OIC @ Singapore Cable Car’s “Sky Art Gallery”

OIC is very honoured to be invited and given free-play creatively by Singapore Cable Car ( Mount Faber Leisure Group ) to create 10 illustrations for their new project, the world’s 1st “Sky Art Gallery”. This is part of the special program by this icon of Singapore to celebrate the state’s 46th National Day with a splash. The illustrators include AnnGee, Ben Qwek/ MrB, Brick/ Brian Chia, Eeshaun,Fleecircus, Mindflyer, Miun/ Noreen Loh, Shawna Chan, Twisstii and WantonDoodle.

You can see more pcturess here : http://on.fb.me/qRyUWA ( Pictures by Twisstii )

Gap x O.I.C collab “Gap’s 0% Plastic Bags” for Earth Day 2011

This is the 3rd year running of the special eco-friendly tote bag produced by Gap to mark Earth Day. The 0% Plastic Bag initiative was started in 2009 to support the global green movement by encouraging customers to use this cotton tote bag in place of disposable plastic bags.

OICsingapore is very proud to be part of this new series for 2011 and to work with the Gap’s Singapore team on this special iconic bag.

There are five new designs this year  by illustrators – Anngee Neo, Fleecircus, Gwee Yin Fei, Mindflyer and Miun. Each illustrator was invited to reinterpret the original design of the bag while maintaining the “0% Plastic” tagline. In addition there is a special store window display designed by MrB aka Ben Qwek ( www.benqwek.com ) to compliment this new collection at the major outlets like Wisma and Vivocity.

This limited edition collection will be launched on Earth Day -22 April- in all Gap stores. Each bag is available at S$5 with purchase of any GAP merchandise.

This project is another effort by OICsingapore to partner with good brands and showcase/ promote the usage of interesting illustrators and illustration.

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anngee ( http://cargocollective.com/anngee )

fei ( http://cargocollective.com/havesomefei )

fleecircus ( http://fleecircus.com/ )

mindflyer / michael ng ( http://mindflyer.com/ )

miun/ noreen loh ( http://miun.sg/ )

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Super happening day at TNAG!! Can’t wait for tomorrow! Don’t miss it!

Some beautiful pictures taken from our good friend/ volunteer-  Joyce Tan! Don’t miss the fun! Sunday is the closing day for TNAG- get all the lovely goodies from OIC and from our collab partners and get them signed by the artists!

New stuff by OICsingapore collab on sale at TNAG

Its been a long tiring process but it was fun seeing the fruit of our labour.

We have some interesting products on sale at The National Art Gallery Open House. Due to our hectic schedule, quantities are very limited and some may be on pre-order. Do bring your friends and come join OICsingapore’s effort to make drawing fun and make our illustrators known in Singapore and beyond.

Looking back to OIC’s inception 4 years ago till now, the fact remains – “It all depends on you, nothing will ever change or happen without everyone’s care, participation and support.”

Tags: oicsingapore, ORGANISATION OF ILLUSTRATORS COUNCIL, organisationofillustratorscouncil, Singapore Illustrators, illustrator’s products, OIC tote bags, Shuffleart, Twisstii, Mindflyer, Kuanth, AnnGee, WantonDoodle, Fleecircus

Picture source as credited above.

The Process – Vue Privée’s Maiko

Client: Vue Privée‘s Gallery

Brief: Aimed at capturing the elegance of Old Japan, seen through the lens of photographers living and working during the late Edo period (1872 – 1912). Using gallery owner’s private antique photos collection as inspiration.

Process: To start any project i always do extensive research for the items i planning to draw. Sometimes, even read up facts on them.

While looking for research i basically already have an image in my head on how i want my illustrations to be, so most of the time i only look for items that goes similar to that idea. Similar meaning; species of plants/animals, man/woman, dressing, pose, angle/view/perspective etc.

I do all the initial sketches on tracing paper, so i can overlay them on top one another to “check” if the composition works. And after that some minor adjustment/fine tuning will be done before i redraw the entire image as a whole.

Once the image is scanned onto Photoshop, i began an extensive cleaning up of tiny dust spots and pencil lines. Followed by pathing out the items that needed to be coloured. Here’s the view of my path window in Photoshop.

And also the process of colouring.

Even though i been given total freedom to create this piece, from time to time i do email the client on the sketch done for update, so to assure that i am on track and do not stray to far from the topic.

So here’s the finish piece!

Two most important tips i can offer to anyone.

A) SAVE YOU FILE

B) BACK UP FILES RELIGIOUSLY

Thanks for reading and comments will be very appreciated.

Fleecircus For Kult Magazine

Here’s my take on the theme “Artificial” for the next issue of Kult magazine
Do grab a free copy at most shops in town!

Pencil and Colour With Photoshop CS
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Initial Sketch On Paper Before Colouring

PRACTISING PROCASTINATION

…. work can wait… a while

Taken from the sculpture Laocoön and Sons (Wrestling the Serpent) 1506
Mechanical pencil on Moleskine

Winged Victory of Somathrace (337-283 BC?)
Mechanical pencil on Moleskine

NOTE: Those red label dots i placed on the sketch are actually mistakes that i made; as my patience to get the details right was wearing a little thin, Gahhhh….!

Wishing you a 2009 filled daily with enriching experiences.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SEASONS’ GREETINGS!

May Christmas fill you with joy and 2009 fill you with laughter.
Have a good one!

SINGHEALTH CALENDAR

I completed a series of illustrations for SingHealth calendar, the calendar will be given out free with purchase of January issue of Women’s Weekly. The design done by Ling from Nuts Ideas.
Each illustration are based on a specific theme given by the client, the aim was emulate something magical according with the theme. All illustrations are done with pencil on paper later coloured in Photoshop.

Weekly 15 Minute Portraits

Before “The Chairman” gets on my case for not posting on this blog, here’s something i did when my iMac crashed. While my replacement laptop occasionally made spinning “rainbow connection” when handling heavy Photoshop files. I will doodle to make the agony a little easier. All portraits are done under 15 minutes, and with no touch ups. You can view more drawings HERE.

Clockwise from top: Audrey Tautou, Willie Nelson, Hugh Laurie and TangWei