December 1st

Some new stuff ( not that new, new as in I've never put in on my blog)
Edit: Okay I thought I posted this puppy on dec ist.. oops )

Robot line art

I made this over the weekend. It took a while but it doesn't look too bad. First the line art and then the rough version.

More experimentation

I was exploring with painting a bit more tonight.

I'm not sure which is better, the one with or the one without the face paint.

A new way to paint

I've been meaning to paint this for a little while. I'm so used to colouring within lines and using almost no lines is really something to wrap my head around... heh. I think it was fairly succesful experiment. Its clear I still have to focus on proper proportion and measurement and all that, heh. It'll come with practice I guess.

In PS, 2.5 hours (probably would've been faster had I not chatted so much)

The new year begins

Well I've start maya and it is pretty awsome so far. I'll put some stuff up when I can. In the meantime, check out this gem. Beautiful stuff!
































Be sure to check out the 3d misc gallery, awsome stuff!

Another avatar

Now lots of people seem to want to make them avatars, which I don't mind; I find it flattering :)

Jedi Avatar

This is another avatar I made for my friend tonight. It was actually a lot of fun:) I'd love any comments and or advice. Maybe especially with the light reflection on her face.


Final Copy










Shading and lighting












Flat colours











Line art










Colour study











Digital concept sketch (my originals were on paper with pencil, I only made 2)

A robot, a barbarian and an avatar

I'm not sure I'll finish this robot so I'll just stick it up here. It was a daily sketchgroup item for conceptart again. Heh



















The Barbarian was for something else. She isn't too rough or barbaric though.

















This is an msn avatar I painted for a friend based on her guildwars character.

More robot sketchies

Pen drawings plus a little photoshop. The robots in the top image and the one on the right in the second are supposed to be the same design but I just painted them varying colours.
I like the last one a lot but feel too impatient right now to do a good job, sadly.

More robotics

Please look down for my earlier today as well :)

I'd like to paint this one guard dog like one. I think some form of orange would suit it.















































I know I should remain detached from my work, but I like this speedy guy too :P


























I'm fond of the robot with the sword, even if he is somewhat unbalanced.

Some robots

In the top 3 on the left I had been encouraged to add more character and tried to give the robots more expression, I quickly gave that up though :P Clearly however, as an animator, one typically desires to express emotion with whatever one animates and a less sterile and inhuman design would be in order.


The blue one is the only one in this update in my own ink. A ball point pen so crude this one was the only one worth showing :P My friend Ed has the most amazing pens, the ink of which I almost drink. Heh I used one of his fine pens for most of these.


Oddly, this is the first page I drew and it's last. The robot in marker was something Bobby Chiu drew for me extrapolating from the 3 designs I had at the top of the page (the only ones at the time)

The paper bag princess

My sibling asked me to draw this and lo I did! I have so much to do this summer and I use my time so badly. I really should focus on my art with stuff like this.

Daily Sketchgroup at Conceptart.org 1085

Today I did a daily sketch group exercise. The idea is to do something to a sentence long concept, in this case "Jet packers fly amidst mist shrouded art-deco building tops" in about an hour.
Here is what I came up with, it isn't portfolio worthy but I'm very happy to do some practice with a time limit like this. I only put in one rocket packer but no one cares I'm pretty sure.

Where are those robots I promised? They're around and I'll get them up "soon". I never expected to be so interested in drawing robots but I really like it. Its funny how these things can come out of the blue. I mean, I really didn't see it coming.

Robot Sketchings

My buddies from school and I have a little ritual, you see. Once more more a month we meetup downtown like some secret society. We draw a lot and drink, just like secret societies are wont to do. Its a lot of fun. Anyways this last time we met up with admirable Bobby Chiu, who is a great artist and all around friendly guy totally willing to spend some time and teach a thing or two, divulging little valauble nuggets of artistic wisdom like halloween candy that doesn't rot your teeth. Check out his website here by the way.

Amongst all the sketching I drew these robot things up. Its a lot of fun actually. I'll post them when I get more time and I figure out how to use thumbnails....

If everyone else does it....

Well, I've buckled into peer pressure and made myself a blog. Welcome!

I'd like to open by linking up something pretty profound I read recently on http://johnaugust.com
about the nature of proffesionalism and what seperates a proffessional from an amatuer. I reccomend it for a good read http://johnaugust.com/archives/2006/professional-writing-and-the-rise-of-the-amateur

I am pretty impressed by the whole blog and I find all of stuff he writes about also will surely apply to my own industry.


I'll post some art work as soon as I feel like it. I'll have to find out if blogger hosts images for you or if you need an external host, hopefully its the former.