Website

Ive taken some time aside to do a simple design for my website, I'm keeping it as simple as possible while still working some of my works into the design. Is it appealing enough? Also, anyone have good hosting to recommend?

Face Practice 03

Another one, again from photo ref. I didn't exaggerate her chest, it -is- this huge. Approx 2 hours.

Things learned: Instead of blocking the shadows and shades with solid brushes, going slower with low opacity brushes seemed to give a nicer shadow transition. Ill will have to do more experiments.

Foamy Latte

This is the September VO for 11 sec club. I did it in October however, since I was busy then but I liked the dialogue enough that I decided to do it anyway. Approx 20 hours.

Grimacing Faces

Yo, all. This is my first post. These are some faces of soccer players, they make good studies for facial expression as there is a lot of drama. I also tried to give a fist of north-star muscled twist to lab doc, lower right, except his sternomastoid neck muscles are not proportionate. Enjoy!

Elven Magi

A quick doodle I did during the boring NIE lectures. I think the weasle thingy looks like shit. The character resembles too much of Cardcaptor but it wasn't intentional. It's a try on floating capes and pose.

Face Practice Part 3

I opted to draw an open mouth expression this time, shes suppose to be laughing but somehow it turned out more like a grimace instead. Note to self: Draw more laughing people. The light and darks have more contrast in this photo ref, I dont think I've really brought that out. In fact i think the shoulder turned out nicer then the rest.

Things learned: That I cant draw opened mouths, and Im bad at extreme expressions like this laugh. Keep in mind about working from dark to lights, I tend get impatient and start shading in the lighter tones before Im ready.

Face Practice part 2

This time I'm trying tonal values instead of scribbling all over the drawing. Again, from photo ref. Time taken is approx 4-6 hours, I left for dinner and a bunch of misc stuff halfway so I cant really be sure. Photoshop this time, same as the post before.

Things learned: Blending with smudge and eraser works pretty damn well. And cleaning up the base drawing more before starting to add tones will help reduce going back and forth trying to erase stray lines. And getting more adept at looking at tonal values on skin,

Face Practice

This is hardly finished, its not very pretty, but I've done what Ive set out to do so this will be the final version. Lets see if I can draw at least a few of them a week. Done with photo ref.

Things learned in this piece: Its easier to draw noses if you imagine them to be blocks. A triangle-ish shape coming down, and two more triangle-lish shapes at the sides. This all sounds abit technical right now but it helps me to see better.

Edit: I just realized this piece actually ties in with this month's theme haha!

Cursed

chio trio

I feel guilty having spent so much on figures recently. Merely 2 days after orc shaman i bought SOTA WoW fig of 3 at 60 bucks. I've always love SOTA's jungle troll priest since it first surface donkey years ago, Tauren was still ok but I tot they will make a great trio with DC's orc shaman. So here it is, the three shamanic race tat made up The Horde!

1 fig about 20 bucks(quite cheap), now i'm left with the undead warlock which i'm selling at 15 bucks. lelong~

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbeng/329676589/

Work

My latest toy additions: WoW Orc Shaman and Dementor.(Desktop wallpapers Beowulf's son btw."

Finally started another chapter in a new environment. Nice studio, even nicer corner for us character modellers. Pantry is juz below, we can literally jump down n make kopi. The place is very new, in fact renovation is still underway. Boxes of newly bought equipments stacked on the groundfloor. Think by now I would have told most of the ppl here what we are provided, so dun hao lian further liao. Wahaha! Yes I veri show-off. Cannot?!

Both art directors are aussies, ang mohs are very picky. Its a pain at first but It should be a gd learning experience for me. Afterall, thats what I expect in this co. Learn and improve. Have to get used to the way these ang mohs tok, and have to tok to adapt them too.

Ah, I missed my previous studio.

WIP - Creature's head...

WIP here... Argh...

Deformation

So much things is happening in my mind, that has put me in a daze lately. Being an artist really isn't easy. Doing things that we like and eventually make people suffer with us, will we be truely happy in the end? Sometimes I feel that life is so simple, why do us dwell so much into complication when in the end we realise what we really want is something so simple, so insignificant. Its always a huge detour and we ended up in the same spot. Humans can never be satisfied, once they got what they want, they start to feel empty again. Anticipation sometimes is a better form of happiness. Some people waited all their lives.

Now must get back to right track and continue to improve.

This one is really nonsense, it started with hand practice and gradually become like that. So might as well post.

Tumbleweeds

I've finally decided to get off my lazy butt and scanned in my bunch of doodlets. Those that can be seen anyway :D. I usually draw in pen, and when the mood stikes me, I'll shade them in with my copic markers. So far that was happened for a grand total of....twice. Heres one, enjoy :)

Maybe soon I'll be motivated enough to post some pics of my recent Melbourne trip to the Pixar travelling museum wooo

Jeanne D'Arc

Hours of playing Jeanne D'Arc have lead me to this piece. Maybe I'll color it in when Im done playing. K, back to saving France from the English.


Done in Sketchbook Pro. (which I think is the bestest sketching software out there)