Recently I was asked to create a border illustration for Nina Lambert’s serial set ‘The Real Thing’ for Woman’s Weekly magazine, UK (issues 30 July, 6, 13, 20, 27 August 2013). The gist of the story is that the art buyer’s boyfriend is a forger artist who paints in a modern technique.

— quote —
“…recurring motifs of locks and keys buried deep within the swirling reds and greens and blacks, the hidden shapes indiscernible to an untutored eye.”

The illustration needed just to give a gist of the code.

Here is the outcome :D

Hope you enjoy it!

Illustration for something fine project

Illustration For Something Fine Project

I've done this illustration for Something Fine Project which is about feelings for First love.

Mine is this.

How's yours? 

http://thesomethingfineproject.com/

New t-shirt out on Sequoia Tees

Hello people, 
I am very happy to be featured on Sequoia Tees in this year again!
My work is featured on main page just for today 5th Feb!
You can visit http://www.sequoiatees-dcs.com/474-insomnia.htmlHope you enjoy it and it will be great chance to have a look loads of cool tshirts by great artists on Sequoia tees.

Tee!

Today ( starting now, Amsterdam time) is my day on the website,http://www.sequoiatees.com/ (and http://www.sequoiatees-dcs.com/) 
Feel free to drop and enjoy my new art work on T-shirts!! 
When you ordering, don't forget to mention the code: JP5 in the voucher area! You will get a discount of 5% on your order! 
Thank you for looking :)

Typography

Tyopography/ A for only A, ink and crayon on paper, 2011

This is one of my most favourite things.

Drawing

Observations on every day life

Check more drawings on my web site!

www.jihyunart.com

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: TWIRL

Illustration for IF: Twirl

Sketch-1

sketch-2

sketch-3

Hello, People! I just finished the illustration for IF. This week's topic is 'twirl'.

I really enjoyed the whole process, cause, the word 'Twirl'... I've never heard about this before, ( English is not my first language and learning new word is always exciting!) I went to the dictionary soon and said hello to my new friend! Hi, twirl!)

Anywayyyy, Here's my idea map.

Twirl- movement- round- time- we all lives in the tiny hole or water..whatever and someone twirls our place in his hand- a bit messy-... ... but it is a beautiful mess.

New clothes for my website

Hello, people! It was a busy weekend. It's the time to give new clothes for my website! Yeah! Loads of creatures yelled at me to pick them. it was just like competitions. haha :D Recently, I am trying to approach to create characters in a different way that I've done- does not quite far from my sketch, using of lines and colours are more simple than before and more than this, I am trying to take great care into each of those creatures.

Those three images are some sketches of new creatures with Faber-castell pitt artist pen M and Fudegokochi pen made in Japan. It was my first time to use Fudegokochi pen and it was just amazing, very smart pen. Love it!

People! Come and enjoy the time with new creatures and new stuff on my website.

Hope you like it!!

link to jihyun's website

Self-initiated illustration -SADNESS

Dear Sadness

god, damn! It's you again. I will lock the door of yours

then you'll NEVER, EVER come out from there and never visit me again. But I don't know where you live..

I can't stand this sadness anymore. Fuck off, Sadness!

I've done this(the image on the right) for my personal project. I haven't decided the name of this project.. who cares!! haha! but probably it's going to be something about monsters. Because I love to make characters!

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: PREPARE

Be prepare to say goodbye

I've done this for IF (Illustration friday), This week's topic was " Prepare."

What a great word for starting something new.

But I thought about this word in a bit sad way.. like " Be prepare to say goodbye"

guess what's going on here

People aren't the only things here, there are little creatures. Here we are.

Umm... Man, I love it.

It's time to move forward

It's time to move forward

Everything had been blur since 2 months ago. After I finished my Master's in September, I dug a deep hole and lived in it for a while and thought about my life that I've been walking. I was shaking with loneliness and regrets..

Now I think, I will not be afraid of talking about myself, I will NEVER be afraid of being naked in front of people. Because this is the way I am. This is it. Trust my self and to be honest to my self even though people say that's so stupid.

The top sketch was done last night, the title is, " It's time to move forward."

Those little creatures say, " Fuck, don't cry", " I will not cry", " there's no time to cry" and " Keep in there, Jihyun"

Whenever there's sad moments, this song always picked me up, let me get back on my feet. Glen Hansard's Falling Slowly.

"You have suffered enough and warred with yourself, It's time that you won, Take this sinking boat and point it home, We've still got time, Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice, You've made it now."

open my online playroom

I start posting my experiments and works in progress on my online playroom.I am trying to express something that I feel through simple lines and colour combinations.

Why? Cause it helps making a balance between my inner and outer reality!

http://www.insidejihyun.blogspot.com

Come come!

I started making this postcard as my self promotion,

and now I consider to make a series of postcard sets :)

I made this post card for my self-promotion.

Hope they don't misunderstand me.

I am not 5 years old.

I am a mature illustrator.

Give me a jobbbb!

Mind map- colour of my childhood

Mind map-colour of my childhood

I close my eyes in order to see

I close my eyes in order to see/oil bar

I close my eyes in order to see

I close my eyes in order to see/ oil bar

Amelia's Magazine | Tent London 2011 Review: Kingston University MA Illustration Exhibition

Here is a short article about my work from Amelia's Magazine. Thanks :D

Amelia's Magazine | Tent London 2011 Review: Kingston University MA Illustration Exhibition

Camden project

I love Camden town/ pastel

Que sera sera

Que sera sera

Everything was so messy. I even didn't know what I was drawing and writing.

At that time, it just appeared in front of me and said slowly..

"Que sera sera... what ever will be..."

It saved me from the super crazy damn messy hole.

Pencil drawing

Imaginary friends/ Pencil, collage

Orange rainy day

Orange rainy day in London/ Crayons

She

She/ Crayons

Turtle ship

Turtle ship/ Oil bar, crayons

No boundaries

No boundaries/ Oil bar, crayons

The bird can be a fish,

The stars can be starfish,

The moon can be the sun

Doodle

Doodle Doodle/ Crayons

Mr. Creep Cucumber Crocodile

Mr. Creep Cucumber Crocodile/ Crayons

He is a master of disguise.

Mrs. Pink Strawberry Bird

Mrs. Pink Strawberry Bird/ Crayons

She lives in Strawberry hill.

She is looking for her heel of her shoes.

Bubble Bubble Frog

Bubble Bubble Frog/ crayons

He likes to blow up coloured soap balloons

and

eat chocolate!!