Assa Ariyoshi

Farm Animals

2012-02-13T04:44:00.000-08:00

Poster I made about genetically manipulated animals (click to enlarge!)

Here some black and white try outs.

Little White Lies

2012-01-29T15:04:00.000-08:00

Drawing I made for the Little White Lies magazine cover competition.

The assignment was to pick a movie from a given selection of titles and make a portrait of the main character.

I chose to go with Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy and made a portrait of Gary Oldman with eye measurement glasses (not sure if that's the correct term but how else would you describe it?).

I thought the orange and brown would give it more of a 70's feel.

Een Rijk Alleen - Book illustrations

2012-01-21T08:31:00.000-08:00

In January 2012 Niels Gerson Lohman's debut novel 'Een Rijk Alleen' got published in the Netherlands.
It's a wonderful coming of age story about some very heavy subjects but written in a light and sensitive way.
I got the pleasure to illustrate each chapter with a small black and white drawing and ended up making 34 illustrations.
Together with Niels I also created the book cover.
I aimed for the subjects of my illustrations to evolve along with the main character of the book.
Published by Nijgh & van Ditmar.

Buy the book here!

Here are some of my favorites and the book cover.

Tampopo

2012-01-10T16:41:00.000-08:00

Some sketches inspired on the amazing Japanese noodle western 'Tampopo'
A definite must see for lovers of Japanese food and handsome men in suits slurping noodles.

Next time instead of making sunny side up eggs for your lover in the morning you might want to try this out

instead of using the heimlich manoeuvre why not use a vacuum cleaner?

Maison Rika

2011-12-08T08:54:00.000-08:00

After drawing on Rika's pop up store window I was asked to make them an invitation to their new guest house Maison Rika

The Bloody Chamber

2011-12-04T05:46:00.000-08:00

These are my submissions for the Folio Society illustration competition.
The book to be illustrated was The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter.
Lovely but very grim and poetic fairytales for adults.
The chosen stories were Puss in boots, In company of wolves and The bloody chamber.
So here are the illustrations for the short stories and the cover design.

More Laundry

2011-10-18T14:55:00.000-07:00

follow up on "Laundromat"

Laundromat

2011-09-25T16:59:00.000-07:00

Since I moved to London I have been doing my laundry at the laundromat

Rika Window

2011-09-14T09:27:00.000-07:00

For the new RIKA outlet store in Amsterdam I did a few window illustrations.
They also featured me on their blog !

Here some pictures

Fish for Dinner

2011-08-04T12:07:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been enjoying working with paper, so here some imaginary fish

I was inspired by this necklace I got for my last birthday

Beard Man

2011-07-17T14:02:00.000-07:00

How wonderful it would be if all men had glitter beards

A dragon is the best present

2011-06-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

When I was 9 I made a painting of a dragon and it's still on the wall in my old room
My little brother is obsessed by the painting and has been nagging me to make a drawing with a dragon for him
I'm not a big fan of neon colors combined with fantasy figures anymore but I did promise him a drawing so this is what I made

The Horsy Who Lost His Head

2011-05-29T12:08:00.000-07:00

I wrote a little story about a horse who unfortunately lost his head
his friend Pauly helps him out but maybe he was a little bit too charitable.

Falconry

2011-05-22T08:49:00.000-07:00

For a school project I interviewed a falconer in Belgium, he has 20 birds at home varying from huge American eagles, eagle owl's (aka bubo bubo), griffon vulture (aka gyps fulvus) and small falcons.
I talked with him about the characters of his birds and his relationship with them.

I ended up making 4 portraits

Dominique with his birds

Sketches

ELLE

2011-05-22T08:07:00.000-07:00

A bit late but I still wanted to show you my publication in ELLE magazine!

http://cargocollective.com/assaariyoshi/#1109272/ELLE-Magazine

Have You Seen Me ?

2011-03-19T15:33:00.000-07:00

After writing a short story I made a little sequence illustrating the story

It's about 2 people trying to find each other in completely different worlds

Hope you enjoy it!

i love illustration

2011-03-14T11:31:00.000-07:00

I was recently featured on a wonderful website called iloveillustration with my ELLE publication

Check it out!

link

Love Explosion

2011-03-14T02:15:00.000-07:00

Here you can see some of my sketches I made for my 'Love' poster

Memories

2011-01-16T05:25:00.000-08:00

When I was little I used to keep things in a box that meant a lot to me
Here some drawings

Dancing with lions

2010-10-19T14:42:00.000-07:00

For Stichting Museum Nacht (Museum Night) I made a drawing about the Flemish Culture house in Amsterdam.

Together with 6 other designs it will be displayed at the Central Station of Amsterdam for a year!

See my interview here (Dutch!)

see more pictures: n8 Edits - Dancing With Lions

Fontanel

2010-05-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

The boys at Fontanel wrote a little piece about me and my new website

Click!

BLEND Magazine

2010-05-16T23:02:00.000-07:00

Quite recently I had an interview for BLEND magazine filling 6 pages together with 5 other talents!

picture by Elza Jo styling by Sonny Groo

Bless!

New Website

2010-01-16T05:06:00.000-08:00

I just finished my website so I will not be using this blog anymore to post my work but as it's meant to be, a blog.
So from time to time I will post messages of whatever it is I am working on.

Please take a look at my brand new website!

http://assaariyoshi.com/

Workspace

2010-01-16T05:02:00.000-08:00

the studio of Anothercomapany is almost finished!
and it's starting to look wonderful, located across the central station of Amsterdam.
I started making drawings on the window of the workspace, it's still in progress but I think it's going to look great.

Freakshow Flyer

2009-08-05T06:28:00.000-07:00

because freaky deaky's need love too

Tea

2008-11-30T10:14:00.000-08:00

This was a personal project where I made a fragile tea cup & pot made out of wax