http://www.shinyusha.co.jp/touch/
Its an illustration magazine featuring alot of work processes as well as works from mainly japanese artists.
The kind of works are mainly MOE. Its only up to volume 5 now but seems to be pretty popular due to the funky look and very detailed tutorials and making-of.
( All text and pictures by Kun Rong – See more his work here: http://www.yapkunrong.net/ )
Rough sketch to check the compositions and flow.
BOOM! Flat colors, shadows and lots of rendering.
Salaryman wants to play some football!
Gotta have some fan girls.
The tags were handwritten.
As you all know by now, Adidas’ launching their biggest campaign ever. Yes, u’ve seen the advert, the one with Katy Perry haha~slurp. So here’s something I did: all football. Other local artist were involved as well: Sheryo, Clog2, Mindflyer, Eeshaun, etc…peace, B
JUMP HERE for more info on the event on the 21-22MAY.
My contribution for a new series by Kult magazine on strange facts about animals. The fact I have chosen is “A snail can even go over a razor blade without getting hurt!”
The snail is a fascinating creature to me, the way it moves , the strange antennae and the mobile home on its back! For this piece- I want to make the snail like some nocturnal alien from space, showing off its magic over a razor. Thanks to Kult magazine crew! You can see more of my work at www.mindflyer.com.
The finalised pencil sketch
This is my new illustration to be printed on T-shirts for runners who are participating at the Adidas’s All24 event ( http://www.adidasall24.com/ )
Process
01 – My initial sketch to get approval for the composition. I was aiming for an Escher-ist kind of effect of an triple infinity loop filled with crazy runners.
02 – I have to make sure my key elements stay in the shaded area and make sure my illustration is not too busy under the headline
03- Colour Test – the brief dictates that the illustration must have a dorminant red colour feel to it. To avoid over doing the red- I used some benday dots to supplement the effect.
This is an illustration that was done for a commentary piece on the the H1N1 virus. A lot of time was spent establishing the highlights, midtones and shadows in this illustration–and that’s from memory. The OIC sketching sessions helps us map the architecture of the face and train us to depict different facial types, how different light sources falls on the skin, how shadows are casts across the face, etc. The facial terrain is constantly fluid and how the interlacing muscles underneath the face works can only be explored during sketching sessions.
Bowl of Tuberose (the flower is known in mandarin as 晚香玉). 24″ x 24″, acrylic.
It’s based on a photo, but I did not expect flowers and bouquets to be so tricky! 
I visited some art galleries in Ho Chi Min city recently for the first time, and I was so amazed by some of the work of vietnamese artists. I tried to remember as much as I could and had to experiment when I got back. I think the trick is…LAYERING!
Tags: oicsingapore, ORGANISATION OF ILLUSTRATORS COUNCIL, SanSan, Tuberose, Flower Paintings, OIC Process, Singapore Illustrator
Hi there everyone…I would like to share one of my painting’s processes with all of you.
So let’s start!
1. Concept: I was just thinking to draw something wild, adventurous…so came up with the idea of kissing lovers in the air, was laughing on my own idea so this is the first doodle I made.
2. Drawing & Composition: It’s time draw details…the dress code of the lovers, their vehicles & the city structure. If you are wondering about those sinister buildings then it’s intentional..yes, to show the bravery of the lover, I just wanted to add more drama in the whole composition, it also depicts that these two lovers are so passionate about each other that they don’t really care about the consequences of their Kiss.
Since I wanted to show something Futuristic yet ancient (sounds silly I know!) to make it more clear, I would like to say more about the culture I was looking for…
this city is somewhere above the sky and they are living there from ages… I tried to show more organic feel, like it’s made with natural stuff. Check out the overlay building’s roof.
As u can see, I’ve added few elements (Overlay) to add more depth. I wasn’t sure about the colour scheme till this moment.
3. Colour scheme: Since its going to be an ancient fantasy…I thought about Golden Yellow scheme.
So I created a new layer and filled Golden Yellow and tried the blending mode options. It’s a great option to achieve harmony in the artwork. Sometimes you can get lots of unexpected and beautiful effects
through this feature. I think most of the people are already aware about that. So as u can see here the look and feel is changed due to the blending mode adjustment. Now I started adding details in overall composition.
Sometimes I don’t follow the ideal process and work on different area at the same time. To show the depth of field, I made the foreground elements blurry
using Gaussian Blur filter. So I suggest working with lots of layers, so that we can tweak each layer separately without spoiling the whole artwork.
4. Background: Background was almost merging with the characters…so added light pink colour on a separate layer to add more depth in the background. So the character will come out.
5. I think we should take a break and see the same work once again after some period of time. After looking at this artwork after few days, I realized that the composition was too tight for the subject.
So I made few changes… minimized the character’s sizes and flipped entire canvas.
It was looking better than before…then started working on the details. I chose Calligraphic Brushes…these Brushes are great for painterly look & feel.
6. Final details and tweaks: I’ve used smooth edge brush around the character to avoid those sharp edges…added clouds and light in the sky. Hope u enjoyed the making. Click the last image to view the final bigger image.
Happy Painting!!
Alright guys, some analog stuff. Behind the scenes and process for a very interesting project with good friends which were from TBWA Singapore then, Pei Pei, Ng, Merlin Kwan and David Chan. Another piece was crafted by our OiC darling, Sokkuan. An amazing illustrator in her own right.
1) Straight forward agency brief complete with idea and sketch.
2) Counter sketch from my side to enchance idea. Execution style is discussed and agreed upon with the creative team. In this case. Heavy body and soft body acrylic style.
3) Preliminary colour proposals done in photoshop.For analog or natural media work, this stage is very crucial because there is not much room for amendments when it gets to the real thing.
4) Final stages of colour, look and feel approved by agency creatives and client. Canvas and paints are prepared and halfway through the completion of illustration, art director steps in for minimal final touch ups and amendments.
5) Voila! Final touch ups and off to the photographer to do his magic lighting. Crucial stage as well because photographing paintings need another set of skills.
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. 
Now you can have the color picker wheel from Painter in Photoshop! (Link courtesy of my colleague Chris) Available for mac and windows and it’s free. The able and generous can donate. Enjoy! ( CS 4 ONLY – Edited by mindflyer)
