So that's that for my update on piapot's world. On to my post!:-)

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When I was all crumpled on bed last night, I found my folder of drawings before, and this is the first time i'm actually going to write that i draw. Haha anyway, i'm not as good as the cartoonists in our student pub. because they are really masters in the this field! Though here are a few of my masterpeices (in my eyes)!:-)

Most of my drawings are drawn with ink and pencil.

Some of my drawings were not dated, most of them i have drawn at night when my insomniatic brain doesn't want to rest. Though it's almost a month now that i have been able to complete my eight hours of sleep! And I'm actually getting my rest! Yey super me!:-)

This one is drawn in pencil alone. I drew this Christmas of 2007 when my best bud came to visit for the holidays.

He wanted me draw the arrow thing on his wrist that day and i did it on paper too!:-) haha though he really did not believe me that i can draw! lol

This one i copied from an anime magazine which my lil sis Kulot wanted me to draw for her.

I actually think i did well!:-) and i didn't forgot to put the date either!

I made this with pastels just to make something in color. And ooh! i LOVE butterflies! though these were all in black, i love the ones with pretty collors too!:-)

I'm fascinated by angels, especially by how artists and cartoonist illustrate them. This one i copied from the internet. The real one was in full color, mine obviously in ink. I find it easier to use it rather than any other medium.

I tried to make a caricature out of an artist from a song mag, though i think it wasn't that successful. haha

So there's my gallery!:-) and to people who actually are like me that adds stress in their morning coffee, lighten up! It's not easy to deal with them, especially when your body is gowing down the drains. Have some stress releiver, find an outlet! and you've just viewed mine!

Just take it easy! Life has so much in it not to stress for! Oh what a great life!:-)

Thanks for looking! Ciao tutti!

คนผ่านมา : รูปใครอะ
K : ไม่รู้..

I've been doing a lot of my inking on the PC lately. This was 1/2 drawn for my Pegasus project and 1/2 drawn for my students at the school who I taught inking to yesterday. What a great class, all the kids (15 yrs old) are great students, receptive and talented. I come home from there on a great high.

I distressed the edges, and inked of course, and even did some stitching too.  This is what it looks like.

And here is a close up of the edge of the cardboard, the notepaper and the tag.

This was done for a challenge issued by Lisa Damrosch at BPS.

When i looked back at my artworks .. since i was quite young ..

Around at the age of 12-13 . . and then when i looked back at my artworks now ..

man .. i have came through a long journey and have improved so much .. even i can't describe in words .

Of course i wont show you my terrible artworks at that age , but as i had promised that i will show at least some of my artworks that i have been working on ..

i have 2 types of Canvas size ,

A4 and A3

Well Basically .. the A4 type ones are in sketch book form .. not paper form , and A3 is "Art Block" paper which is extremely huge to be scanned with my scanner ..

so i had to take pictures of them .. i hope you don't mind . =)

heres just a sneak peak ~

Note : Click on the pictures for Full View of the picture

A4

my camera made the Sketches a lil' bit distorted .. sry yeaa..

A4 ( Geometrical Art)

A3 ( ink )

P/s : All of this artworks are hand drawn with a Pen .. So there are no mistakes .

Took 3 days to complete

Char : Jack , Corpse Bride , Marionette , Jester , Sleepy Hollow

This Artwork took 1 or 2 weeks to finish .. because i have to juggle with my working time .. eventually its quite difficult to find time where i can focus and draw .

Char : Original Characters ( Self Made)

I Drew About 100 Different dolls, if you look at the row of dolls for the second time . You might just find a diffrent one . (look properly)

The Meaning of this artwork is that ..If you Look at the dolls .. They are made up of diffrent fabrics and they still smile although they are badly damaged .. giving out a message from me saying that :

No matter how much you pretend to be someone else or try to be perfect , You will Never be perfect .. No one is . .. otherwise you are just like those Dolls ,

They were Perfect at first when they were brought at the store .. but time after time .. they will eventually Rot and spoil (Just like us when we die) ...

