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Dragon Weekend

Design Obake. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:57:24 +0000

Happy Early Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the dragon and considered to be one of the luckiest animals/creatures. May the year of 2012 be a year of prosperity, health and love!

Here’s of what I’ve been up to. ^-^

Nona Shopping List memo pads. Printed on 70lb linen paper. Super Awesome, super cute!

Bubble Boy postcards.

All available here

Day Job

Design Obake. — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:00:59 +0000

I clearly lack the motivation to blog once a week. I’m working the grown up gig now. Doing 9-5 at a big publishing firm. But I vow to you, 2012 will be a better year of updates. Here’s the first post of the year filled with lots of sketches. (and some finals) ♥

Professor Buttface says… Series

I’ll be putting prof. buttface in a series of illustrations based off of famous quotes in books.

First up is Candide. “Excellently observed,” answered Candide; “but let us cultivate our garden.”

X-Files and Me

I recently brought season 1 of the X-files. So I decided to make a mini comic about it. This is the first 2 panels. HA. Text is TK.

Bacon hair Grandma

Sweater Boy

And I made a facebook page. LIKE IT if you’re awesome!

https://www.facebook.com/MerryHappyStudios

Hello Again. Goodbye Summer

Design Obake. — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:14:11 +0000

Pages of my sketchbook

“Little Riding Hood All in Black” Pen Sketch

“Sexy Nerd Squid is Fine & Dandy” Sharpie Sketch

“I’m King for a Day…at Medieval Times” Pen on paper, colored in Illustrator

And now to the new stuff I’ve been making!

I know some of you have seen the Bread and Olives bag already and I would like to introduce you all to the I like Saltines bag. Yum! Loved saltines with milk as a kid. You can get these lovely little items at my etsy or bigcartel.

NEW ETSY: www.etsy.com/shop/merryhappystudios

BIGCARTEL: www.merryhappystudios.bigcartel.com

Jump

Design Obake. — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:01:42 +0000

Let’s Dance Sir!

The moment

Design Obake. — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:20:27 +0000

A bit in love with Mumford & Sons right now.

New

Design Obake. — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:09:06 +0000

Why hello there. It’s the dessert midgets re-imagined into a much cuter look.

And in charm form. I’m planning on making these into cell phone straps and necklaces. It’s going to be a busy busy summer! Thank god for summer fridays.

Except for the fact that I end up going shopping every week. Whether for art supplies, books or clothes I waste those fridays.

More eye candy. These earring are handmade from start to finish.

Who wants to be my test subject and test these out? heheh

Peer Pressure

Design Obake. — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:50:51 +0000

I caved & got a tumblr a month ago. Damn you peer pressure.

http://designobake.tumblr.com/

New Character post

Design Obake. — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:41:27 +0000

I’ve always strayed from drawing and creating animal characters because I have a bias towards drawing cute fuzzy animals. Secretly I was also scared that what I created would be so influenced by other graphics I see out there that it would become a blur, unrecognizable and another character we can throw upon a pile. Ex) Monkeys. Tons out there. Most memorable one would be Paul Frank/Tony Millionaire but then there are companies likes Aeropostale and billions of other tween companies that have monkey’s.

My usual dose of characters all have a food obsession and wear it for fashion. So after doing some paintings for the gallery project back in February I realized how animals and my human characters can go hand in hand. Half of the characters created for that show were influenced by Chinese Folk Art. (Piggie painting and tiger felt plush) So I took my paintings and decided to digitally illustrate them. First in the series is the piggie and I’ve been playing with her for a few weeks now. It would be great if I can somehow incorporate my original plans to make the colorful lines in the black costume fluorescent. I dropped a teaser on my flickr of her last week to compare it to the painting but here I am formally introducing my newest character…

There’s a back story to her. For now it might not be visible only for copyright/tracing reasons. But I’m planning on illustrating a little picture book with her in it and I have some vinyl stickers in the works. I already have some glossy note cards printed and in the mail coming to me so I can upload some pictures this weekend. Yay! I’m so excited my head might explode. I just want some personal time to push out all the ideas in my head onto paper.

Old Lady Cards

Design Obake. — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:02:35 +0000

I just got my order of professionally printed Olive Cards in the mail.

And now you can own a set!

Check my etsy or click the picture.

Gallery Project

Design Obake. — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:10:22 +0000

This past Saturday I was lucky enough to participate in a little meeting of creative minds. For 6 months my coworkers and I have been thinking and actively creating art just for the sake of art. No clients, no pressure, just a return to our roots back in our college days. For me, just like the college days I procrastinated till the last minute. I panicked in December and brought massive amounts of supplies. My mind was all over the place. Some ideas were too big to be completed by the February deadline so I focused on painting. I actually did 2 paintings midway and then abandoned it and started new. In the end I had 3 completed paintings and 1 sewn felted plushie. And I’m in the midst of starting another painting and have a idea to felt another creature as well. Thanks to my art director Kirk Benshoff for coming up with the idea and setting it all up. If not I would’ve never picked up a paintbrush again. All in all, it was a great night and I was dead tired by 10.

Here are some pictures I managed to take

Typography paintings by Ben

Aprons sewn by Tracy

Paintings by Maria

Lego Buildings x Works by Jonathan

Paintings by Alison

Paintings x Feltie by Yours Truly

More pics to come!