I was recently invited to be a guest designer in the HP City of Dreams “Live Our Dreams, Fly Our Flag” campaign - commemorating Singapore’s 45th National Day for HP.
This is my rationale:- “The national day flypass by the jets has always been the highlight of the event signaling the start of the parade/ celebration! Mindflyer’s Flying Circus troupe’s flypass hopes to usher in more peace, openness and creative freedom in Singapore!”
My aim is to make a fun and lively piece that depict a mood of celebration and optimisim without being overly nationalistic.
If you’re now inspired to design something of your own, join the open contest now here. Closing date: 31 July 2010.
1. Design brief was analysed and understood. Basically the game consist of finding 60 shopping bags hidden in the gameboard/ floor plan. My task is to make the gameboard/ floor plan look interesting.
2. Site recce with game designer and client was conducted. Many photos and video were taken of existing shop floors.
3. Using actual plans of the shop floor, I start designing afew floor plans layouts for approval. Since this is a web based game- care was taken to check pixel dimension/ scale of furniture and floor plan. This is important for all web projects to ensure leanness/ efficiency of file size vs screen size.
4. Once plan has been approved- I start planning how and where the fun surreal bits will be. One of my concern was to ensure enough nooks and spaces to hide bags. A preliminary plan was also shown to the designer/ client for approval of where all the bags can be hidden.
A sketch showing how the characters will look like and where they are sited was sent for approval.
5. Once the basic plan is approved- I starting drawing the outlines of all the components and plan the colours. The whole illustration was drawn and painted in Adobe Photoshop.
5. Colouring commence once the outlines and colour scheme is approved. This is the fun part for me – to make the whole board look colourful and fun.
The approved outline was also sent to the game designer/ web programmers so that they can start doing all the back-end work concurrently.
Meanwhile – more jpgs were shown to the designer/ client of where and how the bags will look hidden during the many days of painting.
6. Finally everything is in place and approved- I spent afew more days adding the finishing touches to complete the illustration ready for the game designer/ web programmers to do final game tests.
Finally after much hard work and “secrecy” , my new surreal illustration for Tangs game has been launched on line. When I was 1st asked to illustrate the game board- I thought it will be be any other shopping mall floor plan. I love technical or complex drawings so that itself was already fun for me. Then after my initial proposal sketch – I was given free rein to really coat it thick with the “mindflyer” magic to make it look more fun and whimsical!
This is a very cool project for me- thanks to Kevin and the Spoon team and Tangs of course!
Recent work submiited for Kult magazine. The female genitalia and anything that is related to it is generally considered bad for FORTUNE in Chinese custom. We believe Larky Bat might change all that! ( Special Thanks to Steve Lawler )
Deadline has been extended to 9th August 2010 2359hrs. If you want to submit more entries- you are most welcom to do so- we will pick the best entries. Please follow the instructions- don’t sent us file attachments! Use download links.
We have received many entries! Thanks for the overwhelming response! ( Added – 2nd August 2010 )
Calling all drawers, doodlers, hobbyists and illustrators in Singapore- pls sign up and participate!!
( Listed above are some examples as samples only )
We are stepping up the gears to celebrate our 4th Anniversary by kick starting an exciting project and roll-call.
If you love illustrating- we want to know you!!
Submit your artwork and be seen in this NEW OICsingapore’s latest project to make Singapore based illustrators seen and heard!!
This new platform will be scheduled for launch very close to our anniversary on 18th Oct 2010. More info coming soon.
About the new platform:
We will feature the artwork of as many good/ upcoming/ interesting illustrators as we can find in this roll-call
Each artwork will also feature links to the artists website and some useful info about the illustrators.
This new platform is an on going exercise and will provide many hits and publicity when launched.
This call for entries is open to all budding students/ hobbyist/ professional illustrators residing and practicing in Singapore.
No age limit.
You can submit maximum 3 entries per artist based on any combination of the listed themes. Theme: Cute/ Fashion/ Action/ Surreal/ Cityscape/ Futuristic/ Others ( Pick a theme for each artwork ) You can submit as many as you want- we will pick the best 3 for now. That said we will try to showcase as many good artwork as we can.
New Artwork preferred.
Artwork must be submitted as instructed and in the stated formats and sizes. Read the instructions. We need to include 1 more size- 1024 x 1024 pixels. Template has been updated . Export your art was OPTIMIZED for web ( See this tutorial if you are not sure- http://inobscuro.com/tutorials/read/35/ ) . Recommend web sizes for the 3 jpgs at 72dpi - ( small – less than 120k/ mid – less than 500k / big – less than 600k )
Its is a good practice to make sure your original artwork is at least A3 size at 300dpi in case we manage to secure a space to do an exhibition to feature your work. ( added 2010/07/07 )
Each artist must have a proper dedicated folio blog/ website of illustrated works ( tumblr/ blogger or wordpress or a website. No Deviant gallery please.) with contact info ( email address / hp number etc )
Only selected works will be featured on our final “project” based on careful evaluation by OIC’s selection panel to ensure quality control. This clause is only added to assure participants we hope to uphold quality and good work.
Closing date is 31st July 2010 2359hrs
We are dropping the GREY bar and please keep your text to 1 LINE. ( added 2010/07/09 )
Email your artwork DOWNLOAD links/ url to ( updated 2010/07/12 ) :
mailto: “for4th@oicsingapore.com”
subject: ” OIC RollCall 2010 ”
Thanks for taking part in this project.
Please spread the word and the good drawing vibes. Retweet and blog about this like mad !! thanks ( Updated 2010/07/04 )
Ronald Searle is 90!! This is another of my illustration heroes.
Did you know he was a POW in SIngapore during WW2? He did a whole series of drawings while in prison here.
Most inspiring thing about him to me is:
1. He’s still doing “IT” at 90 ( “IT” being “illustration” )
2. His studio is in France!! ( Like my other hero- Robert Crumbs )
3. He never stopped drawing! During his stint as a POW/ artist- he trade cigarettes for drawing paper!!
“He never stopped drawing, despite beatings, bouts of malaria and beri beri, and a Japanese guard’s pick axe in the back.” (quoted from Ronald Searle Biography http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/searle.htm )
More info here- Ronald Searle Tribute http://ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/
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, my new surreal illustration for Tangs game has been launched on line. When I was 1st asked to illustrate the game board- I thought it will be be any other shopping mall floor plan. I love technical or complex drawings so that itself was already fun for me. Then after my initial proposal sketch – I was given free rein to really coat it thick with the “mindflyer” magic to make it look more fun and whimsical!
!! thanks ( Updated 2010/07/04 )
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