An Animal a Day #3 - Timothy Torthoise

Timothy Tortoise

is almost there

An Animal a Day #2 - Celestine Cat

 

Celestine Cat

Loves to Clean

An Animal a Day #1 - Barnabus Bunny

Barnabus Bunny

Its So Cold Without You

I am not a blogger.

I find it supremely uncomfortable to be writing to an audience who might or might not be there. It would be strange to write something only I myself will read and feel rather ridiculous especially if I intended it for some kind of audience in particular. Well, I'm going to take a risk to my pride and blog this, telling myself that it is a monologue of sorts, since I do talk to myself in my head all the time :)

I thought I'd put some photos up from a cafe near where I live called greens. They have the loveliest white chocolate rasperry cheesecake I've ever had! I'm not a cheesecake person and if given the choice wouldn't have cheesecake compared to any other cake but this was really surprisingly good! not like cheesecake at all!

Oh another thing, I am a ranty person, so maybe a blog is a good ranty kind of space. I would like to say that it absolutely annoys me reading some people's blogs that try to sound completely personal but are in fact attempting to advertise something (an event, place, product, or one's own skills like writing, drawing etc). yes my blog is to showcase my work. I have no pretenses about that.. I kind of started it because I needed to have a blog to submit work to illustration Friday. There you have it. this was started out of purely commercial/business reasons. I am not trying to be personal. haha I know I am contradicting myself especially after posting this personal post about myself... well I just felt that I didn't really like my blog cos it didn't have a personality and felt rather cold, it is about me after all!

Anyway that whole bit above was mainly to say that I am not advertising green's cafe or white chocolate raspberry cheesecake.

I feel like saying something about style and illustrators and the terrible war we have within ourselves (or at least myself) about this... but this post is already long so I'm going to stop :) It will have to come in the next post.

Keep drawing!

 I love this pepper sugar salt set!! I think they are like a family with different personalities but all get along anyway with the occasional squabble. 

Wander: Checkers 

"She met an interesting creature, who compelled her to sit down,

 first and foremmost, for a game quite like checkers, 

which she found very amusing."

Wander: Summer Berry

"They ended in a draw,even though each tried their hardest to 

best their opponent. To express his gratitude for so 

stimulating a game, Mr Fuzzle presented her with one of his 

favourite summer berries from his winter larder. "

Wander: Goodbye

"As the leaves began to fall, she decided she must go. 

A boat ride across the river later, she turns to say 

goodbye to her playful little friend."

 

Wander: Checkers

 

‎"She met an interesting creature, who compelled her to sit down, 

first and foremmost, for a game quite like checkers, 

which she found very amusing."

This is a collage/diorama I've done for the small works 

competitionat the Brunswick Street Gallery. 

This is the first in a series of 3 works.

I've always loved having a sort of 3d effect to my work, 

so that it wouldn't be just a 2d image. For this competition, 

the requirementwas that it had to be max 30 x 30 x 30 cm in 

dimensions  and it poseda serious challenge to me. 

I didn't want to do something  tiny just so I could frame it within 

the specifications, so I thought of creating the frame itself as 

part of the artwork to maximize the size.

Going to get them photographed properly when I'm done!

Exhibition Photos

Exhibition Photos!

Ok, So my exhibition was over almost

2 months ago and I hadn't posted any news about it.. Sorry!

Here are the photos as you can see, taken by my friend Nick (Thanks nick!)

It was a great exhibition, lots of people turned up, and I even

managed to sell all of my work!

Which is really amazing and surprising to me...

I'm working on some new pieces which I am

going to enterinto the small works competition at the

Brunswick Street Gallery..

more about that in the next post.

Exhibition Work

Wander

Currently working on a series of works for my exhibition

which will be happeningcoming March!

The group exhibition is titled

'The End is the Beginning' because our group

has recently graduated and the end of our academic life

is only the beginning of a new and daunting adventure

into our creative lives.

My personal body of work I have chosen to title Wander.

This is the main character of my work..

I'm not sure what I'm going to call her yet..

I did a very loose sketch of a little girl with soulful eyes one

day when I was feeling depressed and confused about

what I wasgoing to do.. which happens quite alot apparently. haha.

This lost girl represents me.

Alot of us experience this at a certain time

in our lives (most especially artists I think).

Confusion over which direction to take, what road to follow,

what we are supposed to do with our lives.

