Sketching People

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some pages from my sketch book, going back to mechanical pencil instead of the pen and ink i usually do.

Soon Lee Voucher

A very fun job I did with Soon Lee (a local boutique located at Haji Lane 56) for their in-store voucher. Almost total creative freedom to conceptualize and draw. :D

Figure Drawing

During lessons (each 3 hrs with about 45mins for break) we typically vary between 3-5min, 20 min, 1hr, 3hr, 6 hr (same pose for 2 weeks).

These are some of the quick gestural drawings with 3-5 minute poses. Usually size of drawing is between A3-A2, or A2-A1.

Large Drawing

One of the projects from school, where we're supposed to have a large piece of artwork in the end. I went around the city sketching in my sketchbook, before redrawing/enlarging and linking the original sketches to form the large drawing.

bowler hats

trying a new style-

A scene at my windowsill.

freehand mx.

Batman, Joker and some penguins.

inspired by a desperate fit of boredom

photoshop doodle

garhahrarhar

i was bored. photo reference-

Sustained Life Drawing

done in studio.

medium: charcoal

the words of Mr. Wood

Ashley Wood that is.


"Cut away the bullshit, the swindle, the galleries, the cooler-than-shit historic myths of street/gallery/animation/low/high/brut/comic art background and you're left with the image. Does the image work without a clapperhand explaining why it rocks? No? Then fuck off, write a novel, and leave art to someone else. Intellectualize and die."



*drops to ground and kowtows in hero worship*

that is a completely tattoo worthy quote, is it not?

INTELLECTUALIZE AND DIE.

OIC Scavenger Sketch!

Topic this time, draw your favourite superhero from your childhood. muahahhahaa.

i <3 the TICK!

Recent Stuff :D

have been drawing quite a bit recently, outside of what is required in school. :X been slacking for a while.

first two are drawn from reference, Weegee's New York. i super super love weegee's photos.



^nib and ink



^graphite on paper, although the paper abit too rough for the texture that i was going for, used a tortillion to do the smoothing of shades. tortillions are cool.

hardest bits to do is the shading on the legs, to show the knee and the calf muscles :/ so it's good to reference from photo because when do in life drawing classes, i'm usually too busy with getting the shape of the body correct to be bothered about the correct muscular definition. :X

lecturer says is good to copy from old masters' drawings because then you get a pretty good idea of the muscles of body and the underlying structure of skeleton/how different muscles strain and stretch in different poses, etc. got to do that for class, so will report more on that soon.



^nib and ink drawing of an acquaintance. i find that the nibs with round ends suit me better than the ones without the round tips. they're much more suited to do bold, fast lines, so work well for quick drawings/sketches, but too clumsy for delicate line work.

will try to borrow a camera to take photos of larger drawings in my studio. :D

haven't done much with colours yet though. i kinda want to learn how to draw correctly first, before i start using colour, but maybe doing both together is better. opinions?

2902 Mural

A mural done a while back for 2902 photo gallery located in Old School, Mt Sophia Road. Painting was assisted by chun, gwen (the gallery owner) and random friends, like Sharon Didi.



painting took 2 days with one of them working through till morning. damn shagged!

School-

harrow harrow

this is my studio in school, drawing department.



we're supposed to plaster our work/other stuff on the walls to inspire ourselves-

close up of the stuff i've been drawing in class





most recent one - done with charcoal



eh. installation in our "gallery" which is actually just walls along our department.



hah- okay.

OMG, update!

harrow shifu, stop stalking my blog lei, i veh stress sia. hahahahahahaha---

anyways, although this blog may have seemed permanently abandoned, it was in fact.... abandoned. until shifu decided to whack me for not updating. so. here you go, a commissioned illustration for TimeOut magazine for Feb 2008 issue.

(muahaha, i'm finally printed! does this mean i'm finally a legitimate illustrator now?)









on another note, i've relocated to melbourne. :D and yes, i realize this news is very extremely late in coming.

will update soon! (really!)

Dreams of a New Space

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details








ahahaha!!! i'm finally back with new stuff. have been such a lazy asshole. ^^

anyways, this illustration was commissioned by the red dot for the lifts in the building.

my concept was to have people go into the lift, and be transported into another space. To stimulate their creativity and let their imaginations go wild.

ACRES fundraiser

HELLO ALL :D


I did a quick project for Aware Concerns and Research Society recently. They're an AWESOME....no beyond awesome. They're a freaking fantastic animal rights group that did a humongous lot for the improvement of animal rights and care in Singapore.

Check them out at www.acres.org.sg



This is an illustration for a fundraising dinner, to be sold as a one-off postcard/button set.



This is the completed version. :) I'm happy how it turned out.

HELLO

and UPDATE!


Sorry everybody for not commenting/posting for SUCH A LONG TIME. don't worry, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, was just busy doing some projects and making money (such a necessary evil).

I've just completed a mural project for a shopping mall, pictures below! Had initially planned to fill up more of the background, but due to time constraints... :(

for those in Singapore who are able to go down and take a look, it is in Marina Square. Second level, outside the GV wall (where there is a collaboration mural) Several awesome graffiti artists are involved, like Killer Gerbil, Snatch Thieves, and illustrators like White Dog Bobby, Manda Panda!!! Was bloody excited to meet Gerbil, and he's a totally awesomely nice guy!







I have more news to post, but that'd probably be in another entry. watch out for this space! I'm back!!!

thanks to those who encouraged me so much. Thanks guys, you people are freaking awesome.




i just realized how bloody limited my vocabulary seems because i keep using the word awesome. but it really is awesome! yeah.

complaint.

i think my drawings have become a little souless recently. i no longer have the same sense of fun when i put the pen to paper. it probably shows in my illustrations. probably because of the stress from the final year project. i think about it even when i sleep and i wake up in the morning thinking SHIT FYP. after this is all over i'll take a loooonnnngggg looooonnnggggggggggg break to rest and recharge.



live sketch of a muslim lady on the bus. did this a while back and i like the relaxed, free lines in this. i'm trying to get it back. stay tuned.

Disposapet!

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part of my graduation project, let me know what you think :D

Illustration Friday - Red

Poppies in July - Sylvia Plath



Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?



You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.



And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth



A mouth just bloodied
Little bloody skirts!

There are fumes that I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?



If I could bleed, or sleep! -
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!

Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.



But colorless. Colorless.