Alatreon Helmet

I’ve been asked on Xlink Kai about what’s on my avatar. I guess when it’s shrunk to 50 x 50 pixels there’s only so much you can see. It’s actually the Alatreon / アルバトリオン helmet for male blademaster’s gear.

I thought of sharing the lineart and coloured version here:

Yeah, I named my character Chivalry so when I die, well.. Chivalry is dead.

Finding Venus

In this decadent, superficial world, is there any genuine Venus left out there? Working with Copics has been really fun, although the colours do look better in person than the ones scanned here. Always the case with analogue media it seems.

The model is loosely based on a photograph of Nasha Aziz in kebaya. The background is inspired by Yoshitaka Amano's crazy magnificent elements.

Markers on multiple papers
21cm x 21cm

Work in progress:

A Hunter's Woe (Monster Hunter Fan Art)

My first ever full coloured Monster Hunter fan art! I've been playing this thing since 2006 and I was so sad to learn that I can't transfer my characters and progress from Unite to the new game due to the new engine! All those years of grinding to flaunt my killer equips have become obsolete!!!!!

Below are the line art and coloured version without dialogues. So sad :(

Oni-giri!

The two final designs submitted, with the 2nd (below) image being pushed for approval. As expected, it was too demonic for Animax so it looks like the 1st (top) one will make it to the t-shirt, folks.

Yongumix #5 @ Comic Fiesta 2009

Comic Fiesta 2009
Date: 19-20 December 2009
Venue: Sunway Pyramid

Be seeing you guys at our booth this weekend?

Monday is Welch Day

I've been "celebrating" my Mondays by drinking Welch's 100% Grape Juice. Appropriating Warhol's Campbell Soup screen-print, I arranged 8 cans of Welch's to commemorate the 8th Monday since May 4th.

KERRANGG

So many things to do, so little time.

Darkstalkers Rock Band W.I.P

Another Syawal, Another Year

The World Warriors

Done for Udon's Street Fighter Tribute artbook.

Street Fighter and all related characters © CAPCOM
Image copyright © UDON Entertainment

Silence

Salam Maal Hijrah 1429! That is, Happy New Year 1429 in the Islamic Calendar. Blog has been quiet. I haven't had a lot to say lately. I drew this as a gift for a designer I have been a fan of for a while now. And that's just super :P


Tribute to Robert Indiana

She's popularly known among the local art/design scene under her Awat label. Her stuff ranges from hip t-shirt drawings, plushies, stickers to whatever there is that's cool to have.

Pimpage: Go check out Awat on Myspace or Flickr!

AND WHAT'S THIS? STAR WARS IN SOUL CALIBUR IV????? OH MY GAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Fandom and Original

Fandom
My fandom list recently includes Avatar: The Last Airbender. I watched it religiously a while back but got cut off when I first moved to Singapore. Things got busy and I had no time to catch up. However the craze is re-heightened as the box sets were made available online. (They don't have it in stores apparently) Now I'm back to being obsessed with the show.

Avatar has one of the most compelling storyline despite being a Nickelodeon program. The characters are so interesting intertwined with quasi-complex chemistry that I made a fanart to commemorate the series. This I call Always Together.



It's only right that I do a Fire Benders follow up! Among fandoms in my list that I'd love to do fanart of in time to come would be Gurren Lagann and Karas.

Original
Right now I'm spending time after work to continue Ultra Jiddo doujinshi for the coming Comic Fiesta in December. I do not know how much time I have to make it to the event. But I'm just gonna keep drawing until closing time. For years the sequel for Black Light has been shelved because of school commitment.

Here is a concept sketch for Aswad's Ultra form in Black Light #2. Hope to see you guys there!

Ga Ga - Do Do Do Do Do

Growing up reading comics, one of the things in japanese sequentials that fascinates me as a kid is the treatment of sound effects in manga. It still does! Even though the katakana characters meant nothing to me it still gave me the impression of... sound.

Up to this day, I still feel that japanese sound effects still work best beyond comparison. The characters themselves, are, well, works of art.

Okay. I'm babbling. I did this after work today - 12:51 - the antagonist of my free time comic, Ultra Jiddo.

I.....'m gonna have to change the title soon.

