deadlines. <i>Tsk tsk. </i></div>
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So here was the final painting for our third banner concept. But, when we finally put it together....</div>
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I felt that our second banner concept had a story that read fluidly but the two still felt too dissonant. I had thought it was because the palettes were too different, so I compensated this round by going way cool for my banner's side. <a href="http://www.jackiehuangstudios.blogspot.com/">Illustrious colleague</a> noted that it looked fine as a stand-alone painting, but, when placed side-by-side with its other half, a wispy watercolor painting felt unfinished against the solid, graphic color of the paper. And I missed the warmth. </div>
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And so, our lovely little banner duo was born. </div>
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helen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12257961758590606321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076270548477743293.post-50321720083588911252013-03-18T10:22:00.000-07:002013-04-10T11:49:00.341-07:00holiday vi: yesterdaySt. Patrick's Day is actually the day that my first dog died. <br />
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I swore she would be my one and only dog forever...</div>
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...things obviously did not go as planned.<br />
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