Story 25 (Step 3)

"Story 25", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 122cm, Year: 2011.

Today I started to paint myself lying on the bed (shown on bottom of the painting), reading novel (I especially love reading detective novels because they bring in a lot of excitement and suspense). As you can see, I input some characters of the novels - such as from “Red Dragon” (the killer whose job is related to the family homevideo and has a dragon tattoo at his back); Maths teacher from “Suspect X” who ends up as a murderer; from “Silence Of The Lamb” where a tough police woman has a muscular arm; and so on... All these images are surrounding me.

Halfway through my painting, my wife commented I must be in a good mood, because the overall colours seem bright and colourful!

Story 25 (Step 2)

"Story 25", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 122cm, Year: 2011.

I started to fill in the colours, and input another image on the right - which shows my habit of always holding a book, reading while walking all the way to the coffeeshop for my morning breakfast...

Story 25 (Step 1)

"Story 25", Acrylic On Canvas, 122cm x 122cm, Year: 2011.

This time I would like to express through my artwork - "hungry for knowledge".

I enjoy reading since young.  I recall my mother's office at Seah Street where there were a lot of bookshops, and I had always spent a lot of time hanging around there - reading and viewing the art magazines.  Along the way, somehow I feel that increasing knowledge can help me see things as if like - standing on a high place and able to see things in a wider perspective (that is the reason why I paint myself wearing a tall hat with a big eye-ball).

Note:  By the way, I would like to thank all viewers who have given me encouragement and comments in my blog (especially to the viewer who has suggested that I use H2O oil paints to avoid my sensitive skin from handling oil-based chemicals).  

Story 24 (Completion)

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

Story 24 (Step 8)

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

Now, I have completed painting the left hand holding the Bible (written in Chinese - "圣经"), which I seldom read recently - maybe the reason for focus on money; and also completed painting all the containers.  I also included some golden coins (details not finished yet) surrounding the "man" (or shall I describe it as - "half-man, half-machine")???

So far so good!  Quite happy with the painting effect of the two hands!

Sad thing is that, today doctor said I have put on weight again! :-(

Book Cover Design: "异果"

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

What do you think about my new manga story character designs? Do they look cool? Personally I like main character “Rock” (石头) a lot, especially his “pony-tail”, and also the girl on his right, named “Stream” (溪). Most of the characters are in the picture, and actually I have already started doing this artwork last year, but so far only completed a few pages (too busy)... hahahaha! The monster image (on top left side) is based on my old design in my early 20s, from another manga story plan, named: “House” (屋).

Manga Course: Castle Design

Ink & Marker On A3 Paper, Year: 2011.

Story 24 (Step 7)

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

At this stage I started to paint the containers below, meanwhile also trying to complete some "grabbers" and hoses.  So far I have not decided whether to write "Holy Bible" on the cover of the book (which the hand is holding) or not???

By the way, today I showed this half-done painting to my art dealer, and he said maybe I could sell it slightly more than S$ 3500... :-)

The Portrait Of Izel

"The Portrait Of Izel", Wax Pencil, Pencil, Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2011.

My 5-year-old beautiful niece is so gentle and quiet, as if like a little lamb.  Her face looks actually like her father (my younger brother), while her fair skin takes after her mother.

I went to her home after manga lesson yesterday, saw her so adorable and decided to sketch her down.  She was so shy because it was her first time modelling for me - as you can see, her hands were holding her father's cell-phone as if playing some army games, but her eyes were not looking at the cell-phone at all... 

My mother was sitting right next to me whilst I was sketching, fortunately she gave good remarks for my sketch...  Hah!

Action

Ink & Marker On Paper, Year: 2011.

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..."