{"id":3010,"date":"2012-11-06T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:11:32","slug":"lim-heng-swee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/lim-heng-swee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim Heng Swee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who says art always has to be serious?<\/p>\n

I was perusing Illustration Age<\/a> and encountered the so-sweet-it-makes-my-teeth-hurt work of the Malysian illustrator Lim Heng Swee, aka ilovedoodle<\/a>. You like cute? Yeah, here’s cute in spades.<\/p>\n

\"Lim<\/p>\n

I would describe my work as simple and fun, but with a strong idea or message behind it. Life should be fun and humorous when possible and I hope that my illustrations generate a sense of joy and happiness. I would like to think that they inspire people in their everyday lives.
\n– Lim Heng Swee<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"ilovedoodle

ilovedoodle – bad hair day<\/p><\/div>\n

There is a strong element of kawaii<\/a> at play here, but I really enjoy these pieces for a lot of different reasons.\u00a0Cute appeal aside, ilovedoodle’s work is rich with great visual metaphors that often communicate quite complex ideas with a refreshing playfulness. His bold graphic style brings a lot of visual immediacy, but with a very personal touch that avoids the in-your-face quality that strong graphic approaches sometimes evoke.<\/p>\n

\"ilovedoodle

ilovedoodle – zip<\/p><\/div>\n

In any case, you should check out ilovedoodle.com<\/a> as there is a lot of really great work there and quite a bit of it is even for sale as prints. Just the thing to brighten up your living space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who says art always has to be serious? I was perusing Illustration Age and encountered the so-sweet-it-makes-my-teeth-hurt work of the Malysian illustrator Lim Heng Swee, aka ilovedoodle. You like cute? Yeah, here’s cute in spades. I would describe my work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[221,116],"tags":[117,120,610,613,609,612,611],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-illustrators","tag-illustration","tag-illustrator","tag-ilovedoodle","tag-kawaii","tag-lim-heng-swee","tag-malaysian-artist","tag-malaysian-illustrator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-My","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}