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FUSION 2009

About five days ago I got a call from my friend, mentor and slave-driver Andrew Lai, asking me to meet up with him to discuss about a poster illustration for FUSION 2009, a church outreach even that takes places annually. As I was up the night before watching HOUSE M.D S5, I drowsily told him that I would meet him and work something out. with a theme from the upper heads, THEN,NOW,THERE, we came up with the concept of having the past, present and future image of a person. 

photo resource for the unsure future representation. of someone answering god's calling through faith. I nearly lost sleep over the drawing of fingers. I hate/love drawing hand gestures; it's something I try to look forward to learning.

  

illustrations drawn using chinese ink and pen nibs. I would like to learn to use nibs more delicately to create more fluid lines.

final photoshop-painted work. I chose a very warm colour theme and reused the flower motiffs from the 2nd final year project. I then sent it to andrew lai, who liked it and thought he could help with the type which i suck at) and to give the poster a bit more life.

He resent it to me with a touch of magical post production. I really liked this version. Andrew wasn't convinced though, so i tweeked the work abit and resent it to him for the final colour output.

final post production by andrew lai. Both of us agreed that it looked pretty cool. I commented about how the red reminds me of the AKIRA comic series.

TCHOUK!Ball

I got a message from a friend in church one day asking me to design a logo crest for the YouthMinistry's Tchoukball team, and he very kindly email-ed me the sketch and the requirements for what he wanted. Being a procrastinator I forgot about it for about half a week before finally rushing it up in one full day. It was fun taking inspiration from old woodcut pictures and illustrations and using simple shapes to represent things in the individual sections of the crest.

 above are is the original sketch by Song Yang and the photoshopped version by me respectively. the images are (from top left clockwise) the bell tower from our main church building (Wesley Methodist), the Vanda Miss Joaquim, a Tchoukball player, and the Fort Canning Entrance. (Right-click to view larger images)
Layout for the tee-shirt print. The final layout and font was chosen by Song Yang. Everything was done in Photoshop CS4. (Right-click to view larger image.)

Friends Makeover

In Interactive Entertainment module we learned a heck load of stuff. One main thing I liked about the module is that the facilitator was pretty keen on giving us basic photoshop tutorials. Ever since learning how to utilise the basics of photoshop and design together, I couldn't help but take the opportunity to try it out on my friends. Lol was the result.

 

it was great fun and we all had a great laugh together. much thanks to nicola ng and juffrie with the photography, and kenneth, jermaine, pek chai and nicola for being such sporty models :D. Cheers mates!

FYP2- the 5 stages of grief

For FYP2, my team and i were given the task of creating an art exhibition using the method of shadowbox with a topic of our own choice. during this period my role as a member of the team was creative management and illustrator/designer. Apart from doing story boards and creating photo-realistic images of what the shadowbox works would look like based on the team member's direction, I also worked on the teaser posters and promotional posters for the exhibition dates along with the packaging of our work for submission. I had fun doing these posters with a grunge them inspired by the movie se7en and the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails. each teaser poster had a item in reference to what we had in our installation with a short description of what people go through during the loss of a loved one. You can visit our fyp website @ here.

  

  

 

The Exhibition was a success by the way, thank you very much. but after that the workload continued with the designing for the dvd cover. A Big thanks to my friend Stace Tan for helping us as our module.

DVD cover for our fyp submission using photoshop.

Friend's Portraits from sketch book

had a chance to seat down and hang with my friends. had a nice time chatting with them and getting updated on how're things and all. ALSO had a chance to draw them in mini portraits. all of them were done in marker on regular daler-rowley sketchbook paper.

 

Favorite works.

While looking for more stuff to post here on my blog, I started to unstack my old sketchbooks to find any old pictures that I could use and found some waterpaintings I did whenever I could. Hopefully I could start again as it really is one of my favorite mediums (until I start earning money to buy other stuff and learn from others).

This one is inspired by the sherlock holmes story, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

I can't really remember why I drew this, by I kind of think that it was inspired by reading craig thompson's blankets.

I love alex pardee's works. his line work and imaginary creatures and colours really absorb your whole attention, leaving you staring at them with a nice blank feeling in the head. This one was heavily inspired by his work.