Interview with Yao Xiao: Ignore my funny laugh XP

Wonder: a cause of astonishment or admiration : marvel b : miracle 2 : the quality of exciting amazed admiration 3 a : rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience

1. My idea about a world full of monsters, but all are kind at first i was thinking of using a boy but then i suddenly started drawing a girl. I'm not sure of the background or setting at the moment

2. this is the cultural fantasy though its not done well this is a small example

3. OPEN CANVAS

metaphor pics

1. leadership-cityscape
2. love-hands
3. divine-still life
4. greed sequence(not working out)
5. leadership-cityscape
6. greed juxtaposition

made two versions of this still unknown which one i like better

aging-juxposition
greed-sequence
revolution-just animals(bunny attack)

greed-sequence (poor man-to rich greedy man)

Metaphors

a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is ourGod.” Compare mixed metaphor, simile 


Five verbal metaphors: All found from film:


-Casablanca "...the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."


-Michael "My wife has lips like a blowfish."


-All Quiet on the Western Front " And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."


-Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"


-The Big Chill "thats the great thing about the outdoors, its one giant toilet"

And know here are some pictures of metaphors

tessellations

A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a pattern of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher, who was inspired by studying the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.

the simplest design. I wasn't to excited about this way of making tessellation's so I focused more on the triangular one and object one. 

owl design i was working on. I shall continue in the future to complete this beautiful work. Perhaps during the holday bizarre i shall make a painting of it 

Yao Xiao

Yao Xiao is born in Mainland China in 1990.Following her passion for art and for exploration, Yao came to the United States alone at the age of 16. She has found herself creating artworks in Chicago, Seattle, Memphis—and now, New York City. Yao is currently studying at the School of Visual Art in NYC, majoring in illustration.

Yao has won awards from the Kennedy center for Scenic Art and have been published in the U.S. and in China. Her recent publications include books for Roland Music Co. and theTranmetropolitan Art Book. Her art is featured on Dr. Sketchy’s blog and also, Warren Ellis’s website. Other places her art has appeared in include the Licton Springs Review and Carpe Diem Review.

“Ni hao, Spider” 2011.

Art for the Transmetropolitan Art Book.

Underwater. 2011.

Poster Art for Wonderlustcomics

Summer Pleasures

2011

newspaper illustration for summer travel edition.

“Eye Cookie” 2011.

Cookie packaging illustration.

“Santa in New York” 2010

Holiday Catalog design.

Education

Guilford High School '07 North Seattle Community College '09-Associates of Arts Memphis College of Art '11 -Illustration School of Visual Arts '13 -Illustration Biography Yao Xiao grew up in Tianjin, China. There she started learning painting at a young age of four. In the year 2006 she came to the United States as an exchange student. She was placed in a high school in Illinois. She took art classes there, and the experience changed her life. Yao strengthened her skills day by day, while enjoying the freedom to make the kind of art she likes. Yao made up her mind to seek a career in art and put her whole life into it. Now she earned her Associate of Arts degree at North Seattle Community College and she is pursuing a BFA in illustration at the School of Visul Arts in New York City."

10 published illustrators in college

Sophia Ahamed Job Title	Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Profession	Graphic Designer
Expertise	Print Design
Level	Junior
Availability	Looking for Work
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Residency / Visa	Australia / New Zealand

  

A mock cover for The New Yorker

 Sabrina Smelko is an illustrator and designer from Milton Ontario. 
  Currently interning at Hypenotic, she'll return to Sheridan College in September to finish her 
  BAA in Illustration, where she also works as a Graphic Designer for their student culture magazine, Travis.


   Clients include:
   Edible Magazine- Toronto
   Fiesta Farms
   Local Food Plus
   Toronto Food Policy Council
   Sustain Ontario
   Hypenotic
   Taste of Nova Scotia   The Awesome Foundation

Sara Helena Palacios-she is know pursuing her MFA at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco 

California. Her focus is children's book illustrations such as "Brim De Brum Tornillo Flojo" by Gilberto Rendon

Nick iluzada

i'm a new york-based illustrator/designer. i graduated from mica in 2011 with a bfa in illustration.

my work has been honored by american illustration as well as the society of illustrators of new york and los angeles. i received a silver medal from siny in illustrators 53, one of the only people ever to medal as an undergraduate. i co-run get lost press with mitchell.