(___ There are other hidden meaning of this artwork it depends on how you see it ___)

Tell me your point of view and what do you see from this artwork. =)

If you Click on this artwork and zoom in to the Octopus ... That part is kinda scary .. Freaked me out when i looked properly ..

A3 ( Sketch)

Completed in the day itself ;

Char : Original Characters by me and Mira

This artwork is a collaboration of Me and Mira

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Well , thats a Preview on whats goin'

hope that you enjoy browsing through my artworks

xD

-Saruchan-

P/s : I used about 2 G1 pens to finish those 2 ink artworks above .. x_X Rm6 used .

Money + Effort = K.O

I guess this year is kinda special and all, since it's 08/08/08 and the start of the Olympics so I was wondering whether I should just try my hand at the special S$8 million TOTO draw on the very day.

Who knows, maybe I will have more luck on my birthday than usual ^^;

Wishful thinking aside, I finally completed my Zeta Plus C1 Gundam model that I bought 3 years ago. Hurray!! XD

Yeah, that's right - the box was sitting in a corner of my wardrobe for 3 long years since I lugged it back from a hobby shop in HK. It was much cheaper there than the market price so I thought, Hey why not? At least I will just sell it for a profit back home..

Alas, the masters of procrastination got me as usual. That is, until now ^^;

I finally got my butt moving a few weeks ago after some prodding from Via and I was pretty free anyway so I decided to give it a shot.

I don't usually paint my gundams - just the usual snap-fitting of parts and posing the final mecha in my cupboard so they don't really look as good as they should.

This time around I decided to do the Zeta a bit more justice, but an air compressor is still way out of my league so I settled for spray cans instead. They weren't too cheap though ^^;

(1 can of dark grey + 1 can of light grey + 1 can of Top Coat = S$25+)

Following the guide from dannychoo, I sprayed the runners out of the box without snipping anything off. I'd say this method sure saves a lot of time and was pretty fun to boot, other than the fact I messed up the first runner by spraying too close ^^;

However, I found out later that for some reason the parts are much more difficult to put together than usual, probably because of an extra coat of paint on the connectors, and that resulted in some really sore fingers during assembly -_-"

That, as well as the nip marks which were really obvious in some places but I ran out of paint to spray over them -_-"

Made a few mistakes along the way as usual such as screwing up the inking, missing out on a tiny part and having 2 left legs(!) at one point in time, but all's well ends well I guess.

In addition to painting, I decided to try my hand at the etching of logos as well since I never really knew how to before I read the guide.

I kinda messed up lots of times but luckily there were lots of spares ^^;

But seriously, etching is real difficult. The closest I got was 2 fine cracks in a logo and that was it. The really bad ones I attribute to wear and tear during battle ^^;

However, I do admit it makes the Zeta look more kickass along with the painting.

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with the final outcome and it's now sitting proudly in my cupboard :)

Oh, and did I forget to mention that I bought two models from HK? The other one's a Nu-Gundam, which is probably bigger and more complex judging from the box size and price.

Another time and day perhaps? ^^;

There's a bunch of new pages from my sketchbook. I can't sleep, so I spend most of my waking hours doodling and practicing different inking techniques. I've been trying out different brands and styles of pens and inks to figure out what can be accomplished with what. My favorite thing is to try to mimic different textures using inking techniques. Today I bought some color ink pens; I'm excited about the idea of adding color to my pieces using something besides paints. (I'm more than a little scatterbrained about sticking to one medium...)
My big complaint is I had to invest in a desktop/tabletop easel in addition to my recent investment in a standing easel. I stand up while I paint because I like to get my face so close to the canvas; it's just easier on a person's back to stand. Now that I can't stand up I have to sit and paint. The quality of the detail has deteriorated, but for now, I'm just very happy to be home and able to work on things at all.