Smallville

Over the years my fandom towards the Superman mythology has grown tremendously, thanks to serialized television shows such as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and recently, Smallville.

Back in 2003, Season 1 was so fun to watch I drew Clark Kent and Lex Luthor for my very own Smallville music compilation CD. Forgive the bad art.

The continuation was okay... until 3 and 4 went downhill. I gave up watching for a while until season 6 came, sat for a whoppin' marathon towards finale. Boy oh boy after 4 years of 'some-good-and-some-really-shitty-episodes' the show is starting to become interesting again!

When Kara appeared I got so excited I didn't think of what to draw and how to compose. I just let loose and wing it:


Kara Zor-El, 2007

P.S. Bryan Singer's Superman Returns is in a league of its own - a personal all time favourite.

Capricorn

Practical and prudent
Ambitious and disciplined
Patient and careful
Humorous and reserved

On the dark side....

Pessimistic and fatalistic
Miserly and grudging

References:
Custom Creature: Taxidermy Arts
Astrology Online

P.S.

Narcissist

P.P.S.
Our painting god in IFS, Darren, has joined the blogging fad too now. I can smell the impending end to our career, friends T_T...

Bird shit in the morning

On the pedestrian crossing

... A bird shit on my hand. What a way to start the day!

Worst part was waiting for the red light to turn green! So you can feel the warm crap melt and ooze down to your palm. Yes it was warm.

D

D... A drawing from memory

I finally watched Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Beautiful movie. I'm currently reading the first volume of the translated novel. Of course, being translated I won't experience the exact flavour intended to be delivered. But I'm sure it will still do justice to the original novel nonetheless.

For those who are not in the know, Vampire Hunter D is a novel series by Hideyuki Kikuchi, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, one of my favourite artists.

Link:
Vampire Hunter D on Wiki

MyFirstCONTEST

Sony Malaysia held this MyFirstVAIO contest whereby you design your own skin for the new Sony Vaio, and the winner will get a Vaio C series, with the winning design la.

Now I'm not really a contest person. I hate competitions. I never enter them. My friends know that. But goddamn I'm desperate for a new laptop! I can shower, do my laundry and boil water while waiting a message window to pop up load with the one I'm currently using. It's so obsolete that I am breaking my Hobbit tradition and join a friggin' competition for the first time.

But therein lies another problem - I am so caught up with work I barely have time to whip out new designs for this shit! So I figured what the heck. I scoured my folders for old drawings, paintings and just whacked Photoshop like how Ike beat Tina.

So um yeah whatever.


Vaio Artist


Vaio Wayang Kulit


Vaio Pop

Still in topic, Jezmine, my uni junior has been chosen for Project Runaway Malaysia. Congratulations! Way to go, girl. Check out her très cool blog for some fashion sense!

I've got an F and a C, and I've got a K too. The only thing that's missing is a *beep* like U

Detail from Ultra Jiddo: Black Light in YonGumix #1 (Recoloured)

As a teenager I grew up obsessed with depression, often having suicidal thoughts. In high school I was perpetually brooding, feeling melancholy by choice. Marilyn Manson was the soundtrack of my life. I thought it was "cool" listening to the Antichrist Superstar.

However, I became my own antithesis in university. Love. Ah.. bright young things. Graduated, and now working my dream job - I'm a fucking carnival. But after all these years I finally heard the ultimatum: "Je ne vous aime plus".

What seemed "cool" then is now the only state I am able to be in. Only this time it's not a choice. And it is so not cool! Marilyn Manson, welcome back.


Original scan

A Mid Hazy Mad Om

Spaceboy Topman

I woke up today and thought of uniforming my website, myspace music and my friendster account into one standard design. Sort of like a branding (?)

But then reality kicks in - I'm too busy with a long term project I'm assigned to clear by the end of this month. Then, out of the blue I scribbled my full name backwards. It sounded like 'desire the mayhem'. I thought it was cool I quickly registered the name for this blog.

I guess it can be the other side of my official website, mohammadyazid.com (like how Paul Pope has his Pulp Hope blog).

Oh by the way, the title for this post is an anagram of my full name. Thought that'd be interesting to share :P


Sketch for Spaceboy Topman