I totally got my inspiration from …well, D&D. At least in the name anyway. You know like how they have sun elves and such in D&D? This is a sun troll! Though I know it’s like, a paradox of sorts because trolls are supposed to burst in the sun and stuff. but whatevs :D
Colleen coloured pencils, Derwent Blender & Burnisher pencils on A5 sketchbook, 160 gsm paper
been doing a LOT of traditional art lately! I’m addicted! I’m unstoppable! This is just a part of it - all of them are drawn using coloured pencils, except for the cyclophabbit family, where the background is filled in with acrylic paint.
you know what. Google isn’t working for me. It’s really frustrating because it means that I can’t access my G+ and post stuff. So I’ll post here for now and then repost these stuff in G+ later. I kinda just want to keep most of my posts here to be about my art and stuff, that’s why I was a little hesitant. Anyway, other people’s art is good too! I like art! and here’s one. A linocut! a medium that I haven’t really explored (apart from that one time in high school art class).
Simple. Elegant. Neat stuff!
I’m a part of urbansketchers singapore, which is a part of this..bigger thing. Talented illustrator with lovely style. I like his use of lines.
Tabitha #9, oil on panel, 36 x 40 inches, 2011
Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
One super talented artist. You should check out his blog for more art!
I did this commission recently. It’s my first ever full size, full colour vector illustration! And yes, that means the first time I made a full piece of artwork in Illustrator! Well, it wasn’t meant to be so. It’s just that I was commissioned to make a billboard featuring some cute animal with a wide, exaggerated smile (client runs a dental clinic), and when I was told the size spec…well, I was stumped! I can’t possibly paint it in Photoshop because if I paint it in actual size, it’d just crash my comp and I can’t really have them blow it up either because it’s just going to look icky and pixellated. I counseled Stephen and he said to use vector because that’s the only graphics format that can be scaled up without any lossiness. I was like, oh but are you MAD!?? I have never done anything like this before. I mean, sure I’ve fooled around in AI quite a lot but at that point all I’ve only ever made lineart (which I’d later colour in Photoshop).
It was rather difficult! I whined to Stephen a lot and it was a lot of trial and error. I learned a lot from this picture. It also turned out well in the end because the client was happy enough with me to give me repeat commission :D
A coffin design done for the local art contest, which is a part of a bigger event - a convention held earlier this month. I was shortlisted, which means I was required to go and recreate my artwork live at the venue. I was only given 90 minutes to do so, and considering how detailed this piece is, I obviously didn’t get very much done at all. Thus, I didn’t win anything…ah but it was good to participate. I still love this piece! This is also a first of sorts, as I don’t think I’ve done anything quite like this before.
It’s obviously very inspired by the sugar skulls popular during theDía de los Muertos “Day of the Dead”, a Mexican holiday.