Illustrations by Charlene Chua



Charlene Chua (also known as Sygnin) is a Toronto based illustrator and a digital artist. Charlene spent her youth growing up in Singapore, where she divided her time between drawing, reading comics and failing her Mandarin classes. She started her working life in 1998 as a web designer, and went on to become a senior graphic designer, web producer and interactive project manager, with companies like Ogilvy Interactive and The Gate Worldwide.

Charlene is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, cd covers, advertisements, brochures and billboards.She also illustrated the children's book, Julie Black Belt, from Immedium Publishing, and writes for Photoshop Creative and Official Painter magazines.



Since then she has worked with clients from North America, Europe, Singapore and Australia on a wide variety of illustration projects. Her work has appeared in the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles' Illustration West 43 and 45, American Illustration Tribute, and Ballistic Publishing's Exotique 4, as well as several other art books. She illustrated the children's picture book 'Julie Black Belt' for Immedium Publishing, and the short story 'Eidolon' for Image comic's Liquid City anthology.



Some of her past clients include:
Cambridge University Press
Dixie
Dove
Eating Well
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Las Vegas Weekly
Mcgraw Hill Ryerson
National Geographic School Publishing
OWL Kids
Oxford University Press
Seattle Metropolitan
Scholastic Canada
Slice TV

Labels: Illustrations, Pinup