fiddle diddle

the final card design done in Illustrator with both front and back sides! this was fun :D

across the pacific

my school life begins again in a whole new world! (cue Aladdin soundtrack)
so here's a bunch of sketches for a class assignment - we're supposed to design a playing card.. IN ILLUSTRATOR. not exactly my forte, but i'm going to take a stab at it.

SQUEEEE

for a friend (he's a Sakura fanboy)
happy birthday d! :D

au naturel

quick warmup.

fun filled biscuit treats

for a really really good buddy of mine :D

happy birthday!

OIC portrait day july'11

masterpiece in progress, by the great Bay.

collection of photos i took.

more people than i thought i would know appeared, and it was still fun despite the fact that i havent gone in ages. :D

and and there were Shiba Inus! *__*

where no islands should go

i got my free copy of Expose9 in the mail. :D

if you turn to P198, you might see something familiar.

it feels so surreal to see something you've done printed in a book alongside other very crazy awesome art. i'm going to try even harder for the next submission! thank you, Ballistic!

beetcake

some very nice loot i got from C.XI.
art trades, free drinks, and cool artists. :D

sluggy

bunch of images done for a concept pitch to a client. it's not a design-related project, the pictures were just requested to illustrate a concept on business innovation.

CUTEST PUPPEH EVAR

Okamiden (c) Capcom

waiting for the take off

奥村 燐/Okumura Rin (c) 青の祓魔師/Ao no Exorcist

also, yes, this is the outcome of the afro jumping scribble from the previous post.

itchy elbows

i saw him on the train a couple months ago, and i had to scribble him out. very cool dude, despite being a bit chubby. tote, vest, shirt, oxfords, with a rosary (that i saw at F21!)

i haven't been painting, like painting painting for so long that the results of starting again after such a long hiatus is just godawful D8

everything's as if

we never said goodbye.

so i chose to work on the 4th thumbnail from here (pose so totally ripped from Bulbhead)
a poster for an event, because it has this condition that all artists are required to submit one to qualify for registration. fantastic.

child of the sun

moar thumbs. i think no one can understand these but me haha

looks like a solo

a freelance gig i did back in the end of 2010 for a local game studio, Secret Base. some game assets and CG stuff - the illustration here was used as the background image for the menu screen for Tobe's Hookshot Escape, which you can play on Kongregate here.

faxing berlin

buncha thumbnails for a poster thingamajig.
not really going anywhere.. opinions would be good :B

stroopwafel

best week of my working life so far when a couple of dudes from the dutch side came over to help us out - the lead game designer and senior programmer.. super funny guys!

baby don't cry

fanbadges! i might make more in the future, we'll see..
One Piece (c) Eiichiro Oda

your galaxy is already shining

「やりたいこととやるべきことが一致するとき、世界の声が聞こえる。」
- ツナシ・タクト Tsunashi Takuto, STAR DRIVER 輝きのタクト

these were A4 prints sold at a recent local event.
the response was surprisingly better than i thought hurhur
btw if you haven't caught STAR DRIVER, you should. amazing animation with an original story by the good people of Studio Bones *A*

it's always flying children

prints done for a local event.
a tribute to Ghibli and Mucha? i always wanted to try Art Noveau.

playlist: Rock Band tracks. weird i know

plateaus of practice

work stuff. backgrounds that, for several reasons, won't make it in to the final stage. well it was good practice.. but i don't think i'll be drawing any hardware shops for a while haha

ize

German and Dutch colleagues farewell portraits.
oh, the power of halftones. /sarcasm

diverted

two beautiful abstract videos i've been playing at work, in the background.

distracted

the house from Pixar's Up is REAL.
read more about it here




the boss dropped these two postcards on my desk, a campaign to stop overfishing the blue tuna. i thought the ad concept was riveting. the postcards have way more blood though.. @__@

noise on the train

so i was on the train today and i noticed the carriages were plastered with selected works submitted to the Noise Singapore 2011 Festival Showcase. there were some very cool stuff to see, but it was kinda hard to navigate my way up and down the train through the grumpy morning crowd, so i decided against it.






you can view more shots of the works here
i had also submitted some of my work for the showcase, but as i couldnt see any sign of them from where i was gawking, figured that none of them made the cut.
big surprise on Facebook, when i was linked to the album and spotted this:


wow. this is just.. wow. i mean, seriously, wow.
this is the first time i've seen my work displayed in such a public location, and i felt so overwhelmed when i saw it. i am endeavoring to try to get a look in real life on the train before it gets taken down.
this is one of those times when you just feel so.. overcome.
this is when you realize that you want to create even more, to fill the world and inspire it, and just leave an impression on as many people as you can, even if it's just for a moment on a busy train.

work update

currently working on a short project for a company developing a business/serious game. this is kinda vaguely related. just a comic panel draft i did for my boss's presentation..

my hat is awesome

something fun i doodled at work.
kinda late to usher in the Lunar New Year, but better than never!
Adventure Time is good for those periods where you need to just kinda space out and kill some brain cells. healthy for the soul.

following the red line

because i was in such a good mood today, i decided to get in on some color practice. still need to do more for sure. what a way to kickstart the new year.

even if it leads nowhere

merry christmas from this side of the world!
funny, i never thought i'd do anything particular for xmas, but as it turns out, i did.. a couple.. wow. i surprise even me.


this was for a contest over at Parkablogs, a local art book review blog. [highly informative and very useful.] the theme was "kungfu santa", but i don't think i quite caught the essence of "kungfu". owell.

personal piece. no reference cept for the hand. i used my own, which explains why it's so flabby and manly.

and this.. well i don't think i'm going to get anywhere with this hahaha.

it doesn't get better than this

花札 hanafuda x one piece
i'm sold.

someone please get me a set as awesome too!

stgcc'10

decided to drop by the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2010 last week with a friend. appeared pretty late to avoid the crowds, wandered around, bumped into friends and the like.




sketches acquired from the Imaginary Friends Studio booth, where they were providing sketch commissions at 5 bucks apiece.
not a bad deal if you ask me 8D
we asked for four in total, all Street Fighter characters. couldn't think of anything better on the spot, my mind kinda tends to freeze around awesomeness like them.. a pair of Yin and Yang sketches to split between us, and Sakura and Akuma for other people.

also took part in this lucky dip, had to go around obtaining the signatures from various artists present, for a chance to get random art goodies. our bounty was better than expected, we got a print and shirt from IFS!
real life quests ftw :D

what you neglect

Animation Nation 2010 is here again for the week. i missed Genius Party 2 at AN '09 last year, pretty sad. the films this time round seem to be more well-rounded internationally, as compared to the previous times where they were mostly Asian-dominated.
official site here

Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror
ホッタラケの島 〜遥と魔法の鏡〜

this is Production I.G.'s first 3d CG production. i loved the concept. it reminds me of a children's book i had when i was little (oh the irony).

Metropia

also caught this in the same day. a Swedish sci-fi animation. the overall feel of the film left me feeling distinctly uncomfortable, maybe that was the point. the heavily stylized characters, almost morbid, the grim and post-apocalyptic setting, the somber tone with its underlying messages..

both films are definitely worth catching. just try not to watch them in the same day, it gave me some emotional turbulence haha.

bloodstream

right, so here's something different from my usual stuff. trying out a new style that i was mimicking for some of my freelance work last month.
i could get used to it..

shades of gold

another portrait study, this time one of Jacques Louis David's pieces.
the original can be found here.
trying to step outside the usual safe skin colors.