Illustrations for Focus on Dalian

Early this month I was commissioned to do two editorial illustrations for the new issue Focus on Dalian magazine. This is my first time to work with them.Focus on Dalian is a bimonthly magazine created by people from different countries which is like a local platform with multi-cultural vision. I read some of its issues when I was living in Dalian. Didn't expect that they would contact me for contributions one day.



You can read the online version here: http://issuu.com/focus-on-dalian

And here are the two illos for your clearer views.

Cartoon Portraits Commission

These old photos are found in my hard-disk back to the year of 2006 (I know I was quite fat at that time). I was still in university. I worked for a sports  shop during National Holiday for their marketing campaign as what they called "Dalian Young Comic Artist". My job was to draw quick cartoon portraits on T-shirts for the customers who consumed over 400 yuan. It was quite fun. That was my first time to earn money from art.







 

Sketches from Dalian

Some old sketches in Dalian from last August I think.I remember how much I wanted to get out of there at that time.



 



 

Work for Chinaccelerator

I was commissioned to do some sketches for Chinaccelerator- a 4 month program to support for IT startups including seed funding, mentorship etc. It was fun to visit their inspiring office. Also been to their mentor presentation, felt back at college again.Good luck to all of the startups for their development.

Here are some of the sketches.

Sketches at Concert

P1090217, originally uploaded by rgmu11.

Flickr was blocked for the past few days. I'm back to flickr now which means I can still post entries to blogger although it's still blocked. I am gonna post three drawings in the a concert ( given by a famous French group ) Al and I went to couples of weeks ago. I drew these with the rhyme of music.

Sketchbook 29th May

Old woman resting in Nanshan, originally uploaded by rgmu11.

Another sketch from the local activity. I couldn't post more than one pics in one entry through flickr which is really not pleasant...

Thanks those readers who left comments on my blog. Since blogger is blocked in China currently, Ive no way to log in to reply to you.

Here is a sketch of an old woman drinking water and resting. Used charcoal on paper, and then brush water on when I returned home.

Sketchbook 29th May

Nanshan Fengqing Street, originally uploaded by rgmu11.

We went to see an local activity near our home yesterday morning which lasts from the 26th to 31st, May. A group of old people were dressed up doing Yangge Dance there. Al got much fun from seeing that and he even danced for a bit under a dancer's invitation. . There were also some art shows on in those Japanese houses along the street.

Here are some sketches I did.