WEEK 5 - STORY through a single image - Part 1

Its been a bad hand in this week. I wasn't over pleased with the turn out. My aim was to have a coloured and textured version of this image & also have a better composition in general. This is definitely on the 'LIST OF THINGS TO FINISH' by October.

More Gumballlll.

I applied for a character designer position on The Amazing World of Gumball (TAWOG) for their new season a while ago. I didn't hear back from CN (which usually means "You didn't get the role". ) but, I still enjoyed completing the assignments they sent me. It was a BIG LEARNING CURVE for me in illustrator. Thanks CN, Love the show. 

Gumball & Darwin (FAN-ART)

I found an excuse to play around with Illustrator. The turnout was interesting, these colours have come out a lot brighter than I intended. The actual colours are on my tumblr. 

WEEK 4 - Shhhh.... Library.

Playing with shapes to make different heads.

FINAL 3: Nice Guy Larry, New Girl Val & Head Librarian Beatrice.

WEEK 3 - We love Pirates!

The best way  for me to try new techniques on PS is to apply it on new personal projects. I'm not overly pleased with the final outcome but, I'm going to go back and finish it after I complete the whole CGMA character design course. Assignment DEATH-lines. 

WEEK 1 - Shapes.

Its a bit late but, as you can tell from the previous posts, I've enrolled in a character design course to find what out I need to make good designs and get noticed into the amazing world of animation and illustration. So far its been 2 weeks and I've learned a lot of simple and basic methods to make good character designs. I hope you all enjoy what I post up here for the next two months. 

WEEK 2 - Crusading.

My start to finish of how I (try) develop characters. This is from my current course at CGMA with Nate Wragg as my mentor (tutor). He's a  really cool dude.

WEEK 2 - Silhouettes of many, many people with weapons.

These are all strong but, in the end I went with the bottom right silhouette. It was a coincidence that the final shape was the last one on the line :}

Challenging PROFILES.

Initially I always struggle with side profiles, but I like challenge of trying to solve the problem and flushing out the character to good standard. I've put together all the images form beginning to end and wrote little notes to give an idea of my thought process. Hope its helpful.

Happy, Happy ...Grumpy!

Trek cast.

Artist Reading: Mr Ronald Searle

Artist Reading: Mr Dan Lee

Astro-chic

testing out new PS brushes from Shiyoon Kim

Dwagon!

Grass Test.

I found a tutorial on Pinterest on techniques to paint grass. It was Interesting to try it.

drawings

some traditional drawing using marker pens and chinagraph pencils

Best of 2013

My personal favourite films of 2013 that I've watched. Theres a few more  film that I've heard are good but, haven't had the chance to watch. I'm hoping to watch them in 2014 though. :)

A friend named Tasha Baker.

A good friend of mine from college, Tasha Baker asked me to come up with a few designs of herself and some some Khool cakes for her business. She said she'll pay me in cakes and cookies (who can say no to that). 

Tarts, Cakes & all sorts of other nibbles.