Fundraiser: NTCR!

I have recently found out that THIS YEAR is the North Toronto Cat Rescue (NTCR) shelter's final year before they are booted off the land for a new shopping mall!! They are in dire need of support and help.

My goal is to help support their cause through donation from working part-time jobs and doing commissions on the side. My progress so far while working with Vector is a slow hard climb; mainly because of my personal fears restricting my success as well as the competition and stress to race against time.. It is a growing process but time is very limited.

I am personally holding a fundraiser to help the NTCR with cheap $10 commissions:

• Word Art/Graffiti - regular | sticker
• Doodles -  conceptual | train of thought | word art mix 
• Adoptables - mini dragon pet | food & fruits animal pet | species (in progress)

If you are interested in supporting our cause, drop me a message in the comments or email me at inkycats.bt@gmail.com

Thank you so much for your support!

For every commission 20% goes towards the NTCR.

Art is Infectious..

Let the parasites of creativity take hold and ooze out!!

Work by: Tora, Rayne, and Me

My team's poster for the grad show. Wish us luck in winning~ :D

Happy Thanksgiving!

A little late to say "Happy Thanksgiving" but I've been working on school homework, so here's a short silly animation that I've been working on in Flash. I'm not an animator so it's not too great, but I had a lot of fun in the making!

Movie Magic!

It's the first time I have used Adobe After Effects not too long starting to use Flash and it was quite a lot of fun learning. Although in all honesty, I had some trouble understanding how the program worked in the beginning. Here is my first project with one of my Mother Nature/Mother Earth illustration.

Thank you for dropping by!

Work Spam!

It's been awhile since I've shared my work to my readers, so here it is! A little bit of what I have worked on.. and there will be more to come soon.

This is a relatively small maquette of two original chibi characters in Pokemon costumes.
It actually took a lot more time that I thought.. so definitely will layer more paint.

School Work Spam!

A compilation of some work I did in school but didn't bother posting.. but since this is my journal and so, random stuff (good/bad) goes here too!

Playing around with textures and screen tones in Photoshop

She's Watching You...

A recently finished painting that I really liked how it turned out. Even though it was a rather.. creepy still life, it was good low lighting practice.

 It was fun but creepy when I walked by it at night..

Stamp Comic

A recent project that required to use our childhood memories to illustrate a 3-panel comic. However, my childhood wasn't really that great and so I was permitted to use whatever idea that came to mind.

At first the idea that came to mind was very simple. I chose three normal-like characters, a young girl as the daughter, a suited man as the father, and a more meaty man to portray as a butcher you might seen in old cartoons. That's the gist of it.. but as I started to build the story.. it just sorta spiraled into something morbidly dark ^^;;; I hope you enjoyed reading it..haha;; Oh and FYI, read the text as if you're reading manga (right to left)

Many comments after reading:
"Bon, are you ok?" or "Omg... O_O"
Yes, I'm ok.. and I didn't really intend it to go that way..? LOL

Typography Fun!

My final render of my location~ I had a lot of fun sketching the roughs, as I particularly like doing hand-rendered typography.

Medium: Marker and ink on card stock
Time: 12 hours

Say "Wassup" FINISHED!!

IT'S FINISHED~!!!!!!!!

Medium: Photoshop CS5.1

Time: 20 hours

I have to say I'm really really happy how this turned out and I'd probably want to print this as a poster! And maybe touch it up more with the background painted in too.

Say "Wassup" Pt.3

It's finally coming along and almost done~!!!! Looking at how it's progressing and I just shock myself.. as I've said before, digital painting is not my prowess, so I'm very happy I'm growing in this field. C:

My third wip where I changed the arm to be a wing instead of a paw..

Say "Wassup" Pt.2

Further worked version of my Dragon doodle I posted previously~ I'm not sure how to work that arm though but it says more than just a portrait now compared to the last one, haha!

Thanks for stopping by~

Book Cover WIP..

Book cover concept, work in progress~

My topic: Ancient Kings of Egypt! I chose a controversial Pharaoh, the rein of one of the first female Pharaohs, Hatshepsut. As her history is quite shrouded in mystery due to many of her reliefs being destroyed, I wanted to portray an atmosphere of that mystery into my cover.

Creativity & Concepts

Some final drawings on my theme of persimmons for my Creativity/Concepts class!

Say "Wassup!"

Personally I am not very skilled with how things turn out when I paint digitally, as I'm not as proficient with digital media but I'm surprising myself now.. ; v ;

Here's a quickie~

It's a quick sketch.. WIP. I'll be working on it more and adding more refined details later (eyes, teeth, scales, etc..). Thanks for stopping by!

Doodle Auto-drive

One of the most relaxing and fun homework I've ever done.. DOODLING~!!!

WIP doodle during Creativity & Concepts class listening to a radio podcast and video.

Zombie Valentine

The newest episode of The Walking Dead is coming soon on Valentine's Day..~ Interesting how Zombies and Valentines would mix though.. but anyway, just a small doodle I did during my first week of school. xD

"Grruuuuar -zombie noises-"

And.. that is all..~
Lalala~ -flop flop flop-

Hands Up!

Some life drawing work with drawing hands~!!! A recent project where we illustrate our names in American Sign Language.

WIP rough sketching of the hands.

Silly Creations

One of the newest project for school was a little tough.. I've never drawn caricatures before so I had a little bit of trouble. Thankfully, my classmate gave me some excellent help (you know who you are, thank you so much!!! ♥). She gave me great hints and suggestions as well as demos.

Here's half of my caricature project~ the positive side!

Media: Prismacolor and Copic mix
Time: approx 2.5hrs (most time spent finding/mixing my colors)

It turned out better than I thought I could do...

La la la~!!!

It's been the first two weeks of school continuing my studies in Independent Illustration. I'm having quite a lot of fun and made some new friends~ C:  Although, I do miss my usual group in first semester.

Here's a preview of one drawing I'm working on.

Thanks for stopping by~
Anywho~ back to work!