Monday, December 31, 2012

Happy new year!!



Tools
Speed drawing in Photoshop CS5 with Wacom Intuos 4 tablet

About
Happy New Year 2013!! From Jansen and Family!

Year
31st December 2012

eXpressions
A as minute speed drawing straight from the tablet! Intended as a New Year greeting for my Facebook and Whatsapp account. There are subtle meaning in the Totoro fanart. :)

Totoro and related characters are copyright of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. All Rights Reserved.

Monday, December 24, 2012

"Woofing" Christmas


Tools
Quick sketch. Then speed painted in Photoshop CS5 with Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.

About
Have a "Woofing" Christmas! May all your woofing wishes come true!!!

Year
24th December 2012

eXpressions

I was cracking my brains on what to draw for my Facebook christmas greetings.

Then I remember the Corgi character I'm doing to my upcoming picture book project so I decided to doodle him again as a form of training and as my Christmas greeting for all in 2012.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Untitled Lonely Character


Tools
Traditional doodling/sketching


About
As she stop and rested, she ponders on the long and lonely stretch of road may eventually lead to another deadend


Year
October 2012


eXpressions
I was just doodling and trying to break out my artist's block when I doodled her. An ordinary post-apocalytic girl archetype. I haven't give much thought on her characterization at first but decided to use she as a practice for my skills in later artworks.

I aim to make her a simple yet appealing character that drawn attention from the people who sees her. I also aim to make she more relatable to Singaporeans.

She will be a testbed for my own experiments in comic drawing, to honed on my fundamentally and go back to basic.

Stay tune for more artworks on her...

Monday, October 29, 2012

Cheer on! 24hr Comic Day (Singapore) Participants!


Tools
Hastily pen drawn. Some background inked with tablet.

About
To cheered on and show my support for the participants of the 24 Hours Comic Day Singapore 2012.


Year
October 2012

eXpressions
As I was getting live feed via Facebook on the event, I was pretty riled up and regretted not able to join, thanks to my client's "Disaster Recovery exercise" which falls on a weekend.

So to feel the rush, I did a simple 2 page comic to be posted in their official Facebook page to cheer on the folks who have around 8 more hours to go.

Hope to join the event next year.

Catch some of the beautiful works from the participants of 2012's 24hour Comic Day Singapore here! http://singaporecomics.com/24hourcomicsday/

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ranting meme style


Tools
Hastily drawn and inked. Then integrated together of PS CS5.1
Logos from
Google
meme faces from alltheragefaces.com

About
Just ranting my encounter at the gas station with meme comic style.


Year
October 2012


eXpressions
I was suppose to be able to purchase a limited edition Lego figures with every $50 of Shell V-Power grade fuel. V-power is very premium and expensive fuel which I almost never use. But since I want the toy badly I bite the bullet....only to find out the offer was sold out.

Imagine my frustration...


All meme templates and logos are copyrights of their respective owners

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Transformers: Brothers in Arms







Tools
Pencils and traditional inking, scanned and painted in PS CS5.1 with Wacom intuos 4

About
Brother's in Arms! Bumblebee Sport and Cliffjumper Version R

Year
Apr 2012

eXpressions
As known, I'm a huge fan of Transformers! Not the Micheal Bay movie version but the G1 version we all loved when we were young.

Bumblebee was my favorite then, a small sized Autobot who rely more on stealth and skills than strength. Cliffjumper wasn't really my favorite Autobot, he's brave and charges into battle, but more often he gets himself into trouble due to his impulsiveness.

Anyway both Bumblebee and Cliffjumper belong to the subgroup of Autobots called the minibots, hence it's quite known that they are brothers. Moreover the toy of bumblebee is often repainted and renamed as "Cliffjumper"...

I always wanted to do an Autobot based on my Colt Version R, Cliffjumper, being red, fits the bill. Also, Suzuki just released a photo of their Swift Concept S so I know I just have to update my bumblebee from the previous model to the current model.

The outcome is pretty edgy. I planned to put it on T-shirt. Stay tuned for more...

“Transformers”, it’s characters and likeness are registered tradesmarks of Hasbro Inc.
“"Swift” and it’s likeness are trademarks of Suzuki Motor Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.
“Colt” and it’s likeness are trademarks of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


Saturday, January 28, 2012

Speed Drawing





Tools
Speed drawing with Wacom intuos 4 and PS CS5.1.

First pic: Total time taken: 12 mins
Second Pic: Total time Taken: 30 mins (including 2 crashes & PC restarts and 1 full redraw. Final crash force me to take the pic from the monitor before I press the "reset" button. Original artwork is gone)

About
First pic: Fuck My Life!
Second pic: Carebears "Revenge Bear" to the rescue!!

Year
Jan 2012

eXpressions
Wife's still in office overtime. She's stressed out. The first pic probably explains her stress level that that point of time. The 2nd pic is a gift for her to motivate her using her favorite "Carebear".

Hitting a slump.lately and I'm too lazy to draw on the paper and scan, so I just whacked from the tablet. When I was drawing the "Revenge Bear" pic, My PC crashed during coloring phase. I wasted some time rebooting and redrawing again as I forgot to save my work during coloring. I gave up after the 2nd crash and took a pic from my cellphone while the PC hunged on me. It's not really complete but I don't think I want to continue a speed drawing artwork, the momentum is already gone.

The crash on my PC is resulting from TDR timeout exceeded from PC CS with my Nvidia GPU. I tweaked some regedit settings and hope the problem will go away.


"Carebears" is a trademark of American Greetings Corporation, Inc.. The "Revenge Bear" is a self-created non-profit likeness and parody of the "carebear" and is in no way representing the original "Carebears" franchise.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Happy New Year of the Dragon 2012


Tools
Pencil and inked, scanned at 200DPI , then digitally painted with a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. Chinese Calligraphy written by my wife!
Software used Photoshop CS 5.1

About
Ushering the Year of the Dragon, 2021, the "Charlie" way. Here, Charlie St. Arthur creates an imagine of a baby oriental dragon using her runic spell.

Year
Jan 2012

eXpressions
I've been hitting sort of a slump lately can haven't been able to produce any artwork to my "standard". As the Chinese new year drews closer, I decided to create a "greeting card" intended for my friends in Facebook and WhatsApp.

I did 3 drafts before finally settling for this version. Using the traditional way of drawn and inking, followed by coloring with the tablet, this is my 2nd practice in colored art. Still pretty rusty but I hoped I'll get the hand of it in future artworks.

It's a 5 to 6 hours effort spanning 4 days, but alas I didn't manage to get it to WhatsApp on time since I just changed my phone and haven't updated my contacts then. In the end this piece reach limited friends and only seen by those who regulate in Facebook