Hi there people, sorry for the disappearing act for the last few weeks. I been distracted away from my artblogging for the last month of so. You could say things are afoot currently in my life. For one thing, for those who didn’t know, I have quit my job and have been officially a bum for the last 3 weeks. I have decided to go back to freelancing so that I can cope with my night classes in 3D modelling better. So…that’s pretty much how my life is gonna be for the next 6 months or so. If any of ya people have any freelance gigs both inhouse or project bases, please do let me know and we can discuss how to work out the details.
Meanwhile, I have to get back into doing up my blog projects and continue to up my kungfu level. Here are a couple of abstract artworks that I did up with the same techniques in photoshop, but I varied the colors and put in different elements to give the 2 artwork a bipolar totally opposite mood and feel. Have a look see!
PS: It’s good to be back! Miss ya all.
Here a little something to all ya decaying zombies, evil serial killers, bloodsucking vamps and all the other creatures of the night roaming Halloween this year. Enjoy my visuals! GROWL…
Gals and more gals!
Here are 3 images I spent the last couple of weeks doing up. Using a woman image as a main focus, I slowly build layers upon layers of details to each of the images. Hope everyone like the visuals.
On the flip side, I think I been doing a truckload of women visuals for the last couple of months. Wonder if it is my subconscious mind yelling at me to get laid more often. -_-’ Think I am gonna take a little wee break on that and do up some cutesy illustrations for the upcoming post or 2.
Ever since we human beings were born, its always does seem that we are always waiting for one thing or another. Waiting to be fed, waiting for our turn in the line, waiting for the bus to arrive, waiting to be knock off… etc. The funny thing about waiting is that everyone believes that at some point, your turn will always come. That’s the funny thing with ‘hope’ i think, we humans are such sucker for this particular notion. Hope can be quite a mind fuck especially in the case of love.. a self deluding medication to that numb pretty much all common senses.
I am sure you most likely heard these passing comments one too many from your single friends, “Oh lets leave it to fate…” or “…I am sure there will be someone out there waiting just to walk into my life.” – Is this just being optimistic hopeful of just plain fooling of oneself? What we have here is a classic taichi-ing the whole love process out of your hand – Hey it’s not my problem… some divine power to be in the sky will drop the right one onto my lap sooner or later, all I need is be patient and hopeful.
It is one thing to use these divine excuses to stall overzealous relatives and friends, hell..I admit it myself, I flaunt these excuses so shameless just to get out of conversation about my zero non-existence love life. Maybe it’s just the cynic in me, but I don’t think i can ever buy into ‘this divine love crap’, not even for a moment. However, you will be very surprised just how many people do buy into the whole ‘waiting for love’ craziness. The evidences is so out there that I don’t even want to talk about it, it will just take forever.
Wake up and smell the truth! Waiting for love to come crashing down onto your outstretch hands is just pure myth and a lame excuse for not getting your feet wet by passing the responsibility to some divine intervention. You just buying into a hope that the answer is already out there waiting , you just have to be patient and wait your turn. Yah.. like that will ever happen! Too much Hollywood people! You can’t just wish yourself to be the leading man and lady in a whirlwind romance movie, you have to make it happen.
So get off your ass and do something about it – that means opening yourself up and putting yourself at risk to be hurt in the process. Being hurt and disappointed at love sucks, most of us know how that feels at least one time. Such experiences often do give us pause and make us cynics in the world of love. After all who wants a repeat of an painful experience, and falling into a new love might not mean it will turn out to be a happy ever after. But at least at the end of day, you can at least say that you are a true practitioner of love, at least you try to find love and try to make it work rather than sitting on your ass, sucking on your thumb and seeking for a direction in the sky.
Here is to 2 of my friends who met and created a fairy tale love story come true on the salsa dance floor by overcoming both the culture and language barrier (she is from Japan and he is local Singaporean). I did up this extra large wedding poster as per requested by the groom for all the guest to sign on their well wishes for their wedding event. It was done in about 5hours and i had plenty of fun doing it.
So here is me wishing Jimmy and Maiko all the very best in their new chapter of life together as husband and wife.
Kanpai!!!!
Every morning during my 5mins short walk to the train station, I will walk pass this ground floor unit of a one of them 4 storeys flat. And everyday there will be this Jack Russell doggy lying on its tummy, its wise eyes silently gazing out of the unit’s barred front metal gate. The only time I ever saw this Jack Russell freak out was when one of neighbourhood stray cat wander close to the gate of the unit, prompting the Jack Russell to go into a barking frenzy, thus scaring the bejesus out of the cat.
This is the inspiration behind this illustration, I just wanted to do something color and loud and in your face. So I did a cartoon of a doggy being freak out by a one eye cat-like creature. Hope everyone likes the visual. Thanks.
Before we begin, how many of you have seen the ‘Made in Singapore’ balls busting vid which is spreading like the h1n1 over the internet. No? well then.. click away below and be prepare to be W.T.F.
http://multimedia.asiaone.com/Multimedia/Vodcast/Story/A1Multimedia20090827-7722.html
Needless to say, now you know where I got the inspiration for today’s artwork. Very suitable don’t you think?
Meanwhile, to the chap in the vid – I don’t know who you are, but seriously I do pity you. For one thing, you and your female friend are infamous now thanks to the power of the internet. That’s what happen when you aired your dirty laundry up for the public to view by the way. Maybe you do deserve the punishment, but judging for the vid, I have a nagging feeling that your girlfriend is just a bit wee too over zealous in carrying out your punishment (think Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies). If that is the case then i REALLY do pity you… coz there is a chance that your /girlfriend/wife/S&M mistress/ might treat your ’little bros’ as 7-11 pinatas each time she decides you screwed up. She will have the last word, after all she seem to be the one calling the shots in your relationship. (eg: didn’t wash the dishes = 2 heel shots … didn’t laundry the clothes = 3 heel shots etc…)
If that is the case, might i suggest that you either:
- Totally lose your balls (since they aren’t going to be much use being just cannon folders)
or
- Grow some balls of steel for christ sake. You are a man, so act like a bloody one already.
Time to have a show and tell of one of my older work – this piece is called The Faces on the Balloon. A mixed media piece which I rojak-ed elements from my past designs, a couple of pencil doodles and with some images from my junk reference folder. I didn’t have a big idea or a clear direction when I started doing up this piece, all I had was that I have to use a balloon image. The final artwork just slowly took a life of its own halfway through all the clutter.
Hope all of you enjoy this finished artwork then.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Bob with the sharp teeth. Why don’t you say hi to everyone too Bob?! That’s a pencil sketch of Bob up in the corner and a follow up final colored piece. I did the coloring of Bob with a pen tablet in Photoshop, which is still a very new experience to me. Needless to say, it is not as easy as its look. I colored him all up only to discover i missed out the wart on his nose.
Anyway, I guessed since i created Bob, it’s only fitting I give him a little backstory too for everyone.
- Bob is from a small Pacific island of Hula Opindo and he is a full fledge cannibal.
- His life long dream is to start a cooking channel on the island.
- He collects shrunken heads of his meals and display them in jars. He is very proud of his collection, rumored to be the biggest on the island.
