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A-Chau Caban
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👋Hi, I’m A-Chau👩🏻Illustrator Seeking Rep
🫶🏼Cute characters,sweet stories,animals, nature
🪷 Little by little, a little becomes a lot. ~Tanzanian Proverb 🖼️ All artworks & content©️ATCreateARTworks
More about Me: https://linktr.ee/atcreateartworks
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Ahoy AD’s,clients & agents!I’m A-Chau an illustrator for graphic novels and picture books.The journey begins for Capt. Wren & Bee Buddy on their quest for the Heart Treasure to find Capt. Wren’s long, lost folks 🏴‍☠️❤️
A full graphic novel page of my original character Capt. Wren and Bee Buddy, two pirates with a hearts of gold. The 5 panels comic page shows Capt Wren sighing longing at a picture of his folks. Bee Buddy on the poop deck fishes out a message in a bottle which he hurriedly brings to Capt. Wren. The message tells them to find the Heart Treasure to lead them to find Capt Wren’s folks. And in the last panel they sail away to begin their journey and adventure on the high seas. About the Illustrator: Hello 👋 I’m A-Chau Caban, from California, USA. I’m an illustrator and autodidactic artist on my second career journey from IT to book illustration for graphic novels and picture books. I love illustrating animals and animal characters with relatable personalities because they seem to teach us more about being humane and about humanity. I find we receive these messages with a more open heart through these characters. And, I enjoy expressing a range of relatable emotions for my animal and children characters through their characteristics, their movement and actions, and their settings. My goal is for all these elements together to peak the curiosity and excitement of the reader and “draw”them in along with the characters through their story. And I hope it brings joy, wonder and warmth to children of all ages including those who are young at heart. Thank you for sharing in my art journey! LET’S WORK TOGETHER! https://linktr.ee/atcreateartworks
September 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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LETS WORK TOGETHER!
Contact info image as an illustrator with a sample of my animal avenger trading card character design of Shape Changing Sailor (aka octopus). Sailor is in a shape of an anchors deep in blue ocean with pirate hat.
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Hello AD’s,clients & agents!I’m A-Chau an illustrator for graphic novels and picture books.Animal Avengers is a personal project in support of animal conservation and practicing character design. It shows my fandom of Pokemon and superhero genre 🫶🏼 🦸🏻‍♀️ 🐱🐹🐙🐆🦦🐿️
July 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Hello AD’s,clients & agents!I’m A-Chau an illustrator for graphic novels and picture books.And my childhood nickname was Apple-Chau for my love of that fruit, hence inspiring Fruit Friend at Fruit Basket Junior High.Let’s bring your characters to life together! 🫶🏼 🍎
Illustration of character designs inspired by my childhood in Minnesota and my nickname Apple-Chau because of my love for the fruit at a very young age. Fruit friend characters at student at Fruit Basket Junior High school. Meet Apple-Chau introducing her friends, Banana-Bobby (the skater), Kiwi-Karl (the bookworm), and Dragonfruit-Fran (the fashionista).
May 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Practicing profiles and poses with fan art of #dmc #whiterabbit #aketchpractice #pencilsketch

Just got a Pentel graph gear mechanical pencil ✏️..awesome! Loves like butter! What took me so long to get one!?!? 😆
April 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Back to basics-basic pencil on paper.It never fails to give me a glimmer of hope and comfort✏️Life got in the way-some tough stuff-but once I could take a breath I remembered my “old friend”,my art.I took some random Pinterest photos and just started drawing. It’s that simple,I remind myself. ❤️‍🩹
April 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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✍️ 52 Weeks-in-Life Cartoons: March

