I've decided to give Youtube a shot, posting a timelapse video on a weekly basis. The above is my first attempt at a timelapse video. Like and subscribe thanks!
New works up! wasnt sure what was gonna come out of it actually. I
started with the CARAMEL piece, which was a zoomed out image with her
shoulders and torso, but I got stuck halfway not sure how to finish it
so I cut her up and made CHALICE. After a while I zoomed in and realised
she looked better composition-wise as a closeup face :)
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| CHALICE |
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| CARAMEL |
Hola Hola! I've been experimenting with different brushes while trying to discover a variety of digital painting techniques. Dragonfly was done primarily with one soft brush, and separate brush for the hair details. While Butterfly was done with a whole range of textured brushes and stuff. Personally I'm preferring the softer look in Dragonfly. Less in more I guess.
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| Dragonfly |
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| Soft shading style |
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| Butterfly |
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| Hard edges & texures |
Editorial spread for Issue 12 of FAUVE Magazine
No idea what possessed me to try and "flood" an entire room, probably because of the challenge involved, I find it hard to appreciate my works unless it took a great deal of difficulty to create. This series took me an entire month of post production! But for what it's worth, I believe I've just shot one of my favourite editorial so far.
Photography: Rachel Mantiri
Art Direction: Rachel Mantiri & Fauve
Hair & Make-up: Yeanne & Team
Styling: Fauve
Model: Yulia for FAUVE Agency
No idea what possessed me to try and "flood" an entire room, probably because of the challenge involved, I find it hard to appreciate my works unless it took a great deal of difficulty to create. This series took me an entire month of post production! But for what it's worth, I believe I've just shot one of my favourite editorial so far.
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Art Direction: Rachel Mantiri & Fauve
Hair & Make-up: Yeanne & Team
Styling: Fauve
Model: Yulia for FAUVE Agency
Here's an old photoshoot I did, altered with new editing! I did these series up for my book which I have yet to print :/ Its so costly I've been contemplating doing a smaller series of books or even a set of postcards & posters instead... *sigh* budget
Photography & Digital Imaging: Rachel Mantiri
Styling: Josiah Chua
Model: Elycia Lim
Outfits: Mae Pang, Stylist's own
Photography & Digital Imaging: Rachel Mantiri
Styling: Josiah Chua
Model: Elycia Lim
Outfits: Mae Pang, Stylist's own
A while back I had an offer to print an artbook in order to promote a newly opened printing service. They requested 152 pages of artworks, which is pretty much gave me a heart-breaking revelation: That I dont have 152 pages worth of artworks!!!!
What the heck was I doing all these years? Have I been slaving to clients that I dont even have enough artworks I could proudly present as "my own"?
Tragic.
So I ended up in a situation where I will do nothing else but create! My deadline to submit "152" pages was in 3 days since my offer... Sounds impossible but It had to be done for my sanity's sake.
Fortunately for me I got another 2 days extension to work things out... I had to keep churning out new artworks and expanding on some old ones within the short timeframe. 3/5 days I kept wanting to give up, but thankfully I've gotten a lotta push and support from the people around me.
In the end, having to create 20 new pieces in 5 days is ridiculous... So eventually I negotiated to reduce my page count to around 96.
Voila! I have my very own artbook! with plenty of new works to upload on this blog :)
here's the cover artwork
What the heck was I doing all these years? Have I been slaving to clients that I dont even have enough artworks I could proudly present as "my own"?
Tragic.
So I ended up in a situation where I will do nothing else but create! My deadline to submit "152" pages was in 3 days since my offer... Sounds impossible but It had to be done for my sanity's sake.
Fortunately for me I got another 2 days extension to work things out... I had to keep churning out new artworks and expanding on some old ones within the short timeframe. 3/5 days I kept wanting to give up, but thankfully I've gotten a lotta push and support from the people around me.
In the end, having to create 20 new pieces in 5 days is ridiculous... So eventually I negotiated to reduce my page count to around 96.
Voila! I have my very own artbook! with plenty of new works to upload on this blog :)
here's the cover artwork
Booyah! another FAUVE Shoot. I gotta admit the conditions were less-than-perfect, My strobe lights mysteriously stopped working and i forgot my cables, therefore leaving me with an external flash unit. Which is not a problem except that the batteries were running out. It's almost like I had to make every shot count, which in turn slowed down this photoshoot! To top it all off it was scorching hot!
Well nature is nature, in the end I got some shots :D add a bit of re-touching and VOILA here's the results from "Love Is The New Black"
Photography: Rachel Mantiri
Art Direction & Make-Up: Juhenry
Styling: Ozlem Esen
Hair: Tini for Yeanne & Team
Model: Ozlem & Aby
Poem by Mark Stephen O’Neill
Well nature is nature, in the end I got some shots :D add a bit of re-touching and VOILA here's the results from "Love Is The New Black"
Photography: Rachel Mantiri
Art Direction & Make-Up: Juhenry
Styling: Ozlem Esen
Hair: Tini for Yeanne & Team
Model: Ozlem & Aby
Poem by Mark Stephen O’Neill
