Visuals

Advertising visuals done mid last year. Pen + photoshop.

Parkour by saggyarmpit

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

pretty cool animation by a local student


via lines and colors

Magazine cover

Cover illustration for TimeOut Magazine.

Egyptian art at museum

Sketching at the national museum 9 Jan, saturday 2pm

You are invited to sketch with us at the Quest of Immortality exhibition held at the Singapore National Musuem! Let's meet at 2pm, Saturday 9th Jan at the lawn in front of the musuem. From the website, it looks like students get in free if you bring a valid student pass. For the rest of us, it's $15 but with a mastercard, you get a discount. Call andrew 91070735 if you can't find us. Please sign up in the comments section if you are confirmed going. (so we can look for you) Coming?

Pixs from OIC PORTRAIT DAY, 2nd Jan 2010

Thanks to all the participants on Saturday. We had a very interesting session. Its good to see so many artists not just trying to capture a likeness but to add some soul to their drawings. Check out the photos in the link and do give your comments and hope to see more of you in February!! Happy New Year and keep drawing!!

Coffeeshop-Talk Uncles

Sunday -- church, food, coffee, chill out and sketchy day. We spent the entire day out, attending church, having lunch with great pals,
shopping and then finally coffee at Shaw Tower. We decided to chill out from the crowd in Suntec City, so besides surfing the Internet, I sketched the coffeeshop-talk-uncles sitting in front of us.

OIC PORTRAIT DAY, 2nd January 2010, 2 TO 7PM

Happy New Year!! Don't miss the 1st OIC Portrait session of 2010 at MAAD! Polish your drawing skills & catch up with your OIC buddies at the same time. OIC's modus operandi if you don't know already- Everyone gets 20 minutes to draw the "patron/ sitter" at the same time. You get $10 for each drawing sold . Make it COLOURFUL, all skill levels welcomed. You don't have to be an OIC member to join but you have to register here and please read the FAQ. Come and draw, make friends and spread good drawing vibes. (Poster illustration by Ben Quek/ Mr B)


*Posting your work is a sign of appreciation to the patron/sitter/ poser, DON'T sign up if you do not wish to post your work for view/ sale.

All participants to pay S$10 each from now on. 
Newbies- Use this registration form if you are NEW to OIC!
OIC regulars just add your names as usual via comments.

Thanks for 2009

HAPPY 2010 EVERYONE! I still have yet to see flying cars, or robots to clean up after us. But life is still very entertaining and I'm real happy to be right here, right now. Cheers to new year and new dreams :D

3 Writers-the face behind some great books

Just some sketches and putting a face behind some of the great books written out there

Just for fun!

Not sure whether I have posted this before... but this was done quite some time ago. :P

Have a blessed Christmas!!

Here wishing you a happy and blasted Christmas!! Enjoy the food!!

more links

And here are some links with some very inspiring works.

Firstly, Joao Ruas. He is the one that took over drawing Fables covers from James Jean. I'll leave it to you guys to see what's similar and what's different in their drawing styles. Also check out his blog.

Secondly, Jun Tsunoda. You'd probably classify her work as fine art. But I'm sure there are lots we illustrators can learn from her use colours, balance and shapes. From giving it a try, I think abstract paintings aren't as easy to create as they look.

doodlers anonymous

a couple of interesting, inspiring links i've been trawling:

www.doodlersanonymous.com
www.booooooom.com

Results of SketchWalk on Dec 12

Results from Sketch Walk Dec 12, 2009!! It was really fun driving around in a van. Drew's driving was awesome!!


Scrap metal yard.


Cement factory.


Drew!!


Lunch:: what's left.




These were done after the SketchWalk when Kat & myself went to hangout at Orchard to see what Ion looks like.

kranji sketchwalk-results

Abandoned exhaust pipes and machines.

Drewscape and Tia

Sketches from the sketchwalk

Tia, Don, Kat, Seiji and me explored the kranji factories. There were scrapped cars, engines, cranes and a road littered with splattered eggs fallen from a truck. Here are some sketches from this morning's sketchwalk. (ballpoint, ink and some photoshop colour adjustments)

Girls, Guts and Glory!

The Diary of Amos Lee: Girls, Guts and Glory!
Hot on the shelves, 2nd of the series, following the successful "I sit, I write, I flush!” (Top 10 of Straits Times, Bestseller's List).

Written by Adeline Foo, “Girls, Guts and Glory!”, is packed with more full scene illustrations as compared to the first book, including "photographs" taken by Amos with his Polaroid camera (Sneeky, sneeky). This Project took about 3mths to complete including layout and cover. Although I would have liked more time to improve on a few things, I reckon it’s pretty decent work and a step up from the previous book.

Latest news, we have ran outta copies and bringing in more for the bookfest at Suntec. It is nice to see that hard work with heart thrown in is appreciated. So a word of thanks to everyone and yeahhhh... I've got my social life back. – Enjoy :D

Caricatures

Some caricatures I did of some personalities for a microsite. The characters' limbs were done in layers so that they can be animated. Some of them look a little stiff here.

OIC Portrait Day Dec pixs

Thanks to all those for took part in our OIC Portrait Day on Dec 5th and all those other months in 2009. We hope to c u soon in January 2010. We wish everyone a Peaceful and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

See more pixs here.

Eating "You Tiao"

Here’s another comic illustration of myself eating a fritter. However, in this case, it is not entirely a fritter. This local delicacy is named “You Tiao” (in romanized Chinese). You may read the following cut n paste from Wikipedia:

“You tiao,[1] you char kway,[2] or yau ja gwai,[3] sometimes known in English as Chinese cruller fried bread stick or Chinese doughnut, is a long, golden-brown, deep fried strip of dough in Chinese cuisine and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines and is usually eaten for breakfast. Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two. Youtiao are normally eaten as an accompaniment for rice congee or soy milk.”

I love to eat it dipped in coffee for breakfast!!

OIC PORTRAIT DAY, 5TH DECEMBER 2009, 2 TO 7PM

Its the holiday season ! Don't miss the last OIC Portrait session of 2009 at MAAD! Polish your drawing skills & catch up with your OIC buddies at the same time. OIC's modus operandi if you don't know already- Everyone gets 15 minutes to draw the "patron" at the same time. You get $8 for each drawing sold . Make it COLOURFUL, all skill levels welcomed. You don't have to be an OIC member to join but please read the FAQ. Come and draw, network and trade tips. (Poster illustration by Fleecircus)

*Posting your work is a sign of appreciation to the patron/seater/ poser, DON'T sign up if you do not wish to post your work for view/ sale.

Use this registration form! ( Do not post in comments )

This form is working very well. I will update the confirmed name list every 6-12hrs. Thanks for cooperating

wonderland painted

painted version of the wonderland cover for the french edition plus some sort of auction/exhibition... oil on canvas, 30x40 inches.. was interesting to see if the digital stuff could be replicated, but also a little constricting having a ready reference to copy :p