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Old man on the bus

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Anne Hathway

Valentine's day 2013

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Back to movie studies, these two are done between breaks in works.

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Had another chance to join the Artjam session again, and it's with pets this time round! We've got two Silky Terrier, and one fat hamster! It's too hard for them to stay still so I end up with a random comic instead. Was really fun to just let the hand do the work and doesnt think too much :)

Photos courtesy of Xiong Ie!

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A little gift for my gf's sister, Clover Yong! Happy birthday :D
Tried to draw Yoona for her cuz she's crazy all over her lol. But ended up with another face instead, failed at cartoonize the reference...however I shall try another one soon.

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Self portrait 2013

Wan Wei

A self portrait and a portrait of my girl to kickstart the year! =D

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Decided to speedpaint a cityscape after being inspired by some artbooks I bought lately. 

Never has the gut to try it but here's the first step. Hopefully there's more to come! :)

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A few days ago I attended my college's One Art Club activity, Kim Jung-gi Sketching Marathon, One Step to Penang. The artist I admired so much recently finally came to visit my country, I can only say that I'm very lucky to be able to join the fun. Very inspiring sharing session by the master himself, definitely motivating. Here's some pictures to share the moment.

Master Kim on the first day of the event, sketching live in public.
Finally, we had a chance to see him draw!

The drawing by Master Kim.

At Galeri Seni Mutiara, Whiteaways Arcade Beach Street Penang.
Photo's courtesy of Hyunjin Kim

Finishing the masterpiece in The One Academy Penang.
Photo's courtesy of I-ON 01

Final product by Kim Jung-gi. Awesomeness overload!!
Photo's courtesy of The One Academy Penang.

Finally we had our chance to take a photo with Master Kim Jung-gi(middle),
right after he finished his demo. I'm the red shirt geek.

Met this famous cartoonist from Gempakstarz, Keith(middle).
He's known for his Lawak Kampus comic strip in a local magazine.

And of course, a photo with the Principal/Managing Director of The One Academy Penang,
Mr. Leong Hoy Yoke. (middle black). It's such an honor to meet him in person.

Of course, I joined the fun as well. 

Like I'm gonna miss the chance to sketch together with so many geeks!

A few live sketches I did during Kim Jung-gi's Sketching Marathon in Penang.
Pen on Paper

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Stephy

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Inspired by Julian Kok's dreadlock rider painting, click away!

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More speed sketches. Cheers

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A speedpainting on a rainy day

Wan Wei!

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Life sketching session today with fellow friends from Illustration major, also we had a great coincidence to meet up with another rather large group of Urban sketching club who actually shares the same vision, the Petaling Street Community Art Project! Seems like the network is growing! ;) Here's some photos to share the fun. Credits to Xiong Ie!

Critique session by senior!

Artworks sharing

Me!

The group photo :)

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A new painting for my girlfriend, cant believe it's been a year since the last painting! Always fun painting her sweet face, never get tired of it. Hope you guys love it as well! Ah yes, check out the timelapse if you're interested in the painting process of it, cheers!

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Click to watch the Video.

This work is done for a college assignment in which the requirement is we have to produce a short clip with a compositing software in a duration of approximately 40 seconds. I combine 3D modeling with 2D background to practise my poor compositing skills. Also I chose to do an organice modeling as I want to improve more on my understanding in Zbrush sculpting and Mental Ray rendering. The concept was roughly inspired by Predator and Alvaro Buendia's Feto modeling. The whole project took about 2 weeks on and off to complete.

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Went to a Life drawing session today, wanna relax myself and free my mind from all the stress. Been awhile since I draw any life model, had a really good time. Never know markers can be this fun to play with as well, definitely going to try more.

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More studies, Blade is coool.....

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My uncle is finally getting married, and here's a gift for both of them. Hope they'll be together happily! :D

Here's the steps, everything is done in Photoshop. About 10 hours of work I think.

And a recent material study to improve my understanding on various material properties and how to render them. I should learn how to render with less strokes and yet maintain the level of detail! Everything is painted, no use of photo texture here.

Well that's it for today, back to paint. See you guys again!

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More studies, I'm trying to keep a practice of doing two movie still studies from each movie I watched. Eventhough I knew it wont last long but heck better than none. Need to push myself or else I'm dropping out.

Anyway just some extra thing, I feel like sharing for a bit.

(I'm not a professional so correct me if I'm wrong alrite?)

There's no colour picking in these studies if you ask. When I first started doing these studies, I did use eyedropper tool to study the colour around the original reference. However I found that it's not so practical because I cant seem to remember what colour I used. I'm forcing my brain to remember the hues, value and saturation from the one I eyedropped, so just like reading a textbook, I forget it after I done. 

Hence I decided to abandon that technique and force myself to pick colour on my own. It is a bizarre case at first as I'm picking such ugly colours that even my toe nails couldnt accept it. Picking colour on my own really works, as I myself is making the decision, not the eyedropper. I remember any shitty colours my eyes had chose and because I cant accept it, I remember it. And if I chose the right one, I'll be happy and because I'm happy, I remember it. Sounds stupid but it works.

So practice makes perfect. My eyes slowly react to these colours and became more sensitive towards any changes in them in each studies I did. It's not 100% accurate, but I can at least get a 90% down by my own eye judgement. Isnt that great? I cant even believe that I can do it as I've a mindset that I just couldnt choose the right colours before this. Screw that shit I just didnt practice. 

So if you wanna try this, I'd advice you not to use the eyedropper. Maybe you can use it when you first started to get the idea of how things works, but it's not gonna do any use if you do it long term. Try to face the ugly truth and force yourself to paint with your eye judgement after a few tryout. 

And for those wandering what does this studies do? It is to train your eye judgement and colour sense. To train your observation skill and how you train your mind to to be tricked by what it see. What benefit will you gain from it? You'll have a solid idea of how to match colours that seems weird together. In real life, not all the time the skin colour is greenish brown. It could be purple, blue, etc depends on the lighting set up. So by doing these studies, you can find out in different situations there will be a different hues for each objects and still look believable when putting together. 

These are my own purpose of doing these studies btw, different artist had a different mindset, some are already good in colour but still do it, maybe to update their colour library, or some even wanna practice human figure, perspective drawing, light and mood, composition, etc. It depends on what you're looking for so know what you want to gain from it. 

Put this here as I kinda like the lines in this one lol. Been awhile since I draw any figure studies so kinda miss it.

Cheers and see you again!