Rathalos Ruby

Silver Rathalos with a shiny drop! Could it be a ruby?!

Something In The Works

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:

Intipati / Pg. 9 / Work In Progress

Finally, some free time to continue the personal project.



.. And an extra sketch before bed:

Superficial

A study for a piece I'm working on called Superficial. I have begun formulating this idea in my sketchbook a while back (as a sequel to Demi Kala in Digital Symbolism series) but never got around to do it. Still very vague at this stage but hopefully in the real thing the message will get across clearly.

The execution of style and composition is in reference to my two favourite masters, Gustav Klmit and Yoshitaka Amano.

Here I'll share with you the process that took place:

I don't read Bleach

Working with Animax for a History of Manga exhibition. Selected artists are assigned to come up with their own rendition of characters from the anime. The artwork will also be printed on t-shirts sold during the show. These are the suggested sketches:





It's really a hurdle to nail a design that can work on its own as well as on an apparel. Out of the three suggestions, they picked the 1st. I was kind of hoping they'd pick either of the last two, but I'll work a way to blend the elements to merge into one.

Intipati, Page 6 (Work In Progress)

Finally, a breather from work. Managed to draft page 6 of Intipati however the success of the page is elusive to me. Yeah the landscape doesn't make sense mostly because it IS a dream-like sequence after all - surreal as much as it can be. But SOMETHING is amiss..

Then again I may have found myself in a slump. Stuck with the work in progress for now so I'm leaving the spread for a while and do other things. Feedback, anyone?

Things to look forward to this December

See you guys at Comic Fiesta 2009!

Unfinished Demo

Done live at Anime Fest Asia '09, Suntec on a Saturday session.

Adiwira + Friday (Prayer) Blues

Adiwira was originally a short story. I'm currently developing this concept for a one shot comic or a 5 story arc. We'll see what happens to it in the near future.



Today marks the 2nd week of work at my new office in the heart of the Lion city. Adapting to the new surrounding includes finding a nearby mosque for Friday prayer. With the help of streetdirectory.com I located a mosque at the UOB towers / Raffles Place MRT.

Upon reaching there I couldn't find any building that resembled a mosque, let alone one that has a dome. Puzzled, I scouted around - it was already 10 minutes past 1 and I still haven't heard the call for prayer. Eventually I tailed people "who look like they're going to the mosque" and to my surprise, I was at a small staircase entrance leading to an underground basement: The mosque is underground!! How cool is that?!!

But that fleeting feeling sank soon after the sermons began, when I saw people squeezing their way in as if it was a hidden refuge... An underground mosque huh?
Before long, flashes of news on the image of Islam to the world today gushes in :(

I just felt sad on my way back to the office.

Peace be upon you.

Vampire Rockstar

Intipati: Page 5 (Work In Progress)

I finally got the time to continue this comic. Felt like sharing my process here as usual. Nothing great but hey it's my fucking blog!



Speaking of sharing, saw this the other day and I couldn't resist snapping a shot!

Darkstalkers Rock Band W.I.P

You're Beautiful

Fierce yet good, selfless yet solitary, but always mysteriously beautiful.

Gunungan

Working on something.

Slept the entire weekend

I've done nothing worth updating. All work! Free time is spent NOT drawing. Even my sketch is left untouched. I have a feeling that it'll stay unfinished.



Anyway, spent last last last Friday nite out at Wala. Good music by Shirlyn, love the energy. Stole photos from Aloy and Clare 'cause I'm lazy and cool like that.



And at this wee hour, Mr.B had just registered a blog. Check it out!

Link:
Mr.B's Art Journal

We have fought before...

... yet here we are, at it again.

Dark(er) Hunger

A work in progress of what would be the cover for Dark Hunger manga. Apparently the client saw the illustration and wanted a painted version of it. So... I'm painting over the previous artwork.

I haven't painted anything in 5 months. This is taking me a while to do..

EDIT: Apparently the client changed their mind. Wanting the anime look to the manga cover they rolled back to their initial decision: Cell shaded illustration. Only they requested the colour palette to match the original red hue done by previous artist.