miki sato illustration blog

Perennial roots

For this week’s Illustration Friday word: Perennial

Perennial flowers are able to come back every year due to their roots :)

This image took some time….
Whenever I do an illustration, I usually have everything planned out (what colours go where, which fabric or paper to use for what parts, which areas should be cutout etc) but sometimes things don’t go quite as I imagined, and I would have to either redo everything… or just wing it.
Which is what I kind of ended up doing with this one.

Swear that you will stay

For this week’s Illustration Friday word: Stay

I’m hoping to participate in IF from now on.

:)

Ducks in a Row

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Eggs in One Basket

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Sweet Tooth

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And here are the three pieces that is up at Gallery Nucleus for the Baker’s Dozen group show!

Go take a look at some of the other awesome pieces here

:)

I have been invited to be in a group exhibition at the Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra California with a handful of other talented artists.

Baker’s Dozen opens this Saturday (June 11) and goes all the way to July 4th.
So if you’re in the area, please have a look-see!

The exhibit is all about idioms!
I will have 3 new images up in the show, which I will post on this blog this Saturday to coincide with the show opening.

This is the second time my work will be on display at Nucleus, the first being the Power in Numbers 4 exhibit back in December 2009. (Seriously, has it been that long?!)

The good people at Nucleus have also posted a feature about me on their blog, and a more detailed one will hopefully come soon after :)

Why hello there!

I was digging through old art files of mine, and I found something interesting… so I thought I would share!

So this happens to be a picture that I put together in my last year of high school (so in 2005).
It was in my portfolio that I used for my interview for OCAD.

It uses the paint swatch samples that you can get at a home-hardware store.
I remember grabbing a bunch of them while the people who worked at the store eyed me suspiciously.

So I guess this was my first step in using the cut-out style that I currently use  :)

As some of you may remember (or if you just scroll down to the post), I finally got around to finishing this picture!
(Wow, did I really post that sketch in February??? Time goes by crazy fast…)

The girl is actually based off of myself.
I found a picture of my sister and I when we were kids, and ended up really liking the pose.
That, along with the fact that oarfish are pretty awesome, compelled me to create this image! :)

I think I should do more illustrations of mechanical and structured things….

I have stepped into the world of stop motion animation!

This was more like a trial run to see if it was possible…. but now that I know that I can do it, I’ll probably go into something more complex next time. Maybe a walk cycle?

I’ve always had an interest in animation… enough that I was seriously considering getting it as a degree, so it’s nice to be able to merge illustration and animation together :)