{"id":539,"date":"2008-11-22T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:15:54","slug":"cute-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/cute-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Chui is an illustrator with an adorable worldview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginismstudios.com\/port-artist-bob-01.html\" title=\"Bobby Chui portfolio, at Imaginism\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3043\/3050844582_3c4d5f1f5e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" alt=\"fairytale-fairy-creatures\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a person who has grown up being presented with skeptical, intellectual owls, it&#8217;s that wide-eyed raptor&#8217;s deep lean (with careful tail counterbalance) that charms me most in this illustration. But Chui isn&#8217;t limited by sentimentality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginismstudios.com\/port-artist-bob-01.html\" title=\"Bobby Chui portfolio, at Imaginism\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3284\/3050853428_f6c5976259.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" alt=\"bigfoot-yeti-friends-bunny\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually dislike this Yeti-Bunny picture, which is why I included it. Chui&#8217;s work contains extensive caricaturing of both human and animal figures &#8211; look through the people and cat\/dog images in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginismstudios.com\/port-artist-bob-01.html\" title=\"Bobby Chui portfolio, at Imaginism\" target=\"_blank\">his portfolio at Imaginism<\/a>. But what drew me to him is his frequent use of a visual undercut of some kind.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginismstudios.com\/port-artist-bob-01.html\" title=\"Bobby Chui portfolio, at Imaginism\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3183\/3049763212_43f125663c.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"500\" alt=\"big-bad-bunny-eater-art\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For some reason, the big bad bunny eater is funny, where the yeti dragging the bunny is not. I have some idea why I react this way, but I&#8217;d be happy to hear how others react, too. Either way, his distinct style, delightful characters, and multidimensionality make him a wonderful illustrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Chui is an illustrator with an adorable worldview: As a person who has grown up being presented with skeptical, intellectual owls, it&#8217;s that wide-eyed raptor&#8217;s deep lean (with careful tail counterbalance) that charms me most in this illustration. But Chui isn&#8217;t limited by sentimentality. I actually dislike this Yeti-Bunny picture, which is why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[158,316,328,625],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","tag-bobbychui","tag-cute","tag-dark","tag-illustration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-8H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}