Finland

Illustration for a article on traveling to the Lapland of Finland. The article will focus on the Saami culture and the Aurora. The middle illustration depicts Saami people's legend that the Artic fox creates a spark which lights a fire in the sky creating an aurora. The one below is a simple map of Finland.

Holiday Card

This year's holiday card illustration. The theme is Mongol!

Lucia's Light

An illustration drawn for a story in mind about St. Lucia's Day in Denmark. During Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in WWII, "[t]he tradition was directly imported from Sweden by initiative of Franz Wend, secretary of Föreningen Norden, as an attempt 'to bring light in a time of darkness'" (Wikipedia). St. Lucia herself is a saint from Italy, apparently, who was to be married to a Roman man (meaning he wasn't Christian) and she refused, and died being faithful to her belief. I looked up a little bit, but it seems a little iffy how this Italian saint became so popular in Europe.

In either rate, I thought this could be a cover of a children's story, based on this true story.

daily of some sort

"The White Wolf" revised

"The White Wolf" illustration without the title and revised a bit.

The White Wolf

Cover for "The White Wolf," a fairy tale from Andrew Lang's "The Grey Fairy Tales."

The story is kind of like the frog prince. The King is asked for a wild flower wreath for his princess, and found a white wolf with one on his head. When the King asks for the wreath, the wolf asks the King to give the wolf the next thing King sees when he is going back to the castle. The King ends up seeing his youngest daughter, and the wolf takes her away... But the wolf ends up being not what he first seemed...

If you want to know more, you can probably look the story up online. :)

Dog Sleigh

Done for an assignment to draw something I love, and something I hate. This is my "love" illustration. I love snow, so it is winter scape. I thought it would only make sense if my "hate" was a direct contrast with the one for love, so I chose "humid hot summer."