illustrator
Te (Chao) Bauer is a Oregon based illustrator originally from California.
Primarily working with brush, pen and ink on watercolor paper.
Since graduation, I've been working on a smaller scale, a size that I could manage at my home-studio before I venture back to larger ones.
Most of my traditional works are black and white or monotone, and I'm slowly making additions. I have numerous people ask me if I would do tattoos, and I would, but I think tattoo is such a culture within itself that I don't think I can "just do". Hopefully in the future though.
Would you get these as tattoos?
One of my favorite thing to do when I'm not pulling my hair out to think of ideas, I sketch from Pinterest. I don't pin much myself, but I do follow tons of people and it always give me a good variety of things to sketch and find inspirations. This time I focused on figures after having done so much floral in the previous weeks. I've also taken a break from brush and used my second go to tool, nib pens!
I should also mention, I finally got a scanner! Thanks to the generosity of my great boss Yuko!