C.M.O.S: Foxtrot Oscar Mike...

Tools

Characters and background individually drawn. Merged together with basic shading and rendering effects using Photoshop 6.0.

About

Although Omega and Flint had vast experience in military contracts, their contracts are usually within the region with terrain they are familiar with.

Now they are all prep all and conducting a final mission briefing before they embark on their first overseas military contract. Although it is just a simple recce and patrol mission, they lack local knowledge on the terrain and people.....And they are pretty nervous.

Year

Mid Oct 2010 to Early Nov 2010

eXpressions

Due to my busy work schedule, I didn't have time to sit down and complete the drawing at 1 go. I split into 3 milestones.

1st milestone is to draw a full figure Flint complete with full gears and weapons. Spending little spare time I took 1 week to complete.

The 2nd milestone is Omega with her full gear. I too spend 1 week to complete her due to my work.

The final milestone is the background, which I took 1 hour to complete.

Merging the pictures took about another 1 hour. I haven't done such artwork for a long time....still hope to get it colour.

C.M.O.S: Omega Angel

Tools
Pencils Only

About
Omega Angel, a Combat Contractor for C.M.O.S.

Year
2009

eXpressions
This supposed to be a colored artwork which I was planning for my laptop's wallpaper, guessed I procastinated too long.

It's a more updated rendition of one of my oldest characters, "Omega Vengence". Whom I renamed it to "Omega Angel" to sound more convincing and less "superhero". Created in 1996, I was heavily influenced by Image comics' "Gen 13" and "WildC.A.T.s" series, as well as Yukito Kishiro's "Gunnm" series (known as Battle Angel Alita in USA)

Omega was initially a member of the highly coverted S.O.V. team of bounty hunters. After the team split, Omega continued her days as a paid vigilante. In the C.M.O.S. series, she eventually teamed up with a fellow bounty hunter called "Flint", whom later became her love-interest.

CMOS is actually a kind of semiconductor commonly found in digital cameras. I actually learned this during my Polytechnic days and thought it's a cool name for a comic title. For the past 10 years, I created C.M.O.S with the meaning of "Cyber Mercenaries Onset Service" as Omega and Flint take up jobs via an online Mercenary Guild. During 1996 Internet in Singapore is at it's infancy and the word "Cyber" is like damn cool!

After 10 years, I decided to revamp C.M.O.S. to be more matured and convincing. The word "Mercenary" is something most do not want to be associated with. Instead they are now called "Contractors". Now C.M.O.S stands for "Civilian Military Operations Services" where Omega and Flint takes on both Military and Civilian "contracts" legally as Combat contractors.

Combat Contractors of the 21st century are bounded by a different set of Geneva conventions crafted after the Terror War. They are now required to wear the tag "Contractor" during their military operations.

For military contracts, Combat Contractors are not subjected to protection from interrogation and cannot be considered as POW. However, they are required to receive fair medical treatment and are to be treated humanely if captured.

For civilian contracts, Combat contractors are not sanctioned by the authorities and can be arrested and sentenced without trial if their operations is deemed as a major threat to the general public.

Weapon Talk: SR-98P PARAcarbine

Tools
Pencils with help from the ruler

About
Weapon from the "C.M.O.S" Universe. The SR-98P PARA-Carbine. A unique weapon that is effective in both air and underwater.

Before the Global Terror War, Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS) developed the SR-88 assault rifle meant for export, however the rifle was not very successful in sales. Subsequently, CIS was bought over by ST Kinetics and the SR-88 ceased production.

After the war, TT Kinetics (Rename from ST Kinetic) released most of it's old rifle patents and designs, including the SR-88, to open market as it deemed the designs obsolete and have reached it's "end of lifecycle". Various emerging firearms manufacturer adopted the SR-88's design in their product.

Based on combat experiences gathered from the war and a need for a fully functional underwater assault rifle, a Singaporean independant firearms Manufacturer, Combat Innovation Standards Pte Ltd (ironically AKA CIS), bought the SR-88 blueprints to work on a prototype.

