photoshop Lego spaceship

I took a picture of my son's Lego spaceship that he made, and added a background just for fun. He was pretty psyched.

Illustration Friday - stitch

Stitch!

Christmas is sometimes a silly one...

Merry Christmas everyone.

bride

This is from a big huge pile of work I did for Oxford University Press - English as a Second Language program of some sort.
This will end up being super tiny on the page in the final product, but I thought I'd post a much larger version to my blog.
I dunno, I kinda like the way this one turned out. I cut the groom out because he looked sort of dorky.

My LIttle Monster Children's book

I just wanted to announce that the book I illustrated recently is now available.
It's a customizable children's book, where you upload your picture, and you become the character in the book.
It's called "--your name-- and My Little Monster". There are 4 different books available, but I only illustrated this one.
Creative, interesting idea.
I thought I should let people know, just in case they are looking for some kind of Christmas present idea. This particular book is being marketed to parents and pet owners.

check it out...

Flattenme.com - My Little Monster

The site allows you to flip through the whole book.
As far as illustration jobs go, it was probably the most enjoyable job I have done this year.

So if you wanted to order one of these from flattenme.com, there's 8 days left in order to get it on time (for Christmas).

- j. elston

Illustration Friday - superstition

Black cat...

Chimp

Here's a chimpanzee.
... from the project I'm working on right now. Book 7 in a 10 book series from Scholastic.
j.

paintings

Here are some paintings I did at a conference in Orlando this past weekend. Please excuse the crappy photo quality, I only had my cell phone camera with me.

Wakeboarding photos

wow... these are pictures of me circa 2000 or 2001 or so...
I was at Shaun Murray and Gerry Nunn's house, and a girl on the boat had a real nice camera with a super tele-photo zoom lens. I look back at those days and they almost seem like a dream. Nowadays, I live in PA, I am in my late 30s and I am in the throes of parenthood. There isn't a lake anywhere around Johnstown. Well there are a few reservoirs and whatever, mostly used for fishing. No watersports scene at all in this region.

I miss those days.

I went wakeboarding on the Delaware river earlier this summer, but now I'm all sluggish and out of shape, and I can't do half of what I used to be able to do.



btw, I did the illustration on the board I'm riding in the picture
j.

Goliath

I just finished a huge pile of illustrations for Lifeway Christian Resources. Here's Goliath, and a measuring tape to show how tall he was (9 feet I think).

Taiwan in the 70s

These are my siblings (all except my younger brother who wasn't born yet) and my Grandma and Grandpa Chen somewhere in Taiwan, in 1971 or '72, I'm not sure...

I'm the littlest one in the picture (with Grandma)

I restored the heck out of this photo in Photoshop.


j.

more cyberbullying

Another illustration for the Plugged in Article.

Jesus Teaching on a hillside

Apostle Paul

cyberbully

here's a magazine cover I did for Plugged In magazine. The article is about the ever-growing problem of cyber-bullying.

My Little Monster Children's book

here's a spread from a children's book I illustrated for Flattenme, a new company that makes customized children's books-- by inserting your photo into a character in the book. It's cool. Check it out.
The book I illustrated is called "(your name) and My LIttle Monster".
I think it's due out in the fall sometime.

j.

bunny

illustration

here's an illustration from book #3 of a book series I'm illustrating for Scholastic.
I'm sure they'll change the colors around and stuff to fit with the color scheme of the book when it gets printed.
whatever.

Pink

Here's a drawing I did in church.

Mr. Liang animation

silly flash animation I did. Based on an old Chinese man we met about 20 years ago at a Taiwanese baseball game. My brother Ed did the voice.
j.