Productive break? Impossible!

Quite shockingly, I was pretty productive during my break in Malaysia this time around. I met a lot of cool people, visited a durian orchard, stuffed my face with durian, went to Penang, stuffed my face some more with Penang food, checked out a fish farm, stuffed my face again with fresh seafood, had chunks of stubborn goop removed from my sinuses and my septum straightened, stuck to my workout routine, spent some quality time with old friends and family... 

... and on top of that, I actually managed to get a few *gasp* paintings done.

I'm feeling quite awesome right now, so hopefully this productive streak will continue... *crosses fingers*

SCBWI conference starts tomorrow!

I hope everybody's enjoying their summer break! I had the opportunity to visit Hokkaido with my family but fell quite sick on the trip and lost my hearing in one ear for two weeks after that. Still it was absolutely wonderful - the people, the air, the water, the flowers, the food, and bathing in the hot springs... it was exactly what I needed. Here are some pictures I took on the trip!


I'm in LA right now with fellow artists Isabella Kung, Arthur Lin and Lois Wang. The SCBWI conference officially starts tomorrow and everyone's excited! For review purposes, I had put together little portfolio of work mostly done in the past year including some silly sketches I did over the summer.




Oh and here's a little something I painted to cheer my dad on for his swimming competition. He had just turned 60, and was born in the year of the Rabbit. He hit me on the head when I gave it to him! Haha, I could tell that it totally made him happy though.


He won. 8D