Sketchbooks
Take a look inside my sketchbook in the first video of this new tour series. I’m sharing drawings, ideas, studies, and a few behind-the-scenes details about my sketchbook process. This video is available to The Studio Table members.
Sketchbooks
Feeling stuck in your sketchbook? In this video, I share five simple color exercises to help you get started without the pressure of making something finished. Available to The Studio Table members.
Podcast
A new episode of A Slice of Illustration is now live. This time, I’m exploring Aubrey Beardsley and the power of black, white, and space.
Newsletter
A studio letter from Ginnie for July.
Sketchbooks
A reflection on unfinished sketchbooks, strange guilt, and the tenderness of returning to abandoned pages. Sign up to read more from The Studio Table.
Farm Life
The first issue of The Seed Packet is ready. Sprouting / 初芽 is a 2-color riso printed seed-packet-inspired art object about beginnings, the meadow, making home, and a little bit of missing home in Taiwan.
From The Open Library
Arthur Rackham’s fairy tales feel dark not because they are full of monsters, but because the trees, shadows, and strange little details seem to know something we don’t. Sign up to watch and listen for free at The Open Spread.
Take a look inside my sketchbook in the first video of this new tour series. I’m sharing drawings, ideas, studies, and a few behind-the-scenes details about my sketchbook process. This video is available to The Studio Table members.
Feeling stuck in your sketchbook? In this video, I share five simple color exercises to help you get started without the pressure of making something finished. Available to The Studio Table members.
A new episode of A Slice of Illustration is now live. This time, I’m exploring Aubrey Beardsley and the power of black, white, and space.
A reflection on unfinished sketchbooks, strange guilt, and the tenderness of returning to abandoned pages. Sign up to read more from The Studio Table.
A slow, visual blog about sketchbooks, creativity, picture books, drawing, story rhythm, and the creative season between soil by Ginnie Hsu
I spent time Plein air sketching at a dairy farm. It's the first one this year and more to come! Sign up for more at the spread table.
Good morning from The Meadow! We’ve been planting, welcoming new chickens and ducks, watching the animals enjoy the warm weather, and getting ready for plein air season in this very busy, very alive spring.
A quiet reflection on May Horses, childhood daydreaming, magical realism, and blue and orange horses. Sign up to The Spread Table to read more about how wonder can enter ordinary life without explaining itself.
Empty space is rarely empty in picture books. It can guide the eye, slow the page down, make a character feel small or safe, and give emotion room to deepen. In this Shape & Space post on The Spread Table, I’m looking at how negative space quietly shapes the way a story feels.
In this sketchbook video, I’m sharing pages from my winter sketchbook and talking through color as emotion, creative block, and the way the season shaped the work.
The pilot episode of A Slice of Illustration begins with Edmund Dulac and the value of looking closely at illustrators of the past. Sign up for free to watch and listen to the episode.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with wordless storytelling, and The Hunter and the Animals is one of the books that keeps opening up for me. This post is a close look at how Tomie dePaola uses image, sequence, and empathy to carry an entire story without text. Sign up to read more on The Spread Table.
Soft shapes slow a reader down. Sharp shapes create tension. In picture books, shapes begin telling the emotional story long before the text arrives. A reflection on visual pacing and shape language in illustration. Sign up to read more at the Spread Table.
The Red Envelope is both a tradition and a design exercise. In this video, I share how I made it and the materials that brought it to life. Become a member to watch for free.
Winter sharpens attention. Working small does not feel like making less. It feels like making room. Room for ideas to stay provisional, for repetition to do its work, and for thinking to take shape before it has to decide. Sign up for free to read more at The Studio Window. :)
Borders don’t always stay still. In this final Border Play essay, I look at frames that shift with the story, using Where the Wild Things Are and What Is a River? to explore how changing edges carry emotion, time, and transformation. Read more at The Spread Table.
A new year, a new sketchbook routine. I’m sharing how I’m approaching daily drawing this year, what I’m focusing on, and what I’m learning along the way.