20101012

oic @ TNAG





some portraits of people i did at the open house of TNAG.
happy messing around with brush pens and Copics.
have i mentioned how much i love drawing girls? seriously.

robots are for something that.. never quite made it.
but it's okay, i like em. :D

and yes, i'm falling in love with brown paper! really digging the texture and the color. anyone knows where i can get more in loose form? [i ripped these out of various sketchbooks, breaks my heart]

picky prototype


i just want to draw.

something so simple, yet it seems so impossible to do in this world.
feeling really lost right now, should i continue down this path, or head off while it's still not too late? i don't want to waste my time being unhappy and worn out, but is it just me being particular about what i want, and not what i really need?

20101008

stratos


R.I.P. >:

yes, i just finished Gundam 00 S1. currently in spazz mode gahaha.

icaro


something that never went anywhere.

20101004

ichi


for one of the best people in my life.
here's wishing you a very happy birthday, mel! good times ahead :D
and poof, it became koko krunch.

20100928

heartbreaker


just a wip. i don't think anyone can tell who this is yet.


edit 01:25am
another update!
as you can see, it hasn't changed much.
i'm thinking of leaving the badass dude at the door as he is.
there's also something compositionally off about this, so i think i might.. just.. stop. blargh.




edit 17:00pm
having saying that out loud, decided to attempt to fix the composition.
i think this is as far as i'm ever gonna get.


20100925

the club can't even handle me right now


something somewhere went atrociously wrong along the way. and it's way past bedtime.

20100921

panda lily

going with a current-track-playing-for-my-title.

anyways, just messing around a bit in phoshop.. because milk really IS awesome. especially with koko krunch.


20100914

morningstar



Lucifer and Sanji have a lot in common. they're both blonde, wear suits, and smoke.
the difference being one is a fallen angel who can kick your ass with light, and the other has curly eyebrows and kicks anything male that moves.

20100902

g is for gambit

evidence of what i've been doing during the summer over in the Singapore-MIT Game Lab in Cambridge, MA. the team i was with ended up making 2 games, quite a challenge but it was amazing all the same.




some random character sketches.. we ended up with a weird purple horned dude in a rubber ducky.







concepts for the backgrounds for one of the games






logos and poster designs




SSFIV had just came out so.. i might have gone a little crazy and did some fanart mashing SSFIV style with some of the games' characters.

my team's games are called Seer and Yet One Word, just click to check them out on the Gambit site! check out the other team's games too, pretty cool stuff as well.
all these wouldn't have been possible without the awesome people in my team, and the very cool folks at the Singapore-MIT Gambit lab. thanks everyone, for making what could be the best summer of my life yet.

say goodnight and go



digital study of Angelica Kauffman's self-portrait.
original here


been super long since i painted, getting rusty again. decided to start up with a study of neoclassical portraits, might be just what i need to get back on track.

20100901

milkshakes

i just had to. /stifles laughter

20100831

スカイ·クロラ

well it's been a long time since i updated!
was in the States for 9 weeks to intern at the MIT Gambit Lab, basically doing my part in making some cool stuff which will be up real soon!
just got back from a vacation in Hokkaido as well, breathtaking countryside scenery. and the ramen! *A*

i finally managed to get through The Sky Crawlers as well, forgive me Mamoru Oshii fans. i can't exactly appreciate slow-paced animations, haha. here's the opening sequence for The Sky Crawlers though. absolutely loved the music and backgrounds, maybe because i'm such a sucker for skyscapes.
also, Kenji Kawai is amazing.


20100601

kitty


this is the awesome cat that lives in the next block. i can die from its adorable fluffiness every time i meet it.

20100529

the queen and her carp.


this started as an inside joke.. i don't know if i'll ever finish this without grinning stupidly every time i work on it.

a friend just informed me that looks like a piece of toast floating above her head! toast crowns ftw yall.



in other news, i'm going to be in Boston for 2 months! :D

20100517

pixar and forks

a post without any artwork!
finally got a chance to go down to the Pixar: 20 Years of Animation exhibition at the local Science Centre.
pretty amazing stuff, it's one thing seeing all these work in a published book, and another thing to actually see them on the scraps of paper or canvases they were originally created on.
and the Toy Story zoetrope! it's like magic! but actually science. haha.




ramen fork, designed by Takahashi Masami for Sugakiya, a Ramen-ya in Nagoya, Japan, for their 60th anniversary.

is this like the coolest thing ever or what?! i want one! .. despite the fact i use chopsticks to eat noodles.. and i don't really drink the soup.. but whatever.

20100509

バット


trying starting out with pure color instead of grayscale like i'm used to.
inspired and influenced by the ever-awesome work of loish.

20100503

nice people suck.


apparently so.
just some weird crap. have i mentioned how stuck i get when i'm doing landscapes?
maybe i should do more.

20100501

目を呪わ


he's actually fictional, so i don't know if crossing over to the realistic-ish side was a good idea. i think i made him look like a fag little girl. owell. .____.

he's the most tragic protagonist/antagonist i've seen. >:

20100429

they're back!

if you remember this and this that i did a while back.. well i got around to making s'more.




enjoy!