les changements

hello. bonjour. konnichiwa. in order to up my creativity quotient, i have started a new website to separate the illustration work i do to entertain myself as opposed to my professional illustration. my personal work can be seen in a bare bones website i am still working on called cybelicious. and i have a new blog to go with it. my illo friday images and other experimentation will be shown on the new blog and website. this blog will return to what it was orginally; more about my professional work with the occasional commentary about my love of new york city and travel.

kapalua bay

(you can click on the above pic for a larger view)

i was dismayed to see this new york times' article about the kapalua bay resort on maui getting ready to be mowed down and built into timeshares. not that i could ever afford to stay in such a place, but i think it's unfortunate that such a lovely piece of architecture is being torn down. and a hotel gives the average joe more of a chance to experience a glamourous bit of hawaiian paradise than a timeshare does.
the reason i even know about this place is because i did some work for starwood hawaiian hotels a few years back and was flown out to the hotels and resorts i was to illustrate. it was a great job in that way because, having never been to hawaii before, i could not possibly understand what it feels like to be there through the stay-at-home kind of research. this resort's central building was built in the '70s and is modern, but i think it would have stood the test of time. there are no doors or windows and as you walk into the lobby, you feel little removed from all the surrounding nature. also, the buildings are set way back from the water, so if you go down to the beach or just sit on the lawn, you don't have a big building hovering over you.
anyway, i was sad to hear something pretty, albeit mostly only attainable for the upper crust, was being replaced by something unpretty and still for the wealthy.

illo 금요일 - speed

this is a doodle that i did yesterday and today while researching for a new project i'm doing for the texas roller girls.

***i have reposted this image because i just noticed blogger is converting my GIFs to JPGs. ew! vector work looks horrid via JPGs, so i am no longer loading my images through their image loader until i can figure out why it's working that way.

weekend sketches