Cherry Blossom Festival Week 2!

If you missed last weeks Cherry Blossom Festival then come this upcoming weekend! The parade is on Sunday so make sure to get there early! Nanamation will be outside on Buchanan and Post so come out! The weather should be nice..hopefully.

Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town San Francisco

If you guys missed me at Wondercon then come out and see me at the Cherry Blossom Festival. This week I will be at the New People Building. Come out for some good food and great art/crafts!

Chinese Zodiac Print

After careful thought I decided to offer the Chinese Zodiac characters as print only. I have a lot of requests from fans if I would print them on shirts. It is such a gamble that I will first try them as prints and if all goes well then I may expand to merchandise.

New Shirts and New Prints

If you don't follow my Facebook or Twitter, then it might be good time to start following me for faster news and new products.

If you haven't heard the buzz, I've added some new shirts on my store site. From now until the end of March (March 31, 2011) everything in the Nanamation Store will be on sale. The new shirts will also be on sale. Yup everything!  It is a pre-show sale with show prices.


Here are some new prints that I finished in time for my upcoming shows.  Unfortunately these are not available through the site yet.

Disater in Japan

I can't find the words to write on what has happened in Japan. News has become really hard to watch these days. My husband and I decided to donate funds to the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.  Our friends were donating to JCCCNC and mentioned that one hundred percent of the donations will go directly towards citizen relief efforts in the most affected areas. However in the end it does not matter. Please just donate to your charity of choice. Thanks.

Wondercon and Cherry Blossom Festival in April

Make sure to check out my events page. I have a lot of shows coming up in April and I will have new shirts designs. The shirts go quickly so get them while you can!

Pig Chart Freebie

I love charts. They make me feel organized and it is a good way to educate someone.  I recently just finished a Chinese Zodiac Chart and a while back I did a sushi chart.

To add to my list of charts, I finished a pork chart. Ohh yeah...mmmm..bacon. I am sure there are ton of pig charts out there but I had to do a pig chart.

This one is a freebie so you can download a pretty high res from here. It will be up for a while.

Nyotaimori

Nyotaimori is referred to as a "body sushi". In other words it is a body platter. I don't know if there are restaurants in San Francisco that practice nyotaimori but I heard there was one in Los Angeles. But I also heard it also shut down because of health issues. I wouldn't be surprised. Gross dude.

Anyways I was so fascinated about this and been watching too many Lady Gaga videos so I HAD to draw about it. I feel like it is half finished so I may come back to it later. Or I may not. It was just something I to illustrate.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Nanamation wishes everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! Hope everyone has a great rabbit year. I finished my characters in time for the new year.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope everyone had a great holiday and New Year. We sure did! From the end of November to all the way to the end of December I was busy with non-Nanamation stuff. Besides the holidays, we have a lot of December birthdays in my family. Now that the holidays are over, and with it being a New Year it's time to get back to work on Nanamation artwork. I hope to be doing a lot more artwork and shows this year. There are a few out of state ones I have in mind that I hope to get into as well. Last year was a slow year for me with baby, but now that he is a toddler hopefully things will be different.

To start off with here are a few quick poop comics I did. Poop always seem to get a bad rap, when it it's so natural. I guess it has been on my mind a lot since I have a baby I clean up after. Also I can't forget the dog. Yes I pick up the dog poop and those who own dogs had better, too. That really makes me mad when I see owners who don't pick up the dog poop or pretend that they are picking it up. You know who you are! Shame on you. Ok..maybe I did it a few times but I didn't have a poop bag.

Designer Con and Sanrio

Sorry about the slow post but last week was Designer Con. We had a great time and will most likely return for next year. It was good to meet new people and see old friends.  The highlight of my LA trip was the Sanrio 50th Partay in Santa Monica. It just happened to be the same week. My husband on the other hand doesn't believe me and thought I planned it. Hey I would admit it if it was.


Here are a few pictures. You can check the rest out on my Facebook Fan Page.

Designer Con this week

I'll be at Designer Con in Pasadena this week so come look for me! It is just one day and its my first year going! We will see how it goes. Check it out - http://www.designercon.com/

I hate it when they get my drink wrong.

I got coffee today. They got my drink wrong. I got angry. So I decided to draw about it. Now I am not angry anymore. Thank goodness I have something to take out my anger.

If sushi could talk....

When I was preggo I craved sushi. I craved it so much that I drew pictures of it. Sometimes I like to imagine my food talking to me. I know. I am strange.

Here is what they would say to me.

The sushi 12x18 print will be for purchase at APE. It will be up on my site for sale shortly after the show.

2 New Prints and APE this month

I finally got around to finishing 2 new prints. It took forever but I finally finished them. I know most of you know that I gave birth last Dec and well it has been pretty hard to keep up with Nanamation. I must say this has been a slow and not so productive year. My husband says I should give myself some slack since I did after all had a baby. But I feel like its no excuse to slack on my artwork.  Anyway way I am back on a schedule that I can manage and my son is a little older things are a bit easier. Hopefully I can speed things up.

Here are my two new artworks. Also Alternative Press Expo is this month. October 16-17. Come visit me and say hello!

Zombies and Brains

Last week we threw our good friend a Zombie Birthday Party. I signed up to make red velvet cupcakes and boy did I have fun decorating. The husband even helped out with the decorating. HE had a lot of fun.

I also crochet him a Zombie Bunny to keep to the theme. Here is the sketch.

Here is the Zombie bunny!!

I wrapped it in a bag w/a Hello Kitty Zombie Bag that I made. I bought a Hello Kitty coloring book and tore one of the pages and colored the Hello Kitty in Zombie Colors.
Boy oh boy..it was a fun weekend!

Kimchee Pizza

That's right..Kimchee Pizza. When we had American food for dinner growing up, my mom would always find a way to put some Korean food into it. Back then I hated Kimchee Pizza but now I miss it.

Comics strip for Nanamation?

When I go to comic cons a lot of people ask if Nanamation will be doing any comics or stories? I usually tell people "no" because I rather do the art and I am not much of a writer. I mean, I went to art school so I can avoid writing essays. However,  a while back I did a comic book called 'Nan and the Flies' that I gave away FREE. That was pretty fun. It was basically about me as a child catching flies. I had this weird obsession with catching flies. It's a long story.

Anyway I wanted to explore that area so I decided I'll try a few this month and see where it goes.

Here is two of them....


This one is called "What's for lunch". Growing up I wanted to have such a normal sandwich lunch! Instead I always got something with rice. Typical Asian mom!

This next one is called "comfort food". My husbands comfort food was grilled cheese sandwiches.  One of mine was boiled octopus w/rice and some hot sauce of course! YUM!

Nanamation on Canvas

A Nanamation Fan emailed me about getting not just one but 2 prints in a larger form. I was really honored that I looked into it.

I got them today and they came out beautiful! I hope she likes them!

Possible new button Idea

Buttons do well for Nanamaiton. Here is one I did...I think I was waiting for my coffee or something when I did this one.