Christmas Advent 16

A snowball for today's advent :)

Christmas Advent 12

Today is my birthday! I wished for rabbits but real rabbits poop a lot so I drew this 2 who are poop free :) Hope you're having a nice start of the week

Christmas Advent 5

It's Monday but I'm already tired :( I think it's because it's almost the end of the year and because the days are getting shorter and shorter. I'm really looking forward to the Christmas Holidays.

Lettering for Christmas cards - new video

Hi everyone - like every Thursday, today I have a new video on my YouTube channel. In this video I'm going to show you how I created the lettering for the Christmas cards I designed this year to send to my friends and family. 

Until a few years ago, I'd never even considered buying Christmas cards because that's not traditional in my home country. When I was little I'd help my mum to make birthday cards using white ink on tracing paper, but we never had Christmas cards.

Christmas has always been my favourite holiday of the year, so now that I'm a designer I enjoy the process of creating cards for my loved ones. I've also grown to love going to the post office and I think that in this era of virtual things, it's very personal to handwrite a note or a message on a card that I designed.

I hope you enjoy the video! And please subscribe to my channel :)

These are the cards I designed!

Snow forest

Here's my design for this week's colour collective. I'm trying to use different colour palettes in my illustrations but it's difficult to break old habits! I'll try to keep on working on that. Have a nice weekend :)

Hot air balloons

Happy Friday everyone! It's colour collective time and this week's colour is Orange and it inspired me to create this colourful piece :)  

Rabbit in the snow

White rabbits everyone (that's what you say at the beginning of the month in England, I've been told)! It's funny that in many countries with seasons September marks the start of autumn but here in HK, we only have 2 seasons: extremely hot and a little bit chilly. Even though many shops are selling coats, scarfs,  boots, etc the temperature here will be around 30 degrees until December. I miss having snow, even if only for a little while (2 weeks of white thick snow would be perfect and then sunshine please). So that's my inspiration for this month's Pinch Punch Post. 

Here're some bunny sketches 

Sunflower garden

Hello! I know many of you are having a sad day so I hope this illustration helps you to cheer up a little bit :) 

Christmas advent - 19

A rabbit for today's advent :)

Colour collective - Silver

I've finally got a little time to work on a personal piece. 

Ice cream

Hello there, sorry for the lack of posts, I'm trying to rethink what I should blog about... in the meantime, here's a banner I designed for my lovely agent's website >>>here<<< - there're a few other banners from other artists as well rotating randomly there :) I hope you like ice-cream as much as I do!

Japan

Yay! I'm going to Japan tomorrow, I'm sooo excited that my heart is racing like crazy. I have so many things planed to do and animals to pet :) 

New year resolution

Hello and happy new year! I hope you're having a fantastic year so far. My resolution for 2015 was to open a Facebook page, something I've been thinking about for a while. I would be thrilled if you liked and followed me here  https://www.facebook.com/cocogigidesign 

OMG - I won!

Oh I'm sooo excited! I won the tigerprint cute character competition, yay!... I've never won anything before - not that I can remember- and it means a lot to me because it's something I did from scratch with my own hands and with lots of love (and maybe some tears). 

These are the other entries I submited for the contest, I was a little sad that they weren't shorlisted but everything turned out well :) yay!