In barely 2 years, a working prototype, codenamed "Harpoon-S", was announed to the market and the final product, renamed as SR-98, when into production the following year.

The SR-98 operates basically like any other rifles in the market. It's based on the close-bolt action. The only innovation is that it chassis, magazines and barrels are completely water-tight with "Submerging Integrated Liquid Lid" (S.I.L.L) waterproof component that allow a S.I.L.L. compressed gas nip to be fitted. This allows the rifle to be fired underwater up to the depth of around 3 meters. Each S.I.L.L. gas nip can be use for a magazine of 30 rounds.
S.I.L.L. technology is patented in UA, EUS and Trancel City.

The "P" Variant PARA-Carbine is configured for light-weight airborne/seaborne operations with a foldable and extendable stock and integrated Picatinny Rails for Tactical customizations.

SR-98P PARAcarbine
Designed year: 2029
Manufacturer: Combat Innovation Standard Pte Ltd (new CIS)
Weight unloaded: 2.9kg
Weight loaded(30 rounds with S.I.L.L. apparatus): 4.7kg
Barrel Length: 450mm
Total Length with stock extended: 950mm
Cartridge: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Close rotating bolt
Rate of Fire: 600 rds/min(standard), 180rds/min(underwater)
Muzzle Velocity: 700m/s(standard), 299m/s(underwater)
Effective Range: 500m(standard), 20m (underwater)
Feed system: 30 rounds S.I.L.L. STANAG
Sights: Aftermarket sights with Backup iron sights.

Year
Oct 2010

eXpressions
Designed this weapon during NS times in 1998 or 1999. During that time I had a big fasination on Singapore-made weapons like the Ultimax 100, SAR-80 and SR-88B. SR-88 was pretty low-profile as SAF did not adopt the weapon. It's meant for export.

With rumors of a new weapon in the works as SAF's standard issue, I begin to speculate how the weapon might looked like. Banging on my knowledge on the Israeli Galil Assault rifle, I fused the Galil and SR-88 together to form a new hyrid called SR-98.

The waterproofing part is only though off after I decided to make this the main medium-sized weapon for my "C.M.O.S" female protagonist, Omega!

It's only a year later I realise the new weapon is indeed the SAR-21 bullpup rifle, a total different philosophy from my conventional "SR-98" look.

More sketchs of Characters and weapons coming up for "C.M.O.S."

Weapon Talk: LM-12B

Tools
Pencils only, and of course, with ruler

About
Weapon from the "C.M.O.S" Universe. The LM-12B Tactical Assault Rifle. A Standard issue of the UA Army after the war.

The LM-12 is the standard Weapon used by the UA Army since the end of Global "Terror War". The original design, based on the bullpup configuration, is innovated by reowned firearms designer Nikolai Korzhukov. The LM-12's design managed to keep most of the operating functions similar to the war-proven AR15 and M16 rifles which most UA soldiers are familiar with.

It was further enhanced and modified by it's mass manufacturer, United Arms Agency Inc, to cater for both advanced military and civilian needs.

LM-12 features the NATO k.V. box magazine that is known for is versatility. It's rotating buldge tip enables the magazine to be attached to the weapon at any angle, reducing reloading times and magazine/ammunition damage/jamming during the heat of the battle. Due to the unique design, the k.V. box magazine is also capable of holding up to 50 rounds of standard NATO 5.56mm ammunition. Currently, Magazines payloads are available in 50 rounds, 40 rounds and 25 rounds for civilian use.

The LM-12 is compatibility with plug-in I.O.N. booster adapters for increased rate of fire and range without replacing a delicated barrel or bolt carrier assembly. However the barrel's heating threshold will exceed after 3 full Magazine of continuous firing and the weapon's thermo fail-safe mechanism will lock the trigger until the barrel cools down below threshold. The mechanism can, however, be overwritten with a add-on module.

The LM-12 is also fully ambidextrous with no external parts swapping needed. The weapon can be easily switched by re-assembling the weapon and switching the positions of it's internal components

The LM-12 "B" variant includes an integrated Picatinny rails with P.R.I.C.K interfaces ports for tactical flexibility with the latest weapons attachments.