CAITLIN RUSSELL

ILLUSTRATIONSELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
Bump in the Night • Transit Space, OCAD, Toronto
Hot Mess Magazine Launch • The White House, Toronto
Roy Was Here T-Shirt Show • Perel Gallery, Vancouver
Barn Raiser • Wychwood Barns, Toronto


2009
The Moving Figure • MaRS Discovery District, Toronto
Fly With The Cage • Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
Historyonics Book Launch • JEM Gallery, Vancouver
Langara ArtsFest • Langara College, Vancouver
Langara Fine Arts Grad Show • Langara College, Vancouver

PUBLICATIONS

Cadmium, The Fame Issue • 2011
Hot Mess, Issue 1: Summer Chills • 2010
Historyonics, Cloudscape Comics • 2008
The Langara Journalism Review • 2008
Robots, Pine Trees & Broken Hearts, Cloudscape Comics • 2007

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Design                                   2008-2011
Major in Illustration. Minor in Printmaking
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON

Yigi Chang
Born in September 1989,  Yigi Chang is a Toronto based artist and illustrator. He graduated in 2011 from OCAD U receiving a BDES in illustration.
Yigi has always been fascinated by the playful complexity of the human sexual condition and enjoys drawing from it's fertile and infinite variations.
In his latest artistic endeavor, Queer as Folklore, Yigi Chang invents a series of modern day fables explaining the mythological origins of the gay culture.

ANJO CHIANG

Anjo Chiang is a Toronto based freelance illustrator.  In 2004, she obtained her Fashion Design diploma at George Brown College. Shortly after, she worked as an assistant designer to a local fashion designer in Taiwan for a year.  While working in the fashion industry, she discovered her true passion in illustration and her desire to become an illustrator.  She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) and received a BDes in illustration in 2011.

Anjo loves music and fashion, and she loves to travel and explore.  She also loves anything that’s fun and cute, but most of all, she loves to draw what makes people happy.  yay.

AWARDS

Creative Quarterly, Issue 25
2011 Applied Arts Student Awards
3x3 Illustration Annual No. 8 (Silver Medal)
Creative Quarterly, Issue 24
Creative Quarterly, Issue 23
CAPIC Rodeo³ Top 30
3X3 Illustration Annual No. 7

EXHIBITS

2011 "SWEAT", Oz Studios, Toronto
2011 "The First and Only", Art Square Gallery, Toronto
2010 "She Creeps", Function 13 Gallery, Toronto
2009 "Retro show", OCAD University, Toronto

 Jessie Durham is a freelance illustrator and designer that works from her east-end Toronto apartment. She lives with her comic book collection and and her loyal MacBook "Gustave". Jessie enjoys red-headed children, animals with mediocre human names, and terrible science fiction television. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2010.Some New Work!

I haven't had much of a life this week - mostly because of this job. But it's a really cool one! So worth holing myself up in my hobbit cave apartment for a week.

These are 2.5" x 5" vinyl banner designs that will hang in the Riverside neighborhood in Toronto along Queen St East.

It's going to be so neat to see my art out on the street in such a large quantity.

Do you like my flaming gay guy and his jaunty scarf? So entertaining searching for reference on that one. 

I'll most some pictures of them on the street once they're printed and hung. (should be by the end of the month) I am predicting many a shot of my awkward self standing beside a telephone pole and giving a thumbs up. BE EXCITED.

Katherine Verhoeven will teach you to pronounce her last name in the cleverest of ways. The battle between 'who' and 'hoe' has been fought from her earliest memories of drawing while growing up in Kingston, Ontario. Since moving to Toronto in 2005, where she now works as an illustrator, cartoonist and fine artist Katherine has continued to plague people with proper pronunciation. EDUCATION: Bachelor of Design, Illustration, Ontario College of Art and Design AWARDS&PUBLICATIONS: Featured, 3x3 Magazine Chosen, Creative Quarterly #18 Chosen, Creative Quarterly #16 SHOWS: 2011 Space and Time, Steamwhistle Brewery Gallery, Toronto Lady Myth, Delight Gallery space, Toronto Romance of the Wheel, Jet Fuel Gallery, Toronto SWEAT, Oz Studios, Toronto Romance of the Wheel (second showing), Curbside, Toronto  2010 When a Stranger Calls a Friend of a Friend, Gallery 165, Toronto OCAD Grad show, Toronto Automated Regrowth, Leonardo Gallery, Toronto Wallspace, The Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto  2006 MyOCAD Retrospective Show, Toronto  2005Creative Arts Winter show, Kingston Creative Arts Summer Show, Kingston