Optimus Prime and Megatron baby rompers

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

About
Transformers Optimus Prime and Megatron Rompers

Year
Aug 2013

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

As a new father, how can I not dress up my kid with Transformers stuff? I did online and retail shopping and sadly, I couldn't find any transformers clothes for infants. So I decided to designed my own.

I was influence by IDW's comic designs and G1's cartoon design, so I fused them to together to create a hybrid style Optimus and Megatron. 

But unfortunately I couldn't get it to print as Transformers characters are registered trademarks and the cloths printer refuse to print my stuff due to copyright reasons.

Oh well, so much for a Transformers fan.

“Transformers”, it’s characters and likeness are registered tradesmarks of Hasbro Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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.

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.