New website!

It's been a month in the making, but I'm finally ready to launch my new website for my medical and scientific visualization portfolio! I really wanted to showcase my work based on projects so that I could include my process and any additional images that are related to the final piece. I really love it when artists post their process so I hope you will enjoy looking at mine! :)

Anyway without further ado, click to visit my portfolio !

About the design - I ended up matching it to my current blog layout. I drew a lot of inspiration from squidfinger's simple, but effective website, North Kingdom's archive page, and of course, this blog layout template.

I've been tired of my Flash website for quite some time, but didn't have the time/courage to pick up html/css/php. I finally felt up to the task last month and managed to finish my site by stealing the code off Julie and Bea with the help of some friends. I also learned a lot about why web designers/developers rage about IE all the time. IE really enjoys breaking everything. So much so that I considered turning back to Flash. I've managed to IE7&8-proof my website, but please use IE9, or better yet, Chrome or Firefox to view my site with all its css3 drop-shadow goodness! ;)

Here are some of the earlier iterations I started back in December 2010:

I love textured backgrounds but realized what a pain they were. I also decided to change things up a bit and (reluctantly) went for a lighter palette this time around:

Anyway, feedback is most welcome! Feel free to comment here or send me a message on my contact page. :)

Say no to shark fin soup II

Shark fin soup is a very popular dish in Chinese cuisine and is a standard item on banquet menus. However, my sister and i have been boycotting this delicacy for several years now because shark finning is a cruel and unsustainable practice. So for my sister's wedding, i designed this card to explain why shark fin soup was absent from the menu and to educate wedding attendees about shark finning. Although a realistic, gory depiction would likely have been more effective in deterring people from consuming the dish, i decided to keep the design cute and pleasant - this was a wedding afterall!

This is the much reworked final version of the illustration i started a year ago...

say no to shark fin soup!
adobe photoshop CS4 + paintTool SAI 1.01
background textures from CGtextures.com

We printed 250 of these suckers (10pt coated, 4x6"), but i forgot to get one for myself...! D:


Here is one of my cards in action! :)


For more information on shark finning, please visit www.sharkwater.com

portfolio website!

i officially have a website now! Please visit by clicking the following link:
Joyce Hui | Biomedical Communicator

The main focus of my website is the artwork, so my goal was to keep the site clean and professional looking. I also wanted to make browsing and viewing my artwork as easy as possible. So i decided on a simple navigation system that is hopefully intuitive.

Here is the original layouts i submitted for approval:

website layout
adobe photoshop CS4

i already have some new ideas for how the gallery is set up, i will work to implement them in the summer!

happy hallowe'en!

Seeing as i've never carved a pumpkin before, i decided to give this Hallowe'en tradition a shot this year. Feeling ambitious, i doodled out some designs. One of the RAs, with his highly impressive carving skills and willingness to carve essentially whatever i drew, brought my vision to life!

(So technically i still have never carved a pumpkin, though i did contribute to the pumpkin gutting... Whatever - after anatomy, pumpkin gutting by hand is not disgusting at all, lol!)

Here's the final product:


Some progress shots:


There are actually two sides to our pumpkin, but i failed to get a photo of the other side with a candle inside. :( The devil kitty would've looked better without the gaping holes in the back from the other side, but we only had access to one pumpkin. xD;;;

'Twas a fun night of non-studying...!

Say no to shark fin soup!

say no to shark fin soup!
SAI 1.01 + Photoshop CS2
b/g textures from www.cgtextures.com

Shark fin soup is a very popular dish in Chinese cuisine, but the fins are attained in a very inhumane way - conscious sharks are tossed back into the water once their fins are removed, and are basically left to die. Shark finning also plays a leading role in decimating shark populations and disrupting ecosystems. Please check out the SHARKWATER website for more information on the consequences of shark finning (as i can't seem to write properly today...) and what you can do to help stop such cruelty.

i was going for a paper cut-out sort of look with this one. i was inspired by Dric's incredible artwork that i first saw in volume 2 of Apple. This image will be used in the future sooo will probably post the finalized version then. :)

Operation Ragnarok T-Shirt contest

Please vote for my shirt at Camessa: Operation Ragnarok! :)

Cameesa uses crowdfunding. Basically you add $10 + shipping ($14.53 total for those in Canada) to your account and use that to support my design! If my design hits $500, it gets printed and you will receive the shirt.
(And if it doesn't, you can vote on other shirts, or ask for a refund.)

So if you'd like a spiffy new T-shirt for the summer, please support my design! :D


devilish surfin' process
Photoshop CS2

More about the design... Operation Ragnarok called for a summer-themed shirt design using characters from the MMORPG Ragnarok Online (A guilty pleasure of mine...). So I chose to use Deviruchi, which is one of my favourite monsters in the game. I was nervous about drawing waves/water using only flat colours, but it turned out to be pretty fun!

And special thanks to Geoff for design advice and Andrew for support! :)

hostile takeover!

rotman dragonboat team logo
Photoshop CS2

Here is the logo I designed for the U of T Rotman dragonboat team.
Some people were surprised that I didn't make a cutesy dragon, I guess I'm typecast...!

I ended up drawing this freehand, though I probably should've used vectors for a cleaner and crisper result. Well, maybe next time!

Here are some of my initial sketches (in good ol' ballpoint pen):