Designer: Nikolai Korzhukov
Designed year: 2026
Manufacturer: United Arms Agency Inc
Weight unloaded: 3.5kg
Weight loaded(50 rounds): 5.1kg
Barrel Length: 500mm
Total Length: 750-800mm
Cartridge: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Close rotating bolt
Rate of Fire: 700 rds/min(standard), 1300rds/min(I.O.N. booster)
Muzzle Velocity: 750m/s(standard), 1300m/s(I.O.N. booster)
Effective Range: 500m(standard), 950m (I.O.N. booster)
Feed system: k.V. box Magazine, 25/40/50 rounds
Sights: Aftermarket sights with Backup iron sights.

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
Designed this weapon during NS times in 1999 or 2000. Was inspired by the SAR-21 and AUG-77 then. This weapon was the main weapon used the male protagonist in my "C.M.O.S." Series.

Since then, firearms evolve a little to accomodate customized add-ons, so I updated my weapon to go with the trend and added a little FN F2000 elements to it. Quite happy with the outcome.

More sketchs of Characters and weapons coming up for "C.M.O.S."

Cashcards for Colt Turbo Forum SG

Tools
Digitally traced image of the car from speedhunters.com using Photoshop 6.0. and the mouse (lazy to connect tablet)

About
CTFSG's cashcard (unofficial)

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
One of the member of CTFSG seeked my help to redesign the CTFSG logo for the cashcard. I took a step further to recreate the whole CTFSG banner logo since the forum was moved to a new host.

This traced Colt looks to be more "3D" compare to my first attempt (Thanks to speedhunters.com for the source). The design is fortunately quite well received with orders from 18 members (considering it's small members base).

If you own a Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R or all of it's variants, do Visit CTFSG at it's new location at http://ctfsg.signorekai.com/index.php

Traced from the image found in speedhunters.com

Hocus Pocus

Tools

Only Pencils

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About

Let's give a round of applause to ..... Hocus pocus!!

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Year

Oct 2010.

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eXpressions

Meet Hocus, The undermentioned sidekick of pocus! My 90s design for Hocus is a oversize chubby-looking clown, but I grew to hate it so much I ditch the sidekick and let pocus go solo...This actually suits her more as she doesn't seem to be the team playing type.

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Now I try to revive Hocus, but in a different way. Hocus now is only a mere marionette! Another split personality of pocus. And pocus' not even a ventriloquist!

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After a hectic week, took some time off to continue my momentum. Funny thing is when things are relaxed I'm too lazy to draw and now I can barely breath from all my outstanding stuff from office and I'm drawing. I guess it's my way of escape and de-stress. Wondering how long I can keep up before work consume all of it.

I'm sorry, I won't do it again...

Tools
Only Pencils

About
"I'm sorry! I will not fail again! I promise! Please don't hurt me....pleeeese.." - pocus

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
What is suppose to be a flashback idea became a reality on paper. Another artwork while wait for my wife to knock from overtime. If this carries on, I can do a full art book. Wasn't fully satisfied with this piece, the background is actually not nessesary and now it looks so amatuerish...

Still not bored on pocus, I decided to explore her youth at 13 to 14 years old, where she seek refuge in a performance troupe to escape her abusive uncle.

But life was tough for her as she was chosen to be an acrobatic jester. She was often abused and punished by her trainer for any mistakes and failures. In here she almost suffer mental breakdown due to the tough training.

But all this is fated, for this is also the very place she learned acrobatic skills that will aid she in she hired jobs in the future.

I love crazy blanket-parties....

Tools
Only Pencils

About
"Call me a psycho I don't fucking care, I just love blanket parties..." - pocus

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
Still fueled by the sketch from Sunday, I decided to do another one last night while wait for my wife to knock from her overtime. After this I'm totally maxed out.

This is pocus during covering her "dirty act" under the sheets. pocus have a tendancy to go on a "killing spree" once awhile even if it's not her hired job..She seemed to have something for leching rapists or those who sexually abuse their own kids or relatives....

