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Sketch Walk on Dec 13, 2009

2009-12-24T10:22:00.000+08:00

It is always pretty fun to do sketch on location. This time with the company of like-minded sketchers from Singapore, we visited Sungei Kadut located at the not so far northern part of the little island about 45 minutes away from downtown. This is where you can find plenty of heavy industries built far away from the city required by the policy of the government to reduce noise and air pollution. For the first time in my life here in Singapore, I witnessed a used car metal scrapyard, a cement factory and many more. We had fun but it was a hot hot day with no clouds. At noon, we break from lunch at Kranji Drive where we had the best Char Kuay Teow and Claypot Curry Fish Head. :)

Futuristic Designs and Vehicles concept sketches

2008-10-29T13:54:00.000+08:00

Guns Thumbnail Studies

2008-10-29T13:52:00.000+08:00

Used Faber Castell Pitt Markers for these.

Pencil Study

2008-10-29T13:51:00.000+08:00

Grand Canyon I

2008-10-09T13:25:00.001+08:00

My wife and myself were at Grand Canyon last winter, 2007. We drove from Savannah, Georgia. Finally after half a year, I went through the pictures we took and decided to do up some digital painting of the magnificient canyon. Here's the first one.

Pencil Sketches- Dangerous Girl & Pirate

2008-10-06T05:43:00.001+08:00

Doodles and Sketches

2008-09-25T13:34:00.000+08:00

Some random sketches in my sketch book, and how a doodle leads to a more detailed sketch.

Quick Painting

2008-09-25T10:29:00.000+08:00

Another practice in class - in fact the last class for summer. I am going to miss Bob Kato from now. No fear I possess one of his DVD with Gnomon and I am gonna watch it to learn more abt gouache painting. This one is referenced from a painting, and was made in about 45 mins blocking in the values in color.

Jungle and Mayan ruins

2008-09-24T04:44:00.001+08:00

Experimenting with brushes and such in Photoshop. This is an imagined composition of a mayan ruin staged in a jungle. I think the lighting can be a little more drastic and has more contrast.

Character Concepts

2008-09-23T14:47:00.001+08:00

After buying and reading “The Skillful Huntsman”, I was also inspired to do some character concepts. I imagined a world, somewhat like ours but set in the far future, that is governed by the most powerful man known as The Priest, who controls the people and the nation in the name of religion. It is similar to the times during the dark ages when the religious leaders held the key to the life and death of the commoners.

After some doodles, I decided to give this man a more bulky appearance, wearing some sort of a protective suit, complete with breathing apparatus like mask or tubes or helmet. You can see how the designs actually changed as I find more interesting ideas for the design.

I printed out some duplicates of the silhouettes I like and drew over them with a marker, at the same time deciding the little details I wanted to put on the costume.

Here I tried out a more detail look.

There would be more to come.

One hour speed portrait

2008-08-28T13:10:00.000+08:00

Speed Portraiture

2008-08-27T13:05:00.000+08:00

One of the perks with working in Disney is, there are free classes for anyone interested. I took Bob Kato's digital painting class since I joined Disney as an intern. I am posting one of the class project: Digital Portraiture. The entire practice took about 2.5 hours. I have already missed several of his class because of many reasons. I am not going to miss it anymore. I enjoyed the class a lot because it is a break from the usual work. Spending just 3 hours painting digitally can be very relaxing and I told a friend, it is like going through therapy. I am always feeling rested after each lesson.
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Lonely Troll

2008-08-07T13:31:00.001+08:00

Finally after fighting some distraction, I got this finished. Lonely Troll. Drawn with 2B pencil and painted in Photoshop and Painter.

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Sketch of a Giant

2008-07-29T13:58:00.001+08:00

Nothing much has been going on... I had a relaxing weekend, and thus no new artwork. Stay tune for more.

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Sketching Away...

2008-07-28T14:28:00.000+08:00

I did not spent too much time on my drawing desk this weekend even though I know I should. But anyway, the time was well spent watching Hell Boy 2 at the theater, our first movie after moving to Glendale. Overall the movie was entertaining with a simple plot but great character and environment designs. It was like watching a Star Wars movie when the story got into entering the other world. I like it because I am a big fan of Hell Boy comics.

Concept Sketches

2008-07-25T14:46:00.001+08:00

cBig upload this time. I have been busy relocating, and before that, I was involved with Disney's Imagination Design Competition in which I was part of a team that got into the final. Plenty of stuff that got me away from sketching alot. But anyway, now that I am more or less settled with my new place at Glendale, CA and my internship with Disney as an Art Intern, I am back to sketching again. I kind of finding myself a little "rusty", so there is no more slacking, I need to get back in shape! More to come...

Sketching Trip at Jacksonville Zoo, Florida

2008-06-27T21:34:00.000+08:00

I was glad when a friend of mine actually suggested to go to the zoo for an outdoor sketching fiesta. Since there ain't any in Savannah, we decided to drive like 2 hours to a state zoo at Jacksonville, Florida. We almost sang in the journey. I was surprised to see that there is such a grand zoo in Jacksonville. I would have come earlier, say in cooler times, like Spring or Winter. It was hot hot hot... we were basically fried under the sun. I have to really do a one-minute sketch and then run off to the shades to cool myself down. Unfortunately, that did not prevent a farmer's tan. Anyway these are the sketches:

Opening of a new blog

2008-05-01T09:17:00.000+08:00

I am opening a new blog for my portfolio site donartdesign.com. Well, it is going to be somewhat similar with thedesignlanguage.com/blog with a little different with formality. This blog is going to be artwork driven and would not document any of my journal which you will see on the other blog. A little complication but it is quite simple actually... well, anyway here's the first artwork post - Hunchback - a character design I did last year but was stashed very safely out of reach for a long time. I found it and redo it in color.