I'm loving it!

Cliche title, but I'm really loving NLB.



From Bukit Batok NLB.

Supposed to be doing work... but the rainy weather was just too nice for studying.



Wanted to paint a portrait of Jack Doe, a character created by a fellow schoolmate. It started with a random chat though, he was never good at colors and threw up a random idea of getting his character painted. I wanted to do it in digital that time (a year ago), but never really enjoyed digital art till now. Feels as though I'm painting in oil.

OMG...

Man, they're gonna put Layton and Phoenix Wright together O_O?! Somehow, they seem to be on loggerheads though. Still prefer Edgeworth if that's the case... Wait... how did Phoenix and Maya end up in that era? A game of logic, yet doesn't sound logical. Argh, this is gonna be awesome!!!! (And another great soundtrack coming, I hope! :D)

Another one hour practice:

Jump again

Another old work reworked. Since it's late, I challenged myself to do as much as possible in an hour. Worked this picture another way. Instead of putting a multiplied layer on top for lines, I buried the original drawing at the botttom and painted on it with another layer, like working a gouache painting.

I'm starting to like this stuff. :3

Lunch Over colored

Taking the past pictures and coloring them in corel for a practice. Saves the time for having to think up new colors and pictures when I just want to get used the software... Somehow, managed to find a way out with the Artist Oils tool, but I see a potential blending problem... It will be hard for me to use it to paint without a layer of lineart in that case. But depending on linearts to have a brilliant cg is not what I'm looking for ultimately. Maybe for now, I'll focus on getting used to this thing before moving on to that level.

And surprise surprise, 'Dive to World' got featured as a DD. That's the first time though, and ironically, it's a picture I didn't enjoy painting... Haha. It's wierd, but come to think about it, quite happened many times throughout history; the works that the artist personally disliked but gets the most attention out of the rest of their works. Maybe I should start putting up all the past works that I rejected. Lols.

Corel Painting

A fellow schoolmatey introduced a few painting tools to me,and I decided to give it a try. The first was a jap paint tool, but somehow, it lagged on my computer and I lost all patience for it, despite how great it was said to be. Went to get a copy of corel painter after that, and there goes another Sunday.

Spent the entire afternoon trying to get it working the way I want. The brushes surprised me, and they mixed just like real paints. However... I couldn't figure out how to blend the paints and 'clean' my brush. Sat there for 4 hours throwing in my basic knowledge of painting but just couldn't get it to blend nicely. The help manual introduced the tools and their functions, but didn't give any tips about handling them. Tutorials weren't of much help. Most that I came across talked about 'how to paint this and that' instead of 'how to operate this painting tool'. And I laughed at the statement of one of it, saying how Da Vinci would be doing miracles with the software if he were alive in this time. Try throwing Michealangelo a copy of Maya then.... It's frustrating... yet digital is something one of this era has to get the hang of in this field. Eek.

Went to the library for helpbooks, but didn't churn out much in the BB library. Came back and decided to continue on that Ariel picture again.



I hate my laptop's colors....



...Cry. It's a brand new way of painting... complex way.... Urgh. Have to find a way suitable for me.

Ariel

Bought 'The Little Mermaid' and 'Beauty and the Beast' DVDs yesterday. Ahh.... childhood... I remember watching them during Christmas at my aunt's place. Back then, it was all on video tapes.



Doodled this while watching the Little Mermaid. Nose problem again, heh. Ann heard the music 'Under the Sea' playing, and she sat down beside me to watch the show. At first, I thought she would not stay on for long cos of the dialogue and lengthy showtime (she has a very short attention span). But hey, I was really wrong. She stayed on to the very end, and even wanted to watch the other DVD with me. Disney magic, maybe, haha.

Random again

Started a new sketchbook with this picture... Haha. Simplify simplify. Aiming to draw more environments in this one.

Kawaranai Mono

Process Log. Haven't done this in a long time.

Expansion on the previous sketch in my sketchbook. Tried to make it look worn out but think tea still does it better. Tried out the watercolor pencil on damp paper combi for this one, and the texture quite gave the overall 'old times' look. Well... there goes another week. Recess week coming soon!! Eager maybe, time to start on those things that have been left in the dark.

Sketchbook Pages Dumping Time

Bored during Modern Art history lecture... Tried to do some random sketch-n-patch by taking the more striking features of the artworks screened during lecture and mixing them up along the way. Churned out some wierd stuff.



Random Creed and Sera sketch with a pencil Huiying gave me. It acts like some watercolor pencil, but it's graphite and dissolves better than the derwent watercolor pencils I've gotten earlier on.



Playing with the pencil... Just wanted to do some lines.



3 minute portrait of a schoolmate. She saw me trying to caricature the others and asked me to draw her. Think the portrait sessions at red dot does help thicken my skin to draw in public... haha. Then again... none of my schoolmates could identify the person drawn here so.... lalala.



Brainstorming about the front part of the 'Canvas' video. Still not there yet.



Right behind is this picture of the primos... Feels like the entire KHR story now is being kept alive by these two. Ah well... Watercolored on messy pencil lines, and inked later and erased.... haiz. Just didn't know what to do about it.



Animation work in school was starting to drain my brain. This one started with just paints. I was challenging myself to paint a face without any guiding pencil lines, but the paper was starting to tear off with too much water. Stopped painting, and seeing the graphite pencil sticking out of my bag, took it and drew a face on the wet paper. It produced a subtley blurred line, which retained that soft feel of the watercoloring. Maybe I can work on that combo...



Inspired by fellow schoolmate's animation idea about a girl in a cafe thinking of her broken relationships. Took the cafe setup and insert the angel-observer character (who has yet to be named) in there.

This weekend is like the calm before a war... gulp. At least there's a short break in between. Hahaha....

Canvas and Impressions

Supposed to do my homework, but spent yesterday on this thing. It's an idea that has been bugging me for a week or so, and I just can't focus with that in my mind, so decided to get it down. Used Flash, since I have to get used to this software, why not start with something that I'm interested to do? Crappy drawings, but at least one thing off my head.

Went to Fance's mosaic shop opening ceremony(the one that I helped design the logo for) on Sunday. It was a simple celebration in a small shop at a rather secluded area in Bt Timah Plaza, one that is not super happening to gather crowds. While I was standing around looking at the little things in the shop, I chanced upon the guestbook and was shocked at a particular name in it.

3. Ms Amy Soon. (Yes, lightning effect plus thunder sfx and Symphony No. 5.)

I thought I connected the name to the wrong person (she's the tutor who intro-ed and taught me graphic designing), but after seeing the email and a chat with Fance, it was really her. She told me that Ms Amy and her son were her first customers who did a mosaic in the shop. They came by about two hours before I got there. Not sure why they were there, probably her son had some tuition nearby? Or they were shopping in BT? On top of everything, I was really curious if she said anything about the logo. And nope, she didn't. Quite sad-ed, but maybe that's a good thing; she might end up shooting me for not doing enough before releasing the design to the client. Haha... or I'm thinking too far... Happy coincidences really, I'm glad to know she saw my work even though she didn't know about it.