She like how they scream in fear and pain running from her...

I'm better known as "pocus"

Tools
Only Pencils

About
My real name is Christina or "Chris" in short, but I'm better known as "pocus"...

Year
Oct 2010.

eXpressions
A lazy sunday afternoon, I decided to pack my artworks and stuff and I flipped through my "pocus" filebook containing all the old artworks of the "pocus" character I did from Polytechnic till more recent times (2008?) Except for those "recent" sketches, I realised most of the artwork of "pocus" are unrefined due to my infant skill during those times.

Funny bcos "pocus" is suppose to be my internet monikor yet I neglected her the most. Inspired, I decided to recreate "pocus" in my current idea of how she should be like during those days. Based on the costume I did for her from this entry, I refined her looks.

Hope to create more "pocus" artworks in coming days (if time permits)

House of Totoro - The Final

Tools
NEC Projector (Countesy of my project Admin), pencil for outlining, 8 tins of various colored emulsion paint from either Nippon, ICI or Colorland, brushes of various size, thinners and cloths used typically for painting.

About
The final drawing of the Totoro creatures for our "feature wall".

Year
August 2010.

eXpressions
After various sketches and discussion my wife, we finalized the design on paper. I borrowed the projector my of Office admin (Thanks SoSi!) and project the image on the wall while outlining with a pencil.

The rest is painting! Joining forces with my wife, we managed to complete the paint in 1 day, with minor touchups in subseqent days. This is my first major wall painting.

This is only part of our painting, wanna see the whole thing? First you must know us, then pay us a visit...We'll treat you nice homecooked meal! :)


The Totoro characters are Copyright and properties of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.

Busy Busy Busy...

Some updates, I finally moved to my new home, which explains my lack of updates for the past months. Plus the fact my work is picking up again, my lull period at work is officially over while I go from 750rpm to 6000rpm redline. (Actually already over a few months back).

Expect lesser and lesser update from my until my next lull period at end 2011.

House of Totoro

((Living Room - sketch 1)

(Living Room - sketch 2)
(Dining Room - Sketch 1)
(Dining Room - Sketch 2)
(Study Room)
(Drawing table cum lightbox)

Tools

Just sketched

About

Rough interior sketch my our home's desired design.

Year

April 2010

eXpressions

How to renovate and decorate our home interior has been a headache and major cause for our move-in plans.

After much fruitful discussion, we decided to create more of a comtemporary Japanese kind of theme with a touch of tradition sense. Much from the inspirations from one of our favorite anime, Totoro where the characters from modern Japan moved into a traditional japanese rice plantation village to recuperate and live a rural life.

Out of enthusiasm, I did my own research and did some rough sketches on our interior desired theme.

This is a basis of what we show to our interior designers so there will not have any miscommunications.

Eventful Malaysia Roadtrip (comicstrip)

Tools
Pencil-drawn, speech bubbles/effects and minor touchup from Photoshop 6.0.

About
Short Comic Strip about an eventful Malaysia roadtrip.

Year
May 2010

eXpressions
This story is told to me by my wife during one of her gatherings. I find it so amusing yet easy to put on paper. Took a break from my 30 page comic project to do a quick 3 page strip.

I could have used a more casual style to bring out the humor but I want to continue to practice on my actual style. The pages are drawn in a haste hence it's unrefined. Think I took 3 days, 3hours each day to complete.

Hope to do more of such short strips instead of 30pages "publishable" comic, this way I can see the end result faster and earlier.

Pinnacle Where?

Tools

Digitally drawn from Photoshop 6.0 via only the mouse.

About

A Pinnacle@Duxton Resident Tee-Shirt Design.

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Year

Feb 2010

eXpressions

I can't say I'm extremely proud to stay in The Pinnacle@Duxton, but it's just one of the things you get excited when you waited and finally got the keys! Though the excitment was already mellowed down by the super long 5 years wait.

This is just one of my experimental ideas of designing something like a localize "shout-loud" Tee-shirts. So I just taking advantage of the P@D to come out something cool.

