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Animals & Birds of the Canadian Rockies

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Soooo another book to sell on eBay!! 😀

This book is actually my first ever book that got published…so I should have posted this first then the other one…but oh well.
This book was a collaborative project along with my dad. I did all of the 63 illustrations of the animals and birds in pencil crayon. It was when I had just moved out, so renting out a small shared basement, I didn’t have much space to work, nor the right tools to do them…but after many revisions and trying to finish them in between my job at the time, I got them done 🙂 and was pretty happy to how they turned out.

Again, my dad did all of the writing in Japanese, and I did the layout in InDesign. It was my first time using InDesign, but knowing a bit of Photoshop and Illustrator program, I managed to figure out the program to construct an entire book from scratch to the final print production. It was also my first time going to the print press and checking for colour and such. Very exciting 🙂 It was printed at Nathan Printing in Burnaby.

I’m not too happy with the design since I’m more into white space and simple layouts, but it was what my dad wanted…so I did what the client wished and thought was appropriate for the target audience.

*note: this book is only in Japanese

Reflection 2013

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Every year the students of the Illustration & Design program (IDEA) at Capilano University run the fund-raising project called “Reflections” in which the students manage the entire project from exhibiting their paintings, to the design, production, marketing and distribution the products.

Each student paints a well-known scenery of the Lower Mainland. 13 of these are chosen to go in the 2013 calendar ($18 CAD). The rest are made into greeting cards and such.

Their exhibition to launch the 2013 Reflections info:

Reflections 2013 Painting Exhibition

The Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver

OPENING NIGHT:
April 17th from 6 – 8 PM
Exhibition runs from April 17th – 29th

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday 11 – 5 PM

Meet the artists:
(same location as above)
April 21 from 1 PM

My friend Soobin is exhibiting her painting of the Lions Gate Bridge titled “Circles of Light”.

Come check out the paintings and support local emerging artists!!!

All proceeds goes to the student fund-raising project 🙂

eBook Complete: Part 4 “Gift From the Moon”

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Ladies and gentlemen!!

The ebook is finally published, and selling on Amazon.com!!! Soooo exciting!
After all those trial and errors, it’s finally done! 😀 I almost cried of joy…lol

I switched to using the MobiPocket Creator instead of the KindleGen since it was giving me error messages. The MobiPocket Creator has limitations, but for my first ebook, I thought I’d go simple.

So there you have it! I wasn’t too sure on how to price the books. I did a bit of research into what the ‘free’ children books looked like. I wanted to originally price it at $1.99, but you needed to price your book to at least $2.99 for you to get 70% royalty, otherwise, it was only 30%. I know that I’m not a famous writer or anything (maybe not just yet! lol), so it would probably be better to set the price to lower to get the book out there…but I had spent so much time and effort with the illustrations, writing and converting it to digital, that I felt it was worth the $2.99

Please check it out!

http://www.amazon.com/Gift-from-the-Moon-ebook/dp/B007M2T5BY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1332128361&sr=1-1

Meipuru Tote Bags Now Available on eBay!

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Well this is super exciting! My tote bag is finally up for sale on eBay!
Click here to go to eBay for the Meipuru Tote Bag listing!

From 2006 to 2008, I published comic strips in a local Japanese Fraser Monthly magazine about the cultural difference between Japan and Canada. I took the two main characters from the comic and decided to make some tote bags back in 2006. Only 250 of these bags were made. Brown outline of the illustration is screen printed on this thick and durable canvas tote bag. It’s perfect for any occasion, whether you’re using it for grocery shopping or for books. (note: it does not have any gussets) $10 US.

For more info on Meipuru.

I’ll post some of the old comics up in the future 🙂 and next month, will start selling two books that I illustrated and worked on the layout for. Stay tuned! 😀

IDEA: Illustration and Design- Elements and Applications

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The IDEA program is where I (IDEA Rabbit) was born 🙂

It’s a very intensive, three year diplma program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC. The first year is focused on traditional mediums, great for those who are illustrators, using acrylic, watercolours, gouache, oil, etc. Second year is getting introduced to digital stuff. You get a digital camera, a new imac computer with all the software needed, plus a wacom tablet! These are all included in the tuition, which isn’t that much differnt from UofC tuition (roughly $2800-3300 per semester).
In your final third year, it’s all about preparing your portfolio and grad show!!

The teachers are all professionals who work in the industry. You might have seen my earlier posts, but founders of Hangar 18 both work as teachers. St. Bernadine, Elevator Strategy, Wasserman + Partners and Advertising, and so on. There are also illustrators like Si Huynh and Ben Tour that teaches too. The program also has a lot of connection with the local design firms which is great to get your foot in the door! Get lots of exposure.

Check out their official site at http://www2.capilanou.ca/programs/idea.html

You can also check out our grad page and see what kind of designers and illustrators are born after three years!
http://www.idea10.ca/

Or you can email me at idearabbit@yahoo.com if you have any questions from someone that actually took the program.