📖 My 2025 Illustrated Journal

🎥 You can watch the flip-thru of my 2024 Weeks-in-Comics video on YT 👇

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#illustratedjournal #illustratedlife #illustration #journaling #inkdrawings #comics #cartoon #lifecartoons
Illustrated journal entries for week of March
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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A personal project inspired by my love of Pokémon, superheroes, and animals.All these mixed together became the Animal Avengers series.These are the first set of trading card style super hero animal characters.My hope is to collaborate with animal conservation institutions like the San Diego Zoo.
This is a personal project that is inspired by my love of Pokémon, superhero genre, and animals. All these mixed together became the Animal Avengers series. A act of love for my love of nature. The project is intended to help build awareness and support for wildlife conservation. These are the first set of trading card style super hero animal characters. For example, the Axolot-borg is a playful way to highlight the animals’ natural superpower of regenerating its body parts. Its also highlights as an “ultra rare” species that is endangered. It’s one example in the series to educate how amazing wildlife is on our planet and that they have natural super powers. The other cards include cat, cheetah, otter, octopus, guinea pig, squirrel. My hope is to collaborate with animal conservation institutions like the San Diego Zoo to provide their expertise to better educate us all about the animal kingdom. My plan is to create new animal characters and add new decks to the series. This project is creatively an illustration exercise in character design that can also be applied to book covers and the picture book and graphic novel genres.
March 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Editorial Cartoon “DON’T THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER”
#dearafge #supportfederalemployees #fairemployment
An editorial cartoon illustration of a baby crying being pushed out of the bath and falling with the bath water pouring out. A firey hand with the pointer finger pushed the baby bath and is tattooed with the worlds hate, greed, self-righteousness, hubris, selfish, aggression, fear and ego. And two hands with the world’s peace and compassion are there to catch the baby. It’s in support of fairness for federal workers being indiscriminately fired by DOGE.
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Hello AD’s, clients & agents!I’m A-Chau an illustrator for graphic novels and picture books.Here’s one character from a new project to support wildlife conservation. A act of love for my love of nature. Let’s bring your characters to life together! 🫶🏼 🐙 🌳 🌊 🦸🏻‍♀️
This is an illustration called The Shape-shifting Sailor designed like a trading card in Pokemon style. It’s an octopus sailor character that has changed it shape to look like an anchor showing one of its natural animal superpowers to shape-shift. It’s one example of series called Animal Avengers to educate how amazing wildlife is on our planet and that they have natural super powers. The project is intended to help build support for wildlife conservation.
March 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 #yourartforukraine -I don’t post my art on IG anymore but I returned for to participate with @miss_grace_75 and other artists. Ukraine deserves the world’s solidarity even more than ever. #peaceforukraine #slavaukraini
March 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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✍️ 52 Weeks-in-Life Cartoons:Feb

📖 My 2025 Illustrated Journal

🎥 You can watch my 2024 Weeks-in-Comics video on YT 👇

youtu.be/WLymh9ryro8?...

#illustratedjournal #illustratedlife #illustration #journaling #inkdrawings #comics
Image has 4 panel cartoons from my 2025 illustrated journal - one for each week of February. Each panel illustrators a week in my life. These reflect my personal journaling including what I did in a week like grocery shopping, going to the post office or working on an illustration project t. Another week is more figurative representation of my week like “getting back on track” after a family loss with building my illustration career including participating in Bluesky hashtags. Another week reflects literal stormy weather in my area but also stormy emotional things that I was facing like my mom’s uncertain future, my persistent coughing and the chaotic state of my country. The next cartoon is a reflection of how overthinking with all these stressors felt crushing so it’s a cartoon me being crushed by cartoon speech bubbles. And lastly a very personal moment in my life when sometimes you must close doors to find peace and health.
March 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Wall-E is not only cute but an amazing cord manager 🤖 Such an industrious lil’ guy 🥰

Hope it brings a smile 😊 I definitely needed it 👍

#walle #cordmanagement #justforkicks #shareasmile
February 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Anxiousness and overwhelm bubbled over this week (ie, like many others). So my self care includes indulging in sketching something cute and easy with the sole purpose of making myself smile. Below is the outcome. Playing with find new ink colors for my sailor fude fountain pen + Pokemon 🥰
Dark green and orange ink drawings of various Pokemon on a sketchbook spread Dark green and orange ink drawings of various Pokemon on a sketchbook spread Dark green and orange ink drawings of various Pokemon on a sketchbook spread Dark green and orange ink drawings of various Pokemon on a sketchbook spread
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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52 Weeks-in-Life Comics:Dec/Jan📖My 2025 Illustrated Journal

