Finally got down to coloring this piece. This illustration was originally one of the three drawings I submitted for the OIC White Frames mini exhibition waaaay back a year ago.
It's a slightly surreal take on All Souls' Day when the dead come back to Earth to visit. Here they are being ferried by a giant mechanical construct, each soul housed in a red lantern, as they are taken through town in the middle of a festival parade.
This was an entry for the OIC White Frames mini exhibition months back which I rejected because I didn't think it was good enough. But I've recently brought it out again and developed a renewed love for it :)
It's now resurrected as a tee shirt print... crossing fingers that it will turn out okay but it's okay if it doesn't as I'm using it as an experiment to see how far high-end tee printing can be pushed heh.
Update: The print came out great and ironically, the other design which I sent that I thought would be the safe entry turned out risky heh. I've attached the two designs as laid out on tees.
It is always fun to dream hee... Maybe someday I can do a real cover for one of the big 3 :)Anyhow, been shelving coloring this, nice to finally be able to complete it!
Somehow, it makes sense to me to have these 3 together in the same world heh heh... This is a slightly overdue drawing that I wanted to do but have been putting off.
I dreamed up this story when I was imagining seriously what I would do if I developed a super power. And I don't just mean a healing factor or shooting laser blasts from my hands. I mean a SERIOUSLY KICK ASS super power. It would be an awesome attempt to make the world a better place...
Was an amazing (and stressful!) project to work on. Understandably, there was a lot of red tape involved that prevented me from including this in my blog earlier. But hopefully that has passed with time. Worked so damn hard on these illustrations heh! Much appreciation goes to everyone who helped out in facilitating my requirements for this project, especially Ivan Heng who directed the opening and closing ceremonies, who understood my vision and allowed me almost free reign and creativity. :D
I've been working with an author Martha Keswick on her original new series based on the mythical Giant Pangu. The series comprises of 3 books aimed at making learning Chinese enjoyable for older kids :) Here are excerpts from the first book. Published by P3.
A new thing I'm trying out - watercolour look using photoshop. This is an illustration of the client's property and the nearby malls for their Christmas card.
About time I updated new stuff :)The kind folks at OIC and Animax came together to kick up a project involving OIC illustrators doing interpretations of certain animes in the form of illustrations and i was one of the participating artists. I got assigned Fullmetal Alchemist (wonderful choice!) and here's my entry.
OIC had a casual mini art show at MAAD (Red Dot Museum) over the weekend and i contributed 4 b/w pencilled drawings to the show. Here are 2 of them in color.
First one is titled "Ghost Story" - I wanted to draw something with soldiers and skulls. I decided it seemed like a good idea for a military ghost story premise considering the stories I was told while doing my own National Service heh.Will update with the rest of the illustrations later on!
Second one is "Dance in the Dark" - Nothing to the concept really. I was just really pumped from my last figure drawing session and wanted to do an imagined figure drawing piece showing an elegant dancer captured in various poses.I sketched a rough of the layout and added the blindfold as an afterthought. I had an idea that it would be beautiful to portray a dancer so confident with her skill and so familiar with her body that she could dance blind. That, and I have a penchant for using movie and song related titles :p