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Amazing illustrations from Asia are getting together.
Maybe the best asian illustrators portal I've ever seen. Highly recommended!
Lots of good shit.
A tremedously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere.
If you like the mix on Lines and Colors, and Drawn!, I think you'll appreciate the nice stwe of styles , genre and approaches in contemporary Asian art that the blogs' creators, Josef Lee and Sam Lay. are constantly cooking up.
Kinda like Drawn! but focusing on one continent where alot of exciting things are happening.
A great site for keeping up with new artists in Asia. I have been blown away by the quality and diversity of style of the artists they feature.
Lovely stuff
This is seriously the place to visit if you have any remotest interest in art and illustration.
an Asian drawing portal that seriously rocks
Ian Kim
Writing by Mark Joseph Deutsch on 15 Apr 2009 2:26 AM
Ian Kim
Ian Kim was born in Redondo Beach, California. He has lived in the US, Korea, Japan, Australia, and Canada. After attending the Rhode Island School of Design for one year, he graduated from New York University in 2005 with a BFA in Film and Television. He has since returned to the Los Angeles area, where he works at motion design studio, Buck.

See more of his excellent, excellent work here.
Category: Illustrations > Korea
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Stella Im Hultberg
Writing by Bel Ragay on 09 Mar 2009 8:28 AM
Stella Im Hultberg

Stella Im Hultberg is a Korean born artist who is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Her illustrations are sought after for the delicate females she draws that shows mystery and emotion. Her unique style was displayed in various exhibitions across United States with the latest one entitled "Raveled" last August 2008 in Thinkspace Art Gallery in LA, California.

Her works can be spotted on the popular removable covers by GelaSkins along side Catalina Estrada and Audrey Kawasaki. Read more about her works on her blog

Category: Fine Arts > Korea
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Sylvia Ji
Writing by Oat Montien on 26 May 2008 3:30 AM
Sylvia Ji

Stunning.

After graduating from Academy of Art University (San Francisco) with a BA, Sylvia Ji moved down to LA to take a job as a lingerie designer but satisfies her passion for painting after hours.

Born to Korean parents, Sylvia Ji and her sister grew up in artistic family. She started her interest in art from a very young age and eventually became one of today's well-known artist.

When she was asked where she get her inspirations from, Sylvia said "A lot of personal experience. And I love fashion and costumes. I visit other studios and see what other people are doing, visit other people’s studio spaces, photography, cities, every day walking around, music definitely. Sometimes, I listen to music while I paint but I get tired of it and I’ll switch to movies and watch movies while I paint."

Read more of her interview *here*
Or visit her *beautiful website* for more of her gorgeous paintings.

Category: Fine Arts > Korea
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Soa Lee
Writing by Josef Lee on 13 May 2008 4:53 AM
Soa Lee

Soa Lee is a pretty 3D illustrator from South Korea who digitally draws amazingly beautiful artworks of women. Her works have been included in EXOTIQUE, EXOTIQUE 2 and EXPOSÉ 4.

From an unknown Korean traditional animator, to a highly-prized 3D artist, Soa Lee has been consistently creating breathtaking pieces of digital illustrations even since she won the first prize at the Korea Computer Art Association, only 6 months after she took a 3D course.

Ever since her university days, Soa Lee had been curious about the workings behind a good animation model. At first she wasn't interested in computer art at all, being more a traditional cell animator, and thoroughly ensconced in the 'ink and paint'; Later on, 3D animation in Korea became very popular, as did the uptake of online game play. Anyone working within the 3D realm in Seoul was deemed to be using the technology as an adjunct to bringing the model into an animation later on.  This was her ticket into this exciting field. Soa Lee decided she had to be a part of this industry wave.

Soa Lee feels that the computer is just a means to an end. At present, she spends time experimenting with 3D spacial techniques. "I am always reminding myself that 2D and 3D software are all just tools to create great images," she says. “I always strive to produce the best images using any techniques.  I’d only use 3D software as simply a tool to create better animations.”

Soa has always been attracted to the human characters as her favorite theme. Depending on the area of the job she is doing, Soa changes her creative methods. "Faces are usually drawn by referencing," she explains. "I combine different pictures that have the facial shapes I'm looking for. I then create images from these and refer to them continuously. I take similar steps by combining various pictures in Photoshop. The images from these processes become a great sketch and these become the foundation of the 3D production. I draw manually for the detailed elements and patterns."

Read more about Soa Lee from her interview with CGSociety and CG-Node. Also see more her works in her CGPortfolio.

Category: Illustrations > Korea
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Ted Kimchee
Writing by Bel Ragay on 26 Apr 2008 8:25 AM
Ted Kimchee

Ted Kim, also known as Ted Kimchee or Seoulman is a concept artist and illustrator born and raised in Canada with extensive work in the video game industry since 2000. He has contributed to a number of published titles including Cel Damage, Cel Damage Overdrive (UK), Full Auto and Full Auto 2: Battlelines working as Lead Concept Artist for some of them.

His most recent work is a tribute to the well-loved Capcom characters: The Street Fighters Tribute book alongside great comic artists such as Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell, and Sean Galloway.

Aside from working on freelance projects with Imaginary Friends Studios and other companies, he likes to create personal artworks that he sells on his website store and also in Facebook.

Category: Concept Arts > Korea
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