OIC @ MAAD- come grab these calendars

These cute & colourful pocket calendars are up for grabs at this coming MAAD Mart!! Please make sure you get yours! ( Thanks to Shannon for giving us some slots. Featured here are contributions by Moof, WhiteDogBobby, Fleecircus, AnnGee, SanSan, Mr B, Twisstii and Adeline. )

ohhh san francisco

Neale over at fivewhys found some really sweet stuff in the bay area.

i really love how the artist makes use of the depth caused by many layers of paint drips overlaying one another. thought the koi kinda looked like they were swimming underwater.

and this... brings back some memories of good ol' 8-bit dayslove the perspective. he wrote more about it in his post here.

Illustrations for Durex ads

Some illustrations that I did way back in May (seems so long ago) for Durex ad campaign. I think its out now in some magazines. The idea was to create a body painting look so I had to paint in some paint textures for the illustrations, however the textures aren't that visible in the finals..

all that glitters

stumbled upon the work of jamie vasta this morning. she paints with glitter. i was speechless with wonder.

also you can take a peek at her studio here
(grabbed these images from the above links)
colour palette and details:

TOTORO FOREST PROJECT

Little did I know that Totoro Forest actually exists. The Totoro Forest Project is a fundraising event for national trust fund Totoro Forest Fund Foundation. It features many talented and acclaimed illustrators and artist including Sam Weber, Ashley Wood and many others. Above is the wonderful creation of Sam Weber. See more at their official website and blog.

picking up the pen again

3 weeks after the accident my busted fingers are making rough rehab sketches.

Moe3ius redux- I bump it again

Originally posted by bro Pins- I highly recommend it if u missed it! The soundtrack is by Karl Bartos ( Kraftwerk !!). Now I understand Moebius better.


hi friends,
if you have forty-six minutes and forty-six seconds to spare
watch this documentary on Moebius aka jean giraud.
it's very inspiring and very cool.
moebius redux
(screen is kind of small tho')

cheerios!
(some of his works.
any moebius fans out there?)
: )

whale-based on a real story

Recently, there was a report of a whale calf who got stranded from its mum in Australia , and mistaken a boat for its mum, and even tried to get milk from it. In the end, it had to be put to sleep ,as it was weak and infested badly with parasites..

Curves

Just for fun, inspired by a lady I saw on the bus - Ink and digital

I SEE GREEN MEN

See the series HERE

Roadsworth the Documentary

There is a very clear line separating vandalism and art.
However, i can't decide which is which in this case.
This is a 6 minute trailer from the documentary Roadsworth - Crossing The Line.
Art or Crime, you be the judge.

Girl with red hair

Pencil and poster colour.

watercolor doodles

watercolor doodles, mushroom carriers and a tree hugger

water

newfound love in watercolor thanks to john mahoney's
life drawing classes. still very raw and amateur with this medium.
does anybody have any good books on watercolors to recommend?
more paintings here.

Tapau: Visual Art Exhibition

Tapau: Visual Art Exhibition
A visual art exhibition with Sheiko
and fellow Artvsts, Zero and Orkibal.
I had a blast staying up with them through the night.

For more photos, click here.

MUTANTSTYLE

A portrait series of the members in mutantstyle. 

From left to right:

zxerokool- ku - parastasis - me

snippets of olympics

Some olympics events I saw...

Some facinating pictures by Sokkuan. See them HERE.

Sketchwalk3 drawings. More HERE.

Liquid City preview

Sonny Liew is launching a brand new anthology of comics by South-East Asian talents. It's lauching in November and published by Image Comics. Artists include Sonny himself, Jon Foster, Charlene(Sygnin), Kuan, Ray Toh and myself to just name a few. Check out the website for the previews.

ION artwork vandalised

This is 1 of the many graffiti that was sprayed over our artwork at ION. I think its a disgrace to our brothers/ sisters who practice graffiti tagging here that we have people who can just abuse a spray can like that.
Please respect other artist's work. To earn respect you need to show others respect! Anyone knows who's tag sign this is, please email me privately! This guy is a disgrace to the creative community imho!!

ION art pieces by some OIC illustrators mentioned in LIAN-HE ZHAO BAO sub-edtion today.

OIC SCAVENGER SKETCH

in the midst of changing my bedroom into a creative space...

new works

some experimental stuffs using photoshop and illustrator

sketchwalk 3 results

Some ulu place between boon keng MRT and Novena MRT

Let's eat fruits!

Print ads for kids should be fun and happy,like this;)

Did this just for fun. Hope the health promotion board call me to

do happy fruits drawings

WANTED: FULL-TIME ILLUSTRATOR (FREE-LANCE WELCOMED TOO)

Publisher looking for a full-time illustrator that :
- has varied styles
- is capable of doing comic strips

5-day week
excellent working environment

Free-lancers are also welcomed.

Please email : bluincster@gmail.com with a short portfolio and also your expected salary.

Ecards

Just completed a set of e-cards for the upcoming festivals for a client.

Readers Digest Lookng for Freelance and fulltime Designers

Hi Guys,
Thought u all might be interested.

Readers Digest is looking for freelance designers to do brochures (at current) and possibly illustrative work for the future.
They are also looking for a full-time designer so if you are interested, please email your resume and portfolio to:

benjamin_soh@readersdigest.com

Have a great day!

Forest Action Team

an unfinished cd cover for my friends, The Lard Brothers. this was as far as i got before i fractured my arm on mon.

Pink and the superhero

Another brown paper drawing :) ball point pen, poster colours and correction pen. A few more, including unsold drawings from August portrait day here.

When flying elephants shit

Practising drawing happy drawings. Second picture is called "PLay dead"

hairy men

Hello There

From my sketch walk trip a while back...


This cute little cake shop which had a glass window bursting with cakes and tarts. But too many to draw. So I drew only my favourites.

Arcylics work: Mother

Is my first arcylics work long time ago, took quite a while to complete it.. a tribute to mother. Found it in my old portfolio when I'm cleaning my room.

James Jean interview

My very first nude figure drawing session

I sleepily went for a 6 weeks figure drawing class. I had the idea that it was one of those take turns and pose sort of class. But I was SO wrong. Admist my half awake state, my lecturer walked in and announced that our model would be late. Lo and behold, I had signed myself up for nude figure drawing class! What a way to wake me up, really. Haha. But yes, it was good. My first attempt at nude figure drawing. I started off with really lousy drawings, but improved along the way. Here are the nicer ones.





These are all twenty minute sketches. I felt uncomfortable at first but about ten minutes into the session, I got carried away, and just kept drawing, contour after contour, line after line. There's really something about listening to Jazz and Big Band music while doing nude figure drawing. Very therapeutic actually.

OIC PORTRAIT DAY, 2 AUG, RED DOT MUSEUM, 2-7PM

The next portrait day is coming up on Aug 2, Saturday 2-7pm at Red Dot Museum as part of MAAD. For those who are new to this, we draw each portrait customers as a group. And customers get to choose and buy their favourite portraits for $8 (which goes to the respective artist). Come prepared with your own paper, paints, and other drawing tools and get ready to have fun and some also pretty grueling figure drawing practice. All skill levels welcome. Feel free to experiment in any drawing style you wish. Stall fee will be $80 divided by number of artists attending. Sign up under comments section today! (Special thanks to San San for the poster illustration.)