Sweeeeeeeet

These creatures were begging to come out of my head, so I let them out, with a way I'm not used to.

My attempt on using vector in Adobe Illustrator to create characters rather than just logos and typography, as I've always did. Just going to say that it was different from what I'm used to (Photoshop) but no doubt enjoyable. Hope to produce more work with this program in the future.

Cabpa!

A character sheet that I felt like making just for fun.
Cabpa: A very dedicate student of the Badashi tribe who spent of his time examining cacti...

They just KNOW

There's no argument that parents do know and that they're, if not always, right. Love you mom and dad.

Splurt of Colors

When you're mildly depress and down, just go crazy!
(new recolored illustrations, the last ones were just poor in quality.)

Smish Smish

Randomness is fun.

Time Flies

Working my way through the days and I realized, it's only little over a month now until I have to say good bye to my beloved. Time really do flies, it passed by and vanished away without any warning. The beautiful city of Vancouver is where Emily Carr University of Art & Design stood patiently awaitng my arrival.

Excitement, anxiety, nervousness, eagerness, anticipation, ecstatic...

I'm a big bowl of mix emotions right now!

Lines oh lines

Going back to something simple. The basic, the fundamental element: lines. I forgot how much fun it is just to scribble! Now I remember why I started drawing.

Facts n' Tips (thankyou Epic Weird):

Picasso’s Full Name Has 23 Words

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. He was named after various saints and relatives. The “Picasso” is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father is named Jose Ruiz Blasco.

Discovery of the Day: When trying to draw a caricature, don't draw what you see but what you think you see. It's a way to capture the true personality and characteristic of the person you're drawing. And, asparagus is pain when stuck between teeth...just wanna throw that in.

Two Tone Home

Just a quicky post. Here's the finished, polished, whole piece of the work I posted previously. More than only the desire to draw something whimsy, surreal and floating (uh-ha, I wanted to draw gravity defying objects, really). The general idea is to display the difference between two kinds of home: the cozy and welcoming, and the luxuriously extravagant. Which would you prefer?

Discovery of the Day: Before drawing, warm up your hand by making random strokes and shapes on scrap paper. It helps to un-stiff your hand, thus, makes it easier to control when you do the actual drawing.

Back to business

Hi there, may an apology be accept?

So sorry, dearest blog, for having abandoned you for quite a period of time. Lately my life have been drowned in commotion, swimming in sea of turmoil. But now eveything is back to how it use to be. BIG SIGH OF RELIEF!

Many have occurred. Went to a food exhibition, met lots of people (some who speaks language I cannot comprehend), and hunted for free ice cream, one word, deeeelicious. Then at home I made an unappealing, yet scrumpcious, apple crumble. It's my very own recipe which I will post soon after more testing (finger cross that it will taste the same everytime I make it). And of course, not to forget, I have been busy producing more art works. Stop motion animation coming up and a mini comic about a crazy diner.

For now here are fragments of work I made a couple of weeks ago.

Also, to make this blog a little more educating and less a constant ramble about my life; I have decided to add two special section: "Facts n' Tips" and "Discovery of the Day".

Facts n' Tips will consist of facts about art, its history, important figures etc. And tips on various art techniques: drawing, painting, collages etc. I will sought these out from a reliable source, me promise not to post false jibberrish.

And Discovery of the Day will be my personal findings in art. My experiment on different stuff and so on.

With out further ado I shall start this newly added section.

Discovery of the Day: Mixing all colors used in a painting with one main color helps to harmonize the whole image...and mixing paint with a brush gives the same sensation as cooking. fuunnnn...

It's milk, egg and can

Still in my animal phase.

Continuing my passage to create better work.

I'm actually unsure of how this idea of combining domestic farm animals with their produce came to me. Maybe its the urge to tell the world that we're turning these poor creatures into nothing more than just products. They're no longer consider living organisms but things we kill, sell, and eat. There lives are insignificant to us human, they live to be serve on the table, live to produce and to be squeeze into cans...

or maybe I just happen to see a can of tuna and thought that the design looks really cool, then turned to see that a carton of left over milk looks really cool too. And since I like drawing creatures, why not give these objects heads, legs and badabim badaboom...this is the result.

moo

...

cuckoo

By the way, does tuna count as a farm animal?

Grump...

Alright, I admit, I am a little grumpy.

Last Saturday was the t-shirt festival and yup, my design didn't sell well.

I guess this could be use as a lesson; for me to realize that I have much more work to do for my design skill to be at professional level. Yes, I do realize that. Yes, I came home and practice. No, I did not deal with it well.

Grrrrrr....how I was grumpy.

Drawing for me is not so difficult anymore: I see fish I can draw fish. Graphic on the other hand is somthing not yet in my grasp: here's a bottle make it look cool. I could careless and not bother to spend my time on somthing I'm not good at. BUT, graphic design is an essential skill for an artist to find a job, so buhu, I do need to learn it.

Grrrrrrr....(sorry, that shall be my last groan).

Well, because of the let down  on that day, today I decided to look to the wild side for a little inspiration.

....Hmmmm, I have to find a certain style to stick to don't I?

To the future

Did this during my free time.

Got to keep on being creative. Never to stop. Have to look ahead to the future. Need to try harder.

A little doodle heavily inspired by Red Nose Studio.
Chris Sickels is a wonderful artist whose quirky and wonderful works have became my subject of admiration. Truly love the detailing and color pallette he uses. Go check out his website, Red Nose Studio, you'll be mesmerize by all his whimsical characters!

Classic Folks

It's a long holiday and heck yes, I got tons of time to work on my various projects (will be update soon! So please wait and see).

Right here is a piece of illustration I did a few days ago. I'm thinking about spinning it into a collection of some kind. At the moment is the process of idea gathering: maybe calender, a book, or something... something.

From sketch to finish.

Lastly, seems like (very evident actually), I have developed a love for texture. It helps to give depths and roughness to an illustration. The homey, cozy feel that it creates convince me that this is a style, I from now on, will try to archieve and maintain.

Late night creative spurt

Hiya folks! Do you have a certain time of the day that you feel extra creative? A time when you're like ''oh yeah, I'ma gonna make somethin' cool!". Well mine turns out to be around night time. It's quiet, peaceful and no-one to come disturb since they're all away in dream world. This is the hour for me to immerse myself completely into 'the bubble'. Yes, the bubble of my thoughts, a place where I can do what I want. The space is limited by a piece of paper or pixels on the screen, but the idea is endless.

Right now I'm working on a collaborative project with a bunch of my best friends. We're designing t-shirts to sell in FAT Radio T-Shirt Festival Thailand 2011. We're calling it FAT t-shirt project...I know, not the most appealing name for a project but for our goldfish-like, forgetful brain, it's perfect.

This is the line works of my design.

And these are the finished works.

munchies

mr.coos

pie fly!



I began doing this at about 10pm someday last week. After the cut, paste, color choosing, adding texture blah blah blah, fun fun fun, I glanced at the clock to see that five hours have passed! Late night is really the time for me to do what I do best and love most, create.