I'll allow myself one paragraph to gripe about my surgery: So far I'm happy that I had the gallbladder removal surgery despite all of the recovery time required. I've had two complications that sent me to the ER post-surgery; uncontrollable vomiting one night (sent home), inability to breathe properly the next day (this time a 3 day hospital stay). I'm being extremely careful with my diet and exertions so I don't end up back there again. I want to be able to paint, not just work on sketchbook doodles! So I can barely digest my food, barely walk, can't breathe well... Even now I still have other health issues to take care of once I recover from surgery. I hope I handle university okay this semester. Summer is far, far too short this year.

There's a section, the all important 'freebies' section, that many people frequent in the hope that someone might be giving away that old Ferrari they've had knocking about in their garage for ages, or a dusty gold bullion that frankly looks rubbish with the new curtains. What they find instead is free manure, a broken fridge and a massive collection of pornographic playing cards from the 1970's.

Among the broken fridges and free manure, I placed an ad offering free pictures of anything. I did this initially to combat the boredom of working in an office. I love drawing more than anything in the world, so it made sense to do something that cheered me up, cheered others up, and didn't give me the same brand of office related boredom that caused me to make sculpture, out of  pear, in my lunch box. Every day.

It started as fun, but later became much more meaningful. People would ask me to draw their dreams, their grandchildren, my interpretation of blindness, even spatchcock chickens raving with monkeys. On the moon.

From the calm to the outright crazy, I found peoples requests a tiny insight into peoples lives. It let me see a spontaneous side to everybody. I've been searching for a worthwhile project for a long time. I have hundreds of comic ideas that never met paper, and thousands of sketches that never became a finished piece.

Doing this has not just taught me to finish what I started, it's found me, at long last, a worthwhile project.

Every request email will be posted, and the picture will shortly follow. I'll also post up the odd drawing or comic I did in between drawing said requests.

So click through, enjoy the pictures, and I hope you enjoy reading as much as I have drawing. If you want to leave any comments at all, I'd love to hear from you.

Have a great day!

Paul

PS: If you're reading this in August, you might want to bookmark this and hang back a while. The blog will look awesome very, very soon.

PPS: Every artist has his muse, and mine is called Lynne. Without her this wouldn't have made it to cyberspace. Thanks Lynnie :)

I recognized this sketch as soon as I saw it. If you go check out the blog, you will see that this sketch is the cute, cute page that Janelle Richmond did as a guest designer for us at the Paper-Playground kit site. You all may remember that I posted her adorable page earlier on my blog. I loved that design then, and have loved having the chance to play with it myself now.

I used this vintage clip from Crafty Secrets as the starting block for this card. I have had a whole booklet of these in my stash for a couple of years and have only used a few. I just fell in love with this beachy one immediately. Even though we are in school right now (bleck), I dream of long, blissful days on the beach. It is summertime, after all. All the papers used in this are from My Mind's Eye. The greeting and sub-greeting are cardstock stickers from Making Memories. I also used just a little bit of organdy ribbon and inked all the edges just to further enhance the aged look. Ohhhh.........to be at the beach right now!

Have a wonderful day!

first up is a birthday card using the LETTER WORDS stamp set...

*black border is just so this white card doesn't get lost on the page!

supplies:

MSE : letter words stamp set

Clearsnap:  ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – lime pastel

Reminisce: Signature Series – Caribbean

Heidi Swapp: chipboard letters

EK Success: 3D Dots

white, lime, aqua and yellow cardstock

directions:

1) make card from 5X10 piece of white cardstock

2) adhere 2” X 5” piece of striped paper to card

3) adhere 4” X 4” piece of lime cardstock to card

4) adhere 1 ½” X 5” piece of aqua cardstock to card

5) stamp “birthday” using lime ink on 2” X 3” piece of white cardstock

6) cut flame from yellow cardstock and glue on top of “b”

7) adhere stamped piece to card using 3D dots

8) adhere chipboard letters

next is a get well card which uses the WORD BLOCKS stamp set...

supplies:

