{"id":34741,"date":"2013-05-01T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=34741"},"modified":"2013-05-01T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:03:11","slug":"yao-xiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/05\/01\/yao-xiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Xiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34742\" title=\"Yao Xiao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8e7448c1c34c1ae7731bc90b80664789.jpg\" alt=\"Yao Xiao\" width=\"500\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8e7448c1c34c1ae7731bc90b80664789.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8e7448c1c34c1ae7731bc90b80664789-359x448.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34745\" title=\"Yao Xiao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rsz_hd_cbf7bacb6980307baa49507cb451b71d.jpg\" alt=\"Yao Xiao\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rsz_hd_cbf7bacb6980307baa49507cb451b71d.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rsz_hd_cbf7bacb6980307baa49507cb451b71d-448x294.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34743 aligncenter\" title=\"Yao Xiao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8f2f1779e76d750fb7282334a5087df0.jpg\" alt=\"Yao Xiao\" width=\"500\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8f2f1779e76d750fb7282334a5087df0.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hd_8f2f1779e76d750fb7282334a5087df0-417x448.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m enjoying the work of New York based illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaoxiaoart.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yao Xiao<\/a> today. She emailed me about her work and what really piqued my curiosity was her personal illustrations, where they&#8217;re done beautifully and meticulously. And in the midst of that busy perfection, there <em>she<\/em> is. Vibrant, imperfect (she draws herself comically against the rest of her well-chiselled characters) and colorful. It almost seems like she longs to bust out of an invisible shield \u2013 maybe it&#8217;s a metaphor of sorts?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s just me, but seeing highly finished, glossed up versions of finished artwork doesn&#8217;t seem to cut it anymore. I&#8217;m looking for humor, depth, flaws and blood these days, and if you&#8217;re an illustrator reading this right now who has kept their best personal projects under lock and key, do me a favor \u2013 dig them out and put them into your portfolio right now.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve done that, <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">get in touch with me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Yao Xiao\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/05\/01\/yao-xiao\/\" aria-label=\"More on Yao Xiao\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[75,92],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34747,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34741\/revisions\/34747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}