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Dress to kill with Digital Girls, a drag & drop dress-up game by girls for girls.
Illustrated by Vivian Loh
Coded by Jessia Ma
Play here: http://pearlmedia.co/digitalgirls.html
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Dress to kill with Digital Girls, a drag & drop dress-up game by girls for girls.
Illustrated by Vivian Loh
Coded by Jessia Ma
Play here: http://pearlmedia.co/digitalgirls.html
Outtakes from issue 1’s cover shoot.
Model: Katie Han
Photographed by Vivian Loh
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by Jiapei Xi, illustrations by Vivian Loh
All of us read Japanese manga obsessively, and we still remember our favorite series and characters fondly. Adolescent girls are always full of romantic, unrealistic dreams—manga creates a world where it seems possible that those dreams might become real. To me, no matter how much the stories varied in genre, style, and setting, or how different their heroines are, their central theme is always the desire to become a better person, a unique and lovable girl. Here were some of my favorites growing up!
Tomie by Junji Ito
We’ve all heard stories of vengeful girlfriends and the ladies you shouldn’t have met. But Tomie—Tomie is all of that and more. She is beautiful, but hellish. Tomie is selfish, slutty, jealous, materialistic, insatiable, cruel, possessive, and vain. Her insatiable lust keeps her alive, regenerating her despite the best attempts of the men that she seduces, fascinates, and deranges. Men want to possess her so much that they cut her into pieces, like meat foam, but she will come back. She will grow under your carpet, inside a box, or even in cement. She is everywhere and she just doesn’t deserve death.
The combination of Tomie’s complete beauty and complete evil is monstrous but fascinating. Guys go so crazy for her that they will kill anyone to please her, but they also can’t resist the temptation to kill Tomie. Girls want to be her so much that they let Tomie occupy their body. She repulses readers, but sometimes, we secretly want to be just like her.
Nana by Ai Yazawa
Nana is both the title of this stylish, sexy series, and the shared name of its two protagonists. Nana Osaka is the edgy, self-assured vocalist in a punk band; Nana Komatsu is your average charming “hopeless good girl,” attempting to find a perfect romance but and always troubled by boyfriend problems. The girls end up living together in Tokyo, and the series follows the development of their complicated friendship anchored by mutual obsession, sexual interest, and jealousy. Punk Nana is the role model for girls in Asia. She looks indifferent and tough, but her heart is warm and gentle. Cute Nana, on the other hand, is impulsive, spoiled, and aimless, but we all identify with her and her struggles with learning how to grow up. As she learns to take care of others, to live on her own and to find her passion instead of desperately falling in love, so do we. Nana transposes our mundane lives into this glamorous story about sex, fashion, drama and lots of rock ‘n’ roll, showing us both who we are and who we could be.
Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
I can’t think of another manga that was more contagious than Sailor Moon in the 90s. It chronicles the adventures of a group of pretty 14-year-old magical girls, uniformed in mini skirts and cute boots, as they defend the solar system from evil. The guardians transform into soldiers and go into battle with omnipresent evil forces that attempt to control the earth or the universe.
Sailor Moon defined my childhood. I could watch the TV adaptation for hours and pretend to be one of the soldiers. Though I wasn’t crazy enough to collect all their spin off stuff, I did make my own wand, hoping secretly that I would discover a hidden super power, become a princess, and have a hopeless romance with a handsome boy like Sailor Moon did. I believe a lot girls hoped the same thing after watching the show because the guardians seemed so relatable. We always remembered that they were schoolgirls like us—their uniforms are altered sailor fuku, Japanese school uniforms. Now I think of it as just a silly and funny series, but Sailor Moon and her friends accompanied me through childhood.
Some originals and outtakes from issue 1's THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU editorial.
Model: Lucy Chen
Photographed by Vivian Loh
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Some originals and outtakes from issue 1's THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU editorial.
Model: Lucy Chen
Photographed by Vivian Loh
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Some originals and outtakes from issue 1's THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU editorial.
Model: Lucy Chen
Photographed by Vivian Loh
~ ~ ~ Click below to see the rest of issue 1 ~ ~ ~
http://pearlmedia.co/issue1.html
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A visual exploration of the O0ps art exhibition via iPhone 4.
A Snapchat interview with the artist, Kanghee Kim, by Vivian Loh.
Some more work in progress! Don’t think I forgot I promised you guys colors! There is still so much to come that I am super excited for.
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Senior thesis is now upon me! Here are some character designs I did early on. Keep checking back for some exciting colors (caution: I go absolutely crazy with the gradient tool), coming atcha soon!
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Back when I interned for the online store Pixie Market, they asked me if I would be interested in illustrating some of their new arrivals. It was a lot of fun, and they even featured me in an exclusive blog post.
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Reimagining The Clique, a young adult novel series by Lisi Harrison.
First image: Redesigned wrap-around cover for the first book, The Clique
Images 2-6: Paper dolls based on the five main characters
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In part with my mixology assignment, my peers and I also had to create our own brand name liquor. This here is “Lucy’s Lychee Liqueur”, named after one of my close friends from home!
(The bottle is an actual Kinky liqueur bottle that I Photoshopped my branding onto. Just to be clear, it isn’t mine!)
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For my class’s mixology assignment, we had to choose a cocktail’s name and create two illustrations for it. I chose to reinterpret the “Red Lotus” as a female super hero. The top is her gearing up to kick some ass, and on the bottom is the cocktail recipe.
I was also lucky enough to partake in an art trade with my classmate and amazing illustrator, Liz Pulido, who fell in love(?????!!!!!!!) with my piece. ** Here’s her stunning illustration **
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My dolls dressed in Prada Spring/Summer 2011andAcne Menswear Spring/Summer 2013-inspired looks!
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My paperdolls wear Creatures of Comfort Fall/Winter 2013 andPoul Brouwer Menswear Spring/Summer 2013-inspired looks!
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The Bad Vacations complete 3-part series featuring child-me and my equally bratty cousins! Can you guess where each vacation spot was?
Buy them now on my Society6 shop!
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Got another chance to work on my favorite pattern series: The Bad Vacations (based off of real family vacations). And I’m only getting started! Next step is to offset these babies and fill in all the surrounding blank space with some more silliness. Look out for these finished pieces in the next week!
Meanwhile, visit my very first Bad Vacation piece based off of a sweaty trip to the Grand Canyon here.
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Here’s a quick before-and-after for my illustration based on the crime novel/upcoming film Inherent Vice. Since this assignment, I’ve come to realize idk what the ‘70s were like/I have some very misconstrued ideas of what the '70s were like… but I kinda like what I drew at the very least.
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My paperdolls wear 3.1 Phillip Lim F/W 2014andCalvin Klein Collection Menswear S/S 2014-inspired looks!
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A series of illustrations I made about horoscopes depicting which astrological sign would wear what LBD (“Little Black Dress,” duh!).
From top-to-bottom, left-to-right: Taurus, Libra, Aries, Capricorn, Pisces, and lastly, Gemini (my sign).
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Illustrations for the Rudyard Kipling “Just So” story, “The Cat that Walked By Himself”.
The dog is my favorite since I modeled it after my own back home. (:
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