The essence of my work is to be like a children's story.

My little lost girl wanders the world, discovering new and strange

places and characters. She carries a large handkerchief sack on her

back in which she carries all the things of the past with her,

her memories, experiences, regrets, and burdens.

She has yet to learn how to let go.

This pieces talks about the fear of failure, the end of the road,

looking down, and unexpected things that may

arise out of situations like this.

As you can see I haven't thought of any titles yet..

all the titles I come up with just seem to end up sounding cheesy...

Is it just me or doesanyone else have this problem too??

Here she has an encounter with a colourful seasnake.

I'm going to be doing 2 more underwater pieces kind of

like a story of her underwater experience.

This piece looks a lot better in real life...

scanners just never seem to capture white properly..

the little bits of white ink I've done for the highlights have all

disappeared together with the bubbles..

Dorothy Gale

This is my interpretation of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz

a hundred years from when the last book ended.

This is part of a school project where I am designing environments

and characters for the Land of Oz, imagining what it would be like

a hundred years into the future.

Tea Princess Catalogue

Tea Princess Nursery Rhyme Book

Tea Princess is a fashion label for little girls from

Sydney and I used their gorgeous clothes designs for

my illustrations. These pictures were for a project

that combined fashion illustration with children's book

illustration. I wanted to come up with a fashion catalogue

that was in the form of a nursery rhyme book.

You can check out the beautiful Tea Princess clothes here!

My Prints

Prints!~

I picked up printmaking over the hols and totally love

the hand cut style. Will continue to use more of this

technique in the future...

Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, Bess

Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, Bess

This one of the pieces of a book of rhymes for girls that I

am doing for a project in school. Can't disclose all the details cos

I want to reveal it all at once when I'm done!

The clothes have all been designed by Tea Princess,

really exquisite stuff.

I did this piece for an exhibition in Melbourne

to raise funds for the children in Kenya..

Did this in kind of a rush! I forgot all about

it till the last minute but didn't want to just

let such a good cause go away... I think its

not everyday you get to use your artwork for

something other than indulging yourself

(something we artists always do!)

can't think of a name as usual.. suggestions?

I did this with the idea of a little Kenyan girl

excited to be going to school

some animal characters

Animal Characters

Some animal character designs I did long ago for a 3d animation

project. You can view the project here:

http://www.whizkidgames.com/

and click on Ted's Ice Cream Adventures

This project was done to create games for autistic children with

emphasis on things such as making eye contact and taking turns.

Brave

Tomorrow There'll Be Sun

My submission for the topic 'Brave'.

I actually came up with this idea while getting stuck at the

A&E for 3 hrs. My friend and I were trying to pass the time

and she told me about how she met children from the cancer

wards who are always terribly brave about the difficulties that

they have to through and I was very impressed.

Hopefully all of us will learn a thing or two from these little warriors

I don't know what to name this!

This was my initial idea for 'Propogate' but I felt that

it represented growth more than propogate, so I scrapped it..

but I liked the drawing very much so I finished it in my free time

Mag Cover

Concept for Harper's Bazaar Cover

I did this for a fashion illustration assignment.

I tried to make it into an art noveau inspired design

with the thick lines and flowers; I'm not sure it got

there but I'm quite pleased with the result as its my

first time using watercolour!

Hello World!

This is Me

Hello Everyone! I suppose that I should give a little introduction

about myself since this is my first online artblog.

Yes, this picture is a cartoonisation of myself. I did this a year ago

so now my hairstyle is a bit different, but It's about the same.

I'm a Singaporean currently studying in Melbourne.

I've graduated from Swinburne with a Degree in Design and currently

in my final year of Bachelor of Illustration in NMIT.

I love children's books and children's art and I have a passion in

drawing characters and coming up with stories for them.

My favoured mediums are digital and colour pencil but I'd like to

try out more brushwork as well.

I hope to become a children's book illustrator or anything that has

to do with design and lets me draw :)

Oh and I also make books! You can check them out here:

bookraft.livejournal.com

Haven't done much new books in a while but I will be starting again soon

and upgrading my designs and skills!

Yup that's about all about me that I figured would be the LEAST boring.

~bye!

Cherie

Cherie

A character I came up with.

She's the lead singer of a band together

with two other girls. I have yet to paint the other two though!

Hopefully I'll get on with it when I get a bit of time in between