more studies

more studies.
based on Iain McCaig's evil sith
from his great book shadowline

and some misc street fighter poses
with some add-ons.


pencil, color pencil, water color and correction fluid.

marko studies

did some studies based on marko's
designs for degenesis. so here goes.




my epic fail version


these are just studies from one of my many many heroes.
nowhere near their level yet.
just wanted to see what i can learn from their work.

so chill with the blowtorches.
: )

character heads

inspired by marko
and his works for degenesis.
he did some really cool designs with just character heads.
did some in between time waiting for renders.
no reference were used but i've been inspired by what i saw here.

weapon x

final render with photoshop and painter.
done on seperate days after ICT.

3 kings

3 kings made of sand.
so i guess they live in sand castles.
hahaha ...oh well
w.i.p.

riddler

they say johnny's gonna play the riddler.
they say lots of things.

Archer

a quick digital sketch done after work.
took about 3 - 4 hours roughly.
quick color variations.

bird of prey

a quickie on 2 nights after work.
hope you like.
no process for this one tho.
: )

greet death III

so here's the final image.

it all started from a sketch on the train.
(sketching on the train in singapore is much easier than on the bus.)

some WIP shots...trying to use brown as the underlay for the painting.
not sure if it works well.

and here we go.
okie will stop doing all these fanart for now.
but i think i like this character way too much.
going back to modelling and UVs.
wish me luck!

Twilight chases the sun

havent been posting much or painting for tt matter.
anyway, i whipped out one of my first paintings
i did on photoshop with my dear dear tablet...
i have no idea how bad the original one was.
well it's featured right here actually.


here's the work in progress...
you could see all the reference i picked up when
i was painting initially.
after i got a rough idea of what i wanted
i just let things flow on it's own...
even wanted to put some angkor wat photo n paint over it or something...
decided to put a buddy fella next to him and realise
it wld just complicate things...
oh well...keep things simple.

Twilight chases the sun is a fantastic album by a band called Furniture.
good luck finding it.

greet death II

had to do a variant version.
it was so fun playing with the hues.
and was playing with the backgrounds.
corals maybe?
which one do you prefer?


started from a sketch on the train as usual


some work in progress
i start by painting in grayscale first.


looking at the 2 variants trying to compare which i liked more...



decided to whip out an old sketch
and started painting.
rather happy with the process.
it was fun.
had some time anyways.

greet death

started from a sketch on the train

process


have always been intrigued by george lucas' phantom menace.
designed by ian maccaig and further pushed forward by a.m.bride's version
in visionaries... a bit of my own rendition.
hope it didn't look too bad.
started from a doodle on the train.
greet death is a song by explosions in the sky.
: )

vega collab

still freelancing like a vagabond.
but one of the benefits is to meet different people,
different very talented artists like ken, bruce and keehong.
all from one of the greatest art schools across the causeway
one academy. not that this is some entry to advertise how good they are,
i'm very honoured to have come across them and meet them face to face,
exchange ideas, dreams and criticisms.
in fact my first art director i worked with, sok kuan was also from one academy.
: )
here is a humble paint_over and collaboration work
with one of the very talented artist i work with at an ad agency.
he's no other than keehong.
sorry if i made your art work look bad bro!
here's porcupine boy like wat muki calls it....


keehong's vega

process

we only come out at night

a random character.
some zombie hunter
which somehow happens to look a lil like riddick.
started doodling and then just couldnt stop and had to
finish it if not it wld be left dangling in my folder
haunting me forever.
oh well. headin back to practice my anatomy.
no more random stuff like these.
: )
work in progress here.



working from black n white to color to get the values.
but the anatomy looks fucked so back to basics for me.

v3

kamen rider one of my favourite heroes of the 80's!
here's a fan art of the upcoming v3.
kamen rider the next!
can't wait!
(btw the quote above is by Friedrich Nietzsche)

my favourite masked rider is still black
and when i was a kid i used to watch it
on the malaysian channel it was dubbed in malay
"ksatria baja hitam!"
and next i'll do a black version!
woo!

here are the WIPs and references alil' bit of how i work...

大魔王与悟饭

a big fan of dragonball z so here's a fan art.
i remember as a kid i would anticipate
with excitement every issue of the comic especially
when the z warriors were fighting cell and when magin bu
first came out we had such a good laugh
only to realise how powerful tt lard bucket was.

hope you know who the bird symbolise.
this image was inspired by
1 of the paintings of the great jeff jones.

experimenting with colors.
for piccolo the highlights i used orange and the shadows blue.
as we all know piccolo is green.
hope i didn't fucked up this piece tho.
C.C welcome as usual.

i wish to learn.
: )

vader

final repaint


halfway there...


the initial sketch ...like about a year ago.


"there is still good in him..."
1 of those nights when you just can't get to sleep.
you salvage a sketch from your dumps.

goodbye america

started with something like this.
i pretty liked this one more.

a more painted and obvious version.


"they killed him cos he sold out.
he sold out cos they killed him."

they killed america.

pins vs pink repaint

another repaint to beef up my portfolio.
here's the original upload.
you chalk my cue i pot your pink.

predator vs samurais, jar jar pins feat. jedi master muki black hunter remix

i was doin a repaint of an old sketch
trying to salvage it from the dumps one night.
and thankfully had some guidance and butt kicking from a friend.
time and again i've been told to practice from the fundamentals
and time and again it dint get into my thick skull
cos i dint know where to start
so this is where i started thanks to him.
drawing shapes and form.


and as i was doing so my friend did a repaint of what i sent him for a crit.
so i would like to use this opportunity to introduce this friend of mine
who happen to be a movie kaki and mentor.
drum roll for the kaiman if you dont already know.
ukitakumuki.
and a great honour for me that he did a repaint on my version.
looks different. looks wicked. looks better!
(in a brief moment of 3 hours
when i was still figuring out how to light a cube!)
niceblackkkj.

n here's where you could see my old sketches of the predator idea.