skinny love

cool down doodle

and sometimes the stars

But sometimes the stars seem closer than they should

like the more I knew the less I understood

monster

and she did

we are back

Bunch of studies based on me jumping to random coordinates in Google Maps

safe and sound

老师的猫。

this city

This is our town

and in that moment, I swear we were infinite

Second in my road trip.. series? Is this going to be a thing now?

vcr

Google Hangout sketching, the theme was medieval-fantasy so here's a quick one of an annoyed armored lady. Equipped Sports Bra for +10 Agility. 

I don't usually draw this sort of stuff much, I probably should try harder at it.. I'm always so jelly when I see all the awesome work from all them fantasy concept artists.

so this is goodbye

Weekend getaway up in Sequoia was amazing! Cave exploring, eating ramyun under the Milky Way while shooting stars flew by, having homemade sandwiches on a rock while staring at a wandering bear, idling in the shadows of giants (trees that is).. Yeah, amazing.

the moon is down

A friend's (belated) birthday art request for Totoro!

I have to admit, it's not one of my favorite Ghibli films.. Maybe it's true what one of my teachers told me that you gotta watch it at a certain age to enjoy it. I probably watched it when I was too old hahaha

battlecry

This week marked the end of my 10-week Motivarti workshop, Story In A Picture with Richard Keyes. It was an amazing experience and I learnt a whole lot! Our final assignment was a triptych narrative, the theme I picked was 'a discovered affair'. My first ideas were actually about scandals in a film noir kind of setting, but it was so overdone and cliche I wanted to try something different and lighthearted. It resulted in a boy discovering his hero's secret passion..

Box 15

Google Hangouts has been really motivational in getting me to paint daily!

jumping on the Pokemon bandwagon a little late, but better than never!

this here is called a Bulbgey according to the Pokemon randomizer fusion thing.

Venus ★ Power!

my favorite Sailor!

losing my mind

warm-up doodle

swing de chocobo

Was down in San Diego for the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert and twas awesome! It was also right next door to Comic-Con so even though we didn't have badges we walked around outside and geeked out over the Assassin's Creed promo ship-yacht-thing for Black Flag. (It came with actual cannons, how cool is that)

tick tock

I've been playing catch up since AX! Taking two summer classes currently and this is a single page comic assignment for one of them - Story In A Picture with Richard Keyes. NO REGRETS whatsoever taking this class, I am really enjoying it! gonna be sad when it ends, but I think my work will really progress after this!

AX'13

The past few weeks have been hectic as hell! Right off the plane from Germany and we had only 10 days or so to basically draw stuff and print for Anime Expo '13, which was our first US convention! It was one of the times when I could totally express my inner anime geek in front of other people, plus I got to meet lots of cool people and great artists!

after-con in the main lobby on Day 03. It was like this practically every morning before the exhibit hall opened :0

It was just Mel and I at the table this time, which meant we couldn't go around together to check out the other artists' tables :[ we barely had time too since we were usually either taking care of commissions or handling sales.. or going to the restroom.

I was doing mostly colored commissions, because I don't usually get the chance to use my Copics much, only at conventions or portrait drawing sessions, so this was a great 4-day Copic workout!

Gintama sketch commission of Kondo and Hasegawa. I don't personally watch the series, so I wasn't sure how to portray them! Had to watch a bunch of Youtube videos to kinda figure them out

Shinji x Kaworu pairing, as requested.

CAN YOU SAY OLD SCHOOL?!?! I wasn't expecting Digimon commissions, but there you have it! I'm not actually a fan of the whole Digimon franchise, but after hearing my friends talk about it I might give it a shot.

What's our table without a Link to complete it? A commission sample I did. Quite a lot of people seemed to like it  ( ´ ▽ ` )

A sweet girl asked for a colored selfie!

She had the cutest Charizard costume, so this was a really fun commission!

Kuroh and Yashiro from Project K.

Natsume and Nyanko-sensei. The client was so cute, she specified to have 'grass' with them too hahaha!

Masato from Utapri

Cecil from Utapri

Shizuo from Durarara! Definitely one of my favorite commissions to work on because Shizuo is so amusing!

The pair of friends who commissioned these were so adorable that I tried to express that in the Shingeki sketches too （‐＾▽＾‐）

so, yes, that ends our 4-day AX experience! It was so great to meet (or silently stare at) all these Internet superstar artists, I am definitely going to do this again! Peace out people!

rainy afternoons

The final 2 in my Ghibli print set!.. for now. I'm going to be at AX 2013, table C69 so if anyone is attending, drop by and say hi!

Also, has anyone caught The Garden of Words / 言の葉の庭 by Makoto Shinkai? I just saw it. It's a short film, but I think short poignant stories like this is where he really shines in. All those breathtakingly gorgeous scenes of rain just made me miss the rainy season in Singapore.. 

replay

I'm alive! Just got back a couple days ago from a school trip to Germany, exciting I know! I'll be uploading scans of my sketchbook in a bit. Meanwhile here's the second of the Ghibli print series, featuring Ashitaka and San from Mononoke Hime. One of my favorite Ghibli movies, the score always gives me goosebumps.

together

I've been wanting to do a series of prints based on my favorite Ghibli films for a while now and since I'll be tabling for the first time at AX 2013, I figured it was the perfect opportunity to start. I don't know if I'm quite done with this yet but I'll leave it here first..