It's not printed yet and I have no intention to sell this, nor that anyone will buy it.
More locallise "shout-loud" tee designs coming up soon!

New Masthead for Colt Turbo Forum SG

Tools
Digitally traced from image by www.nihoncar.com and painted in Photoshop 6.0 with thumbnails from Mitsubishi Motors website.

About
The new Colt Turbo Forum SG forum title.

Year
Mar 2010

eXpressions
The Colt Turbo Forum SG (CTFSG) sort of hit a stump in the late Feburary when the forum account suddenly expire. Reason probably due to expired account payment or admin inactivity. Just one night and all local Colt owners lost a place in the internet. Affords to negotiate with the original forum owner, who is now inactive and domant, was unsuccessful.

So the Moderators has no choice but to start a new forum service to bring back all the members. After 3 weeks the forum is in good shape with most active members coming back. But it is unfortunate that alot of the old information from the old forum was lost.

I was tasked(or volunteered) to redesign a new logo for CTFSG. Turns out quite ok and the mods accepted it.

Check it out on ctfsg.ipbfree.com

Swift Club Alumni

Tools
Digitally traced and painted in Photoshop 6.0

About
The Swift Club Singapore Alumni Decal

Year
Feb 2010

eXpressions
As some of the Swift Club members "graduated" and changed their rides, no doubt some of our still think back of the time we've through thick and thin with the swift. So some of the members suggested doing a Alumni "Decal" to identify us previous swift owner and Swift Club member.

This design is my submission. Not sure if it'll get chosen.

Katoots Kat.E

Tools
Sketched only

About
A proposed character called Kat.E of a now defunct Toy Collectors Forum "Katoots".

Year

2008

eXpressions
I was once deeply involved in a Toy Collectors Forum called "Katoots", Designed tonnes of characters and items for the forum to flourish. But sadly, a things come to an end.

Now I have some resentments for the Katoots founders, for some reasons I felt the management "played everyone out" and shut the forum out some to some mismanagement. Thinking back the whole episode is so immature. Anyway that's a rant for another time.

As much as I try to forget Katoots, I cannot bare to forget the creations I did. It's after all my hard work. If noone appreciates it fine, at least I do appreciate my own stuff instead of going into self-destruct mode and close the blog.

This "Kat.E" character is suppose to be some moderator robot for Katoots.

Kat.E is NOT copyright of Katoots. The character belongs to me.

Swift Club Singapore Polo Tee

Tools
Drawn and Inked, Scanned at 300DPI, Digitally painted with Photoshop 6.0 with Wacom Graphire

About
The Official Polo-Tee shirt for Swift Club Singapore.

eXpressions
The Swift Club Singapore is an online forum where owners of Suzuki Swift meets. End 2006 is the time and forum boomed and the club owners feels that we should design a Polo-tee where everyone can relate to the faternity.

As the forum includes members of both sexes who owns either the sedated Swift or the masculine Swift Sport, I had to incorporate both cars into the design. I also have to be careful not to "bengise" the whole design that stereotype Swift owners as chiogsters, who I combined the relaxed lifestyle of the Swift and the "need of speed" philosophy of the Swift Sport.

The shirt is excepted and when into production. Though I heard some of the Swift Sport owners found it too "cartoonish". They even designed their own Tee shirts with the oversized HKS logo at the back plus those samurai japanese words in the front, a typical "fierce" polo tees....

Oh well, as long as it satisfy their testosterone I really don't care. At least most of the general mainstream Swifters liked it.

TMNT imitation - I found my first Pixel Art!!

Tools
Using the mouse via Paintbrush of Windows 3.0 on my puny Intel 80386DX 33Mhz desktop with whooping 4MB RAM!!

About
"Teen Trained Tactical Tortoises" still actually my imitation of Kelvin Eastman's & Peter Laird's famous "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchise. It's supposed to be a darker and grittier version of the childish cartoon series. But alas I was young then and have no idea the comics were already very dark. Due to the childish nature of my imitated storyline, I try to forget that I ever thought them out.

