Up to Dates..

The poster votes are in and have been tabulated. Unfortunately my group's poster didn't win but it was a fun experience! Congrats to my friends' group that won and had a near tie! XD

School work is going decently well (I suppose) just hard to think creatively.. it's like my brain has been squeezed dry and it's running on fumes. However there will be more artwork to come! So thank you for the patience, my dear readers~ C:

Ciao~

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!

A Donut for Thought..

It's already been two weeks since the start of classes and I am having quite a lot more fun than expected this 4th semester. I'm sure it is still a bit too early, but I hope this pace continues.

Here's a little peek at what I've done in Flash, one of the newest programs I'm learning to use.. and it's quite fun! However, there are some nicks here and there when I have no idea what I'm doing sometimes.

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.

Super Busy

It's already almost halfway through August and I have to say, it's been quite busy. The compressed course which required roughs to final renders in a day definitely raised the bar on pressure. Not to mention the bad-timing of large projects from other courses altogether increased the stress and decreased the hours of sleep. Not fun.. orz

I'll be posting my works after this week. It's Exam week, so FIGHTING!!!

Work and Sleepless Nights

To ease labors of art projects in school is best to get started immediately, work fast any, and precise.. Easier said than done right? It all comes down to personal time management; which I need to strengthen! It's a bit depressing when one puts full effort into a project and gets fully thrashed by a critique.

Although, given the opportunity to improve on the project, I'm simply hoping I will be able to finish it!

Anywho.. time for bed~ Good night my fellow visitors. Thank you for stopping by~!!

Google Sketchup

I don't know how many people have used Google Sketchup, however it seems quite easy and once you do get the hang of it, it does get a bit addicting to fiddle with.. as a beginner using the program, I spent quite a lot of time on it just building the simplest of objects. I did turn to tutorials for help though, and sometimes the program itself doesn't want to go your way (haha).

I tried to build a cafe for my first attempt at this program for a class assignment. This is how it turned out~

I will be working on improving this more..

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

Master's Painting WIP

A painting study on one of the masters and I chose Matisse since my professor gave me a working hint during my abstract painting class.

Here's what I have so far. ~
The lighting isn't very good so my colors are not showing very well, but I did my best to reproduce the colors.

My study version.

Matisse original; Woman with Hat 1905

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

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!

Cold Weather & Anime

The weather has been getting much more chilly these days, time for sweaters and thicker coats! I'm not very fond of the cold weather but, it 's manageable.. though it's much more difficult to crawl out of bed or stepping out of a hot shower, haha!! xD

Besides the approach of winter, exams are drawing near too! I'm a little nervous.. although psychology is an interesting course, it has a lot of terminology and theories. @~@;;;

But anyway...

Emotion in Painting

It's been awhile since I've posted anything new because of many school projects and what-not.. I'll be updating my work (though out of order) as my first semester comes to an end. C:
I hope you enjoy looking through my work~

This was painted in-class with a randomly pulled out 'Emotion' from a jar.
My word: Compassionate

Complete Poster

My finished Nursery Rhyme poster!!! C:

Nursery Rhyme WIP

Work in progress line work of what I'm doing for my Digital class~

I just need to color and print!! C:

What Are Little Boys Made Of

The full line drawing~

And below are the zoomed details~!!!

Frankestein Lab WIP & Stuffs

These are photographs of my Frankenstein drawing I did for Structure Drawing class. I have to say, it was one of the most detailed illustration I've ever drawn. I apologize for the bad photo lighting!!! >n<

Not So Good with Cars

A new project for digital class!!! It a bit difficult but I think I did ok..? And yes, the car is very purple.. I blame my thermos that was right next to me.

It's so purple~!!!!!! xD

It took my entire Saturday evening, however, I look forward to learning more digital stuff. C:

I hope you enjoyed looking through my blog! Take care~

Contours & Painting WIP

Here are some more contour drawings that I did in class. There was a misunderstanding and the model left early, thus we ended up doing contour drawings of still life objects [plants and skeleton].

Life Drawing ~ Contours

Semi-blind 30 minute contour of a rose tree.
Medium: Black fine point pen

Semi-blind 15 minute contour of skeleton.
As you can see it's not proportional lolll!
Medium: Black ballpoint pen

Traditional Illustrative Media ~ Black & White Still Life

I really like this painting that I did versus my in-class.. I will finish this one soon!!
Medium: Black, white acrylics, matte gesso on white mayfair paper

That's all for now~!! C:

P.S. Happy Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year~!!!!!