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My online shop is updated with a few new items, in

Here's some fanart of 🐶🐕 This is an illustr

Here's some fanart of 🐶🐕
This is an illustration of a bunch of clickbait for women: cute dogs, cute food, a bottle of Heineken (haha) and G-rated mayhem.
I'll be selling 8x12 inch prints of this (and other stuff!) at the Meet the Maker pop-up event on Small Business Saturday at @littlesaigoncreative on Saturday, November 27th, from 9am - 4pm! Please do swing by to chat and also to give me your money. 😁
#flsseattle

When I think about ancestral healing, I think abou

When I think about ancestral healing, I think about is the stuff my mom does literally all the time, just naturally as a spiritual practice of her life. And this is interesting to me because my mom does not know the language of racial justice at all.
But she lights incense all the time. She communes with the spirit of my grandma and our other ancestors all the time — having conversations with them, asking for insight, asking for strength. She sometimes chants. She often draws from the Buddhist philosophies of healing she was taught from a young age and has practiced her entire life. She is firm and advanced in her understanding that the trauma that happened in the past — to our past selves or to our forebears — directly correlate to our current selves.
And yet her (and her people's) pro-level understanding of ancestral healing is often erased or invisibilized, especially as these concepts get more and more popular and co-opted in mainstream (white) contexts.
This is why I drew Asians here! Just wanted you to know.
Shoutout to @socalgrantmaker (by way of @pbphuong, HIIIII!), who commissioned the series this piece is a part of. It was the most freeing, humanizing process. They gave me money. And then just let me illustrate stuff based on their themes, however I wanted. Also, they didn't just give me the opportunity for this type of expression, but also to other BIPOC artists, too.

Here's an illustration I did for 512 Ramen Fest. S

Here's an illustration I did for 512 Ramen Fest. Scroll thru to check out how it evolved from concept to final.
I started illustrating professionally later in my career. I think for a while, I wanted to be taken seriously and so I spent years focused on being a 'very serious designer.' Maybe I felt that being too broad in skills would make me look like a generalist who wasn't great at anything. Just someone okay at a bunch of random stuff. Maybe I mistakenly believed that meaningful skill sets are the ones that feel hard and labor intensive. Drawing always felt too easy and joyful in comparison, that it didn't feel like a REAL THING FOR ME TO BE DOING?
But I started illustrating for-real-for-real at some point and in diversifying my skill set, it made me realize I was totally wrong about a lot of stuff. Like, I learned it's weird and not optimal to segment our creativity, because they feed each other. Illustrating makes me design better (and vice versa). I also learned that it's just better to do what you like and feel like doing!

When I was 23 years old, I was a young freelancing

When I was 23 years old, I was a young freelancing writer and had a conversation with a Seattle Times editor that still sticks with me. She told me, "One hundred percent of the time, I would rather work with someone who is less talented but who is dependable and turns things in on time, rather than work with someone who is really talented but a mess."
Plot-twist: I actually fell closer to the latter group. I was talented, but real shit at meeting deadlines early on in my career. I crashed and burned real embarrassingly hard and was so ashamed of how shitty I was to my editor — that I put in SO MUCH concerted effort toward being someone dependable, consistent, and can turn in shit (alas, not always right on time — that's still a daily struggle).
So it's with this personal context that I wrote these slides. These slides are not coming from haughty I-never-make-mistakes place. It's coming from a I-fucked-up-real-hard-and-now-am-a-little-better place. 😘

Hey friends! @ArtistReboot is raffling an 8x10 pri

Hey friends! @ArtistReboot is raffling an 8x10 print of “Space Charlie” to raise money for creatives and artists directly affected by Hurricane Ida. 100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to creatives that are displaced, lost their equipment, lost gigs, or anything they may need to reboot themselves mentally.
If you want to enter a raffle of this print, here’s how it works:
Go to the @ArtistReboot Venmo, donate a minimum of $5. ($5 = 1 Entry) VERY IMPORTANT: In Venmo add my 1. IG handle (@stacynguyencreative) in the comment box with your full name and email!
Winners will be selected and contacted on Sept. 25th Thank you and good luck!
If you cannot donate please share and help this amazing cause!

Check out the party times these little children ar

Check out the party times these little children are having in prep for Mid-Autumn Festival. I did this illo for @socolachocs, to showcase their special edition Mid-Autumn chocolates. Snatch your box up asap. Haha that sounds sexual. Ooh btw, this box has mango fish sauce flavor! I'm super excited for that one in particular. Mango with fish sauce is one of my fave things ever. Apple and shrimp paste also good! Maybe we can bug Wendy to attempt a mam ruoc chocolate flavor one day.
Buy these chocolate via link in @socolachocs's bio!

Man, I'm a little behind on all the self-promotion

Man, I'm a little behind on all the self-promotion and self-aggrandizing I wanna be doing cuz I've been so busy being important. But there's an essay I wrote about communication in creative work (just be direct with ppl, dammit!) for @thecreativeparty. I drew this little ditty to accompany it.
Read the essay and savor every word VIA LINK IN BIO.
Shoutout to @hannahers, my editor. ❤️😁❤️ She's the best. Except when we disagree.

"I hate astrology," an illustrated tale of the bur

"I hate astrology," an illustrated tale of the burden of low expectations. I hate astrology enough to take all the opportunities in public forums to talk shit about how much I think it SUCKS. This week in particular, you can hear me talking about it on @getraw_podcast. Please get acquainted with RAW (stands for Real Asian Women and that's no joke!), give it many listens, and follow them for more future goodness. (Link to my episode is in my bio.)
BTW, this illustrated video was something I did for @thesongcollective and for @asianculturalcouncil's amazing East West Fest from a few months ago. Hearts hearts hearts! (I'm typing on a computer keyboard and can't figure out emojis on this thing!)