Collection: Yuka Girls

"Christmas Girl #1 - Sketch"

My first time as a exhibitor at APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco became such a wonderful experience!! Thank you for Mary and Rachel my colleague, fellow artists and friends!!

I couldn't have done it with out them.

 

Zipper - Not Pizza

by Ben Seto

Thank you Ben!!! :D

"Sadie"

Water color & Color pencil

09/06/2012

THANK YOU for everyone!

It's my 31st Birthday today, and I am re-starting my blog today!
(Yes, it's been a while...)

It's personal but I AM HAPPILY DIVORCED NOW!!! Yay! :D SO HAPPY to be YUKA HARADA again!!

Still teaching (tutoring) at the Academy of Art University, and I am starting my 4th year this Fall semester.

Still illustrating too. I will have my very first table at APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco this year, with two wonderful girls, Rachel and Mary. We all graduated from AAU and now teach there too.

I'm hoping to see many of you at APE or AAU. 


Love,
YUKA & ZIPPER

Good bye Cleveland

One lady from AG offered me a ride to the airport.
Zipper really liked her, and she really liked him too.
It was really sweet of her to offer.

Thank you so much! > G

Last day at work

Time passes so quickly when you're having fun.

Can you believe this?
Two ladies from the conventional team organized a surprise farewell party for me!! I had no idea! Donuts, fruits, cookies, bagel, muffins, quiche...

Thank you sooooo much!!! > Connie & Cynthia ♥

This guy even baked blueberry muffins! :D
It was surprisingly good.
Thanks! > J

This lady made this delicious bite-size quiche.
Thank you! > T

My two bosses.
Thank you! > D & J


...and THANK YOU for everyone!

I had such a great time at American Greetings this summer.

(This was my way to say "thank you" for the team.)
(This was another way.) I was there for only 10 weeks, but it took me a few extra hours to clean and empty my cube.

Good bye American Greetings!
Good bye Cleveland!
I would love to be back one day!

Musical "She loves me"

Another weekend, I went to see a musical called "She loves me" at a small theater called rabbit run theater. It was a cute little theater, and the show was great! The main character was performed by one of the card planner I worked with at AG, and I went there with couple other people from AG too.

Thank you! > E & D

Photo with the star of the night.

You were great! > B

Museum and Chinese food

This one weekend, I went to the Cleveland museum of art with my friends.We had no idea, but they had the Asian Family Festival Day!
And then, we went to a Chinese restaurant.

It was so good!

We had a good time.

As you see, we really had a good time! lol
V & G

V & Me

They are awesome! :D

Dave & Buster's

2009 Summer Interns
(Not all of them. Only some.)

American Greetings took all the summer interns to a place called Dave & Buster's one day. I had no idea what kind of place it was at first, and then someone told me that this place is like Chuck E' Cheese's. I thought I was too old for that, and wanted to stay at work, doing more card planning. However, my boss and the mentor encouraged me to go, and I did.

I am so glad I did!
As you see in the photos, I had lots of fun!
(...and tickets!)
My new friend Aletha gave me her tickets so I have enough tickets to get THIS!
A pink poodle note book! :D

Thank yoooou Aletha!

ICHIRO

A HERO from JAPAN!

The Seattle didn't win...
but ICHIRO was still awesome!

It was very exciting to see him.

Indians vs Seattle Mariners

This one day, the AG took all the interns to an Indians game.

I am not a huge sports fun, but it was alright. I sure enjoyed seeing ICHIRO, having three hot dogs and BEER! :D

(It was a dollar-hot-dog day!)

ICHIROOOO!

Flowers

Weekend project! :D
Wait and see what I am going to do with these flowers.

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett
by
YUKA


...I miss my scanner and the wacome tablet!

Dancing

V & G
Dancing

My old (age) goofy friend

We are such good friends!
Aren't we? >Garth

LOL

Farmer's Market

I also went to the farmer's market last week.
Yes, it was a very hot day!
Can you see Zipper's cute pink tough sticking out?
It was such a fun day!
(I am very sure you can see that from this pic. lol)
I met a few people from AG at the farmer's market.
One of them actually recognized me because of Zipper.

This was the fanciest pop-corn I ever had in my life!
Soooo yummy! :)