Kumon Summer Class Illustration

Volunteering work again. But this is for Kumon and not for Japan America Association.

Chronologically, I did these drawings for Kumon first and did the Dancing for Hope Poster second, but chroNONlogically, I posted this afterwards.

Those are drawings that goes along with email that is to be sent out to notify parents about summer classes during the summer to imprison and torture kids with loads of worksheets and homeworks.... ahem excuse me..... to improve skills with Reading and Math (and Japanese also). Hopefully, director of Kumon didn't read that part....

Well, to be honest, that's how I felt when I used to go to this Kumon as a student during middle school and high school....

But now I'm teaching here and I am realizing how important learning was...

and also confused by myself that I am teaching at a place where I absolutely shunned in going during my school years. I guess I'm here to fix my problem that I had long time ago.

Thanks to the director of Kumon Hideko Fujiwara, I was able to improve my math skills during middle and high school, and gave me an experience to teach by giving me a job as a Kumon tutor. So as a thank you, I volunteered in doing this for her.

This Kumon here in memorial drive in Houston is really one of important pivot in my life.

One thing I need to learn is writing in a proper English, darn it!

Houston Ballet Poster and Flyer

Poster

Flyer

This is a poster I made for The Japan-America Society of Houston. Volunteering work it is.

People from ballet dancing and gymnastics gathered to raise fund for recovery from earthquake/tsunami disaster that occurred in Japan.

I talked to my friend Yuri who is a graphic designer and we both agreed that I put too much text and made it too big after the project was done.

There was nothing I could do about putting tons of text in it since that's what client wanted but I could've made the font smaller... at least for the Poster.....

I still need training.....

It's been a while since I pulled all nighter to finish a project since I took the project at a bad timing. Next time, I'll make sure I'll take project where I can have more time to.... at least sleep. Ok, I'm writing too much and I'm getting bored by my own writing. Heading to bed. zzzzz

Adding to that, I made a typographical mistake on the website to go purchase. Luckily, I made in time to fix and to have it resent to the printer (I think). I needed to check from 3rd person point of view to see if all the info was correct but.... deadline was on press to the extreme and I didn't get to do that since this was overnight work. I know that sounds like a lame excuse but it was really tough trying to keep myself awake for 2 days without sleep. This project really pushed me to limits with many things and now I know what to do and don'ts when it comes to taking a project.

Penplex (Penguin Apartment Complex)

Somewhere in this planet is a place known as Penplex (Penguin Apartment Complex). Either an outcast animals from the society or being too smart to be surrounded by humans choose to live here. It's such a peaceful and quiet place for ones to stay. The founder of this building was from outer space, giving the right for those wandering ones to live quietly on their own on this planet.

Who are those founders you ask? Well, one is our alien friend Puu. He's the blue fellow who's opening his Japanese Plum Soda-pop at the front of the apartment entrance. The other one is sitting right next to him drinking Blue Explosion Soda-pop, and the one who is sitting inside reading a romance literature book. What's their name you ask? Maybe you'll know when they choose to show themselves to the public. They told me to keep their names a secret until they choose to reveal themselves to the children of this planet. ;)

Bravebird... or rather Bravechick

Here's another piece I was working on for the portfolio. Bravebird!... or rather Bravechick!

With his special bandana and his wooden sword, there's nothing that scares him.

He even stands up against the monstrous twister... until he uncovers his bandana that's covering his eyes...

Don't worry, He survives the storm.

I mean he is the storm in some ways....

Chillin Pig (Dizzy?Lax?Still thinking what his name is going to be...)

This is the character I'm working on right now. Pig that's chillin~. I haven't determined his name yet whether it should be Dizzy or Lax or something else. I like this little guy a lot, especially for the fact that he doesn't really care much about his surroundings and he just does whatever that pleases him. He's pretty much the lazy bum who goes on his own tempo. He's the dark side of me, hehe.... Oh, and I've got portfolio to work on for children's book so I'll be uploading more stuff on this blog as I go.

Sherry Blossom

It's a little early in the season, but this is Cherry Blossom from a different planet of ours. It's a tree called Sherry Blossom.

Legend of Sherry Blossom:

It's said that the traveler from deep outer space seeks it in order to gain healing from their scarred lonely heart. Just by taking a look at it will heal the deep scarred heart caused in deep outer space.

-Traveler from Prutina

ORANGE!!!

Just wanted to set my little fellows to an adventure on a desert planet. Instead of using blue, I used the complement orange to pop them out for the background color. This one's painted and not a vector stuff that I usually do. Thanks to Linda C. I was able to make something different from my tendencies to make everything blue. Well, enough talking. Hope you like this. I do!!!