I'll consider this as a tribute and fanart for TMNT.

eXpressions
MY FIRST PIXEL ART!!! Done in one of my sessions in Windows 3.0 where I discover their paintbrush software. I actually zoomed and planted the pixel 1 by 1 to form the artwork. Of course, I used my observations from the graphics of PC games so I roughly knew some of the tricks like different color tones to give windows the 3D effect.

During that time (between 1991 to 1994) paintbrush is like damn powerful already and comes bundled with Windows 3.0 running in just 640x480 resolution. And yes that time the artwork is almost fullscreen.

Due to the pixel nature of the artwork, I saved the artwork in lossless GIF format to preserve the pixels it's originally intended. JPEG tended to messed up pixels due to compression. Do zoom in to see the details :)

Sidewinders

Tools
Drawn, Scanned and Digitally combined with background photo sourced online.

About
The four buddies with their average machines caused quite a stir in the Singapore underground racing scene with their countless victories against cars and teams much more powerful than them.

Is this where skills of the driver matters the most?

eXpressions
Partly influenced by watching too much Initial D animes, playing Gran Turismo 4 and by my love for cars. My mind thought of a more realistic version of Initial D in Singapore context.

The story starts from a normal guy who get to own the one and only Limited edition Toyota Vios Turbo paralled imported from Thailand. There he was pitted against only raging machine only to surprise opponents with his sleeper cars.

Of course the rest story I thought out deals with more realistic issues of racing, including crashes, police chases and of course, ERP. Maybe I'll do the comic someday. But it's confirmed NOT LTA APPROVED. LOLz

This artwork took almost a day to complete, was done Jan 2010. It is my latest artwork.

Background photo copyright boerx from Panaramio.

Transformers Bumblebee Sport

Tools
Hasty speed-inked, Scanned and digitally speed-painted. Background and Swift Sport picture sourced online.

About
One of my favorite Transformers character (old-school Bumblebee) transforms into one of my favorite Car (Suzuki Swift Sport)

eXpressions
This is done in 2007 during the onset of the Transformers movie. It was the time where everyone is hyped up by the movie. I did this quick art with the intention to use it as my signature in the Swift Club Singapore forum but apparently the image is too big for a Signature.

This explain why I didn't do a proper inking and color in hasty, cos my initial plan is for the artwork be as small as possible....Oh well.

This Bumblebee's design is based on the rejected VW Bumblebee from the Binaltech/Alternators toyline. I figured why not replace the VW Beetle's classis with the Swift Sport. And voila, Bumblebee Sport!!

The Suzuki Swift Sport is one of my favorite car, it's an affordable hot hatch with a 1.6litre high reving 125horsepower engine mated with close gear ratios. With 0-100km/h in 8.9sec, it's not a pushover despite it's size. A car destined to be a Bumblebee alt mode. That destiny finally is fulfilled in the Alternity toyline in 2009.....but I still prefer my design.

"Bumblebee", "Transformers" and mentioned are property of Hasbro Inc and Takara/Tomy Co. Ltd
"Suzuki Swift Sport" is copyright of Suzuki Motors Co Ltd.
background was googled from the internet, copyright of it's respective owner.

S.O.V - Lingere edition

Tools
Pencils only

About
The S.O.V. Team poses only in their bra and panty!

eXpressions
S.O.V. (was called "Sisters of Vengeance" initially...*shrudders*) is one of my earliest creations. About a group of 3 female bounty hunters in a troubled future. Though it may sound cliche but hell I created S.O.V back in School 1995. It was a cool idea then.

During 1995, my drawing skill is at in infancy, the S.O.V. characters I drew then were simpler and less refine. It was great fun drawing them again in 2007, especially without their full gears and weapons and only in their underwears.

Meet Magdelene(left), Omega(middle) and Sigma(right). Don't worry, you'll get to see more of them in their full gears soon enough!

Allison of cutepet.org

Tools
Drawn, Scanned at 200DPI, Digitally painted with Photoshop 6.0 with Wacom Graphire

About
Fan Art of Allison from cutepet.org

eXpressions
Cutepet is one of the earliest Adult Hentai("Pervert" in Japanese) Website in the internet founded in 1999. It was one of my bookmarks even though it was a porn site. I had respect for any cartoon that uses it's own style and originality.

