A few posters!

Since I'm an officer for SOI (Society of Illustrators) student chapter at my school I've been making a bunch of posters so I thought why not share them.  I actually spend a little too much time on some of these. haha

Cut paper process

So I recently picked up this method so it's been lots and lots of experimenting this semester!


I make everything at half size of original.  I make a tight drawing, flip it, trace it on colored cardstock paper, and then cut it out.  Then glue whatever pieces together and draw in the small details!  This is always the fun part for me.

Then onto photographing.

For this page, I decided to give it a digital background instead of cutting out all the trees.  (because of time! Or else I would've cut those trees out!)

I also added a 'canvas' texture to this one.

This one's still a work in progress so the colors will be changing.


And who knows if I come up with a different process again!  I'm always experimenting.  

Lovesauruses

Happy Valentines Day!

This is one of my really graphic illustrations.  So for anyone who knows me, they know I'm obsessed with Stegosauruses.  I normally color them in teal and pink but I went for a "little boys color scheme"


Make it a nibble on hearts and feast on chocolates kinda day!

Guardian of the Moon

Guardian of the Moon
Mixed Media
10 x 14

This was a piece I submitted to the Society of Illustrator's Student Competition.  It's all cut paper on painted wood. 
I ended up having to rush the gluing part so it could've been neater...
90% of the stuff I do are experimental so it's always tough trying to scope out how long stuff would take.  But I'm extremely happy with this piece and I'm definitely going to keep working this way. (Though I'm sure it's going to take me a few days for my hand to recover from this piece... haha)

Darker theme than my usual stuff.  I needed a little break from sugar, pink and cute animals. haha.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! 

Holiday season never gets easier while working retail... It was so brutal.  It's over now and Im enjoying my day off. 

It was nice to see a white Christmas for once too.  Its been a while. 

 A few cards in the making.  I was so busy I didn't get to hand them out before Christmas though! :(

 I didn't get to go home for Christmas so I made myself dinner (veggie saute in tomato sauce and herbs with sausage) and gingersnap cookies!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and stay warm!
 

Restart!

So for whoever was following Harustrations, I changed my name and started all over.

I imported everything so the look is all the same, just my name and email changed. 

My username on twitter is now @HaruIllustrates now!

I struggled through Harustrations a lot.  I really liked it but there was a lot of people saying it's difficult to pronounce so.. I had to let it go.

So, Welcome to Haruka Illustration!
I'll make a new banner soon.
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A little update:
My semester ended last friday and I've already been practically working full time at my retail job.  The holidays really gets the shoppers shopping!

Meanwhile, I finished reading "Start Something That Matters" by Blake Mycoskie. 
 It's an excellent read.  I seriously recommend it.  Maybe it'll change your life like it changed mine.

I suddenly have new dreams now and I'm really excited about it.  My ideas and goals keep changing throughout the year so we'll see how things go after graduation I guess. 

 

Shoutout to Neenah Paper!

So I'm putting together a self promotion packet that I can send out to clients/companies in the future and this is one a calendar. (that folds up like an accordion fold out that fits into a CD case)

I was researching some papers (in the future I'll probably try samples for other paper companies) but I ordered some Neenah paper samples as well as proofs of this illustration on their paper.

and I must say I'm CRAZY impressed.  They even sent me a discount code -- and guess what.  I'm definitely buying some of their paper. (I also have a gross obsession with paper so that doesn't help haha)

I'm going to take a picture of the finished packet in the near future! :)