Feb is FAB especially when you get to draw and meet up with the PORTRAITS AFTER DARK people and the OIC crew! Let’s make it fun bring a friend/ soul mate/ family member/ pets and share this edition of “PORTRAITS AFTER DARK” with us! This is where you can meet the most interesting illustrators in Singapore and get your portraits drawn on a Friday night!
Are you an Artist / Illustrator or Doodler!? Come draw with us! Polish your drawing skills & catch up with your OIC buddies at the same time. Everyone gets 20 minutes to draw the “patron/ sitter” at the same time. You get $10 for each drawing sold . Make it PLAYFUL and COLOURFUL, all skill levels welcomed. OIC Portrait Day is about artists having fun and experimenting with new ways to capture an interesting image and making new friends.?You don’t have to be an OIC member to take part but you have to register and please read the FAQ. Come and draw, make friends and spread good drawing vibes.
Artists Registration is S$10/- each ( with 1 complimentary yummy cupcake per registered artist from www.cupcakes.com.sg /* )
Posting your work for view & sale (compulsory ) is a sign of appreciation to the patron/sitter/ poser .
Registration for SITTERS/ POSERS:
You want your Portraits drawn? Pose for us!! We will love to draw YOU!! Email us and book the time slots you want.
email “info [at] oicsingapore.com”
subject: “I want some portraits!”.
State name/ mobile number/ email address/ couple or 3-some/ your preferred timing ( 7.30pm, 8pm, 8.30pm, 9pm, 9.30pm )
Posing is FREE, each artwork is S$10 available for purchase- all proceeds goes to the artists.
Poster illustration contributed by vivien lu ( See more of her work here: http://vivienlu.com/ )
An illustration I did a while back based on a Nesting egg theme, highlighting several destinations of interest in Asia from Changi Airport Singapore. Done in photoshop.
Happy New Year everyone!! Join us for the very FIRST session of 2012- The Lucky Chinese New Year Session!! Let’s make it fun bring a friend/ soul mate/ family member/ pets and share this edition of “PORTRAITS AFTER DARK” with us! This is where you can meet the most interesting illustrators in Singapore and get your portraits drawn on a Friday night!
Twit and spread the word- @oicsingapore PORTRAITS AFTER DARK – http://bit.ly/oicdark05
Are you an Artist / Illustrator or Doodler!? Come draw with us! Polish your drawing skills & catch up with your OIC buddies at the same time. Everyone gets 20 minutes to draw the “patron/ sitter” at the same time. You get $10 for each drawing sold . Make it PLAYFUL and COLOURFUL, all skill levels welcomed. OIC Portrait Day is about artists having fun and experimenting with new ways to capture an interesting image and making new friends.?You don’t have to be an OIC member to take part but you have to register and please read the FAQ. Come and draw, make friends and spread good drawing vibes.
Artists Registration is S$10/- each ( with 1 complimentary yummy cupcake per registered artist from www.cupcakes.com.sg /* )
Posting your work for view & sale (compulsory ) is a sign of appreciation to the patron/sitter/ poser .
Registration for SITTERS/ POSERS:
You want your Portraits drawn? Pose for us!! We will love to draw YOU!! Email us and book the time slots you want.
email “info [at] oicsingapore.com”
subject: “I want some portraits!”.
State name/ mobile number/ email address/ couple or 3-some/ your preferred timing ( 7.30pm, 8pm, 8.30pm, 9pm, 9.30pm )
Posing is FREE, each artwork is S$10 available for purchase- all proceeds goes to the artists.
Poster illustration contributed by myself, hope that we will see more experimentation of techniques by the participating artists for 2012 . ( See more of my work here: http://mindflyer.com/ )
For the last saturday of the year, we will be having our sketchwalk along Orchard Road. This will be our chance to capture the christmas decorations before they come down. (christmas is still on considering there are supposed to be 12 days of it.) Here is the plan:
1PM- Meet at Scape (outside Toastbox) We will either head for the basement or one of the higher floors of Scape
where we will have space for “show and tell”. Then we will have lunch around the area.
