dakota

wip shot.

headshoot

random portrait quickie.
trying not to blend my stuff so much now, but it feels really harsh and craggy.

boy meets cube

"holy crap this thing has edges! how extraordinary!"

playlist:
Marchin On // OneRepublic

YES it's a real update

no kidding!
for my dear queen's birthday which falls on halloween. LAST 365 DAYS OF TEENAGEHOOD ENJOY EM WHILE IT LASTS MUAHAHAHA

not much of an update

this was a portrait from the previous OIC Portrait Day @ TNAG. i see this dude's stuff pretty often at most of the Portrait Days i've been to, but i've never got the guts to talk to him hahaha. someday, someday. anyways, i particularly liked this one he did, it reminds me of Miles Edgeworth, maybe because i just finished the Ace Attorney Investigators on NDSl.



aaaand just for kicks here's a shot from my trip to Hokkaido a couple months back. very awesome scenery with very awesome ramen, who can beat that?!
rest of photos can be found on my flickr for bored people.

okay a real update coming soon, over and out!

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?

stratos

R.I.P. >:

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

icaro

something that never went anywhere.

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.

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.

the club can't even handle me right now

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

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.

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.

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.

milkshakes

i just had to. /stifles laughter

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.

kitty

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. >:

they're back!

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




enjoy!

penne with basil pesto

that must be the most realistic looking pair of glasses i've ever painted [and i want them in real life too!]

aghast

holyshtz it's a boy! (and a cute one at that)

but i probably scrambidismorgified his face. the horror. D:

coolness

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

oic3410

it was a slow day, maybe because of the rain. from top, guy who involuntarily posed because he wanted to sketch everyone else who was facing in his direction, Pomeranian with really huge eyes and her owner, and a rare Dalmatian sighting.

boston here we go

another face. stole from my cousin's blog, so i guess this goes out to him. thanks for the free tea the other time. :D

therapy please.

portrait for kicks, done between turns during online monopoly hahaha. had to do this over once because the power to my notebook got cut before i saved. /rant
would anyone know of good brush settings for unruly curls like hers?

naming a dolphin Flipper is like naming your kid Limb.

oic6310

i'm kind of glad i got to keep this, because i really like it. couple of showdogs that sat for their portraits but wouldnt stop fidgeting. haha. GOLDEN RETRIEVER!

yes, i really really like dogs. and i wish i had one. nice big and furry.
a Night Fury like Toothless would be nice too.

unearthing.. what?

when i was doing this i had to keep reminding myself NOT to make it look like Sakura a la Street Fighter. must have been the school uniform.
most of the time was spent on figuring out a square layout. haha.