"Allison" was one of their Hentai characters and I find her innocent yet playful looks unique. I did a more decent version of Allison as a "gift art" for the website and had my artwork featured on their site for a short while.

Last check I'm surprise they are still around!! A real feat for a 11 year old site where many others have already closed down. For those curious about cutepet.org, it's a cartoon/anime porn site. Enter at your own risk.

"Allison" character is copyright of Studio Cute of cutepet.org.

BreadTalk Girl - my style

Tools
Pencil Drawn

About
The girl in BreadTalk outfit serving all the nice "buns"...hehe

eXpressions
I forgot when this was done, 2002 I think before I met my wife. Perhaps I was having a fetish for uniformed girls that time, cos I have no idea why I drew a BreadTalk girl. But I remembered that some thoughts of setting up a website full of Stereotypical girls in Singapore. Of course the website didn't make it.

The uniform is the old school BreadTalk uniform. I understand they've already changed their uniform to a different design.

"BreadTalk" and it's logo is copyright and registered trademark of BreadTalk Group Limited

Hand-drawn Christmas Gift Tags

Tools
Hand-drawn, inked and colored with color pencils.

About
Gift Tags for my colleagues during Christmas 2004

eXpressions
It was Christmas in 2004 and as a yearly practice, I'll buy little presents for my colleagues. With some ideas I decided to draw and personalise my gift tags to my colleagues.

I love my gift tags so much I scanned them before pasting them to the presents.

I wonder how many of my colleagues still keeps their gift tag. I knew one is lost as the Colleague opened the present and throw the wrapper into the gift, totally ignoring my tag...bummer!

Lyss, a Fan Art

Tools
Drawn and inked, scanned at 300dpi. Digitally painted with Photoshop 6.0. Background digitally painted using Wacom Grahpire tablet in Photoshop 6.

About
Lyss, Light of the Forest. This is a fantasy character created by Soo AKA "Dethray". I borrow his character to do a rendition using my style.

eXpressions
As you can see, it's done in 2001 after my service for the army ended. I join a USA-based art forum and surprisingly met a few fellow Singaporean artists (Dominic"Madscuzzy" and Soo"Dethray"). Dethray allow me to redraw his "Lyss" character as a form of a "fanart".

This artwork is also my experimental work. I was initially not statified with the background, so one day I decided to get myself a Wacom Graphire Tablet. As I started experimenting the tablet, I drew a full scale forest of trees and woods from the tablet. I was so excited and happy with my result that I decied to used first drawing as the background for the "Lyss" character.

As you can see the background's abit blur, that is delibrate to create a background effect, the original forest is much sharper and clearer.

The "Lyss" character and design is copyright 2001 Soo AKA Dethray.

pocus's Toy Gun

Tools
Drawn and inked, scanned at 100dpi in B/W mode. Digitally painted with MSpaint

About
pocus' Toy Gun for my 1st WebPage facelift.

eXpressions
This is done back in Polytechnic in 1996 even before i start using something called "Photoshop". During that time I always wanted to mimic those comic posters there the colors are so rich and the distinct tone shading that can only be associated with Japanese comic art.

I only use photoshop for webpage renders and haven't discovered layers, I stick to the old MSpaint to do digital painting using the mouse. It was hardwork and the work became grainy at the edges full of aliasing.

But looking back this is what make this digital art so retro...

Colt Turbo Forum Decal

Tools
Digitally mouse drawn and colored in Photoshop 6, vectorize using online vector convertors.

About
The Official Rear Window decal (vinyl sticker) of Colt Turbo Forum Singapore (CTFSG).

eXpressions
CTFSG is a local forum founded by a group of Colt Version R owners. It was a close-door forum with members that own at least one of the Colt Variants.

I was "arrowed" in late 2009 to help designed a decal for the forum. Of course the numbering decal was patented and pioneered by the Fit Jazz Club (FJC) but with links from one of the founders of FJC who happened to switch to the colt, we got their blessings to go ahead.