MSE : word blocks stamp set

Clearsnap:  ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – yellow citrus, charcoal and amber clay and Crafter’s  Ink – black

We R Memory Keepers: Frenzy - Rapture

American Crafts: Thickers  – giftbox

EK Success: 3D Dots

white, lime, aqua and yellow cardstock

directions:

1) make card from 5 ½” X 8 ½” piece of aqua cardstock

2) ink edges of 4” X 4” piece of striped paper using amber clay ink, then adhere to card

3) adhere 1 ¼” X 5 ¾” piece of lime cardstock to card

4) ink edges and lightly tint a piece of a 1” X 6” piece of white cardstock using yellow citrus ink, then stamp with “get well” stamp and black ink; adhere to lime strip

5) stamp “get well” in black ink on a piece of yellow cardstock; then cut out “get well soon”, “get well” and “feel better”;  ink edges of pieces using charcoal ink and adhere to card using 3D dots.

8) adhere chipboard letters

and lastly... here's a 6X6 page - "suitable for framing" featuring the FAMILY GROWS stamp set...

supplies:

MSE : family grows stamp set

Clearsnap:  ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink – amber clay and Ancient Page Ink – sienna

Daisy Bucket: Garden Gate – bellflower and evening primrose printed papers

Sakura: Stardust Glaze Pens – copper star, sky star, golden star and Glaze Pen - black

EK Success: 3D Dots

Making Memories: velvet ribbon

white cardstock

directions:

---ink edges of all papers and cardstock using amber clay chalk ink

1) make page from 6X6 piece of white cardstock

2) adhere 4 ½” X 5 ½” piece of bellflower printed paper to layout

3) adhere photo to layout

4) adhere a 1” X 6” strip of evening primrose printed paper to layout, slightly overlapping right edge of photo.

5) adhere ribbon to layout

6) stamp “even if they are sleeping” stamp on white cardstock using sienna ink. color in bird, and stars using glaze pens. cut out stamp, and adhere to card using 3D dots

hope these inspire you to create something fun!

p.s.: thanks judy for the precious photo of your grandbabies - grant and riley!

p.s.s.: no - i have no idea why the last steps in the first two sets of directions are "numbered" as smiley faces! LOL! they were show up as the correct NUMBERS in ms word, they look like NUMBERS when i go to edit - but they are showing up on the post as smiley faces - so since i can't seem to fix 'em,  i'm leaving 'em! LOL! 

Well, since I've started drawing, I decided to redo it, only hand drawing and inking it in Manga Studio.
Here's some work in progress shots.

hope you like it, and i hope that somebody that wants to buy it likes it haha.

-V

So that means I can share my page for the Random Chaos challenge blog. This week's challenge is to use shaped cardstock or patterned paper anywhere on your layout. With all the great scalloped and die-cut papers out there, this was a fun and easy challenge to do.

All the patterned paper on this came from a 8x8 specialty paper pack that Making Memories made exclusively for Archivers. The colors in this pack PERFECTLY matched my daughter's funky swimsuit. I've held onto this photo for years waiting for just the right stuff. The felt alphabet is from Creative Imaginations and the letter stickers are American Crafts that I lightly inked to match. The trim is from Fancy Pants, and the buttons are Foofala. I cut the felt fishies from craft store felt and hand stitched some "waves". And lastly, there are a couple of transparency swirls from Hambly.

This picture of Nik just makes me want to sigh.

Sigh........

This was her first trip to the ocean. Look at those pudgy little legs. How come they grow up so fast?

Have a great night!

Page Rough - Done in a crappy sketchbook, usually 2 to a page.

Pencil - Done on regular Bristol Board 11x17 with a 2H pencil.

Ink - I use regular India Ink with a #2 Round Brush almost exclusively.

For me, Inking is the most tedious part but it is also the step that adds the real soul of the page. There is just something about lines from a brush that you can't get with any type of pen. Brush strokes are dynamic, organic, and alive. From beginning to end this page took me somewhere around 9 hours to draw. I am still a little slow.