Bye Bye 2012, Bring on 2013!

So 2012 is almost over! In terms of art it's been a quiet year for me. I was really happy to see my illustrations feature on the Playful Promises gift tins that came out this year. Thank you again to the staff at Playful Promises. :) 

From January till July this year I was working really hard completing my teacher training, which was very time consuming and stressful.
I had a great holiday in August in the USA and after that I got some extra teaching qualifications so that I could teach abroad and thankfully all the hard work paid off as I got a new job as a teacher starting in March 2013 in Tokyo Japan!

In the later part of this year I also did some really exciting things including:

• Helping my friend and artist Elena/ Yamino at London MCMEXPO on her stall both in May and October.
• Going to DisneyWorld and Universal Studios and getting to act like a kid again! 
• Attending London 'Hyper Japan' in cosplay (Sailor Mars)
• Seeing Lady Gaga and Angelspit in concert again.
• Meeting my favourite Korean actor Lee Byung Hun at the London Korean film festival closing Gala.
• Seeing the Kpop group BIGBANG live in London at Wembley arena, which I can honestly say is the best concert I have ever been to. It was AMAZING!

I will still be using this blog to post any art I do whilst in Japan. I am sure there will be many exciting places to go sketching!

I will be documenting all my adventures in Japan on another blog which I will set up soon. 

I've got a really good feeling about 2013 and I can't wait for it to begin!

Happy New Year! 

XXX

2NE1 New Evolution + Playful promises beauty queen tins

Currently on their 'New evolution' tour, K-pop girl group 2NE1 have had lots of recent success and are set to take the world by storm! I am a huge fan and I hope they make it to the UK one day soon.

 I made this painting of CL based on the promo image released before their tour began. CL is wearing an amazing unicorn dress by designer Jeremy Scott.

And as mentioned a while back, I did 12 paintings for Playful promises last year and they released this teaser image today on their tumblr! :D looks as if they will be out soon! I'll update again when they're out and get some more photos. I can't wait to see them in real life.

And I have been made aware of yet another tattoo based on my Alice in Wonderland drawing. (This is the 9th version I have found! See the rest here)

K-POP aka: Korean Pop music

I've been working very hard recently on coursework for my postgraduate degree and my final assessment is next week! I had to do 17 hours of coursework this weekend which was exhausting!

So this evening I opened a few abandoned drawings from last year and threw them together in this edit just for fun :)

I should really add a male representative of K-pop to the image but I didn't have an existing drawing.
I don't have time to draw one right now, so maybe I'll add one at a later date when I have time to paint.

I also realised I never posted these paintings of Minzy from 2NE1 on my blog

and here is some of my 2NE1 fanart in a book that was made by EROMAKNAE and given to 2NE1 themselves! Here is on example page with my art on:

Wow. Fantastic baby

Just for fun, here is the rather handsome TOP of Korean group BIGBANG. This image is based on a still from their music video. 

Check out Big Bang's 'Fantastic baby' music video: here
Once again YGFamily have created such a great video!

CL - I am the Best

The images for 'Playful Promises' are done. I hope it won't be too many months before I can reveal the final results. :)

For now though, here is a drawing a made a few months ago of 'CL' leader of the Korean girl group 2NE1. It was just for fun! Based on stills from the music video. YGFamily always have the best MVs and stylists! 

I haven't got much other work to show at this point. My life is filled up with other things right now, like a new job and a Postgraduate University course. I don't have much time for painting, but hopefully once I get the hang of all this coursework I'll have some more time to paint again.

2NE1

Various artwork I have made over the last few months of Korean girl group 2NE1. Just for fun.

('I got that thang thang, if you know what i mean, it goes 'bang bang', you can't handle it')

('Many style from A to Z, Jeremy Scott, Givenchy, B*tch you aint got Sh*t on me'')

('Don't stop the music')

('coz I'm so bad bad but I'm so good good')

CL of 2NE1

'Just try to Follow me!'

This is an image of 'CL' from the Korean girl group '2NE1' or 'To Anyone'
the outfit is from their 'Follow me' video. This was just a bit of fun and I am fasinated by this group at the moment. I enjoy their music, style and all of the members have great personalities and are very talented.
Here is a link to the music video: Follow me by 2NE1