The 2nd time doing this year long project.A picture can be worth a thousand words so illustrating my life helps me to remember and reflect on it.I’ll share the illustrations monthly through the year and a full flip-thru video at the end👍
Illustrations in black or colored ink with some highlighter color as accents. It’s a collage from my 2025 illustrated journal starting Dec 2024 through Jan 2025. DECEMBER illustrations are: 1st week-the man sitting on a stoop that I met on the street who gave me a flower when I bought him breakfast; 2nd week myself from behind using incense in front of the giant gold Buddha at the temple at the memorial ceremony for my Dad; 3rd week-about our trip to Universals and La Jolla in San Diego to getaway for the holidays including our favorite rides, park shows and the nature we encountered; 4th week-cozy moments at home around Christmas Day including going to out local lodge, enjoying our fireplace and making breakfast of cinnamon buns and pancakes. JANUARY illustrations are: 1st week-I’m calling the hospital where my Dad passed after 3 months to nominate the nurses that helped us for an award and it was very emotional to relive; 2nd week- showing my to-do list and checking what I got done but much more left undone because I’m not focused in my grief but ending the week with a hike at our fave park which helped being in nature; 3rd week- shows the illustrations I’ve been working on for lunar new year with a snake design and the start of my 1st art series idea of the year called Animal Avengers logo; 4th week- a humorous take on a sick week with an allergy attack and other health “bumps in the road”. I have a giant nose exploding in a sneeze and a road with little illustrations of other symptoms I was dealing with along the road
February 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Hello Brian, thank you for sharing this opportunity! 😊 How exciting! Humorous animal illustrations would be a dream project! I just saw this post so I’m hoping it’s not too late to be considered. Much appreciated! 🫶🏼
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A collage of my animal illustrations to respond to the artists call for hours, expressive characters from my portfolio including: anthropomorphic red pandas walking the big city; hens as older ladies gabbing on the city park bench; a red crested crane as an influencer taking a selfie in front of popular Mount Fuji and Lawson’s in Japan; my dog Luke and his many napping positions like hands of a clock to tell time until 5pm on the dot he is awakes and is wait promptly at the door for us; my OC Capt Wren, a bird Pirate, sailing on his boat in comic strip format and two illustration of Fin & Fran, two field mice OC’s, sharing a hug after Fin gives Fran a lily flower gift and sitting together contented on a big leaf overlooking their valley home.
February 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Hello AD’s, clients & agents!I’m A-Chau, fromCalifornia, USA.I’m an illustrator for graphic novels and picture books.One of my favorite characters to draw are little critters in this big world on their life adventures. Let’s bring your stories to life together! 🫶🏼 🐭
Illustrated art postcard for #kidlitartpostcard day. It has a cute little field mouse named Fin on an adventure. It shows illustrated spots of Fin on a leaf boat going down the stream carrying a lily flower. In the second spot illustration, Fin who covers his head with his flower, just barely escapes a swooping hawk who only caught a bit of his Lilly flower that saved him. Fin is on his way home to bring a lily flower back to his sweet Fran waiting at home. It’s her favorite flower. The things we’ll do for love -the power of love 💕
February 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Happy Lunar New Year 🪭

Making “lucky money” cards for my friends 🧧 What would be “lucky money” for adults? Good fortune to have good friends because they are priceless 💌

I wish you health, happiness and good friends in the new year 🪷
Photo of a hand made card for Lunar new year with an illustration of a colorful snake curled up and smiling in traditional colors of red and yellow. It’s pictured with a lucky money envelop which the card will be out in to mail to friends. A GIF of me drawing an illustration of a cute, curled up snake for 2025 Lunar New Year as I make hand make cards for family and friends.
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Lunar New Year is on January 29! 🧧 One of the bonuses of being raised in both Western & Eastern cultures is enjoying TWO New Year celebrations. To celebrate, I updated my shop with a few goodies. Shop link in my bio. I wish you and yours health, happiness & prosperity 🎊 #lunarnewyear2025
January 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Happy #portfolioday Hello AD’s, clients & agents!I’m A-Chau, from California, USA.I’m an illustrator for book illustration for graphic novels and picture books about fantastical nature & animal characters with human nature feelings.I look forward to a collaboration in your next project.Best to you🫶🏼
A collage of a short bio of the illustrator and three color and active illustration examples of her Animals Being Human series including l a parrot at a coffee shop, a terrier commuting on the metro, and a red crested crane YouTuber in Japan in front of popular Lawson’s next to Mount Fuji. This post is to participate in the #portfolioday hashtag community.
January 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Pinterest Pen Sketch practice (+lil’ comic comedy 😆 💭)

#pensketch #pinterestreference #animals #comics #speechbubbles #sketchbookspread #artpractice #drawingforfun
Pen sketch of various animals in using squirrels, geese, ducks and cats). They are in fun poses. And comic thought bubbles with funny text is added to each animal. Pen sketch of various little animals including penguin, mice and birds. They are in cute poses. And comic thought bubbles with cute text all with “lil’” is added to each animal. Pen sketch of various animals in using squirrels, chickens , lizard and owl). They have funny expressions looking at the chickens dressed in winter sweaters. And comic thought bubbles with funny text are added to each animal, like the chickens sayin “feather, weather sweater, cluck, cluck!”
January 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A good reminder to self as another year begins 🪷 Peace be within us all 🕊️
January 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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A Bit About the Illustrator 😊 #kidlit #illustrator #picturebooks #graphicnovels #animalcharacters #storytelling
A short bio about myself the illustrator of the Capt Wren and Bee Buddy character in the comic strip within the original post.
January 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day🙋🏻‍♀️ ❌ Marks the spot, AD’s & agents!🏴‍☠️I’m an illustrator from USA. Capt. Wren and first mate,Bee Buddy are back in comic strip style bringing alive these two swashbuckling pirate with hearts of gold.Looking forward to working with you to bring to life your amazing stories!
A little, cute and chubby wren bird dressed as a pirate captain character with his first mate, Bee Buddy, also a pirate bee. It’s a comic strip starting with the two sailing on the blackbird ship. While on the voyage they play sword fight a bag of flour, on their search on desert land they confusedly look at their treasure map searching for the X that makes the spot. But in the end they are found lounging under a palm tree with their loot of treasure including seeds and honey. It’s an illustration digital postcard to provide contact info to agents and art directors in children’s literature.
January 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM