illuminations

i keep telling myself to brush up on portrait sketching but have barely got round to practicing. here is Josh Groban. :)

cute spooks.

Happy Halloween! it is time for some spooky scream-fest!

coloured flags.

my history of Graphic Design lecture notes is now more exciting. :D

the symbolic colours and shapes in moods.

An Graphic Design class assignment (NTU, ADM 2010) which required us to depict 4 emotions/moods in just colours and shapes. here's my interpretations.

Fear


Happiness


Laughter


Anger

a Restart.

(i think i will never have the time to properly scan my tokyo journal...)

because school has been so busy (it is only week 3!!) in the meantime, i am slowing building up my portfolio with these assignments to follow:






these were my responses to the word "Restart" in the first image, it is the burning of the paper to ashes and from it a tree (the start/origin of paper) grows... also the idea of 'rebirth' with references to the phoenix rising from its ashes.
The second is a more bleak portrayal of the 're-starting' of an assignment when all your old ideas are thrown out of the window (or in this case, into the wastepaper basket). notice the forming of the backward arrows (rewind symbol) in the negative spaces of the trash bin.

momshoo update! :D

Momshoo will be at MAADout this August!

off off the away once again! :D

Flying away to Tokyo, Japan for the very first time. :D

speech bubble maadness

momshoo update for july sales...



i got a little speech bubble crazy. all these were paper cut-outs laid out and photographed. and then the words were added on using photoshop. :D

yet another momshoo update!

here's the Momshoo update for June MAAD Sale. :D

it is a noisy animal farm out there!

this was the momshoo poster i did for the launch of our new (not so anymore..) series of animal silhouette badges. :D

a different kind of pack list.

ahh! i have been busy busy. with Momshoo, with the camp etc. will post up sketches i have done recently for my work.

first! here is the camp pack list i did for the nys camp. excited! i hope people like it! :D
(concept courtesy of Wendy and myself.)

this must have been what the Salon of the past looked like

taking a break from studying for my art history paper on Thurs.
here is my little, simplified interpretation of what Western Art History is all about. including landscapes, still life, portraiture, images of the divine, nudes, images of other cultures/land, genre scenes of everyday life.

blob. blob. blob.

final drawings for 4D assignment. i hope my teacher and classmates like it!

chance discovery

yes, this is the end of road. what will you find?

final big picture to mark the end of Foundation Drawing class in ADM. Acrylics on white paper

(random note: exactly 1 year ago, i was in Sydney or rather Changi Ariport about to head down to Sydney. oh i miss that place so much!)

sweetness overload.

doing serious colouring for 4D final project now. i coloured this till i felt puke-ish because i have been doing this for more than 2 hours now. i decided to do only what i think was enough. this is enough. :P

that dreamy feeling.

woke up to a lazy day of cloudy skies and cool breeze...

(blue and gray coloured pencils.)

down the rabbit-hole.

did this this morning in about 15 minutes while waiting for my roommate to be ready. i was going to be late for school. :P
from the Alice in Wonderland 'down the rabbit hole' tale. :D

red attack!

i just want to keep uploading photos of my work so that this blog continues to survive. they may not be the best but they are recent work. :D

i did this in about 30 mins at our last fdn drawing class today. i ran out of peach coloured pastel so i decided the model's skin shall be red! hahahaha!

(red, hot pink and reddish-brown pastel on brown paper)

Red Crayon

i did this for "Red Crayon", a facebook group that encourages anyone to submit any drawing done with, yes you guessed it... a Red Crayon! :D

Caffe Express

I was waiting for the NTU open house to begin this morning and did a quick sketch of the caffe place near the audi while waiting. :D

fineliner on paper

we sing, we dance, we live in air-borne houses

our homework brief: "Images of the future"

this is the scenario when we have run out of land and no amount of reclamation work would provide enough living space. i don't think it is scientifically possible to suspend land... so unless some mad scientist can recreate how meteoroids/stars stay suspended in mid-air, this image of the future isn't actually possible.

still, it is a happy, fantastical picture.

"We live in air-borne houses", watercolours

the anonymous passer-by

(i started on this 2 weeks back but only completed it with the watercolour sky yesterday night.)

Quidam (pronounced /kiːˈdɑːm/ key-DAHM) means (sg.) "a certain", (pl.) "some", or "anonymous passerby" in Latin.

This was a show by Cirque du Soleil which i thought looked interesting due to the theme and how the title character looked like a surrealistic figure from a Rene Magritte painting! It talks of a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past (reminds me of some calefare! Lol.), one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all.


(coloured pencils and watercolours)

the curious incident of the river water in the Night-time

"Image of Night-Time"

Singapore River by Night
(Foundation Drawing Homework at NTU ADM)
soft pastels.

Club Street

Pictorial representation of Club Street

super model!

i love this pose by the model. makes her look like superman. hahaha! :D

(both done in 2 mins each in orange soft pastel)

my vacation

Taiwan's Jiu Fen.
(done in fineliner and watercolour pencils)

french royal gala

French royal gala apple for my dessert. :D

ADM building

NTU School of Art, Design and Media.
(done in soft pastels during foundation drawing class. duration: one and a half hours)

little drops of rain

save under my red umbrella. (not like i have one)


what better way to portray a rain cloud with watercolour paint?


desaturated the colour here so it look more GREY.

strawberries!

mmmm... korean strawberries. not overly ripe this time. :)

intriguing lamp.

did this at MAAD this Jan. the multi-faceted light has intrigued me for the longest time and i decided to draw it. but it is harder then it looks as everything is inter-connected so you must get the lengths and the angles right. This is my third attempt. in pencil.