I have just finished teaching for this school year. Congratulations to all my SVA students for graduating (seniors), and moving onto the third year of their studies (sophomores).
I also took a one day business trip up to RISD in Providence last week. Thank you for a warm welcome.
Hopefully it gets finalized soon (especially because I have been constantly sleep deprived for about a month or so already).
In the meantime, I have just started working on the ideas for No. 17 cover.
Did I just write that April was flying by? Well, it looks like so’s May! I don’t want anyone to think I stopped updating my website often. Well, I do, it is just April and May are TOTAL CHAOS. I promise I will be back with more soon. (and yes, ILLUSTRATION SECTION needs serious update…)
In the meantime, I update quick news flash often on FACEBOOK, so please check it out as well.
At SCAD’s symposium, organized by Professor Julie Lieberman, was consist of a dream team of panel members: Anita Kunz, Christoph Niemann, Red Nose Studio, and two art directors: Bridgid McCarren of HOW and Tyler Darden of Virginia Living.
Thank you for the warmest welcome by full house audience of 700 students across the different majors. Hope you had much fun as we did.
Writer Matt Porter documented the event on a blog.
Weather was just perfect; sky was blue and flowers were everywhere. Savannah was just so lovely and so were the people there. I hope I can go back there again soon.
Savannah recommendations:
Paris Market: Anita and I went crazy over this amazing store with mixture of antique and contemporary home decoration.
Gryphon Tea Room: Officially my favorite cafe. old pharmacy converted into a tea room. Just stunningly beautiful, and of course, great food and selection of teas.
At FIT lecture last night. I had so much fun with marcos, Fernanda, Fred and Zina, and of course, with all of you who came and stayed in that packed room.
You can see the photos from the events on Heidi’s blog.
I am currently on the tight deadline finishing up The Unwritten #15 cover, but I will post more upcoming events and news next week.
#14 cover just got the approval bit more than a week ago. Usually they don’t reveal the cover for another month or so, but this time, Vertigo editing team decided to go ahead and post it on their blog way early.
This is a special cover. Creators Mike and Peter, as well as editor Pornsak had been discussing for a while about how they wanted me to create “Where is Waldo” cover. I have been putting it off, off and off…. till I had no more reasons to put it off anymore! Ha. So, I decided to finally dive into it in the idea.
All the loyal Unwritten readers, you may not be able to spot all the characters because a few of them are future characters who will not appear until issue #12. Also, there is one character thrown in there who is not from this series but from another series by Mike and Peter. Mike and Peter took the quiz too, and of course, they were able to spot everyone. Now, can you?
I am finally settling down into my new home, and slowly starting to travel out again.
I was invited to New Jersey City University last week (Thank you for the warm welcome!), and heading out to University of Wisconsin Eau Claire next week, FIT lecture toward the end of the month and SCAD in Savannah, GA in April. Looking forward to seeing you all the students!
trying to post more… new one today.