I did many designs, but this one made it to print. So if you see a Colt with a CTF no.99 sticker, do give me a wave.

There forever...

Tools
Pencil drawn, 300dpi scan, adjusted variations with Photoshop 6.

About
You fall, you hurt youself... but if you look back, You can be sure I will forever be there for you...

eXpressions
Very recent drawing from 2009 Christmas period. Delicated to my wife.

pocus bored

Tools
Pencil drawn, 300dpi scan raw without editing.

About
As her rested, she pondered the times when life was simple and good.

eXpressions
A mid 2008 attempt to re-design pocus and to brush up my long rusted drawing.... As you can see, it qualifies for failblog. I still can't believe I forgot about her boobs. Posting this make me feel like re-attempting to draw her again.

Who is "pocus"

Tools
Pencil drawn, 300dpi scan raw without editing.

About
"pocus" in it's more mature incarnation.

eXpressions
Done in 2000, this is one my attempts to draw a more serious and realistic looking character instead of the typical Japanese anime styles I was attempting to copy in the mid 90s.

As for this character, it's one of my first comic character. She goes by the name of "pocus" as a circus performer turned assassin. Long story just right for a comic! "pocus" became sort of my trademark as my internet identity goes by the nick "pocus" in many of the forums I frequent. In fact "pocus" is my first internet account's user ID!

My Version R

Tools
Pencil drawn, Inked with Sakura soft-nips, 300dpi scan, speed colored in Photoshop 6.0 with Wacom Graphire 3

About
My Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version R in it's cutest form. At 154 horsepower and 0-100km/h in 8 seconds, it's one of the fastest 1.5l car in Singapore. A properly tuned Colt Ralliart eats RX8s for breakfast and I'm very proud to own one.

eXpressions
Done in August 2009, my attempt to do a cartoon version of my car. Initially I was inspired of "Cars" and even added eyes and a mouth, but GOD it's too kiddy for me so I re-edited. This one appears as one of our couple shirts.

"Colt Ralliart Version R" Logo and likness are properties of Mitsubishi Motors Co Ltd.

Haylcon: Reloaded

Tools

Scanned at 300dpi, Scaled and enhanced variations with Photoshop 6.0

About

The Halcyon Quest gets a reload. Meet the runic conjuror, the civilian medic and the guerilla soldier.

eXpressions

Halcyon was one of my oldest creations since Polytechnic times. I redrew and restyle the characters to give it a more updated look. done in 2008 when I'm trying to pickup my skills again. I have deteriorate alot, seemed to lost it.

Heian Looks back

Tools
Scanned at 300dpi, Scaled with Photoshop 6.0, Raw unedited sketch

About
As she looked back, she realize that life will never be the same again.

eXpressions
I forgot when I did this work, should be around 2004, but it's an attempt redraw a similar pose I did during 1999 on the same character. This character, tentatively called "Hei An" ("Peace" or "Tranquility" in Japanese) was the result of a major influence from reading Shirow Masamune's comics and Luis Royo's III Millennium artbook during NS times.

Blue Sky

Tools
Scanned at 300dpi, Scaled and enhanced variations with Photoshop 6.0

About
There she ponders as she looked up the blue sky. Little does she realise the tough times that lay ahead of her.

eXpressions
This is a old work dated 2002. Although I didn't take much effort on this, it's still one of my favorites till now. I drew this when I was still in Brisbane doing my degree. Like before I had the story well thought up in my mind. It was inspired since my NS days.

Angel's Tears

Tools
Pencil drawn without inking, 100dpi scan, Photoshop 6.0, Wacom Graphire 3

About
This angel is punished by God for a sin she commited as a guardian angel.... she fell in love with the boy under her care and failed to protect him in a fit of jealousy, resulting to his death....

eXpressions
I took a big break from drawing since I left the army in 2001. One of my first work since my working life. I think it's done in 2005. I have the story up in my head all thought out...but I'm not telling you in public domain for obvious reasons.