Category — Illustration

Free Vectors website Vecteezy has a vector file featuring a Japanese Geisha character. It looks pretty good on a tshirt as they show, but as a free download, you can place it where you like.

Get the Japanese Geisha Vector file at Vecteezy

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Vecteezy has a vector file of five traditional japanese kokeshi dolls free to download for creative types interested in Japanese culture. The dolls are wearing colorful kimonos embroidered with patterns.

Download the Kokeshi Vector file at Vecteezy

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Previously posted super artist Jason Chan gets a piece of his work into Playboy.

Check out Jason’s blog

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China Daily posts an article and interview with the Hong Kong-born illustrator Siuhak. 34 year old Siuhak’s work is seen in MTR stations, advertisements and magazines around Hong Kong.

He takes pride in the distinctive style he developed as a comic illustrator with his soft-color illustrations often appearing at first like doodle art. With closer inspection, Siuhak’s works are strikingly perceptive – his advertising illustrations appear iconic, as they communicate their message simply but succinctly.

Read more on China Daily’s article on Siuhak : An Illustrative Career

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Japan’s design website Shift interviews Hong Kong illustrator extraordinaire Carrie Chau. Its on the back of her recent “Indigo Child” exhibition at Causeway Bay and I’m so gutted it closed before we arrived in Hong Kong to get a chance to see it.

Shift interviews Carrie Chau

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Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based artist Thu Tran creates magic-marker character drawings, plush landscape installations, and glass birthday cakes. Its the landscapes that have caught my attention!

More on LostAtEMinor

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Fans of previously posted SKAFFS might be interested in these awesome life sized fabric wall adhesives of Mai, Kia and Liana. SKAFFS has joined up with Big Wall Graphics to create these giant fabric adhesives which measure 48″ x 32″.

They also include additional FREE Bonus artwork:

• One Medium Sized Mai Graphic (13″ x 13.5″)
• One Laptop Cover Graphic (10.4″ x 8.5″)
• Two mini Mai Graphics
• Three Flower Graphics
• One Kindle™ Cover
• One Skaffs Logo Graphic

Further details at www.skaffs.com. Available now.

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Anyone in need of a Chinese-style dragon motif can download this design for free. It’s from the excellent vector resource website Vecteezy.

Download the Dragon vector from Vecteezy

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This tshirt design shows what happens to clumsy ninjas. Same could be said of samurai too.

Via The Awesomer

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Illustrator Travis Coburn created this piece for Discovery Network used in the promotion of a Ted Koppel documentary on China’s emerging middle class.

TavisCoburn.com

Via Pop Wuping

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