Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1) I know you probably talked about this million times. But for the audience who is now encountering and fascinated by your work for the first time, can you speak briefly about your happy accident in finding your signature style/work method? It happened when you were an art student in [...]

I’ll be moderating Sue Coe’s lecture at the SI this Wednesday. As I’m sure EVERYONE knows here, she’s a brilliant mind in our field and I can’t wait to meet her in person and hear what she has to say. Hope you can make it! http://societyillustrators.org/upcoming/coe.cms Fernanda

Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1) You have a degree in Biology from college in Korea, and went onto work at a lab. Then you moved to UK to study illustration. Can you talk about your big life-change? I was always a doodler and even in the lab I was drawing on flasks, cell medium [...]

About a month ago I got an email from Steve Brodner inviting me to a lecture he was organizing at SVA, where we both teach. He was asking me to participate by sending him images of alternative illustration jobs I’d done. I must confess I was a bit confused, although very flattered, because there was [...]

Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1)  When we hear your name, we immediately think of your prolific and multiple award winning children’s book career. But you first broke into the world of illustration from nightclub scene, then to whole bunch of jazz album covers. I am curious to know if you ‘fell’ into children’s books [...]

Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1) I read that when you were in art school, you were initially thinking of becoming a concept artist for film.  It is hard to imagine that past from your current work. Can you talk a bit about your artistic transition? In school, one of my first drawing teachers was [...]

Hola friends. I recently did a podcast interview with Thomas from Escape from Illustrator Island. It’s a part of Illustration Mundo that deals with resources and fun stuff for illustrators and artists. Thomas and I covered the topics of how Illustration Friday got it start and where it’s headed… how I got started as an [...]

Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1) It has been a long time since people started talking about “photography replacing illustration” but you seem to be busier than ever! We are all fascinated by your work that they are more real than what photos can capture; George W. Bush tearing up in regret, Beethoven as a [...]