Birthday card for a special friend

Birthday doodle card for a friend who loves sunflower and mini dachshund :)

Merida from Brave

My first tryout of a Disney princess. Just love her red hair!

New Website!

Didn't realize till a few days ago that Apple had ended the service of mobile me. So my old website was down for about a week already. What a bummer! :(  Good thing is now I'm forced to update my website and recognized stuff. After 2 days of working, the new site is now up and running!

www.christinecsart.com

Check it out and I'll keep updating the content. (So far I'm still working on the portfolio part lol)

work in progress

It's been quite a while since I did a landscape. This one is personal, and I finally had time in between projects to really sit down and planned it through. It's like rediscovering something familiar with a new perspective. I started with watercolor and switched to charcoal, acrylic and pastel. Just to try out how they work together. Maybe I'll even play with some gouache and ink later. So far I'm having a lot of fun :)

Finished!:)

Agent status update

Work updated @ WendyLynn & Co.

Latest story on FarFaria is released :)

My second story The Great Battle of the Kiddie Pool
is out on FarFaria this weekend.
This is a very fun project. It's about two kids playing in the kiddie pool and let their imagination take them to a great adventure on the sea. 
Read more about the story on FarFaria's blog

Gecko :)

A doodle of my friend's little gecko.
Pencil on paper, colored in photoshop.

My baby sister

My sister's turning 24! How amazing! And she's also a bride to be! Time flies! It's going to be a great year for her. May her life filled with love, joy, and awesome adventures.
Happy birthday北鼻 <3

Big Bad Wolf

Little doodle during break time :)
Pencil and photoshop.
Big bad wolf putting on granny's pj.

Little Mice, Big Elephants

My first story, Little Mice, Big Elephants is published on FarFaria, a great children's book app on iPad. 

Check it out ! It's a lot of fun :)

Meet Henry

An early stage of my character design in the story Little Mice, Big Elephants.
Later on I changed the medium from cold press watercolor paper, watercolor and pastel to hot press, watercolor and pen & ink.
So the look of Henry changed, but I personally like this version of the little guy a lot.

A little series

Can't believe this is my first post this year! I guess life had been very busy lately that I finally get to sit down and do some update.
Moving down to LA 2 month ago was a big decision, and I've been doing some job hunt since then. Did a project for Intuary Inc. which is a children's book app on iPad called FarFaria  (will update that once the story get published) and finally signed a contract with a children's book agency.
I'm also planing on doing something for myself, a series of illustration from the old classic fairy tale. Hopefully that will keep me occupied while doing freelancing .
Here's a sneak peek of the working project :)

The Frog Prince

JoJo's Cover

After a dramatic break down of my laptop, I thought I was going to lose the file to this cover. Thanks to the computer people in Taiwan. Took them about 2 weeks to run the system and read the files. And finally today I received the hard drive!
Will be working on the final pages at last. Cheers!  

Mini Christmas Decor

Mini Penguin 2"x 1.5"x 2"
available at my Etsy shop

Teddy Bear with Scarf

But Mommy....

As an Asian kid living in the city, there were a lot of questions about Santa that were never answered...Mom used to say Santa was too busy sometimes so he asked my parents to get us gifts...and I totally bought it XD

Please vote for Christine Chang @ Anata Gallery

http://www.anatagallery.com/#!exhibition

For the cover of their gallery book.Thank you and I really appreciated it!

Back from my weddings

What a year! I'm finally back from my weddings from CA to IL, FL, and to our last stop, Taiwan. Hopefully soon I'll be relocated and have a bigger working space. Life is at the turning page now :)

A touch of my design at our wedding at Disney FL

Since I'm a big fan of Disney, getting married at Disney World was just a dream came true.
It's hard not to put extra Disney in little things through out the whole celebration, and an illustrator gotta do what an illustrator does :) Working hard like always!
I'm really thankful for every single person that made the day possible. Big thanks to Kim Zgonena's Kustom Kreations for adjusting and printing out all my designs.
Chicago Wedding Planner Big City Bride. My awesome mother-in-law, Susan. Our photographer Robin Sloan from Riverbend Studio, and my dearest family and friends that witnessed our big day.

Wedding invitation and the bridal bouquet

Guest's gift bags and custom printed stuff in the bags featuring our wedding logo.

Wedding ceremony program

I also did the dinner menu and placing cards for the reception. The guests would match their name cards with the table cards featuring my favorite Disney couples. Menu and station cards
would just have to be Remy from Ratatouille :)

I Do Wedding Cake Topper :)

For our wedding party at Woodstock, I made the cake topper for thecake.
The bride and groom plus our cats, Charcoal and Missy.
It's made with super sculpey, baked for about 30 mins, colored with acrylic paint, finished with acrylic glazing medium.
I do cake topper too :)

Designing wedding invitation

Designing Disney wedding invitation for my own wedding this year :)