Weather report say that saturday will be stormy. But we will have plenty of shopping centres to hide in if it does. If you feel overwhelmed when you think of Orchard Road, too many things to draw, and the crowds, then think along these lines -
1. isolate smaller interesting things. eg, just one decoration or one shop.
2. Use the crowds to your advantage. You can hide among them to sneak a drawing of interesting people.
3. Go into and around the malls to explore and draw. Some interesting ones are ION (interesting curves inside and outside. Outside Prologue bookstore could be nice to draw), Lucky plaza (with a lot of maids on leave), Mandarin Gallery (they have nice big chairs to sit inside), Scape(interesting building design. Dance classes upstairs.), and youth park (across from Scape. it’s not a mall. but it could be interesting.) You could also capture buskers in the underground tunnels (between Tangs and ION. Between Lucky Plaza and Takashimaya.)
This is an animated titling work for Discovery Channel’s TLC program about ” WorldRiderZ ” together with Chris Leow from Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific and a production team from Frameworks.
WorldRiderZ is a production that rides around the world to raise awareness & prevention against children Chronic Kidney Disease and organ transplant. You can read the info here and like the FB page here ( https://www.facebook.com/worldriderz )
The brief required a very child-like look and feel to the character drawings with readable titles.
This is the completed title after final compositing work by the Discovery and Framework team. Click and view on youtube.
1) I started the project by understanding the brief and looking at the footage and understanding what is required.
2) Next I whip out some sketches and propose some design ideas on how simple the characters can be. While doing so- in the back of my mind, I am always thinking about how they can be animated.
3) I started sketching with markers on paper but when I got the gist of how to make it happen- I switch to Photoshop and tune a crayon brush to get the look I want.
4) After the sketches have been approved- I do some test animation and get some feed backs. All the test animations are small b/w files I output as animated gifs.
5) Once approved- I start started to render all the animation. All final files were delivered as layered Photoshop/ PSD format.
I hope to do more animation work in future especially those with my original character designs.
Overwhelmed by the support and good vibes we get whenever we have a portraits session! I wish I can clone more of myself to capture all the wonderful moments and talk to everyone! This month- our session is like a great meeting place for many friends- some even booking from KL via email! Really touched to see some friends come back yet again to participate and show support! Thanks to those who drop by to catch up and say hello- the IPA boss – Kevin ( http://invisiblephotographer.asia/ ), Aik Beng aka Pixelmunky, Kelvin Lam, Esther and many more! Join our Facebook page and see all the pictures here. See you at the next one- Friday 13th January 2012!!
Mindflyer’s Note: Editorial illustrations in Singapore is another market where young illustrators can hone their illustrating skills . Though the rates are low, the work can be interesting, challenging and easier to come by. Often the editor or creative director would have a style in mind but most are open to trying new styles or techniques. Never let the lower fees discourage you or make you put in less efffort- always do your utmost; you never know who may see it and remember it – it may lead to future better assignments.
Concept sketch and style was given by the editorial team, so I only had to do one sketch. They wanted to show Hua Wei growing like a giant beanstalk and beating the rest of the competitors. I did have a bit of freedom to deviate from the style that was given.
I usually do pretty tight sketches for editorials so the CD/editors don’t have to guess too much and not too many changes will be done after the illo is rendered. Sketches for editorial are mostly done digitally so I can edit them quickly when needed.
I’ve just launched a new comic collection called “Animal & other short comics.” There are 6 stories in here. There is a lone man deciding if he should go home, a dimension traveller who bumps into an old friend, a young man who tries to befriend a loner in an advertising agency, and other strange stories. Some are true stories. Some are fictional. And I’ve experimented with a few drawing styles here to match the feel of each story. Mediums used include ballpoint, carpenter’s pencil, brush, hero pen, pencil, wash, and photoshop. This book is self-published, and hand-made. It is black and white, printed on 100gsm munken paper (off-white) and is 44pages + the cover. If you are interested in owning a copy, you may purchase it online HERE, or at Books Actually and Woods in the Books.
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