Monthly Archives: November 2010

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29
Nov 10

Shyam’s Self Portrait in Adobe Illustrator

Hello everyone,
posting one of my old work (2005)
Self Portrait from life..spent around 10 hours using pen tool and mouse…tried many layers of shapes with different opacity..keeping the basics of transparent water colors in mind.

See the step by step process below.

1 . Started without drawing..actually i was experimenting..wasn’t sure what I’m going to do :D
first of all the ‘base’..

2. Unfortunately i did’t save many steps.. so, after adding some more shapes and details..

3. More details. Instead of making any shape dark or light, I tweaked that particular shape’s opacity or added one more shape on top of it to make it darker or lighter. Since the light source was from behind (kind of) i tried to show the subsurface scattering/ translucency using orange toned shapes around ear and neck…hope that’s visible.

4. Making those ugly sharp edges softer using shapes with more opacity…. added a green colored shape with less opacity to get rid of those sharp eyebrows and hairline…added mid toned shapes at few places to minimize the contrast.

5. Here you can see that how many shapes i’ve used..its not as complicated as it looks…there are many cool features in adobe illustrator, for those who didn’t use vector before….you can adjust any shape at any time using nodes, lock and unlock it,  group it,  hide it etc. we can use many layers while working in illustrator,  but I didn’t use much layers because I wanted to tweak many shapes at the same time and it could be more complicated for me..I can’t really work with many layers :X

6. Final image.

Here are some bigger images if anyone interested - Self Portrait in Vector

I Hope the process was helpful for the viewers :)

portfolio — 1 Comment
29
Nov 10

agnes b. x World Vision’s One Life Fund

World Vision’s One Life Fund is an educational bursary scheme that will benefit children and youth in Singapore who are living with HIV/AIDS or those whose parents are afflicted with the disease. The bursary will support a child’s school fees, textbooks and uniforms, as well as allowance for personal expenses such as transportation and meals.

100% of the sales proceed from these cards will be donated to World Vision’s One Life Fund. A collaboration between agnes b. x World Vision International Singapore x One Life Fund x kuanth

The limited-edition postcards will be sold in a set of 3 at S$10 (the designs will also be available in A3 poster for 10 sets only, complete with frames at Raffles City Shopping Centre and Paragon) in all agnès b. stores in Singapore and Zouk’s boutique.

event / OIC Portrait Day / OIC Portrait Day Poster — 2 Comments
29
Nov 10

OIC PORTRAIT DAY, 4th December 2010, 2 TO 7PM

On-line registration open NOW !!

Hi Artists and Sitters- Book your OIC Portrait session now! Please spread the word! Get drawn and join in the drawing with us!

Sitters/ Models/ Posers!
Email us which slots you want – reserve early via email “info [at] oicsingapore.com” subject: “Sitters/ Models/ Posers for Portrait Day”.
Posing is FREE, each artwork is S$10 available for purchase- all proceeds goes to the artists.

Artists!
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 Fee is S$10/- *Posting your work for view & sale (compulsory ) is a sign of appreciation to the patron/sitter/ poser .

( Poster illustration contributed by Twisstii – You can see her folio here )

REGISTERATION : http://www.oicsingapore.com/events.php

( To help us organise this event better – we do not entertain last minute signing up at MAAD.  )

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26
Nov 10

Michaela Therese Jazz CD booklet

Illustrations for Michaela’s Jazz CD booklet. Launched for Christmas. Included are visuals of the final application in the booklet pages. All lyrics copyrights belong to Michaela Therese.

Scanned 0.5 pencil lines & photoshop colouring.

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26
Nov 10

Mindflyer’s Tangs Christmas Campaign with Work

It’s been a privilege again to work with the wonderful team at Work Advertising for Tangs.

I was asked to draw Christmas ornaments and write lots of text in a blotchy ink style. After some testing- I managed to get the desired look. Most of the ink work were done by hand and “lovingly smudged” and cleaned up in Photoshop.

What the team at Work did was wonderful. I love how they added colours and texture to it and bring it to life!

( Paperbag and mailer photos taken by Beatriz Ng )

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25
Nov 10

Mindflyer’s Tangs Christmas Hunt

This is my new game illustration for Tangs Christmas Hunt. Had the opportunity to work on another game with Kevin of Spoon for Tangs. Basically the brief is pretty open- make it Christmassy and it should look really busy visually. We explored some direction before settling on an Alice in Wonderland inspired fantasy city.

I am one of those mad people that love challenges like this. Had a real good time doing this illustration even though the timing was shorter than I would have preferred.

Do try and  play the game and win the prizes. Link is here.

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portfolio / workflow — 2 Comments
25
Nov 10

Process- Tangs Christmas Hunt

This is my original approved concept idea sketch.  Its inspired by Alice in Wonderland in a crazy maze city filled with sofas and furniture and Christmas decors.

After the idea was approved – I worked on the various components to make an interesting fantasy city for hiding the objects filled with details

At the same time I was also working on a detail sketch of the city, setting the scale and how the city will look like and highlights the important areas to make the theme stronger. Planning is very important to make the work go smoothly. As usage a copy of the detailed sketch was given to the programmer to work on the game backend/ programming and to test it on a dummy interface to ensure that the illustration can work properly in the game.

Once I am sure the illustration is all sorted and heading the right direction based on my detail sketch, I start planning how much Christmas decor I need to convince the client on the Christmas look of the game which is important for the festive mood of the campaign already active.

Having gotten’s client’s approval, I proceed to fill up the city with all my components. Changes were made along the way to ensure the pieces fit well.

Notice that I do have a basic isometric grid (light blue tiles) to guide me along under my sketch

After all the pieces were filled in colour, the final step is to hide all the required objects in the correct number in a separate layer.

All hidden component’s position were then shown to and approved by the client before the final illustration is exported and used in the game.

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23
Nov 10

Visuals and illustrations from the past few months

Simple black and white visuals and storyboard panels.

Some were done completely on photoshop. While others were drawn with a calligraphy pen and touched up in photoshop.

Fully coloured visuals.


Finished illustrations.

Graphic elements for Singtel’s internal website

These were sketched roughly with pencil first. Then coloured and detailed in photoshop.

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22
Nov 10

SKETCHWALK NOVEMBER

You are invited to join us for our upcoming sketchwalk happening this saturday, 27th Nov. We will be meeting at the Amoy Street Food Centre’s POSB ATM at 9am, you may have your breakfast there and then spread out in any direction around the Telok Ayer Street area to draw. Interesting points to cover would be the Tian Hock Keng temple, an Indian Shrine, rag & bone men and women, and there is also the business district just a short walk away. At 12pm, we will all meet again at Amoy Street Food centre where we will have lunch and do our “show and tell.” Tia mentions that the lor mee on the 2nd storey is really yummy and so is the XO fish soup on the ground floor.

To get to the Amoy Street Food Centre, please drop at Tanjong Pagar MRT (exit G) and walk over (See map)

For more information, please call Andrew at 91070735 or Tia at 96968080. No sign-ups necessary. See you there!

portfolio / sketch / workflow — 3 Comments
21
Nov 10

iPad Portrait

Latest iPad Portrait using ArtRage & Inspire Pro.

here are few steps if anyone interested -   http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2369/stepsjx.jpg

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