Wednesday 10 April 2013

Death of Blogger :( > SIGN UP TO NEWSLETTER! > also MY OWN BLOG! :) :D

Hi all! Thanks for the follows and love of my work and stuff on Blogger!

I've had a new WordPress site a while back and haven't been updating this blog at all really.... SO hows about you join in the party and get on over to my new blog here >> New Mimi Leung Blog << to see what I'm up to, and other random stuff?

It'd be ace to have you.


THANKS AGAIN BLOGGERS!! I may pop my digital head in here once in a while ;)



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Saturday 12 January 2013

Thursday 27 December 2012

HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

post-christmas snowflake from the depths of darkness/my head, (a late) HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Monday 8 October 2012

New Website!


Finally! I have a decent website up thanks to the AWESOME dotpete Check it out HERE and see my latest work as well as some classics :)

Saturday 6 October 2012

Monday 1 October 2012

GIF Collab with MiRon

See more of his work here

Friday 28 September 2012

Let's Make History - skateboards pitch

 A while ago I was asked to design some artwork to be lasercut into the bottom of a deck, for an "artist series" of skateboards. I got really into it initially but things didn't work out with the project organiser so, anyway, I've coloured the pic in though now.. and think it's pretty fun.

Thursday 27 September 2012

DACS thing

So here's the final version. I decided black and white = stronger than colour.

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Work In Progress

I thought I'd share more detailed posts about my work in progress since my process has been evolving lately and I always love seeing how other artists/designers/illustrators do things too.

So, this first WIP is a pic for the upcoming DACS charity exhibition in NYC this November. The theme is 'Reclaim' and the brief centres around an interview of a sex trafficking survivor about her experiences.

I started looking at women in pop culture, mainstream media, ads etc. since the representation of women in these channels often get criticised for the probable affect/impact they have on violent attitudes towards women. I chose this Rihanna ad for Armani cos I imagined stuff bursting out of her chest/stomach, like guts or a crazy animal or something.



Then, as usual, I started messing around, doing rough sketches, trying to get the posture of and weight of the figure right and to generate some ideas. I used ink for these since I really enjoy using them lately.

Once I got the hang of the kind of lines I wanted for the figure I tried out this type idea, using words taken from the interview (some directly, some with a bit of creative license). I quite liked the effect so played around with the idea a bit more to get a composition I like. The text tells the story backwards from the top, so it's a message of hope and then as you go down it gets darker and reveals the roots of it.

Next I got the coloured paints out and did a bunch of variations. I did some on Photoshop too but wanted to get comfortable using the brush for the type, so I just repeated myself. 



And... that's where I'm at right now. It will most probably end up something like the pic below, but the text will be in colour and some other stuff will be going down too.
Give me a shout in the comments if you have anything to say/ask about this stuff. Hope it was good... and that I get to do more! :)

Thursday 20 September 2012

Getting in touch with my psychedelic self



I've been spending the last few days breaking down a big pic into heaps of component parts. Now the awesome Cameron Gough at Dirty Puppet is going to turn them into a little animation. The full pic is looking mad and pretty trippy.... think 'vaginal space aliens'.

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Making History

A new pic I'm working on.

Monday 17 September 2012

Sunday 9 September 2012

'Monkey Mind' for the New York Times Book Review

Read the review of Daniel Smith's book on the NYT site here

Friday 7 September 2012

Thursday 30 August 2012

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Tuesday 21 August 2012

New York Times Opinionator

Just made this gif for the NYT Opinionator blog, you can see it in action over here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/childs-play/

Friday 17 August 2012

Thursday 16 August 2012

Salvador Dali

Hey actually, I quite like just his name.

Monday 13 August 2012

Books vs. Cigarettes

I'm working on some illustrations for a few George Orwell essays. Books vs. Cigarettes is an awesome essay where Orwell calculates the cost of all the books he owns and compares that to the price of smoking and drinking for a year, roughly and kind of concisely estimated. Thusly! showing that all ye who (in 1946) used expense as a reason for not reading books/periodicals/etc were actually quoting a pretty unreasonable excuse. Anyway, hunt it down! + watch this space for more George Orwell essay pics.


Sunday 12 August 2012

Saturday 11 August 2012

sketch 2

One's funnier than the other, both as genitally.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Sunday 5 August 2012