*coughs in yer face*

i swear the PC at my workplace is as slow as Carol De Beer.

band art

today i will revisit old band sketches.
there's other doodles but im too shy...

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
this sketch looks very vague and random, but really, i was listening to Hot Rats when i came up with this.


Radiohead
because Jools calls them "the beautiful Radiohead", and they are nothing less/more.


Showbread
their obsession with snakes....



Vampire Weekend
i was quite intent on annoying my little sister by drawing a very ugly edward cullen.

we are grateful for our iron lung

BUY THIS, framed.

"A virtue such as honesty or generosity is not just a tendency to do what is honest or generous, nor is it to be helpfully specified as a "desirable" or "morally valuable" character trait. It is, indeed a character trait — that is, a disposition which is well entrenched in its possessor, something that, as we say "goes all the way down", unlike a habit such as being a tea-drinker — but the disposition in question, far from being a single track disposition to do honest actions, or even honest actions for certain reasons, is multi-track. It is concerned with many other actions as well, with emotions and emotional reactions, choices, values, desires, perceptions, attitudes, interests, expectations and sensibilities. To possess a virtue is to be a certain sort of person with a certain complex mindset. (Hence the extreme recklessness of attributing a virtue on the basis of a single action.)"





fuck it took me a loooooong loooooong time to get this right with pencils first, then i had to go over with pen, then it was tooooo ugly, so i had to redraw the shit again aaaaand....

too bad i was too lazy to get a plain piece of paper.
turned out real nice, i should sell this crap.

(nice legs)

eta: LEGS LEGS LEGS

this is a sneak peak into my first series, The Inadequate.

eta: the fountain pen is responsible for all of this.

Sketching Lesson #3

It is always good for beginners to try the "shadow" format of sketching. Basically, just mark out the parts that are dark/light and shade accordingly, the picture will turn out great. The only drawback (hahhah no pun intended) is you feel very detached from the drawing cos you are treating each part individually and not as a whole.

But what the hell man, whatever works for you right? I'm very convinced this sketch of Ed O'Brien is my best.

Useless Gifts #101

A post-it that you can't use.

Moar to come~

fountain pens rule my heart hand brain legs tumnus gleutus maximus and my face

Sketching Lesson #2

If your scanning skills are still not improving, photoshop skills are handy. I cheated though (c'mon, who doesn't cheat in art!?), I used the easy peasy Preview (mac picture viewer) to edit.

Just tone down a little bit of brightness, up the contrast, lower the temp, less of an exposure if you like it dark and viola~

Stay tuned for sketching lesson #3.

Sketching Lesson #1

I should not use white crayon to fill in the gray strands.
I should not use mechanical pencil to sketch the hair (a lesson which I failed to learn time and time again).
I should invest in a box of pencils when I get my pay.
I should learn how to scan in much more details cos this scan does not do justice to my hard work in shading.
I should clean my scanner before scanning.

Hourly Comic Starts on Feb 1

So I have only just remembered that Hourly comic starts today.Okay my bad, it starts on Feb 1, not Jan 1.
I didn't manage to do any of course, but I was sketching Jonny for the past hour and this is what I've got so far. Only a 1/3 of the picture is shown here:




I still have to deal with the hair and Paul Smith Pink Cable Sweater details (which is really a lot).

Merry New Year by the way.