:: Bring Your Disc to Work Day ::

Bring Your Disc to Work Day is an annual ultimate awareness day where ultimate players are encouraged to promote our sport simply by bringing a disc to work!

Bring Your Disc to Work Day 2012 will take place on Thursday, September 27th! Bring your disc to work, school or wherever and help promote the sport of Ultimate!

Ultimate Canada needs your help in promoting the sport of Ultimate. There are over 30,000 registered players in the country, but lots of people still don't know much about the sport (is that played with dogs?) or realize how popular it is. If you like Ultimate and own a disc, then bring your disc to work on Thursday, September 27th as part of our national Bring Your Disc to Work Day initiative to promote Ultimate in Canada.

Since I work from my home studio, I thought I could contribute by creating this "Spirit of the Game" print! In 2007, Toronto Ultimate Club had a new intiative to help raise awareness of Spirit Of The Game (SOTG). SOTG means respecting your teammates, opponents, the rules, the community, and the game.

This rotating ambigram design was hot-stamped on discs and distributed to all TUC members. The discs have found their way all over the world, including this orphange in Kenya.

Available now on my Society6 page!

:: Society6 store ::

Hey Friends! I've set up an online store for the Chinese Zodiac designs. They are all printed on American Apparel Organic Fine Jersey T-shirts. All designs are available in 13 different colours. For the super-fan there other assorted goodies too!

The link below includes a FREE SHIPPING promotion (expires Sept.16)

:: http://society6.com/HilaryLeung ::

Enjoy!

:: two clever threadless subs ::

"Your challenge is to create a clever design.

Create a design that will make friends, enemies, and strangers smile. Keep in mind that we're now printing Threadless + Gap designs on tees for men, women, kids, toddlers, and babies. So your design can be whimsical, funny, or beautiful."

It's not Brain Surgery and The Devil is in the Details are my two submissions to the Threadless loves Clever challenge sponsored by GAP.

Please feel free to vote on the designs that you like.

1000strangers @Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

I'm really excited to announce that after a decade of attending the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, I'm finally exhibiting this year with my 1000strangers work.

But that's not all! I will also be sitting next to super talented and good friend Peter Schacht. Just like the good old days at Sheridan College!

While Peter will be showing off his latest beautiful paintings (acrylic & oil on carved wood), I will be exhibiting original 1000strangers sketches and Limited Edition (10) Archival Giclee Prints. I had a lot of fun composing my thoughts on each individual piece, so please be sure to click through them, like this sketch.

Show Details:

July 6, 7 & 8, 2012
Nathan Phillips Square

Booth: ORANGE #30 (along Queen Street)

Free Admission

Friday 10:30am-7:30pm
Saturday 10:30am-7:30pm
Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm

Please drop by this weekend and say hi!

Maurice Sendak Tribute

"Where the Wild Things Are" was my favourite picture book while growing up. Being a young trouble maker myself (that was regularly sent to my room), I could relate to Max. Many years later while working in the picture book industry, I've appreciated Mr. Sendak's contributions even more. He was bold. He was honest. He was a trailblazer that paved the way for all children book authors past, present and future. Maurice Sendak was an inspiration to us all.

Rest In Peace Mr. Sendak, you will be missed.

Toronto Comics Arts Festival

The Brothers Leung are presenting at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) on Saturday May 5, 2012. "The Pirate Girl's Treasure: Read and Create" takes place on the 2nd Floor: Appel Salon, Novella Room from 11:00am-11:45am. The brothers will talk a bit about themselves, tell the story of "The Pirate Girl's Treasure" and lead everyone into a series of fun origami activities!

I will also be exhibiting all things Ninja Cowboy Bear at table #267(second floor) on both Saturday and Sunday.

Note: We are on the SECOND FLOOR near the back... just follow the ninja balloons!

Hope to see you there!

More TCAF event details here.

:: San Diego Comic Con ::

To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, my best friend Vince Chui and I collaborated and created this piece for the 2012 San Diego Comic Con souvenir book. We are both huge Frank Frazetta fans and of course fans of the classic He-Man action figures. This was a super fun project, so there will be more collaborations in the near future!




I also created this little piece below to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Marvel Superheroes Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, and Iron Man. This was also a blast! I haven't drawn superheroes since I was a teenager!




If you're interested in reading why we created these pieces, please continue reading...

So my best friend Vince Chui is getting married! Being the best man, I had some responsibilities including the very important bachelor party! Vince is a great guy and I wanted this to be something super fun, something epic, something that he'll never forget... Solution - The San Diego Comic Con!

Brilliant! Since our teenage years, we've talked about going to the legendary "Comic Con". Years passed, but we kept talking about how we would make the trek one day... y'know when we were older.

Ha! Being ever so proud of myself for coming up with the idea, I did a quick search online on basic logistics like flights, hotels and admission. I quickly discovered that due to fire and safety regulations, there is a limit on the number of fans that can attend. And the 2011 Comic Con admission tickets sold out in 6 hours.

To make matters worse, I learned that the organizers implemented a new tiered system to order tickets. On an undisclosed date, they would release a link to register for a Membership ID number. Then on another undisclosed date, they would post another secret link for fans to order their ticket/attendee badge.

Tragedy! This idea seemed doomed before it even began. I started brainstorming other ideas for a decent plan B. Unfortunately everything else just paled in comparison. So I enlisted the help of a small circle of friends and set out to score some Comic Con tickets. I searched online and read anything remotely related to Comic Con for nine months... it became an obsession.

Finally on January 10, the Membership ID numbers were released and with shaky hands I signed Vince and myself up. My hands were trembling for excitement. I quickly alerted all my friends to sign up and they did. We did it - we completed the first obstacle! It was exhilarating.

Then it was quiet for a couple months. No news. Nothing. I'm not going to lie, it was pretty stressful.

March 1, 2012 at 5:31pm, I received an email update. "Comic Con 2012 badges will go on sale at 8:00am PST on Saturday March 3, 2012."

Crap! I had already booked an all day video shoot on that very Saturday! Fortunately our good friend Steve and Dave were ready and willing to try and secure our tickets for us. After reading and re-reading the detailed registration process document, we waited nervously.

A flurry of text messages from Steve later, we secured our tickets. Success! We are going to our first Comic Con this summer!

So to celebrate Vince's upcoming wedding AND our first visit to San Diego AND the Comic Con AND the 100th Anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, we decided to submit some fan artwork to the 2012 San Diego Comic Con souvenir book.

We later discovered that this year's tickets sold out in 90 minutes. Also we had to enter a hotel lottery, but that's another story...

To Be Continued...