LOST & FOUND

I found an excellent animation work named "Lost & Found"! Simply love the colours and artworks of this animation. Here's the trailer!

MY FIRST PRINT BY MALL

It's our fourth anniversary today and I got my first print by Mall from my guy as an anniversary gift! Well, she one of the very best illustrator & photographer that I idolize and her works were really great!! I can never paint like her... Maybe I can but many many years later with many many practice? Simply love her works and the print quality looks like a real painting. I wish I could comission Mall one day but I've got to save up in order to do that.. poor student days~ I ♥ Mall!

ILLUSTRATION - A CHILD'S WISH

6 June 2011 / Ink + Digital

A Child's Wish was created in year 2010 but was yet to complete until recently! Ink hatching was used for the branches and I tried a new perspective which was different from the usual drawings.

I've decided recently to create a series of trees related drawings and hopefully one day all of them can come together into a gallery. That's a BIG wish I have. The project shall be named "Dreams of Trees" and in chinese it will be called 《夢語·樹》, which is deeply inspired from my recent Taiwan trip when I found chinese could be interestingly short but deep with meanings. The characters of the words were traditional writings which I thought were beautiful as a form. The direct translation of the title in Chinese would be "Dream Languages of Trees" which have the similar pronunciation to "Dreams and Trees" in chinese.

T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR THE STUDIO LOFT

This is the first project that I'm working on for my internship with The Studio Loft! They are preparing a t-shirt for a local Motherhood Fair in Expo and this will be the t-shirt that we will be wearing to represent ourselves as The Studio Loft~ Photo Credit from The Studio Loft.

THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT 2012

I've received my Sketchbook! The year 2011 will be an exciting year to keep a record on, as I will be travelling further west than the usual Kuala Lumpur Malaysia! It will be my "first" time on the plane (as clear memory), the last time was almost 10 years ago and the destination was actually KL. (- -")

Basically, I am looking forward to 3 travelling experience this year, study trip to Taipei, Taiwan, 4th Anniversary Trip to Kulai, Malaysia by Train for Horse Riding (it's my first time taking a train to Malaysia) and Egham, London to visit my dear boy as he will be there for studies starting this September!

Now I'm thinking how should I do it. Should I do a watercolour sketches on the stuff and places I've seen on my trip overseas? Or write a fantasy-like travelling story by linking up Taiwan, Kulai and London in a narrative form..? Hmmmm... I'm excited!!

MOLESKIN SKETCHES - SHIRE HORSES

Recently, I've bought my first Moleskin Sketchbook! My best polymate and I decided to give each other a year to fill up this sketchbook and comeback to see what we have in May 2012! That above is my second sketch, inspired from the Shire Horses! Well, I fell in love with these horses when I first saw them! They are huge and handsome with really nice hooves there~ I seriously hope to see the real ones in future.

PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO

Recently, I did a portfolio for my internship job application at a photography studio. I read this a few months ago which triggered me to do a portfolio that was different from my past doings..

"I am always shocked when I meet illustrators to review their portfolio by how easy it is to tell the student from seasoned professional (hint: the student has an over sized portfolio with original art and no websites; the pro has a small custom-made book with clean printouts and a functional site)." - How to be an Illustrator