Story 24 (Step 6)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

Now, having completed the right hand, I am quite happy about the skin tone and colour.  Meanwhile it also reminds me of one of the movies' title: "Terminator" (in that movie, one scene showed the robot repairing its damaged mechanical 'hand'). The belly golden coins are also given more details, and the metal body being added more rusty effect. 

Today is a rainy day at my place in Jurong, feeling kind of 'blue'...

Story 24 (Step 5)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

When come to this stage, I have to remind myself that I need to paint the background colour first before doing the foreground, which makes it easier for me to do overlapping...

 So far I am quite happy with the result!

Story 24 (Step 4)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

Now I have removed the hair, because the hair looked as if it were something extra in the painting...  Besides, I re-created the ear from antenna to trumpet form, at the same time also started to paint a lot of $$$ inside the belly.  Meanwhile, I also input some bronze colour on the background (influenced by last year's furniture painting project), otherwise it might look very plain...

Story 24 (Step 3)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

Today I spent the whole morning painting the piece of armour (with a lot of hooks) - which I placed it on the left arm, and also started to paint the arm in skin tones. Besides, I also changed the eyes to look to the front instead of looking to the left.

 Here and there, I also input some silver colour in the grey armour to make it look more like a metal surface, and added in some dark red colour to create a rusty effect on the metal.

I am in a good mood today!

Story 24 (Step 2)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

This time I have spent a little bit more time in painting the background – meanwhile also creating some black hollow holes - these are the places where the $$$ come from... At the same time I also draw the outlines for the rest of the structures, and input some $$$ inside the brain ($ brain!).

Story 24 (Step 1)

"Story 24", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 92cm, Year: 2011.

My 8th solo exhibition is just over. Praise the Lord! I have sold out 9 paintings so far...

Right now I am longing for my first-born (don't know boy or girl yet???) to arrive, and also trying to do few pieces of paintings for another mid-year exhibition. As you can see - the above painting is one of my plans for that show – A “man” (actually is half-machine, half-man...) hungry for more $$$!!! The overall effect I want to show people, is a machine turned alive; and technically, I am also hoping that I can use acrylic paints to achieve oil-painting result (as my skin is sensitive to turpentine). Of course, deep down I know it is not easy to do so, but nothing is impossible, right? Only when you try...

Course Project: New Story Character Design - Ruby

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

Course Project: New Story Character - Face-out

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

Course Project: New Story Character - River

River ( Close-up )

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

Course Project: New Story Character - Paul Chua

Paul Chua ( Close-up )

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

My Second Interior Design - Coloured Perspective: Living Room

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

My Second Interior Design - Coloured Perspective Layout Plan: Living Room

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

Spaceship

Spaceship (Close-up)

"Spaceship", Ink & Marker On Paper, Size: A3, Year: 2010.

My First Interior Design - Coloured Perspective Layout Plan: Kitchen

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

My First Interior Design - Coloured Perspective: Kitchen

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

School Project - New Story Character Design: Shero

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

School Project - New Story Character Design: Dana

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

School Project - New Story Character Design : Cartoonist

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

Caricature 08

Marker On Paper, Year: 2010.

I like this Japanese actress 广末凉子a lot! :-) I can still remember her first movie that I watched was “Wasabi,” and she was very young in that movie then, but I could see she was full of potential and I like to see the way she smiled (her mouth-edge was very attractive!). The later movie that I watched by her was “Departure”, where she acted as a wife of another popular actor 本木雅弘. Right here, I would like to recommend this movie to you. :-)

My First Interior Design - Kitchen 2

*Colour Testing.

My First Interior Design - Kitchen

I am trying to input old and new elements together, such as: cement floor matching with tiles, bricks with wall tiles and concrete wall, pillar with rusty metal...

A Blessing In Disguise!

 

Alarm clock rang, "Wake up! You pig!"

"Must hurry up...I have an important appointment which I can make a lot of $$$!"

"Hi-ho-silver!"

"Come-on! Come-on! You old tortoise bus!"

"Ha! Finally...I can make it in time..."

"Hah! What is this, man!"

"I am doomed!"

"Oh! What is this? Must belong to that person who ruined my appointment!"

"Diary? Some people are just too free to write this kind of thing!"

"This must be her name card, and Mary is her name...common name!"

"I think I'd better call her and return her the diary...Ha! Ha! Maybe can ask her to give me a treat!...Why not?"

"Hello! Yes! I am Mary...and what do you mean? ...you got my diary?"

"Here you are, Miss!... And by the way, shall we go for a drink?"

Mary,"Lah! Lah! Hey! Man! I haven't even gotten your name yet???"

"My name is John! Nice to know you!"

Mary, "John!... common name..."

Double - image 4

"Double - image 4", 40cm x 30cm, Acrylic On Canvas, Year: 2010.

I have enjoyed making this series of cartoon paintings which they bring to my life more meaning, fun and joy! However I was quite unhappy today because it seems these works are not able to fetch a good price in the market... People around me keep asking me to lower my prices, eventually I think I would rather use these artworks as gifts for my relatives and close friends, than to sell them at cheap prices...

Note: If I sell them at low prices, I wonder – if I might cry eventually!!! :-( I had spent a lot of time and put in a lot of love in making them... Deep down I really think they worth much more...

Double - image 3

"Double - image 3", Acrylic On Canvas, 40cm x 30cm, Year: 2010.

Double - image 2

"Double - image 2", Acrylic On Canvas, 40cm x 30cm, Year: 2010.

Double - image 1

"Double - image 1", Acrylic On Canvas, 40cm x 30cm, Year: 2010.

Caricatures 06 & 07

Doing caricature is not easy nor difficult. So far I only know five different formulas to work on it. As you can see, I did the Hong Kong actor - Chow Yun Fat's caricature quite easily and successfully. However, when come to Robert Pattinson, I do not know why somehow along the way, I felt hard to do it, as if I do not know which formula can apply on his face... Ha! Ha! So, in the end I only did what I could do and knew... That's all! :-)

Note: Cartoon drawing helps me relax my mind and bring joy to my life!