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This painting started around early 2014 but I just couldnt find the right feeling to finish it back then. In this painting I shows myself bringing a big teddy bear to give it to her, so when she misses me she can hug the teddy. That's what I did when we first started long distance relationship. It's been going on for about 7 years now, and the painting shows the moment where I miss her the most, which is when I travel back to meet her. The few hours flight seems to take forever. I'm not sure if I like it but it definitely made us appreciate our time together much much more!

Personally I find it really hard to bring this painting to life because I dont know what to add in it to make it interesting enough. The subjects are very simple, and the background has got nothing interesting to deliver. In the end I tried to use colors and shapes to hopefully make it appealing. 

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Hey guys, so somewhere in 2014 a few friends and I were chit chatting about our hobbies and whatnot. We realized we've been buying and collecting lots of artbooks all these years and so we thought, why not we make one ourselves instead. It will be a whole new meaningful experience as we have zero knowledge in it. All we have is just our love for artbooks!

Our goal is to firstly try to improve and make a breakthrough in our art, and secondly to make a book where artbook lovers would love to collect as well. There's still a lot for us to improve in making an artbook, so we will keep on learning and hopefully bring more awesome stuff for you guys. And finally here's a "proper" preview album for this Milky Overdrive artbook!

Featured artists are :

1.) Hoi Mun aka Numioh : http://xylacindustry.tumblr.com/

2.) Jarold Sng : http://jaroldsng.com/

3.) Johnson Ting : https://www.artstation.com/artist/johnsonting

4.) Kael Ngu : http://kaelngu.tumblr.com/

5.) Sk Tneh : https://www.artstation.com/artist/sktneh

6.) Wenjuinn Png : https://www.artstation.com/artist/wenjuinn

7.) Zhi Hui aka Kudaman : https://www.behance.net/KudaMan

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My first personal work in 2016 is finally done! I tried to challenge myself to illustrate a scene with multiple characters, and trying to find a balance to work from grayscale to colors. Initially I thought of presenting the "Year of the monkey" theme with new monkey designs or look but I gave up halfway when I'm trying to control the entire painting so I wont lose interest in it. There's just too much stuff to take care in this kind of painting and I find myself lack of the patience and skills to make everything perfect. So I guess I'll have to improve it next time. Also I repainted the entire image straight with fresh colors instead of converting them using layer modes from my initial grayscale painting, mainly because I failed to find a way to convert them nicely and the image just ended up so muddy and dirty with those layer modes. There's a lot of struggle in this painting but I'm really glad that I managed to pull it off to a certain degree where I still love it. Alright guys, hope you guys dig and happy chinese new year!

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Some recent ink sketches on paper. Trying to improve myself inking a better readability!