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!
Hello!
New stuff here, nothing much to say about them though. These were fairly quick edits I did during my downtime while my kids are asleep.
New stuff here, nothing much to say about them though. These were fairly quick edits I did during my downtime while my kids are asleep.
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| Fragility |
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| Fragility closeup 01 |
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| Fragility closeup 02 |
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| Second Sight |
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| Second Sight closeup 01 |
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| Second Sight closeup 02 |
Hello!
Long time no post, I've been on the fence on whether or not this blog should still be alive. Keeping up a consistent online presence has always been somewhat of a challenge to me, I've thought about migrating this blog into a proper website, or just removing everything and just sticking to Instagram. But then someone on Pinterest had pinned my artworks via this blog and now I cant bring myself to delete it. :)
So at the end of the day I'll keep this place alive for the lovely people who find joy in what I do. <3 Sorry for the lack of posts, I hope to change that.
So without further ado, here's a new post after 5 months of mulling!
Long time no post, I've been on the fence on whether or not this blog should still be alive. Keeping up a consistent online presence has always been somewhat of a challenge to me, I've thought about migrating this blog into a proper website, or just removing everything and just sticking to Instagram. But then someone on Pinterest had pinned my artworks via this blog and now I cant bring myself to delete it. :)
So at the end of the day I'll keep this place alive for the lovely people who find joy in what I do. <3 Sorry for the lack of posts, I hope to change that.
So without further ado, here's a new post after 5 months of mulling!
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| Luna |
Yay something new after a while! Interpret it how you will. I cant say I had a set plan or message for this piece, most of the time my mind is blanked out and I let whatever instinct take over the process and the outcome.
Submitted for Aurora's tour poster competition via talenthouse.
The competition was love at first sight, I havent heard of the singer before then. But seeing her visual aesthetics and listening to her music gave me the rush of inspiration I've been lacking with for the past couple of months.
The competition's rules prevents me from using 3rd party images, so i took it as a challenge to illustrate instead of my usual digital-imaging. Unlike the regular illustration approach, I'd draw in all the parts separately and piece them together like a collage, The background image was a scanned image of mixed-media collage made from news-clippings.
The competition was love at first sight, I havent heard of the singer before then. But seeing her visual aesthetics and listening to her music gave me the rush of inspiration I've been lacking with for the past couple of months.
The competition's rules prevents me from using 3rd party images, so i took it as a challenge to illustrate instead of my usual digital-imaging. Unlike the regular illustration approach, I'd draw in all the parts separately and piece them together like a collage, The background image was a scanned image of mixed-media collage made from news-clippings.
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| Original artwork |
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| Poster Layout |
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| Closeup 03 |
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| Closeup 02 |
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| Closeup 03 |
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| Closeup 04 |
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| Step-by-step |
This was created during one of those nights where I had difficulty sleeping. I've always mused about the idea of a adding eyes on other parts of the body. This little midnight quickie was done with an old technique I'd do during my teenage-years of using grungy brushes and scribbles, its much less refined than what I'm used to nowadays. I still feel like this piece is unfinished but I cant think of anything else to add to it. Who knows, I'll come back and rework this again one day.
FYI this image was named "headache lor" before properly naming it :3
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| The Seer |
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| Details |
FYI this image was named "headache lor" before properly naming it :3
Hola, looks like I can't get over my lazy bloggin habits! Well in this case I've retreated into the mountains in Palopo and internet is pretty much rarity. I'll be here for a couple of months, we'll see :P
I love being away from civilisation and well Bali is becoming a tad overcrowded.
Anyhoo the lack of internet distractions and people can be quite inspiring!
Here's a little edit quickie:
I love being away from civilisation and well Bali is becoming a tad overcrowded.
Anyhoo the lack of internet distractions and people can be quite inspiring!
Here's a little edit quickie:
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| Can you keep a secret? |
Latest piece called "Dreams" I've been wanting to do this kind of spiral imagery for a while ever since i read 'Uzumaki' by Junji Ito, but a more positive visual and much less creepier than the comic.
Will post a step-by-step tutorial for this later on!
Closeups
Inspired by Alberto Seveso. Been trying to figure out how he does his photoshop collages for ages... Now that I sorta figured it out I can move on to other things
Model: Thibaud (FAUVE Agency)
Model: Thibaud (FAUVE Agency)
This is an old photoshoot circa November 2010, I wanted to attempt to do a "Fashion Photoshoot". But seeing as resources were EXTREMELY LIMITED it took a lot of planning and practice to pull it off.
First off I don't even have a model, the only person in the vicinity was my sister, but fortunately she also has a wardrobe full of harajuku-goth-outfits which made styling a lot more fun to plan! Like wise we've got a bunch of obnoxiously-antique looking items around the house... I mean why we even have a candelabra is beyond me, I'm just blessed to have all kinds of junk lying around. As for make up, well it took me a couple days/weeks studying Michelle Phan's videos and practicing it before actually applying it to my sis... then again I'll admit photoshop helped me big time afterwards...
So now all that is done it was time to shoot!
Back when I've just discovered how to manipulate lighting. This being pretty much my first time actually doing up a proper so-called studio shoot. But really its hardly a studio, this was shot in my bedroom, with a crappy DIY backdrop (that required heck of a lot of editing to clean up) and my lighting was only Canon Speedlite 580EX II, bounced off a large white board that happened to be lying around in my sister's room (yeah we have all kinds of junk!)
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| Pre-planning sketches deciding on make-up, wardrobe and possible poses |
Yep that's pretty much how it turned up... Shot with a Canon 7D and Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens. I know most people advise against using wide angle lenses to shoot people, however this lens helped elongate my sister's otherwise normal legs and make her look somewhat model-esque ;)
